Easy Easter Crafts For Preschool

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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Preschool Easter Crafts For Kids Are a Great Way to Get Them Active This Easter

Working with preschoolers is great as they are usually very enthusiastic when it comes to making stuff and creating lots of arts and crafts projects within the classroom. They are usually about 3 or 4 years old, which means they have been jaded by the harsh world around them and still have great optimism. They usually want to please and get praise from adults and teachers so they try hard at all that they do.

This enthusiasm extends to preschool Easter crafts for kids in the classroom too. No matter what activity you place in front of them, you can usually bet that they will give it a good go. Anyone that works with children will pretty much tell you the same thing.

This is why Easter is a popular time in the classroom when it comes to being creative with arts and crafts. The good thing about Easter is that there is a ton of things that can be made ranging from Easter baskets to decorating Easter eggs.

Some Cool Easter Craft Ideas for Preschoolers

You are really only limited by your imagination and the tools that you have in your classroom when it comes to devising preschool Easter crafts for kids this year. Of course, you have to make sure that these young ones are supervised if using scissors, and that they have the appropriate safety blades.

You can start your preschoolers off with a simple Easter arts and craft idea that is always popular at this time of year. Take some different colored card, reds, pinks, blues etc. and cut them into long strips. Then using sticky tape of safety glue, instruct your class to weave the card together to create a simple Easter basket shape. You can also bring in some tissue paper to line the bottom of their baskets. Another piece of different colored card can be bent into shape to form an ad hoc handle too.

If your preschoolers have access to computers then they can go online (with some help) and print off some Easter themed pictures like Easter bunnies, Easter Eggs, Easter chicks etc. that can be printed out and used as decoration for their Easter baskets.

An Excuse to Talk Easter

Whilst your little ones are busy crafting their Easter baskets, you can be telling them all about Easter and what it means to you so that they can understand a little of the background of why they are making their baskets.

Who'd have thought that preschool Easter crafts for kids was such a great way to get your pupils actively participating in a great activity that promotes group work and good communication skills.

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Cute Preschool Easter Chick Crafts

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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Preschool Classroom Decorating Ideas

The beginning of the school year is perfect to introduce preschool classroom decorating ideas. Most children at this age are not exactly sure what to expect when they start this new adventure called Preschool.

They have some idea if they have had exposure to television, movies or children's books or even older siblings but it still has room for wonder.

My preference is to start a bulletin board or wall that is for and by the children. You will begin with an area marked off that will be the "creation center". You will use this creation center throughout the school year as their personal mural space. You can cover this with large butcher paper, an old sheet, cork squares...whatever you wish. Use this area throughout the year for different themes.

The most important aspect of this area is that this is their personal group display for their classroom. Children enjoy having responsibility and contributions to their class.

The first week of school is ideal to show them how you need their help in thinking of preschool classroom decorating ideas. Take a photo of each child on the first day, or have them draw a self portrait if a camera is not available. You will need to label the pictures with their names. These will be used later on.

You can suggest ideas for the board at the beginning because some children may be shy or hesitant at such an undertaking. Ask if they would like the area to have a street with a large school bus on it, or if they would like to have a playground with swing sets on it? These are just to get started. Let them know that it needs to be a setting where each child's picture can be displayed. This will help them out coming up with ideas of their own.

Next, use your week to create the idea they decide upon. If, for example, you are doing a school bus scene, you can teach them about the colors and shapes needed to create a large school bus with many windows (enough windows for each child). You can create a classroom setting with large round circles for the tables and squares for student chairs. Place a photo at each chair.

You can see that this is an area that can be used year round. The only bounds are your imagination!

I have used this area for holiday displays, seasonal displays, ocean themes, gardening themes, all about me displays and so many more.

Try these preschool classroom decorating ideas this year. Use it as a starting point for any of your preschool themes or units and you will enjoy the enthusiasm of your preschoolers and their willingness to learn and participate.

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