Easter crafts provide opportunities to learn about colours, shapes, thick and thin, lines and cutting exercises. It is so much fun doing crafts at home with your children and Easter provides an opportunity to create, cut and colour.

Stripy Easter Eggs

What you need:

• Thin white cardboard
• Watercolor paint
• Paintbrushes
• Scissors
• Newspapers
• Black tip marker
• Jar of water
• Gold pen or paint

What to do:

1. Cover table with newspaper.
2. Put rest of the supplies on table.

How to make it:

1. Paint lines of different colors and distances apart onto the cardboard. Lines can vary in thickness. Child can create a pattern if you want to add a math element to the process. Wait till it is dry.
2. Child can then add some gold lines, or dots, circles or wiggles within the colored lines.
3. After it is dry a second time the child can draw one or more eggs from the cardboard and cut it out.

Pastel Peek a Boo Egg Craft

What you need:

• Several small pieces of white paper
• Pastels
• Thick paintbrush
• Dark acrylic paint like black, dark blue, purple or brown
• Kraft knife or something sharp for scratching lines
• Scissors
• Newspaper
• Saucers

What to do:

1. Cover table with newspaper.
2. Pour some acrylic paint in saucers with a paint brush for each color.
3. Put the rest of the supplies on the table.

How to make it:

1. Have the child color the white paper with pastels. Make sure the whole paper is covered.
2. Have her paint over the pastel thickly with the acrylic paint.
3. Let dry. Using the craft knife draw a egg shape and cut out with scissors.
4. Next the child can scrape out lines, shapes, squiggles, what ever she wants on her Easter egg. The magic is in watching her egg develop into a thing of beauty before her eyes.

The Wiggly Easter Egg

What you will need:

• White paper
• Paint brushes
• Bright neon or pastel paint colors
• Black felt tip marker
• Scissors
• Newspaper
• Jars or containers for paint and water

What to do:

1. Cover the table in paper.
2. Put all the supplies on the table, put water and paints in containers.

How to make it:

1. Paint wiggly lines with different colors on the paper, different widths, some fat and skinny till the paper is covered in lines.
2. Let dry then draw an Easter egg and cut out.

Sponged Easter Eggs

Follow the same process as above except having children sponge on the colours instead of making wiggly lines. You will need styrofoam trays with paper towels. Just pour some paint over the paper towels and they can sponge the paint onto their paper. Let dry, draw egg shapes and cut out.

Whether children are discovering patterns, shapes, colours and lines, each activity becomes a learning experience for them. The bonus is that they get to be creative at the same time. Each art activity provides a learning moment. So enjoy Easter and all the fun involved and have your child develop some skills along the way.