Need some Easter activities for children? Here are some fun ones for kids, including free colouring pages, word search, crafts, and more.
Egg hunt
Of course, an Easter egg hunt is one of the highlights of the day. If hiding hard-boiled eggs, be sure to remember where each one has been hidden. As younger children don’t always understand food precautions, you don’t want to take the chance of a child finding a long lost egg a week later and eating it. If using chocolate eggs, also make sure they are in the shade, so not to melt before they are found.
If hiding plastic eggs, the fun idea is to make sure there’s something inside of each one of them. This could include small pieces of candy, stickers, tattoos, erasers, and small toys. There are plenty of plastic eggs that can be used year after year and just fill them with something for each time. Another idea is to put coupons inside a few of the eggs that can be turned in for prizes.
If you don’t want to buy eggs, this doesn’t mean that children can’t still create decorate eggs. Some plain cardboard from boxes can be cut in the shape of eggs. Children can use crayons to colour and make designs on the cutout shapes, then use them for a hunt.
Printable activities
Create a holiday word search for children. This activity will help quiet the children down a bit while still having fun. The difficulty level can vary depending on the ages of the children. Suggested words include:
bunny
eggs
basket
Easter
hop
candy
chocolate
fun
family
Sunday
Be sure to take advantage of all of the free, printable colouring pages available on the Internet.
Zena has created so many free Easter printables including colouring pages, word searches, matching activities, mazes etc.
Make an Easter Bag
Crafts are always fun for children. Here’s a simple one to make. What is needed is a white lunch bag, crayons, coloured paper, scissors, and glue.
On the upper half of the bag, have your child draw a bunny’s face. Be sure they include the eyes, nose, and mouth. Cut out a set of bunny ears using pink paper. The ears can be glued on to the top of the head. Next, cut out a bow tie.
Get your child to choose what colour paper they would like for the bow tie. Once the bow tie is glued on, and all the glue is dry, your child now has an Easter bag to carry around their holiday treats.
Games
Let children burn off some energy by doing the Bunny Hop dance. Even have the adults join in. Let children take turns being the leader, even if you have to play the song more than once. Games are also an enjoyable way to celebrate. The egg and spoon race is a fab game to play at Easter. If you have the refillable plastic eggs, fill up with water and use to throw to one another, count how many throws you can do without dropping the egg.
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Fantastic Ideas. My daughter loves painting so we will definitely paint eggs and cute printables. Thank you for the suggestions. Lovely post.
Activities and ideas that are used to keep the excitement, joy and colors of Easter alive!
I love the idea of a “bunny hop” dance! I’ll have to see if I can get my nephew to do one! So cute!
It is nice to have lots of activities for Easter break. These all sound like fun ideas!
Mine really love to do Easter egg hunts. I’ve prepared myself and have plenty in to do a few. We haven’t made Easter bags but have made bonnets before.
Love all of these wonderful ideas for Easter! We are doing an Easter egg race and also an Easter Egg Hunt. Cannot wait as I love watching the kids enjoy themselves 🙂
i very much enjoy the idea of Easter egg hunts. i wasn’t able to experience one thus I would want my boys to know ester egg hunting is cool.
These are all fun ideas! Reading this brings back fond memories! I loved egg hunting when I was a kid.
We will be stuck home this Easter holidays so these are some fabulous suggestions! Printables are something I know my kids would love as the egg hunt
Easter is such a fun time for the whole family. Lovely ideas to keep the little ones entertained and the joy of the season alive!
I miss those days! I used to spend a couple of weeks filling up Easter baskets for my girls and then leave them in front of their bedroom doors on Easter morning. Now they are in their 20s, but I still make them Easter baskets. (The contents are quite different now!)
Whoa! These are such cool and fun Easter activities! Kids will enjoy doing these for sure
We are planning a small Easter celebration at home, but I want it to still feel special for the kids. These ideas sound like the perfect way to celebrate!
We will be doing some Easter egg hunts this weekend with the kids, we are actually excited about that and possibly some games as well.
Aww these are cute ideas/activities for kids. I know for sure children would love these.