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The Best Easter Activity for Kids Ideas for Home or Classroom Fun

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This Easter activity for kids guide has 30+ playful ideas for sensory bins, art, science, and more—perfect for home, school, and all kinds of Easter fun. I love, love, love dreaming up Easter activities and so look forward to sharing these kid- and teacher-approved ideas with you!

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The ultimate Easter activity for kids guide: 30+ creative ideas in one spot

There’s something extra sweet about Easter crafts and activities.

Maybe it’s the pastels. Maybe it’s the jelly beans. Or,maybe it’s the fact that kids get so excited about bunnies and eggs that even the simplest project feels like a party.

Whatever the reason, I’ve rounded up our absolute favorite ideas to make your springtime extra playful, colorful, and fun.

Every Easter activity for kids in this list has been tested and loved by real kids (and real grown-ups too!).

What makes a great Easter activity for kids?

Spoiler: It doesn’t need to be complicated.

In our world, the best activities are the ones that are easy to set up, low on stress, and big on joy.

Whether it’s a sensory bin that encourages imaginative play or an art project that ends up proudly taped to the fridge, the real magic is in the doing—not the perfection.

Let’s hit it!

Yellow frosting play dough with spring colored sprinkles on top. Plastic easter eggs are in the corner, some filled with the dough, for a fun Easter activity for kids.

Easter Frosting Dough

Did you know that frosting + powdered sugar = the creamiest, smoothest, most beautiful dough? It’s true, and the Easter frosting found in the baking/seasonal supplies takes this over the top and is a dreamy Easter activity for kids.

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A child painting an Easter Bunny cutout. The paper was folded and half to make the paint design symmetrical on the cutout. The colors and shape make it a fun Easter activity for kids.

Symmetrical Easter Bunny Art

This one has been a preschool classic for 100 billion years! And, a way to take this over the top is to add a little fuzzy cotton ball tail at the end.

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Shimmery purple paint is in a big plastic tub. It is also filled with plastic easter eggs and plastic cups, and being stirred by a child with a whisk.

Easter Soup Sensory Bin

Have you ever seen anything more beautiful in your life? This gorgeous, shimmery, swirly Easter sensory bin is mesmerizing and irresistible to kids.

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Two kids are standing at a sliding glass door that has a big piece of contact paper tapped to it. On the contact paper is a big bunny drawn with black marker. The kids are putting cotton balls all over the bunny for a fun Easter activity.

Fuzzy Easter Bunny Craft with Cotton Balls

If you’ve got contact paper, cotton balls, and colorful paper, then you have everything you need to make these adorable fuzzy bunnies. These littles loved this Easter activity kids so, so much and came back and forth to it for hours.

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A little girl has a tray with hard boiled eggs in it. She is covering the eggs with pieces of colored tissue paper. When the tissue paper is peeled off, the color has transferred to the eggs.

Tie Dye Easter Eggs

You may have used bleeding tissue paper before, but have you ever used it to decorate eggs? This is such a fun way to take egg–decorating over the top and each egg is stunningly beautiful.

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A child is sitting on the floor with a baking sheet. The baking sheet has the alphabet written on it and some of the letters are covered with a matching magnetic letter. Next to the baking sheet is opened plastic eggs that the letters were in, before being matched to the same letter on the baking sheet.

Easter Alphabet Activity

OK, this is seriously the best thing ever. Use your Easter eggs with some letters for a motor/literacy/collaborative project that is a 10 out of 10.

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On a table top is a piece of watercolor paper with a bunny drawn on it. The inside of the bunny has been covered in water and a child is dropping different watercolors on it. The colors are spreading when mixing with the water, but staying inside the border of the bunny.

Wet-on-Wet Watercolor Easter Bunny

This project is nothing less than dazzling. Learn how to turn regular, plain water into a magical art experience with watercolors. This has been a top Easter activity for kids since we first shared it back in 2022.

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Air-dry clay is shaped into a bunny and then painted with spring colored stripes, for a fun easter activity.

Easter Bunny Art with Air-Dry Clay

Air-dry clay is the love of my life and these little bunnies are the cutest. I learned from a friend recently that you can make any shape out of clay or dough, even if you don’t have a cookie cutter for it, and these bunnies were the first things that were up and they are perfection.

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Colored paper is cut out into the shapes of easter eggs. The eggs are decorated with different shapes and colors of pasta for a fun Easter activity.

Pasta Easter Eggs Easter Activity for Kids

These colors! The pastels! The stunningly adorable Easter eggs use a household staple and simple supplies and they are just the cutest.

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Children have pastel colored papers, cut into the shape of Easter eggs. They're rolling dice that has different lines designs on each side. Whichever line design they roll, they draw them onto their paper to create a unique decorated Easter egg.

Roll & Draw Easter Egg Art

We cannot have had more fun with these! Print off the printable dice, cut out some egg outlines, grab some markers, and make the cutest line eggs that you ever did see.

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A purple tray has a piece of paper and plastic Easter eggs in it. There is blue, pink, and green paint all over the paper and the eggs from. fun and creative Easter activity.

Easter Egg Marble Painting

Okay, this is marble painting…but inside of Easter eggs! Add some marbles into Easter eggs before you start painting and watch the eggs wobble unpredictably around the paper. It’s a blast!

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In the corners of the photo, there are paper plates with paint on them, as well as brown paper tubes and q-tips. In the center of the photo is a black piece of paper with eggs stamped with paint from the paper tubes, and designed made from the q-tips.

Stamped Easter Eggs

This might look complicated to make, but they couldn’t be simpler and they use supplies that you already have on hand. Plus, I absolutely love the pop against the black background.

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A pink tray is filled with moons sand and plastic Easter eggs. A hand is holding a purple Easter egg that is over-filled with moon sand.

Easter Moon Sand

I first made moon sand back in 2011 when I taught at head start. It is unbelievably simple to make and irresistible. Adding in some plastic Easter eggs makes this so super fun.

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A pink tray has air-dry clay made into decorated Easter eggs. Each of the three eggs is painted in different colors and with different designs.

Air-Dry Clay Easter Eggs

I first shared this activity two years ago, and it has been one of the most popular and re-created Easter activities to ever come out Friends Art Lab.

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A washing station is fashioned from a round tub filled with soapy water, plastic Easter eggs, a loofah, and a handheld mesh strainer. The perfect set-up for a fun Easter activity.

Wash the Easter Eggs Sensory Bin

Kids LOVE washing their suppliers, and this Easter version is egg-cellent! This is another kind of activity where you already have all of the supplies that you need for Easter fun.

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A group of kids is outside, standing around a water table. They have a bunch of stemmed carrots and are washing in them in the water.

Bunny Bait Easter Sensory Table

I have made 100 million sensory bins in my teaching career, and this one will forever be one of my most favorite things in the entire world. It is a love of my teacher life, and I sincerely hope you get to try it!

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A child is sitting on the floor with a wooden tray. On one side is a 6-muffin tin with different colored pom poms in each cup. The other side is filled with plastic Easter eggs that are filled with the pom poms to be sorted with their matching colors, for a fun Easter activity.

Easter Egg Color Sorting

Leave it to Susie @busytoddler to come up with such fun ways to turn Easter activities into math and other important learning. Grab your plastic eggs, pom-poms, muffin tin, and you’ve got everything you need for hours of fun.

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A giant egg themed coloring banner is laying across a big table. There are jars filled with markers, which have been used to color in each egg to make a different design.

Easter Egg Coloring Poster

There’s just nothing quite like a giant 10–foot coloring poster and this Easter version is just the best. All you need to undo as unroll, add your favorite art supplies, and you’ve got hours of fun right at your fingertips. Plus when you’re done, save and use as wrapping paper or as Easter decorations, too!

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Purple oobleck fills a plastic tub, and is being scooped with and poured into plastic Easter eggs.

Easter Oobleck

Oobleck is just about the greatest thing in the world, and tossing in some plastic Easter eggs makes this feel festive and a perfect Easter activity for kids.

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There is a muffin tin filled with different colors of paint in each cup, and a q-tip in each one. Next to the tin, there is a bunch of paper eggs with different colors designs.

Easter Egg Scrape Art

Can’t love, love, love scraping paint on their art, and these process art Easter eggs are just too fun. The best part is that no two will ever look the same!

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A mini muffin tin is holding halved plastic Easter eggs. Kids are scooping bubbling liquid into the eggs, and a different color appears from the bubbles in each egg.

Plastic Easter Egg Science

There is no way for me to possibly love this one more! Grab your plastic Easter eggs, a muffin tin, and some baking soda and vinegar (plus some other really fun supplies to take this over the top!) and you’ll be making this one year after year.

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Marshmallow Peeps are being used as stamps for a fun Easter activity. There is a paper plate with pink, teal, and yellow. There are peeps to match each color and they're being stamped onto the paper.

Painting with Peeps

Well I might not love eating Peeps, I sure love using them for art. Use your little Peep marshmallows for a fun process art and for making patterns. Your kids are going to love this.

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Paper bunnies are covered in different colors, made from tissue paper transfer. There is a paper cup of water nearby, as well as a paint brush.

Bleeding Tissue Paper Easter Bunnies

Bleeding tissue paper is one of the best art supplies, and it lasts forever. Cut out simple bunny shapes, use your bleeding tissue paper, and you’ve got everything you need to make these precious little bunnies.

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A large piece of paper on a wall has Easter themed pictures drawn on it. There is a child taping pictures to the paper that have matching images to the pictures beneath them.

Easter Hunt

Love this creative twist on an Easter egg hunt! Such a fun way to also introduce literacy and vocabulary at the same time.

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Pink oobleck with jelly beans are being scooped up by a child's hands, for a messy and fun Easter activity.

Jelly Bean Oobleck Easter Activity for Kids

You might have made Oobleck before, but have you ever added jelly beans into it? Can I recommend this Easter activity for kids enough!

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A giant Easter themed coloring poster is laying across a table. There is a group of kids coloring in the images on the poster with markers.

Easter Giant Coloring Poster

My number one favorite Easter activity in the world: an Easter giant coloring poster. This poster features all things Easter including bunnies, eggs, jellybeans, Peeps, flowers, bunny foot prints, and so much more.

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A pink tray is filled with a layer of baking soda and jelly beans. A child is using a dropper filled with vinegar and dripping it onto the jelly beans to create a fizzing reaction.

Bubble Easter Jelly Bean Science

We do so many baking soda and vinegar activities that we buy those ingredients in bulk at Costco. This one is such a hit!

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A sensory bin if filled with pastel colored garbanzo beans, felt roses, and a plastic bunny scooper. A child is scooping a big handful of the dried beans into her hands.

Easter Sensory Bin

This Easter sensory bin is not only beautiful, but it’s easy to make, AND you can save all of the materials to use year after year after year.

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Three different Easter themed coloring pages are surrounded by jelly beans for a fun Easter themed activity.

Easter Coloring Pages

Our printable Easter coloring pages are one of our most popular sets ever, and this recently updated set is perfect for all of your Easter fun. Just print and go and you’ve got coloring fun ready to go in seconds.

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A large paper Easter egg has a design drawn on it with black Elmer's glue. The design was filled in with watercolors to make a beautiful Easter activity.

Black Glue Eggs Easter Activity for Kids

I am absolutely drooling over how gorgeous these are. Have you ever made black glue before? It’s simple, quick, and easy and it makes your art pop.

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A group of kids are surrounding a sensory bin filled with hundreds of jelly beans. They are counting, scooping, and grabbing the jelly beans for a fun sensory Easter activity.

Jelly Bean Sensory Table

When we had our in–person preschool, we had all of our students bring in two bags of jelly beans and we used them for all types of preschool activities. But a jelly bean sensory table? Might just be the greatest thing in the world.

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A paper egg has a floral design drawn on it with black sharpie. Colored tissue paper was applied to the paper and peeled off, leaving the color transferred to the paper.

Bleeding Tissue Paper Egg Art

Last, but certainly not least, bleeding tissue paper Easter eggs. Kids can personalize these by drawing whatever they want then adding color on top. These are stunningly gorgeous up on a wall (or, I guess really anywhere!).

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What to do after an Easter activity

Keep the fun going:

Once the painting’s dry or the oobleck is cleaned up, there are still ways to extend the moment:

  • Let kids retell what they did (great for language skills!)
  • Display their art gallery-style on the wall
  • Set up a dramatic play area with their creations
  • Use leftover materials to make something new
  • Or just…do it all over again tomorrow

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