This time of year there is so much going on! However, Easter is always a highlight for students because, much like Santa, the Easter Bunny usually leaves them a little bit of a surprise to find in the morning! With these 10 Easter crafts for elementary, your students can make decorations for home and help their families celebrate!
What’s Inside Your Egg?
This fun Easter craft for elementary students might take some time but is great for showing your students’ personalities. Start by asking your students to strike a pose they associate with cracking out of a shell. then, have your students draw a cracked egg that is completely open and color it. Next, you’ll have your students pick out a fun patterned and colored craft paper and use their hand-eye coordination to cut out some clothing pieces for their picture. After the egg is colored and clothes are cut, students can “dress up” their picture and see themselves popping out of the egg! This is a great gift for parents to keep and to share at any graduation.
Put Your Finger on an Easter Craft for Elementary Students
With a little paint, string, and of course your fingers, students can make a super cute Easter craft! Start with a plain piece of white paper. Add a wavy line about halfway down the page and plant your carrots! With orange paint, your students can make carrots that have fun green string popping out of the ground. Add a fingerprint rabbit with brown paint to give your students’ gardens a friendly character. You can pair this activity with a Picture Book Pal for Up in the Garden or as a science project when you learn about plants.
Baby Chicks Hatching for a Simple Easter Craft
Sometimes, it can be difficult to find an Easter craft for elementary students who are younger. That’s why these baby chicks are great for your Pre-K and kindergarten students. Using simple shapes and colors, students can draw their baby chicks, some grass, and of course an egg! Put them all together to create a fun little decoration for your classroom, the hallway, or the refrigerator at home.
Easter Crafts for Elementary Students that Recycle
Some of the cutest Easter crafts for elementary students come from simple things you can collect throughout the year. Toilet paper roll bunnies are great for teaching students about “up-cycling” things as well as recycling. Because of this recycled element, you can use this craft for science class or just because! Using a toilet paper roll, some white paint, white cardstock as well as an “Easter color,” a pipe cleaner, and of course some googly eyes, your students can create the cutest little creatures!
–Use Numbers and Shapes to Create These Pastel Bunnies
It’s always fun when you get to use a different form of art! Using paper and some pastels, let your students have fun with colors! First, start with the two lines for the neck. Then making a sideways eight. Have them keep tracing over the circles of the eights under they have two even sides. Then, you have them make hills, mountains, or turn the paper upside down and make two v’s. When you have the shape of your bunny, let students color them until the whole page is full! Beware, this is a fun but messy activity.
Low-Mess Suncatcher Easter Eggs
This one-of-a-kind Easter craft for elementary students is simple for students to do independently with the help of a free egg printable. Besides the printable, all you need is some clear contact paper and some neon tissue. Cut the contact paper into a square that is slightly larger than the egg. You can peel off the back and let your students stick the neon tissue paper all over the sticky side of the contact paper until it’s covered. Finally, trace the egg with a black marker on the tissue paper and cut it out. If you want to hang it up, simply grab a hole punch and a string. This is a simple and not too messy way to bring some beauty to your Easter.
Make the Earth Shake with Monster Truck Bunnies!
With a simple paper plate, come paper, stables, and a cute picture, your students will be ready to go for a ride in their bunny monster truck! These cute monster trucks complete with ears, a nose, and whiskers will be loved by students and parents alike! The driver is your student. What are they hauling in those monster trucks? An egg decorated by the driver. Parents will love the personal touch and students will enjoy making something a little different. Easter crafts for elementary don’t come any cooler than this!
Easy Paper Plate Easter Wreath Craft
What can you do with a low budget? So many things including this amazing Easter craft for elementary students. Using markers, a paper plate, and some eggs, you can create a great wreath. Let your students have fun with colors and the arrangements! Just like Easter eggs, each wreath will be completely unique to your students.
Tissue Paper Bunny Tail
Do your students love working with colors and different artistic elements? With some colorful tissue paper, some plain cardstock or construction paper, and of course a pom-pom your students can make this adorable Easter craft. Whether they are in pre-k or fifth grade, this cute bunny tail is simple but can be paired with fun writing activities. Cut out a bunny shape. Then on a plain piece of paper glue down various colors of tissue paper. Put the bunny on top and add a tail. Your students can add to this by writing a story about their bunny or writing a poem about the bunny below the picture or on the bunny itself.
Use this Free Pattern Easter Basket for the Perfect Centerpiece
This Easter basket craft is great for elementary students of all ages. What changes from grade to grade is how much of the cutting and shaping you do. You can use a super simple template that you can cut out and fold together to make an Easter basket. Simply add some Easter grass, a few cut-outs of eggs, and other Easter decorations to create the perfect table setting at home. I had my students do this activity and they loved it! You can even have students fill the basket with things that are meaningful to them like a picture of their family or something else they love.
Easter is a fun time of year with so many opportunities for a variety of crafts. Whether you are breaking out the paper plates, toilet paper rolls, pastels, or paints, students are going to have fun with these Easter crafts for elementary students.
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