Easter Kids' Crafts and Activities

This brood is all smiles, er, beaks as they pose for a family portrait to welcome their latest addition.

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Fuzzy bunnies with a picture of your honey are a great way to hold your place in a book and make wonderful gifts.

Enlist kids' help creating a festive Easter table complete with Easter basket favors made from ordinary paper cups.

Simply pack this charming bunny box with cookies or candy for a one-of-a-kind Easter gift.

So beautiful and not so difficult to make. Younger kids will need supervision, but everyone will adore creating this marbleized effect on eggs.

This chubby bunny looks adorable with his pom-pom nose and embroidery-floss whiskers.

This mama and her round little egg piglet relax in brown construction-paper mud.

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Turn your little one into an Easter bunny with a pair of pink felt ears.

A fun way to say "Happy Easter" is with paper-envelope rabbits -- bearing treats, of course.

Use "green" grass in kids' Easter baskets this year; get them to help shred multi-colored sheets of recycled paper for a second use.

Jelly beans wrapped to look like carrots make cute Easter favors or Easter basket additions.

Think beyond the Easter egg hunt and set up fun kids' activities, like an Egg Relay Race. First, turn your backyard into a racetrack. Divide kids into two teams. At one end of the yard, mark a starting line for each team with a set of balloons tied to a stake that you have driven into the ground. At the other end, drive a stake with another set of balloons into the ground for each team. Have the teams stand behind their starting lines, and give every kid a plastic spoon and each team only one egg. The kids who are first in line should place the team's egg in their spoon and hold the handle in their teeth. At the blow of a whistle, they must race to their team's other set of balloons, around it, and back, passing off the egg to the next teammate in line (it's okay to use hands for this). If an egg falls to the ground, it can be picked up and placed back in the spoon. The first team to have all of its members finish the course wins the game.

Kids can use this technique to write their names on Easter eggs, or create original designs.

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Create cute creatures or flowers from plain or dyed eggs; kids may need extra help if you decide to use blown-out eggs.

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Paper flowers are a fun project to do with your child; use them to decorate their Easter basket or arrange them in a centerpiece for the kids' table.

Spring shoes adorned with pretty paper flowers would make a nice addition to a little girl's Easter basket.

A plain wicker basket dressed up in gingham is as delightful as the treats it holds and can be reused on other occasions.

These pastel paper bags decorated with construction paper are a whimsical alternative to the traditional woven baskets.

Adorn Easter clothes, baskets, or bonnets with cheerful yarn blossoms. Experiment with your yarn of choice, and wind more or fewer times around accordingly.

Create an Easter basket your child will treasure long after the edible treats inside are gone.

See whose egg doesn't crack. Give each kid a hard-boiled egg, then divide into pairs. At the starting signal, kids smash the eggs' small ends together. The kids with unbroken shells advance to the next round. Whoever has the last uncracked egg wins.

This adorable candy wreath is perfect for a kid's birthday party, or the kids' table at Easter dinner.

In this version of the classic Italian lawn-bowling game, the object is to see which player can get his egg closest to the "pallino," or in this case, a plain white egg. Each kid should get two hard-boiled eggs that are the same color. To begin the game, one player throws the pallino underhand across the yard. Then that same player rolls or tosses one of his colored eggs in order to get as close as possible to the pallino. From the same starting point, the other players each take a turn, tossing one of their colored eggs toward the pallino as well. When all the kids have gone once, everyone gets to try again, this time with his or her second egg. Players can use their eggs to knock away the other kids' eggs -- moving them farther from the pallino -- or to edge their own first egg closer. After all the players are finished, measure the distance of the eggs from the pallino to see which one is closest to it. If there is a tie, the player whose egg is in the best condition is the winner.

Young gardeners can use eggshells as pots to start seeds and coffee-stirrer tags to foretell what will pop up where.

Fill a plastic bucket with chirping chicks as a fun alternative to an Easter basket.

One of the most enduring children's holiday traditions is hunting for baskets filled with treats on Easter morning. Although you can purchase a ready-made basket, you can easily create your own festive version with little more than a cookie tin, linen, and ribbon.

Put a new twist on a beloved tradition by having children gather Easter eggs in homemade felt bags. When the holiday is over, the bags can be used to hold other treasures.

Kids can use a variety of floral-shaped paper punches to transform paper cups into delightful Easter favor baskets.

These beautifully glittered Easter eggs are an easy and sparkling alternative to coloring them with dyes.

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