Egg Roll Painting

This is such a fun and engaging process art activity that will have children fascinated by the colours mixing and the designs they can create by rolling their easter eggs! 

All you need:
-Washable Tempera Paint
-Bristol Board
-Plastic Easter Eggs

Place your playtray on a piece of bristol board and trace the bottom and cut it out. Then place your put out in the bottom of the playtray. Pour your washable tempera paint in a paint pot, add white paint and mix to create a pastel spring shades.
 
 Then add a small amount of water to liquify the paint and mix. Take your liquify paint mixture and pour it in your playtray on the paper and add your plastic eggs to the paint and pick up your tray and begin to roll your easter eggs around! 
 
Children will have SO much fun and create unique art prints!
 

Forest Easter Egg Hunt Small World 

Can you find all the little mini eggs hidden by the bunnies in the forest? This is such a fun easter egg hunt on a classic small world and children will love searching in tree stumps, in leaf piles, in rock piles and collecting them all up!

In a tuff tray simply create a small world inspired by the forest and begin hiding the mini eggs all throughout the forest! Add small bowls for children to add their mini eggs to.

Ways to extend the play:
-Count how many mini eggs you found!
-Create a colour pattern with the mini eggs
-Sort them by colour
-See how many eggs it takes to fill each basket or bowl
-Tell easter bunny stories, how did the eggs end up all over the woods?

Egg Drip Splatter Painting 

This is such a fun and easy process art activity to explore with your little learners for Easter! The best part is each creation will be completely unique 
 
All you need:
-Stretch Canvas
-Washable Tempera Paint
-Plastic Eggs
Pour your washable tempera paint in paint pots, add white paint and mix to create a pastel spring shades! Then pour a small amount of water in the paint mixture and mix untill the paint it liquified. Take your easter eggs and tape the bottom holes to ensure the paint stays in your eggs then pour your paint mixture in and seal the egg. 
 
Place a canvas on a paint tray and invite children to drip and splatter paint all over the canvas!
 

Egg Stamping 

This is such a fun and easy process art activity to explore with your little learners for Easter! 

All you need:
-Stretch Canvas
-Washable Tempera Paint
-Plastic Eggs

Pour your washable tempera paint on a paper plate and add white paint and mix to create a pastel spring shades. Then place your plastic eggs in the corresponding colour! Place your canvas out in front of your paint and invite children to begin stamping.

This is such a fun way to explore colours, stamping and circular patterns!

Loose Parts Easter Eggs on the Light Panel 

This Easter invitation to play is all about colour, creativity and light! Children will love decorating translucent eggs using vibrant loose parts—arranging shapes, patterns and colours to design their own spring masterpieces. 

Simply cut egg shapes from parchment or wax paper, place them on the light panel, and offer a rainbow of loose parts for children to explore. Then step back and watch the magic happen!

Why is this activity beneficial?
Cognitive Development: Encourages creative thinking, spatial awareness and pattern recognition through open-ended design.

Colour Recognition: Supports early colour sorting and matching in a hands-on, visually engaging way.

Fine Motor Skills: Picking up and placing loose parts helps develop coordination and strengthens tiny fingers.

Extend the Learning:
- Encourage children to describe their egg designs—What colours did you choose? What shapes do you see?

- Introduce vocabulary like “symmetry,” “design,” or “transparent” as children play.

- Add a counting twist—“How many red pieces did you use?” or “Can you make a pattern of three?”

Easter Egg Colour Matching

This bright and cheerful Easter activity is a perfect way to combine colour recognition, fine motor skills, and festive fun all in one tuff tray! 

Set up plastic eggs and coordinating pom poms in a range of vibrant spring colours. Add some jumbo tweezers and invite your little learners to explore, match, and sort the pom poms to the same-coloured egg! 

Why is this activity beneficial?
- Cognitive Development: Strengthens early colour identification and categorization skills through playful exploration.
- Fine Motor Practice: Using tweezers to pick up pom poms builds hand strength, pincer grasp, and hand-eye coordination.
- Visual Discrimination: Enhances pattern recognition and visual tracking as children compare and match items by colour.

Extend the Learning:
- Hide small objects inside the eggs for a surprise matching twist!
- Encourage children to group by shades (light/dark) or pom pom size.
- Prompt conversation with questions like, “Can you find all the blue pom poms?” or “Which egg has the most?”

Watercolour Easter Eggs Foil Prints 

This vibrant Easter craft is a perfect blend of process art and seasonal celebration! Children will love exploring colours, patterns, and texture as they create beautiful foil print eggs using watercolour paints and a bit of Easter magic 

Simply invite children to paint directly onto foil using watercolour paints, press an egg-shaped paper cut-out on top, and gently peel it away to reveal a stunning print. Each egg turns out beautifully unique—just like every little artist!

Why is this activity beneficial?

Cognitive Development: Builds understanding of cause-and-effect and supports artistic decision-making. 

Process Art: Emphasizes exploration and creativity over finished product—perfect for open-ended play.

Fine Motor Skills: Painting, pressing and peeling strengthens coordination and precision in little hands.

Extend the Learning:

- Invite children to describe their prints—What colours did you use? What shapes or textures do you see? 

-Pair this with a spring or Easter-themed story for a literature-art connection.

- Explore colour mixing by encouraging children to blend colours directly on the foil.

A joyful, mess-friendly art experience that celebrates creativity, curiosity, and the colours of spring! 

Contact Paper Easter Eggs

This bright and sticky Easter invitation was an absolute favourite with our little artists today!

Using contact paper taped to the table (sticky side up!), we pre-cut egg shapes and invited children to decorate them with tissue paper, paper scraps, and loose parts. Children pressed, layered, and arranged to create their own beautiful Easter egg designs. A simple and mess-free process art activity perfect for spring! 

Why is this activity beneficial?

 Creative Thinking: Encourages children to make independent design choices using open-ended materials.

 Process Art: Focuses on creativity and exploration—not the final product. Every egg is unique!

 Fine Motor Skills: Peeling, placing, and pressing small pieces builds dexterity and coordination.

Extend the Learning: 

-Use spring-themed colours and shapes to explore patterning and sorting. 

-Try making large collaborative eggs with multiple children working together.

- Display finished pieces on windows to let the light shine through for a beautiful stained-glass effect!

A low-prep craft that sparks imagination, celebrates Easter, and supports development through play. 

Easter Egg Craft Tray 

This is a fun open ended craft activity that allows children to uniquely create their own individual masterpiece! Will they create different patterns? What craft pieces will they use? The choices are endless!

Simply cut eggs out of construction paper of all colours and sizes and offer a craft tray full of loose craft pieces for children to create with! The craft pieces we included:
-Buttons
-Pipe Cleaners
-Gems
-Beads
-Pom Poms
-Foam shapes

Easter Egg Letter Sounds Hunt 

Can you find all the alphabet objects and put them in the Easter egg with the letter that matches. This is a super fun way to practice letter sounds in a easy and engaging way!

In a sensory tray pour in rainbow rice and add your alphabet objects! Hide them away in the rice! Take your plastic Easter eggs and write all the letters of the alphabet on individual eggs and place them in your sensory tray. Encourage children to find the alphabet objects and the egg with the letter the object matches and put it inside!

Process Art: Easter Egg Smush Painting 

This process art activity is a fun and easy way to explore patterns, symmetry, paint mixing and creativity! All you need is paper, washable tempera paint, paint brushes and scissors!

Step one: Take a piece of paper and cut it in the shape of an egg, once ready, fold it in half!

Step Two: Encourage children to paint symmetrical patterns on the paper! Once they have made their design, fold the paper to smush the paint and create your unique egg design!

Cardboard Loose Part Easter Eggs

How to create:
Simply take an old cardboard box and cut it in the shape of a large square. From there trace the shape of an egg on the cardboard and use scissors or an exacto knife to cut out the shape of the egg. This will now act as your creative stencil!

Offer children a basket of brightly coloured loose parts and invite them to create different Easter Eggs.

Crayon Resist Ease Egg Process Art

This craft is festive, colourful and fun for children to experiment with colour and creativity! 

All you need is:
-Washable Liquid Paint
-Watercolour paper
-Paint Pots
-Paint Brushes
-Scissors
-White crayons

Step One: Trace the shape of an egg on watercolour paper and cut it out. Then take a white crayon and allow your child to draw designs on their egg! 

Step Two: Pour your paint into your paint cups and secure the lids. Take a paintbrush and dip into the paint and paint on your egg to reveal the design!

Step Three: Allow your paint to dry and then choose how you want to display them! We suggest punch a hole in the top of the egg and then thread them threw twine and use them as a decorative banner.

Easter Egg Suncatchers

This craft is festive, colourful and fun for children to decorate your home to celebrate Easter!

All you need:

-Tissue Paper

-Contact Paper:

-Construction Paper

Step One: Take out your contact paper and cut it in the shape of an egg!

Step Two: Cut your tissue paper into different squares and place them all over the contact paper.

Step Three: Cut out an egg shape frame out of black construction paper and layer it over your egg.

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