Easter Crafts and Activities for Toddlers

Easter can be so much fun with Toddlers. Here are some hands-on egg and chick crafts to celebrate Easter. So many fun and easy ways to create open-ended easter activities with your child.

Toddler Easter Crafts and Activities – Tot School – 28 months

Doing Easter-themed activities with a toddler isn’t just fun—it’s also important for their development and your bond as a parent. Here’s why:

• Boosts Fine Motor Skills – Activities like painting eggs, gluing decorations, or picking up small objects help strengthen little hands and fingers, preparing them for writing and other skills.
• Encourages Creativity & Imagination – Easter crafts allow toddlers to explore colors, textures, and different materials, helping them express themselves creatively.
• Supports Early Learning – Through simple activities, toddlers can learn about colors, shapes, counting, and even basic science (like how an egg changes when boiled).
• Strengthens Parent-Child Bonding – Quality time spent crafting and playing together builds a sense of connection and security, fostering a strong parent-child relationship.
• Teaches Traditions & Values – Engaging in Easter-themed activities introduces toddlers to holiday traditions, helping them understand family and cultural values in a hands-on way.
• Enhances Sensory Development – Many Easter activities involve sensory play, like feeling the textures of cotton balls for bunny crafts or squishing paint between fingers, which is great for brain development.
• Builds Language Skills – Talking about what you’re doing while crafting or playing helps expand your toddler’s vocabulary and language comprehension.
• Encourages Social Skills – If done with siblings or friends, Easter activities teach sharing, cooperation, and patience.

Here are some fun easter ideas for your toddler…

Egg Collage Craft for Toddlers

This week, I brought out our collage tray that I made in January, cut an egg shape out, handed my 2 year old a glue bottle and let him go! This is what he made!

I enjoy open-ended crafts that allow for kids to make choices, but yet are still cute to hang up!

Easter Books for Toddlers

We also rotated our bookshelf into our Easter Themed selections. I ADORE and I mean ADORE the days when our bookshelves are first rotated. My kids spent at least 3 hours reading (not all at one time) all the new books in one day!!!

Here is what is on our shelf. I was a little worried that I didn’t have many books for this theme. What was I thinking?

Here are some of the other books on our shelf!

We have been picking up books at garage sales for 5 years, ordering from Scholastic and buying books to stuff Easter Baskets with and slowly adding to the collection! My mom is also really great about sending the kids little surprise mail packages with books too.

Surprisingly, one of the kids favorites is the large bunny book called Ralph. I got it at a baby shower for my oldest (now 5 1/2) and thought – “What am I going to do with a book this big?” The kids really enjoy it and it has been well-loved and read for over 5 years now. It also brings back great memories of my daughter as a baby. It has simple rhyming sentences on each page. I just looked for it on the web and of course, it seems like they are not selling it anymore.

Handprint Chick Craft for Toddlers

This next little craft is less open ended, more crafty and working on following directions.

Just takes some paper, their hands to trace and a couple brads to make the hands move!

If you wanted, you could have the kids cut our their own eggs for some extra cutting practice (I just cut mine for time and sanity – but my kids do cut a LOT, so I am not worried they missed out on some extra fine motor practice)

Both my kids had a go at it. I always encourage them to add their own details to the picture to make it their own. My oldest added the bow to hers and the bow tie to her toddler brothers! I loved the creativity!

Another craft that is easily adaptable is the stain glass window!

Contact Paper Egg Craft for Toddlers

We used contact paper and put the shape of a tagboard egg (with the inside cut out) on top of the contact paper.  I set out tissue paper squares and let him add what colors and how many he wanted. 

It was funny because he added a few and said, “I’m done.” There was no convincing him to add any more. My daughter, on the other hand, filled up her entire egg. 

After he was done, I put another piece of contact paper over, so the sticky sides were together, cut around the egg shape leaving a small boarder of contact paper, punched a hole and tied a ribbon at the top to hand on our window.

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Easter Crafts and Activities for Toddlers

Easter is a wonderful time to get creative, learn, and make special memories together with your toddler. Whether you’re crafting adorable bunnies, decorating eggs, or exploring hands-on activities, these ideas are sure to bring joy to your home or classroom.

We hope these Toddler Easter crafts and activities inspire you to celebrate the season in a fun and meaningful way!

Don’t forget to share your favorite creations with us—we’d love to see them! Happy Easter!

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