9 Fun and Educational Easter Activities for Kids

With Easter just ahead of us and more time off from work, you’ll have the opportunity to spend more time with your kids. To make this holiday fun and interesting for the kids, in the spirit of Easter, we suggest engaging in fun Easter activities for kids! They’re super exciting, will keep kids busy, and they’ll learn a lot of new things! 

In this article, we’ll share 9 both fun and educational Easter activities for kids that include easy crafts, printables, games, recipes, and much more! Depending on your free time and the situation you’re in, you can choose what works best for your family. Best of all, there’s material for more than four days, so you won’t run out of ideas – that’s for sure!

Without further ado, here are some fun and educational Easter activities for kids you can incorporate into your schedule anytime!

Fun and Educational Easter Activities for Kids

Of course, the most traditional Easter activity that kids can participate in is decorating eggs. So, we’ll start there, by giving you some new ideas on how to decorate eggs with your kids. Then, we’ll move toward more innovative and creative activities!

Decorating Eggs

Since decorating boiled eggs is the main activity during Easter, here are several different ways in which kids can decorate some of the eggs!

• Ziplock bags for zero mess. Squirt some liquid paints on the bottom of a ziplock style bag and then place the eggs inside. Close the bag and shake, squeeze (not too hard), squish – whatever is most interesting for your child, then take out the egg and place it on a paper while it dries out.
• Small pipettes for cool patterns. Place the egg in a small container. Then, using the pipettes, start pouring different color paint over it.
• Fingerprint shapes. Let your child dip a finger in liquid paint and then make a fingerprint mark on the egg. They can make one big fingerprint or several small ones. When it dries, they can use a marker to draw arms, legs, eyes, nose, etc, to bring the shape into life. 
• Melted crayons. This is another creative way to paint Easter eggs, by heating up and melting the tip of a crayon. They leave some beautiful shiny color on the eggs and kids will have more control in making more specific drawings. 
• Craft supplies. Finally, the ultimate decorations can be done with glitter, pom poms, googly eyes, felt paper, and other common craft materials that can be easily glued on the eggs.

Family-Race With Eggs

Here’s a fun and guaranteed laughing-out-loud game that you can turn into a family competition where the winner gets a delicious price! Best of all, you only need Easter eggs and spoons! 

To execute this fun Easter activity, it’s best to go outside in the backyard or maybe have fun in the park. The main idea is to make a racing track with a start and finish line. Then, each family member should hold a spoon in front of them with an egg in it. The goal is to be the fastest one to get to the finish line without dropping the egg. If you drop it, you’re out of the game (or maybe deduct points so the game is longer and more fun). 

Interactive Easter Egg Worksheets

While the race is a great way to introduce more physical activity in your kids’ schedule, our Easter activities for kids also include training the brain. Brain games come in many forms, including puzzles, crossword puzzles, guessing games, word association games, and much more. 

You can find all of this in our 34-page worksheet pack about Easter. With just one click, you can download all the printables that are ready to use. Kids can play Easter-themed anagrams, word-hunts, matching games, guessing Easter symbols, use common Easter words in sentences, and more!

Read Children’s Books and Illustrations About Easter

If you really want to teach kids more about Easter, here are some book recommendations:

• Pete the Cat: Five Little Bunnies by James Dean
• Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure by James Dean
• Llama Llama Easter Egg by Anna Dewdney
• Little Blue Truck’s Springtime by Alice Schertle 
• How to Catch the Easter Bunny by Adam Wallace
• God Gave Us Easter (God Gave Us Series) by Lisa Tawn Bergren
• The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape! by Jory John
• Would You Rather Game Book For Kids, Teens And Adults by Robert B. Grand
• The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story: Stickers Included! by Mike Berenstain and Jan Berenstain
• Happy Easter, Mouse! (If You Give…) by Laura Numeroff
• Hippity, Hoppity, Little Bunny (Finger Puppet Board Book for Easter Basket Stuffer Ages 0-4) by Cottage Door Press

However, if you want something shorter, then check out our article about the history of Easter for kids, where you can find a lot of useful information to share with your kids. 

Make a DIY Easter Egg Baskets

Decorated eggs need an equally beautiful and creative egg basket, so you can display them on the kitchen counter as a centerpiece or make a gift basket for when you visit family members. Here are a few ideas on how you can make DIY Easter egg baskets together with your kids. 

• Cartoon Basket. The easiest way is to reuse the original basket in which the eggs came in. Simply remove all the stickers and paint the basket with vibrant colors. Then, you and your kids can draw or paint something over it, maybe write an inspirational quote, draw some bunnies and flowers, and so on. On the inside, put a little bit of Easter grass in each egg slot, and finally, place the eggs. 
• Easter Bunny Bags. Another easy and quick idea on how to make Easter baskets is to use paper bags. Let your child paint them and draw a rabbit figure on each bag. Then, put some Easter grass inside and the eggs on top. Close the bag with a rubber band and glue some rabbit ears made from construction paper. 
• No-Sew Rope Easter Basket. Yet another creative idea is to make this beautiful no-sew rope basket for Easter eggs. Go to Alice&LoisDIY page to get the full tutorial on how to make it. 

Make Easy Easter Cookies for Kids

Easter is also known for the delicious chocolate delights, which kids are surely expecting. However, a better and healthier idea might be to make home-cooked Easter-themed cookies together with your child. 

We found an easy and incredibly tasty “recipe” you can incorporate. You’ll only need plain biscuits in oval or circle form, whipping cream, and food coloring. Alternatively, you can use many decorative accessories such as sprinkles, chocolate chips, M&Ms, and more. 

So, your job is to prepare the whipping cream and place it in small bowls. In each bowl, pour different food coloring and stir until you get different colors. Then, together with your child, decorate the cookies. If you want to make them yourself, here’s an easy recipe from JoyFoodSunshine on how to make chocolate chip cookies at home (which you can decorate with colorful whipping cream).

Conduct a Science Experiment With Eggs

Turn Easter into a wonderful educational opportunity with this awesome science experiment. You’ll only need an egg, a glass, and white vinegar to make the eggshell of the egg disappear. Pretty cool, ha?

The method goes as follows. Take a raw egg and place it in a glass. Pour white vinegar over it, until the glass is almost full (the egg is fully covered). Then, leave it for 24 hours. You can check it every once in a while to see the process in action. 

At first, little bubbles will start to form around the eggshell, meaning that the chemical reaction is taking place. Then, gradually over the course of 24 hours, the shell will detach from the egg and collect on the surface of the glass. Inside, the egg yolk will be whole with the egg white surrounding it. Your kid will be amazed at how this happened by itself, after which you can explain the process.

Learn Math With Paper-Eggs

Another cool educational Easter activity for kids, especially preschoolers, is to practice math with paper eggs. How? Well, first, draw an egg on construction paper (any color or pattern). Make sure it’s big enough so you can place up to 10 small egg candies over it. Then, cut it out and use it to outline nine more egg shapes on the construction paper. Cut them out too. 

Now, you should have 10 paper eggs. On the bottom of each egg, write the numbers from 0 to 10. From here on, you can ask the child to order the eggs in succession or to practice basic arithmetic operations. To make it more visually stimulating, ask the child to place a number of small egg candy over each paper egg and manipulate them as they do the math operations. 

Easter Movies for Kids

Sometimes, we just need some time off to take a step back, relax, and leave the arts and crafts for another day. Make some popcorn and indulge in an Easter movie marathon with your kids. Here are some suggestions that the whole family will enjoy!

• Hop (2011)
• Peter Rabbit (2018)
• Hank and Mike (2008)
• Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971)
• The Dog Who Saved Easter (2014)
• It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (1974)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (2016)
• Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade (1948)
• Son of God (2014) – for children over 12 years old due to scenes regarding the crucifixion.
• Pieces of Easter (2013)

Before You Leave

We wish you lots of fun with your kids and a lovely time during Easter! Hopefully, our Easter activities for kids will contribute to that wonderful time. And, in the end, if you decide to simply chill and watch some movies or spend time under the sun, that’s great too! Everyone deserves stress-free time-off! 

Just don’t forget that once you replenish your energy and you’re ready to tackle some new topics, our growing library with premium worksheet collections and other teaching resources is at your disposal. Simply head over to our main website and download everything you need with just one click. 

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