30 Easter Play, Craft and Learning Activities for Kids
Oskar's Wooden Ark | March 10, 2022
Easter is a special time that excites us all - filled with vibrant colours, fluffy bunnies, and, most importantly - chocolate! It's also a wonderful time of year to partake in Easter-inspired play, crafts and learning activities with your children. This post has 30 eggcellent ideas for you and your little ones to try at home this Easter!
If you're feeling inspired by these ideas and try them at home with your family, please share them with us on Facebook and Instagram, making sure to tag us @oskarswoodenark and use the hashtag #OWAEaster.
1. DIY Easter Tic Tac Toe
Decorate pebbles with your Kitpas Art Crayons before drawing up a Tic Tac Toe board on scrap paper or cardboard. Grab a friend, and you're good to go!
Helpful Hint: Spray some hairspray over your finished design to avoid smudging.
2. Egg Shell Rainbow Painting
Create impressive and colourful artwork using eggshells. Break up your eggshells, then use glue to secure the remnants on a piece of cardboard in your desired shape - Jen picked a rainbow, of course! Next, use your STOCKMAR Watercolour Paint Set to colour the egg shells as you please.
3. Invitation to Create and Decorate Easter Eggs with Loose Parts
As we know, the ways to incorporate loose parts into playtime are endless, and Easter-themed play is no exception. Just look at some of the ideas below on creating your own Easter eggs using Grapat Loose Parts.
Helpful Hint: For more loose parts play inspiration, check out our 20 Printable Play Mats.
4. Easter Window Art with Kitpas
Get out those Kitpas Art Crayons and let your imagination run wild as you create a beautiful Easter window art display!
5. Decorate Erzi Wooden Easter Eggs with Kitpas Crayons
If you have some Erzi Wooden Eggs floating around, why not take some time to decorate them using your Kitpas Art Crayons?
Helpful Hint: Coat the eggs in corn flour after you have finished decorating them to avoid the crayons from smudging.
6. Easter Obstacle Course
Get creative and set up an obstacle course for your little ones to navigate. MOOV Baby products and a Wobbel Board are a good starting point! The best thing about this activity is it can be set up indoors or outdoors, and you can change the arrangement to keep it exciting.
7. Egg Dying with Okonorm Natural Egg Dye
An inexpensive and fun activity to do right at home! Use the Okonorm Natural Egg Dye to give your plain-Jane eggs a colourful new look!
8. Sarah's Silks Bunny Balloon (Keepy Uppy Game)
The classic game every child adores, but with an Easter twist! Tie a Sarah's Silk around a balloon, give it a face, and you've got yourself a bunny to join in on the fun! Remember, don't let him touch the floor!
9. Easter Egg Hunts with Grapat Eggs and Erzi Eggs
Easter egg hunts are fun for all ages! And what's more fun than using the Erzi and Grapat Eggs that can be used for many Easter holidays to come? Remember to bring an Olli Ella Basket to put your findings in.
10. Create an Easter Small World
Transport yourself into a magical land of woodland wonders filled with hopping rabbits, chirping chickens and anything else you can imagine!
11. Easter Bunny Table Decoration
For this cutesy table decoration, all you need is a wine glass stuffed with a Sarah's Silk or Mercurius Tissue Paper (the colour you want your rabbit to be), some recycled cardboard and, of course, your Kitpas Art Crayons to give your friend a face! For some extra flare, feel free to add some embellishments, such as a Sarah's Silks Garland!
12. Create an Easter-themed Flat-lay
Invite your little ones to get artistic with a flat-lay creation using their Grapat Loose Parts, Grimm's Wooden Toys and anything else they desire. Just look at some of the beautiful designs that are possible:
13. Build an Easter Maze
The perfect game to play as a group or by oneself! Use your collection of building blocks to create a maze. Scatter some Grapat Eggs at various parts throughout the maze to collect along the way. For an extra challenge, incorporate maths problems like Allie's children have done in the images below.
Helpful Hint: If you're stuck designing a maze, copy an example from an activity book.
14. Easter Sun Catcher with Kite Paper
Sun catchers are the perfect way to brighten up any window and are so simple to make your very own at home with everyday materials!
Helpful Hint: Check out our DIY Sun Catcher Step-by-Step Guide.
16. Easter Egg Salt Painting
For this crafty activity, you will need some paper, Stockmar Watercolour Paints, School Glue, salt and a pen. Have your little artist draw an Easter egg design on the paper before outlining it with glue. Sprinkle salt over the glue and then watch them become mesmerised as they colour the salt with their watercolour paints!
17. Watercolour Easter Cards
Use your STOCKMAR Watercolour Paints to make Easter cards for your loved ones.
18. Early Learning Activities with Grapat Rainbow Eggs
The Grapat Rainbow Eggs are the perfect resource for home learning activities for the youngest learners. Use them for activities such as counting and colour sorting to bring more fun to educational play!
Helpful Hint: Check our Home Learning Guide for more information and ideas.
Addition & Subtraction
Counting with Kontu
Colour Matching & Sorting
19. Guess What's Hiding in the Mader Egg Game
Hide some goodies of your choosing in the Mader Half Hollow Egg, pass it around, and each guesses what's in it - the winner gets to keep whatever is inside!
21. Wipeable Easter Eggs
Grab some recycled cardboard cut into the shape of an Easter egg before coating it in Modpodge and leaving it to dry. You can now use your Kitpas Art Crayons to draw different designs on your egg that can be easily wiped off when you're ready to draw something new.
22. Easter Egg Ball Run (Kaden Egg Delivery)
Help the Easter Bunny deliver his eggs on time by building him a ball run to transport the eggs!
Helpful Hint: Check out our Ball Run Play Guide for guidance and inspiration on building a ball run.
23. Nature Easter Eggs
Grab your Olli Ella Basket and venture out into the garden to collect some foliage and flowers for your creation. Head back inside and use your Kitpas Art Crayons to draw an Easter egg design on some recycled cardboard. Take time arranging and gluing your flowery finds onto the cardboard, and watch your Easter nature creation come to life!
24. Hot Cross Building Blocks
Calling all shopkeepers and bakers! Did you know you can make delicious-looking Hot Cross Buns with your Building Blocks and playdough or DAS Modelling Clay?
25. Rubbing Textured 2D Easter Eggs and Basket
Using scrap paper, draw and colour in an Easter basket for your eggs. Cut out your Easter eggs and pile them into your basket! Next, place a piece of paper with your egg templates on a textured surface (such as bubble wrap or a larger part of Lego) and then colour them in with your Kitpas Art Crayons for some unique egg designs.
26. Decorate Dipam Egg Candles with Modelling Wax
Spruce up your Dipam Beeswax Egg Candles by decorating them with the STOCKMAR Modelling Wax.
27. DAS Clay Easter Ornaments
Make your own Easter-inspired ornaments using DAS Clay and Gluckskafer Cookie Cutters, before decorating them with the STOCKMAR Watercolour Paint.
28. Pressed Flower Ornaments
Create ornaments that eternalise the beauty of nature by using the Gluckskafer Flower Press to flatten and preserve your picked blooms.
29. Build a KAPLA Easter Character
Give yourself the ultimate KAPLA building challenge by building one of the Easter characters below!
Easter Chick
Easter Bunny
30. #OWAEaster Downloads
Did you know we have FREE Activity Sheets available for download on our website?
Happy playing! We hope you will enjoy trying some of these fun Easter activities with your kids. Remember to tag us in your photos on Instagram and Facebook using @oskarswoodenark and #OWAEaster. We can't wait to see what you all get up to.
Easter Products from Oskar's Wooden Ark
Whether you're looking for gift ideas for your loved ones or some crafty DIY activities, we have everything you need for a wonder-filled family Easter!
You might like:
Dipam Beeswax Egg Candle 4.5x6.5cm
Erzi Eggs Coloured Sixpack
Mader Half Hollow Wooden Egg
Kitpas Large Stick Crayons 12 colours
STOCKMAR Watercolour Paint Set in Tin 12 Opaque Colours
Olli Ella Berry Basket
