Free Easter Activities for Toddlers

Use colored eggs in an Easter activities with your toddlers.

Encourage toddlers to get into the Easter spirit with spring crafts, games and activities that will promote independence, creativity and imagination. Create various Easter display projects that will keep toddlers busy and help them to commemorate the Easter holiday. Go beyond the traditional egg hunt when you celebrate Easter with toddlers. Engage them in hands-on activities that require each child to exercise his artistry.

Easter Egg Wreath

Toddlers can assist in making a decorative Easter wreath worthy of their front door using glue, pull-apart plastic easter eggs, green construction paper leaves and everyday twist-ties. Cut the center circle out of a paper plate and glue the leaves around the paper plate ring. Wrap twist-ties between the paper leaves and enclose the ends inside each plastic egg to create an Easter wreath. As an activity extension, paint the plastic eggs with non-toxic washable paint.

Bird's Nest Easter Cookies

Allow toddlers to help make Easter egg nest cookies with chow mein noodles. Microwave two cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips and one cup of peanut butter for one minute on 50 percent power. Stir and repeat until the mixture has melted completely. Stir in two cups of chow mein noodles to coat and shape into bird's nests on a sheet of waxed paper. Set two or three candy-coated chocolate eggs in the center for a toddler-friendly Easter treat.

Cotton Ball Bunnies

Draw and cut out an Easter bunny shape from a piece of white or pink construction paper. Using small dabs of glue, toddlers can adhere cotton balls to the rabbit form. Put the finishing touches on your bunny by adding googly eyes and pink paper tear drops in small and large sizes for inner ears and a nose. Display the festive Easter decoration for all to admire.

Butterfly Wand

Toddlers can create a butterfly wand using an everyday coffee cup filter, a few washable markers, a pipe cleaner and a wooden craft stick. Place a 1-inch strip of glue (hot glue is ideal but unsafe for toddlers, so allow an adult to do the hot gluing) across one end of a wooden craft stick and allow to dry. Using washable, non-toxic markers, encourage toddlers to decorate the wings of a butterfly onto a coffee filter. Bunch the mid-section of the filter and attach by twisting the pipe cleaner around it using the remaining ends as butterfly antennae.

References

• Family Fun: Easter Egg Wreath
• 123 Child: Cotton Ball Bunnies
• Group Recipes: Bird's Nest Cookies
• Enchanted Learning: Butterfly Wand