Easter
Dyeing Easter eggs, crafting bunny baskets, and the big egg hunt: colorful ideas for the most beautiful springtime.
As soon as winter is over, kids start looking forward to the next big celebration: Easter. Colorful eggs, a hiding bunny, and the excitement of the big egg hunt on Easter morning make this one of the most wonderful days of the year for many families.
We've put together some ideas to kick off the excitement days in advance: decorating eggs, crafting baskets and decorations, baking, and playing games that are just a must for Easter.
With just one click, you can find the complete step-by-step guide for each idea. Many things can be done with what you already have at home.
Decorate Easter eggs in vibrant colors
The egg is the star of Easter, and there are many ways to make it colorful, not just with the classic paint pot.
Coloring Easter Eggs with a Fizzy Effect
With baking soda, vinegar, and food coloring, a little color explosion happens on the egg that always amazes kids.
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Dyeing Eggs with Rice
Rice and a few drops of food coloring in a shaking bag give the eggs a lovely speckled pattern.
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Secret Easter Egg Messages
When you write with a white candle and then paint over it with colors, the secret message only reveals itself when you hold it up to the light.
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Napkin Technique Easter Egg. Make Your Breakfast Colorful.
With a colorful printed napkin and some glue, the breakfast egg gets a lovely new pattern.
View instructions →Easter baskets for the egg hunt
No basket, no treasure: A handmade unique piece is perfect for the egg hunt.
Easter Craft Idea: Bunny Basket from Paper Plates
With two paper plates and a bit of paint, you can create a basket with bunny ears, perfect for your own treasure.
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Easter Basket from Twigs – Crafting with Natural Materials
Twigs from a spring walk are woven into a small, sturdy basket, completely plastic-free.
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Easter Basket from Plaster
With plaster and a mold, you can create a small, sturdy basket that can be brought out year after year.
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Easter Basket from Tree Slice
A real tree slice, with a few drill holes and natural materials, makes a sturdy Easter basket for next year.
View instructions →Easter decorations and crafting fun
From window decorations to your very own bunny hat, there's something for every crafting mood here.
Make Easter Chick Egg Cups
From an empty toilet paper roll, you can create a little yellow chick that holds the breakfast egg on Easter morning.
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Your Paper Easter Bunny Puppet
A sheet of paper turns into a hand puppet, so the Easter Bunny can keep hopping around happily even after the holiday.
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Make a Bunny Hat from a Paper Plate
With a paper plate and two long ears, you can make a bunny hat that turns any child into the Easter Bunny.
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Peep, peep! Easter Crafting with an Egg Carton
An empty six-egg carton turns into a fluffy nest with cute chicks to admire.
View instructions → Easter Craft: Cute Bunny from Toilet Paper Rolls
Two toilet paper rolls turn into a bunny with long ears, ready to hop around the table.
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Easter Decoration Crafting
Blown-out eggshells are painted in bright colors and turned into delicate spring decorations for the windowsill.
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Make Easter Ornaments from Modeling Clay
Just like baking cookies, but with modeling clay and cookie cutters, to create colorful hangers to decorate.
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Easter Fried Egg from Modeling Clay
With white and yellow modeling clay, you can create a sunny-side-up egg that no one will eat, but everyone will enjoy looking at.
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Easter Bunny Garland
Little paper bunnies with a cotton ball for a tail are strung together to create cheerful window decorations.
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The Easter Bunny and the Stamping Party
With a stamp made from a kitchen roll, you can quickly create entire fields full of Easter bunnies and flowers.
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Easter Magic: Marbling with Shaving Cream
Shaving foam and a few drops of paint are all you need for a marble pattern that looks different every time.
View instructions →Easter Games and Treats
And then there's the most important thing about Easter: playing and snacking together.
The Great Easter Egg Hunt
The classic: Hide colorful eggs around the house or garden and let the whole family join the hunt.
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Egg Tapping. A Fun Easter Game
Two hard-boiled eggs, a knock against each other, and in the end, only one winner remains.
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Save the Easter Eggs
A team game: Everyone needs to find all the hidden Easter eggs and safely bring them back to the nest.
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Sweet Curd Bunnies from the Easter Kitchen
Bunnies shaped from quark dough, decorated with a few raisins for eyes before baking.
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Your Own Sweet Bread: A Fragrant Spring Adventure
The classic yeast braid for Easter breakfast, braided by little hands and then freshly baked.
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Baking Fun: Pretzel Bunnies
With some simple hand movements, you can shape small pretzel bunnies from ready-made pretzel dough to bake at home.
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