Easter crafts with children: 5 easy ideas to imitate

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Easter handicrafts with children: Five child-friendly ideas to imitate

Even if the anticipation of the upcoming Easter is a little clouded: Use the school and daycare-free time to do handicrafts with your children. Matching the upcoming holidays, there are numerous craft ideas that you can easily implement.

The current situation is not easy for many families – and certainly not with small children. The mild temperatures encourage outdoor play, but instead most people spend more time indoors than they would like. In view of the prevailing Corona crisis, this is the best solution for everyone, but that does not mean that you can no longer have fun. On the contrary: Easter is just around the corner! Use the isolation at home to try out a few craft ideas with your children. All you need is the right instructions and a few basic ingredients – you can find out what those are as follows.

1. Origami Bunnies

The Japanese art of folding is great fun for young and old: There are a variety of creative Easter-themed craft ideas – such as an origami bunny or an origami Easter bunny basket in which you can later hide an egg or sweets. You only need for this origami paper, which is square (e.g. 20 by 20 centimetres). It’s up to you whether you want it in one color or colourful. And here are the instructions for how to do it:

2. Bunny Window Pictures

To decorate the windows with Easter motifs, you can make these cute bunny window decals with your children. For this you only need construction paper in different colors, matching templates – for example in the form of easter eggs and Rabbits – and of course Scissors and craft glue and a couple of colored pencils or felt-tip pens (that’s a matter of taste). Alternatively, you can also enter a craft set use with templates for window pictures. Then proceed as follows:

3. Paint eggs

Painting Easter eggs is a tradition in many households. All you need is a few fresh eggs, which you blow out beforehand (you can find instructions on how to do this here) – alternatively you can decoration eggs use foam. Here it is recommended, however, instead of classic egg crayons or egg colors Dear waterproof pensshould be used that adhere better to the surface. The practical thing about the artificial eggs is that you can hang them up more easily.

4. Easter Egg Garland

For this garland you can use the same Egg Stencilsuse as in the window picture (point two). You also need it here again construction paper as well as a cord and small Wooden clothespins: First draw 10 to 15 eggs – depending on how long you want the garland to be – on a piece of white or colored paper and cut them out. After that, the eggs can be painted to your heart’s content, with colored pencils or felt pens. At the end hang the pictures on the string and the string on a window or wall.

5. Toilet Roll Bunnies

A fairly simple, but still funny craft idea is to create cute Easter animals from old toilet paper rolls: Whether it’s rabbits or chicks – you need a little imagination, Acrylics, Paint brushcardboard, a pencil, liquid glue, scissors and of course empty toilet rolls. There is a suitable guide for this this vivid video.

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