Easter Crafts For Kids:

Easy Easter Egg Decorating And Fun Activities

Easter crafts for kids make the build up to the holidays even more exciting if you spend time together doing your own Easter activities. Easter egg decorating is great fun and we've got lots of easy ideas to make yours look beautiful.

In fact, I think they'll look so lovely you won't miss the chocolate!

Easter egg decorating is fun and you can try out lots of different ways to make beautiful creations. The homeschooling methods we have used have one thing in common - they are all easy but really effective.

Homeschool Wax eggs

I said we were starting easy didn't I? You can buy wax eggs like this one together with the pens you need for decorating them. If you ask some kids over as well you can make homeschool Easter crafts for kids fun for everyone.

Wax and dye eggs

Decorating eggs is fun if you draw an easy pattern on an egg before hard boiling. Use a white wax crayon or a piece of candle for decorating - watch out not to press too hard!

Put a few drops of food coloring into some water in a saucepan and hard-boil the egg. When your egg is cooked, take it out and leave to cool - all the patterns you made will show up because the food coloring only colors the egg where there is no wax.

You'll see more ideas for using wax crayons to make homeschool pictures, including making an easy wax bark rubbing, in our page on homeschooling art activities for young children.

Kids Art Activities

Fun Crafts For Kids: Easter Egg Decorating

More easy homeschool wax and dye methods

• If you boil an egg and leave it to cool you can light a candle and drip spots of wax on to the egg. Put some food coloring and water into a saucer for decorating and roll the egg around.
• If you add a few more blobs of candle wax on to the egg and roll it in darker food coloring and water you'll get even more variety.
• Put the egg in a medium hot oven for a few minutes. Take the egg out and wipe off any excess wax.

Homeschool Easter egg decorating using natural dye

So far we've used food coloring for decorating our homeschool Easter crafts for kids but it's nice to experiment with a fun and easy natural homeschool method of dyeing.

1. Wrap your egg in layers of onion skins.
2. Put the egg and skins onto a piece of material fabric or the toe of an old pair of tights and tie up into a parcel.
3. Hard-boil the egg.
4. When the water is cool take the egg out. When you unwrap your parcel you'll see your egg have become a fun shade of orange-brown.

Kids Easter Crafts

Homeschool marbling makes for fun and easy crafts for kids. We've done lots and found it to be one of those homeschooling kids activities that works really well. The results are almost always exciting and the random nature of marbling adds to the surprise!

Marbling inks work well for decorating all sorts of objects - paper plates, polystyrene cups, sheets of (thicker) paper - we've had homeschooling fun with all of them.

One of the easy ways to enjoy homeschooling Easter crafts for kids is decorating eggs with marbling.

You'll need marbling inks and plastic eggs. They are fairly easy to find from crafts suppliers.

Put some water in a long tray. Your tray will get messed up, so pick something you don't mind about.

For decorating the eggs, add a few drops of different color marbling inks. Your kids can get a bit carried away with dripping drops so it's best to supervise this bit!

Put the plastic eggs in the water and twirl them round on the end of a barbecue stick. You'll be delighted with all the different color effects you get and every one will be guaranteed unique.

And it's not only Easter eggs that marbling inks create. If you look at our page on homeschooling science you'll see ours turned into a very effective fun dinosaur egg.

Fun Easter Activities For Kids: Have a Party!

Now you've been busy decorating all these beautiful eggs it seems a shame to waste them! Kids love hunting Easter eggs and parties so why not combine the two? To make things easy, Julie has got some fantastic free printable easter invitations which will make your kids party complete.

Kids Crafts:

Homeschool Easter Bunny mask

I've seen other people using our ideas on how to make homeschool animal masks from paper plates to turn their children into Easter bunnies!

If you look at our page on homeschooling easy crafts for kids you'll see suggestions for how to make all sorts of different animals. You could stick some fun Easter bunny ears on your paper plate and the teeth would look great drawn under the mouth.

Easter Paper Mache Eggs

Homeschool paper mache is one of those easy Easter crafts for kids that works really well. You'll remember that we used paper mache to cover a balloon and make a sun as part of our model solar system in home school science.

I spotted a parent who used the same idea to cover a balloon with paper mache and turn it into a gigantic Easter egg!

I can see that being lots of fun - especially as you'll have loads of room to stuff it full of Easter goodies. You'll need to follow our homeschool paper mache recipe, cover your balloon with strips of newspaper and leave a gap at the bottom to fit the candies through.

Paper Mache Recipe

Homeschooling Easter Activities

It might be interesting to add in some fun history into your homeschool Easter crafts for kids activities and find out about the history of Easter egg decorating. Wikipedia tells you how decorated Ostrich eggs have been dated from 60,000 years ago. Even the White House chooses decorated eggs from each State to display every Easter.

Easy Crafts For Kids

If you'd like more fun homeschooling craft ideas, why not:

• Try needle felting these cute birds in crafts easy for kids.



• See how easy is is to make fun patterns using a few felt tips and blotting paper:


Valentine Crafts For Kids


• Make a paper plate animal mask in our page on craft activities for kids.

If you follow some of our fun Easter crafts for kids decorating ideas you'll have lots of beautiful eggs to show off; we keep ours from one year to the next and hang them from our homeschool Easter tree.

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