Easy Easter Crafts For Preschool

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Easy Easter crafts make preschool so much more fun. Hand print chicks, popcorn lambs and a unique paper plate bunny all get the big thumbs up.

Easy Easter Crafts 1 - Small Hand Print Chicks

Materials:

White paper A4
Paint- yellow and orange
Black fibre tip pen or marker
Soap
Water
Newspaper

Directions:

Pour ready made yellow paint into a wide container that has sides. Ready mix some orange paint in a smaller container.

Place newspaper on the floor and then position both the containers with paint next to the white paper and finally a tub of soapy water.

Each child is to place their hand into the yellow paint and gently press their hand in the middle of the white paper, leaving a hand print. Make sure that their fingers are closed together.

The same child, needs to place their finger of the other hand into orange paint and make a fingerprint in the middle of the hand print. This will be the chicks beak.

Wash and dry hands

Allow time for the paint to dry.

Using the black marker or fibre-tip pens, add a couple of eyes, feet and wings.

Easy Easter Crafts 2 - Popcorn Lamb Hand Print Craft

Materials:

Cardboard
Fibre tip pens or marker
Cooled popped popcorn
Pair of scissors
Glue stick
Pencil

Directions:

Let each child trace their friends hand using a pencil on a clean piece of card. Have each child open their fingers far apart from each other.

Using a pair of scissors, cut out the shape of the hand.

On the thumb area, they can draw a lambs face, with eyes, a nose and mouth.

Using a black fibre-tip pen, color the ends of each finger except the thumb, almost where the nail would be. These will be the lambs hooves.

Using the glue stick, cover only the palm of the hand with glue. Add the pop corn to the glued area.

The cute easy Easter crafts popcorn lamb is now complete.

Easy Easter Crafts 3 - Paper Plate Bunny

Materials:

Ordinary white paper plate
White paper A4
Paint - pink
Wiggly eyes
Stapler
Glue stick
Black Chenille Stems/pipe cleaners
Large pink pom pom
Black fibre tip pen / marker

Directions:

Draw two big bunny ears on the white paper, with a smaller inner ear. Have this ready before class.

Have the kids cut out the bunny ears and paint the inner ear pink. Once dried, staple the ears to the back of the top part of the paper plate. Teacher assistance is needed for this task.

Glue the wiggly eyes below the ears and next to each other.

Stick a big pink pom pom in the middle of the paper plate for a nose.

Glue the Chenille Stems on either side of the nose as whiskers.

Draw a mouth - or a big smile and your done with your easy Easter crafts.

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Great Ideas For Crafts For Kids

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Crafts for kids are very popular with parents. It helps them educate their child and enhance their creativity. To make simple crafts all you will need are some supplies like construction paper, pipe cleaners, toothpicks, and macaroni.

Helpful Tips on Crafts For Kids

Tip 1 - Macaroni Necklaces

This is a traditional craft that your kids will surely have fun in doing. All you will need is some yarn and colored macaroni. Then teach your kids to string the macaroni and fashion it into a necklace.

Tip 2 - Pipe Cleaner Construction

With this craft you can use different colored pipe cleaners. By twisting them into shapes they can make animals, building, and anything that fancies your child. Then you can place it on a cardboard and arrange them to make a mini zoo or town.

Tip 3 - Sponge Decors
With the help of sponges you can help enhance the creativity of your kid in drawing. You cut the sponges into shapes like stars, moon, circles, squares, or flowers. Then dip them into paint and apply it on a construction paper. Then you can help your kid frame their artwork.

Tip 4 - Toothpick Art

This particular craft would need lots of toothpicks, gumdrops, marshmallows. Insert toothpicks in marshmallows or gumdrops then you can start building your own bridge or building.

Tip 5 - Paper Chains

You will need to cut strips of paper and glue both ends together to form a circle. Then insert another strip in the circle and glue again both ends until you will form a chain. You can use the paper chains to decorate your room.

Tip 6 - Puppets

With some sheets of foam you can cut out butterflies, flowers, dogs, trees, fishes, and so many more. After painting the cutouts your kids can glue them into Popsicle sticks and start their own puppet show.

Tip 7 - Headbands
You can make simple headbands out of construction paper. Make sure it is the right size of your child's head. You can add some glitzy accessories.

These crafts for kids will surely be an enjoyable pastime. Even the whole family can join and have fun in doing these artsy projects.

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175 Easy-To-Do-Easter Crafts: Easy-To-Do Crafts, Easy-To-Find Things (Easy-to-Do Crafts Easy-to-Find Things)

175 Easy-To-Do-Easter Crafts: Easy-To-Do Crafts, Easy-To-Find Things (Easy-to-Do Crafts Easy-to-Find Things) Review

This book, 175 Easy-to-Do Easter Crafts, is filled with a wonderful assortment of crafts made from recyclable things and inexpensive items you will find in and around your home. All you need to have for many wonderful hours of enjoyment are pencils, crayons, scissors, tape, and other craft supplies you probably already have around the house.

You and your children will have hours of fun making a variety of crafts. Each project has a list of items needed and the basic steps for completing the project. The colorful photos show the finished product so that you can see what your creation should look like when you are done.

This is a fun and easy to follow book that lies flat, has fairly large print, and pictures of every project. There is even a material index in the back of the book.

This book is good for parents, grandparents, Sunday School classes, and elementary or preschool teachers.

175 Easy-To-Do-Easter Crafts: Easy-To-Do Crafts, Easy-To-Find Things (Easy-to-Do Crafts Easy-to-Find Things)

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Cute Preschool Easter Chick Crafts

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These Easter chick crafts are all designed for little ones. They are easy to do and loads of fun. Let them try their hand at a cute fingerprint Easter chick, turn a paper plate into a chick and make a yellow footprint chick.

Easter Chick Crafts 1 - Cute Fingerprint Easter Chick

Supplies:
Paint - Yellow
Warm soapy water
Orange and Blue Fibre-tip pens or marker
Piece of A4 blank paper
Newspaper

Directions:
To help the process run smoothly, mix the yellow paint before hand.

Each preschoolers has a turn to place their thumb or finger in the premixed yellow paint. With a help of a teacher, place the child's finger print gently onto the piece of white paper.

Have a basin full of warm soapy water, for the kids to wash their hands in, while they wait for the paint to dry.

Once dried, let them draw the chicks beak and eyes using an orange and blue colored marker. Now let the children draw orange x or crosses as the chicks feet at the bottom of the fingerprint. Now let them draw a sun, flowers on their paper and remember to add their names.

Easter Chick Crafts 2 - Easter Chick Paper Plate Craft

Materials:
Plain white paper plate
Orange paper
Two googly eyes
Paint- yellow
Feathers - yellow
Glue

Directions:
Paint both sides of the paper plate in yellow paint. Allow time to dry. Once completely dry, you need to fold the paper plate in half. Place the paper plate on its curved side.

Using the googly eyes, paste one on each side of the folded plate. Now draw and cut out a triangle on the orange paper. Glue the triangle across the fold of the paper plate, just above the eyes. This is the chicks beak. Place a blob of glue and stick the feathers on either side of the body. Preferably in the middle of the paper plate.

Easter Chick Crafts 3 - Yellow Foot Chick

Materials:
Paint- yellow
White paper A4
Fibre-tip pens / orange markers
warm soapy water
Newspaper

Directions:
Place the ready mixed yellow paint inside a wise dish, with sides. This dish needs to be big enough for a child's foot. Lay down newspaper under the yellow paint dish as well as the white A4 paper.

The children need to be barefoot. Each child is to place one of their feet into the yellow paint and step directly onto the white paper. Tip: Have the paint, paper and tub of warm soapy water in a line, one after the other. This helps minimize the mess.

Once the child has left a yellow footprint on the paper, have them step into the soapy water and wash the paint off their foot. Dry. Once the paint is dry, turn the paper around until the heel faces to the top, this will be the chicks head.

Using fibre-tip pens / markers add eyes and a beak to the chick. The kids can embellish their work by adding grass, a sun, clouds etc. Do not forget their name.

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