Easter Coloring Pages
Get out your crayons, markers and paints, and have fun coloring. Have fun decorating the eggs and making your picture extra special! Make a card or color a large or medium sized picture. Then print and color!
Easter Coloring Templates - Make an Easter card
Easter page Coloring - Free For Kids!
Make an Easter card
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Plastic Egg Bunny Decorating
Make cute Easter bunnies from a plastic egg, pom-poms and fun foam (or construction paper). You can even hide some Easter candy inside your bunny for a special Easter treat.
Supplies needed:
Easter Arts and Crafts
Cut two large white bunny ears that will go with your plastic egg. Cut two smaller pink ears that will fit inside the white ears. Glue the smaller pink piece inside the larger white piece, with the bottoms lined up. Repeat for other ear.
Free Printable Easter Coloring Projects
Glue the ears to the top of the small end of the egg, spacing them about 1/2″ to 1″ apart.
Plastic Egg Bunny Decorating
Glue the two white pompoms on the front of the egg just above where the egg opens up (these will be the chubby cheeks). Glue the pompoms together on the egg, then glue the pink pompom on the center, on top of the white pompoms, smushing it a little in between and up against the plastic egg.
Easter Arts and Crafts
Glue on the eyes; they look better if they are a bit over-sized. Put candy inside your bunny for a special treat.
Let this little birdie tell someone you love them on Valentine’s Day.
Valentine’s Day Love Bird Magnet Supplies
1 big red pompom
1 small red pompom
Red craft foam
Orange craft foam
Wiggly eyes
Scissors
Glue
Valentine’s Day Love Bird Magnet Instructions
Trace and cut pattern out orange craft foam to make the bird’s beaks and feet. Glue small pompom on top of the big pompom. Glue the feet to the big pompom. Let dry. Cut two red hearts out of red craft foam and glue to the back of the bird. Glue beak and wiggly eyes to the head of the bird. Cut I love you strip and glue it between the magnet disk and the hearts to the back of the bird. Turn bird on its back and let dry.
Your Children are going to love making Valentine’s Day Love Bird Magnet !
Teachers: this is a great project for Valentine’s Day, and can be done on a much smaller scale. Instead of making a wreath with multiple hearts, make a doily and put one heart in the middle. There are 236 yards in a ball of cotton yarn, so if you have a class of 30, that is almost 16 yards of yarn (8 of each color) per student–two balls will be plenty!
Supplies
1 ball 760-100 Cotton: White
1 ball 760-112 Cotton: Poppy Red
Red glitter (optional, but nice)
white glitter (optional, but nice)
Red (or white) sparkly pipe cleaners (optional, but nice)
White School Glue
Hot Glue Gun / hot glue
Waxed Paper or non-stick cookie sheet.
Ribbon
Valentine’s Wreath Instructions
Valentine’s Wreath
Pour the glue into a bowl, dilute with water if you want, but no more than one part water to four parts glue. Cut a piece of waxed paper as big as you’d like your wreath. If it’s not wide enough, cut two sheets and lay them side by side. If you’d like to make sure the wreath is round in the middle, place a bowl or a plate in the middle of the waxed paper to use to mark the center.
Cut about 3-4 yards (or less if you’d like to make little doilies) of the white cotton (A). Dip it in the glue and make little lace-like loops with it on the waxed paper. If you use up all the yarn and you don’t think the wreath is thick or wide enough, you can always cut another piece of cotton and add more — it is not important if there is an extra end or two because they will stick together! When you like the way the wreath or doily looks, and before it dries, cover it completely in glitter. If you’d like to speed up the drying process, place the Valentine’s Wreath in the oven at 150 degrees F for about 20 minutes.
While the Valentine’s Wreath is drying, make the red hearts.
For the red hearts, you’ll need another sheet of waxed paper, and more glue. Dip the red cotton (B) into the glue and make hearts on the waxed paper. Be creative! There is no such thing as a ‘wrong’ heart!! You can make the hearts small or large, and you can always add pipe cleaners or other decorations to them after they’re dry to add a different texture. When you’ve made as many hearts as you want. Cover them in white or red glitter (or both!). The hearts that look pink in the picture are the ones with the white glitter on them. You can let the hearts dry naturally or pop them in the oven at low temperature.
When everything is dry, it’s time to assemble it! First, you’ll need to shake the extra glitter off. This can, of course, be saved for a later project. If the Valentine’s Wreath isn’t stable enough, go around the back a few times with the hot glue. Working from the front, use the hot glue to attach the hearts to the Valentine’s Wreath.
If you’d like, place a red ribbon at the top to hang it up! Your kids are going to love making this Valentine’s Wreath!
Painting Projects for Children - Preschool, K-3 age group. The three projects on this page Bubble Painting, Hot Rod Painting & Paint Squirting, are perfect examples of, “process not product” activities. There is no goal to attain, no definitive color, or form for children to struggle with. The process of experiencing color and movement are the important lessons here.
Example 1: Bubble Painting
You’ll need :
Try using other household objects to make bubbles i.e. T.P. tube, straw, the plastic rings from a six pack of soda. Pour bubble mix into as many trays as you want colors. Add about one teaspoon of dry powder paint. Place your blowing wand into paint and blow bubbles at the paper let the bubble land. When it pops the color explodes.
Example 2: Bubble Painting
You’ll need :
Directions
Hot Rod PaintingSpread paint thinly on the bottom of trays. Drive the car through the paint a few times and then onto the paper. Simple Huh?
Decorate the paper in any design. The more color the better. Detailed pictures are not recommended. Tape the picture to a shower wall. Stand back ~ 3-4 feet and spray the picture with the spray bottle a few times. The colors will mix and blend. Your child will be fascinated by the changes. You can use this opportunity to teach about COLOR MIXING and the reason it drips down is GRAVITY.
3 fun painting activities for you and your Children - Bubble Painting, Hot Rod Painting & Paint Squirting
Other Fun Painting Activities Straw Sculptures
How to Make Your Own Play-Dough
Play Dough Recipe
I used to make a batch of this play-dough once a month in the classroom. Changing the colors for the season. Although 20 little hands stayed busy shaping and molding, the play dough never dried out!
You’ll need:
Mix ALL of the ingredients in a large saucepan. Cook over medium low heat, until the dough comes away
from the edges of the pan and it becomes difficult to move the spoon. Remove from heat. Cool until it can be handled.
Place on counter or wax paper knead 3-4 times. Store in an air tight container.
Bread and Glue Clay - Easy Recipe
You’ll need :
To Make:
Remove Crusts. Break bread into small pieces and put in mixing bowl. Pour glue over bread. Mix with one hand until it becomes a sticky mass. Take the out of the bowl and form into a ball .With both hands keep patting into a smaller ball until it becomes just slightly tacky. Dust work surface with a small amount of flour and knead gently until it becomes smoother and more pliable. Knead firmly at this time. Knead until texture is satiny, about 5 mintues.
Wrap tightly with plastic to store. Remember to seal the unused portion while working.
To color dough tear of portion needed , flatten and add color directly onto dough. Blend until satiny again. Add flour, if needed to achieve the proper texture.
Air dry. Drying times vary depending on thickness. To speed up drying place on cookie sheet and leave overnight in an unlit oven. Paint with acrylic paints (optional) and seal with spray on finish.
Play Dough - Easy Tip - Clean Up Time
Keep sticky, paint covered hands away from walls and furniture, with a wet soapy washcloth next to the project area. Making play dough is easy as 123!
We have a great recipes for play dough! Please share our site with a friend!
Quick and Easy Arts and Crafts for Kids
You’ll need:
Cut straws to different lengths. Snip a slit at one end of some of the straws. Insert straws into each other to form desired shape. Paper clips can be used for angled joints by bending into S & U shapes and inserted into the straws. To make “fireworks” or trees, cut several slits on the end of the straws and curl with scissors as you would do to curling ribbon.
Kids Craft Idea for creating Box Towns
With a bit of help from you, your child can make a toy with your old card board box containers!
Box Town, Box City Craft Ideas - You’ll Need :
Box Town Directions:
Cover boxes and cartons with paper, younger children will need help. Carefully cut windows and decorations from construction paper or simply olor to decorate. Help cut doorways and tunnels.
Now it’s ready for play!
For fun…….Make cone trees out of green paper & signs for roads and business. This town works well with Building Blocks added to it also!
Box Town, another great Kid Craft Idea from Kids Art Planet!
Fun arts and crafts ideas for kids. Ideas for children in preschool, k-6 classrooms, Sunday school and Scouts.
The Basics
With simple and inexpensive supplies around the house, kids can produce an art gallery, worthy of any family room! Fill a cupboard with construction paper, tempera paint, markers, pipe cleaners, colored pencils, crayons, craft foam sheets, watercolors, glue stick, white glue & children’s scissors. These basic supplies will be enough to make most of our kids craft ideas.
Arts and Craft Ideas - Preschool Art - ages 3 and up
Sunday school, scout troops, home or classroom
Anaimal Masks Craft Project
Box town
Straw Sculpture
Egg carton flowers
Marble Painting
Straw Sculptures
Pipe Cleaner Art
Toothpick Sculpture
Aluminum Foil Sculptures
Hot Rod Painting
Bubble Paint
Paint Squirting
Straw Painting
Shaving Cream Art
Potato Prints
Making Stamps
Colored Rice
Finger tip Pictures
Squeeze Ball
Easy Tie Dye
Butterfly Magnet
Clay Recipes
Tooth Pick Architecture
Bread and Glue
Envelope Art
Sock Sacks
Milk Jug Fish
Collage Place Mat
Arts and Craft Ideas for K-5:
Easy Play Dough Recipes
Bean Mosaic
Tooth Pick Architecture
Bread and Glue
Envelope Art
Finger tip Pictures
Squeeze Ball
Easy Tie Dye
Butterfly Magnet
Potato Prints
Making Stamps
Toothpick Sculpture
Aluminum Foil Sculptures
Leather like vase
Bubble Paint
Paint Squirting
Straw Painting
Straw Sculpture
Egg carton flowers
Friendship Bracelets - More advanced
Collage Placemat
Quick and Easy Art - Arts & Craft Ideas
Straw Painting
Straw Sculpture
Toothpick Sculpture
Aluminum Foil Sculptures
Envelope Art
Finger tip Pictures
Squeeze Ball
Easy Tie Dye
Clay Recipes
Tooth Pick Architecture
Pipe Cleaner Art
Shaving Cream Art
Windsock
Tips for working with kids on Arts and Craft Ideas:
Encourage all art projects as a process, not product activity. What may be a mess to you, could be a new planet, zoo or the next NASA spacecraft to your child. Allowing our children to explore on their own, not only develops creativity but teaches problem solving, spatial relationships as well as cause and effect. Skills they’ll need later for math and other academics.
Refrain from showing examples of a completed project. Especially, that which has been completed by an adult. Provide the supplies and instructions, they’ll do the rest.
Resist asking “What is it?”…Instead try “Tell me about it”
Avoid automatic praise such as “that’s beautiful” or “very good”. Asking your young artist how they feel about
their creation and the experience of making it will build confidence and language arts skills
Easy Cleanup
When working with a group. You may find it easier to rotate a bucket of warm soapy water, for hand washing, or have
disposable hand wipes available. Provide a clean towel, or paper towel for drying.
Kids’ Arts & Crafts ideas for Special Days
Valentine’s Day Crafts
Halloween Crafts
St. Patrick’s Day Crafts
Thanksgiving Crafts
Easter Crafts
Christmas Crafts
Father’s Day Crafts
Kwanzaa Craft Ideas
Mother’s Day Crafts
Hanukkah Crafts
Known miss-spellings: Arts & Kraft, Kids Kraft, Kids Arts & Kraft, Kids Krafts
This personalized Kids Valentine card is a good project to make for a VERY special person in your life. The card takes a lot of steps, but they are all very easy - it’s basically a lot of folding and cutting.
To make a , you will need:
Valentine Pop-up Card - Step 1
Fold each piece of paper in half
Valentine Card - Step 2
To make the two hearts you will need, cut one of the pieces of paper in half along the fold.
Kids Valentine Card - Step 3
Fold each of these pieces in half and cut along the fold
Valentine Cards for Kids - Step 4
Draw half a heart on each (around the fold)
Valentine Cards - Step 5
Cut along the line you drew. This will make 2 hearts.
Valentine Cards - Step 6
Fold one of the hearts in half
Valentine Cards - Step 7
Draw a small half-heart on the folded heart and cut along the lines. This forms the picture frame
Valentine Cards - Step 9
Cut the photo to fit inside the heart frame
Valentine Cards - Step 10
Assemble the picture frame by placing the center-less heart on the photo and gluing it down
Valentine Cards - Step 11
Glue the solid heart to the front of the card. Decorate the front of the card with markers or crayons, or with tiny cut-out hearts
Kids Valentine Cards - Step 12
Cut two strips of paper (about 1 inch by 8 inches). Any color will do
Kids Valentine Popup Cards - Step 13
Position the strips perpendicular to each other. Staple them together where they overla
Popup Cards - Valentine - Step 14
Fold one strip over the other, like an accordion or spring
Valentine Pop-up Cards - Step 15
Continue folding, making a springy strip
Valentine Pop-up Cards - Step 16
Tape the springy strip to the inside of the card
Kids Valentine Pop-up Card - Step 17
Tape the heart photo in the frame to the springy strip
Valentine Popup Cards - Step 18
Write a message on your card
