What can I make for Easter crafts that will also last past the holiday? Check out this farmhouse wooden centerpiece box that is made using an old library card drawer. Finish this easy Easter craft idea out with glass mason jar vases and change out the flowers to fit the season.
39 Most Creative Easter Craft Ideas for Adults & Kids in 2023
Spring is in the air so ‘tis the season for fun and fresh Easter craft ideas. This year, resist the urge to buy mass-produced Easter décor. Do your Easter shopping at Hobby Lobby instead of Walmart. Because this year, you’re going to DIY.
Crafting is good for the soul. According to The Conversation, “At a time when many of us feel overwhelmed by the 24/7 demands of the digital world, craft practices, alongside other activities such as coloring books for grown-ups and productive home gardens, are being looked to as something of an antidote to the stresses and pressures of modern living.”
We know when it comes to arts and crafts for adults, we know that the secret recipe is to make it quick and easy. No major investments in materials or tools. Foolproof instructions to follow.
We’ve gone on an Easter-inspired hunt to find a selection of seasonal craft ideas requiring no prior crafting experience and we’ve included links to tutorials to make it easy. Let’s hop to it!
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- Simple Easter Craft Ideas for Adults
- Easter Craft Ideas to Sell
- DIY Easter Craft Ideas for Kids
- Wooden Easter Craft Ideas
1. Paint and Sip
Feeling creative? Ready to take on some Easter craft ideas you can DIY but need a little nudge in the right direction? Sign up for a class, like paint and sip in Houston.
Taking an instructional class is a great way to get new and fun ideas for home décor, and creativity always gets a boost when there’s a little wine in the mix.
Signing up for a paint and sip in NYC or paint and sip in Portland is a good way to learn simple Easter craft ideas for adults while also having a good time. Explore paint and sip near you for a creative Easter activity.
2. Pottery Classes
One of the best instructional classes to take if you want to explore Easter craft ideas is a pottery class. Pottery classes in Chicago and pottery classes in San Francisco aren’t just about vases and mugs.
Local studios always have fun arts and crafts for adults that are just in time for the next holiday. Hop on down to pottery classes in Boston or browse pottery classes near you to see what Easter craft ideas are on offer.
3. Peeps Easter Cake
Nothing says Easter like Peeps, but did you realize peeps also make a great tool for crafts? You don’t even have to make a cake from scratch.
Use a box mix or go full-cheat by buying an undecorated bakery cake. All you’ll need besides the peeps is a simple frosting tip that’s available in most grocery stores.
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4. Easter Bunny Mason Jars
Everyone has mason jars lying around. Converting them into candy jars is an easy Easter craft idea you can DIY. This simple craft doesn’t require any special tools. Decorative mason jars are good Easter crafts for adults that also make great teacher gifts.
5. Bunny Cake Dome
Have the desire to make arts and crafts, but don’t have the patience for major projects? A bunny cake dome is the perfect craft for you. It’s as simple as spray painting a basic mixing bowl and gluing on a cute handle.
6. Easter Egg Balloons
Looking for easy and inexpensive Easter egg craft ideas? Here’s another one that any adult can conquer with minimal time and minimal skills. Flipping regular balloons upside down instantly turns them into eggs. From there, a little craft paint and a string are all you need for this adorable bouquet of Easter egg balloons.
7. Polka Dot Sticker Eggs
Love the idea of colorful Easter eggs but hate the idea of dyes and paint? Polka dot sticker eggs are a fun and easy Easter craft idea that gives you much more creative control without the mess of paint. Go beyond polka dots and select any fun stickers you like!
8. Peeps Place Card Holders
If you are planning an Easter dinner for friends or family, then you’ll want some easy Easter craft ideas to help decorate your table. Peeps place card holders are a creative way to add color to your table while also knocking out dessert. Just trim a little notch in the Peeps’ ears to hold the place card and voilà!
9. Easter Bookmarks
Save the page in your latest crime novel with precious chick or bunny Easter bookmarks. Once find the perfect template online, you just need colored paper. The end result is fun and functional.
10. Egg Carton Flowers
Are you starting to get inspired? There are so many easy Easter craft ideas for adults who want to create something homemade but who don’t know where to start. Egg carton flowers are Easter craft ideas DIY’ers with minimal skills will love. They also make unique Easter gifts.
Cut, dye and add accessories like buttons or pipe cleaners to your egg carton to bring your Easter floral arrangement to life.
11. Paper Hyacinth Flowers
This craft idea is easier than it looks yet makes for an impressive centerpiece. The hardest part of making paper hyacinth flowers is finding the perfect display vessel to show them off.
12. Cupcake Liner Flowers
Here’s another easy craft idea to try using a simple pantry item — cupcake liners! Buy a variety of colors including some metallic or multicolor liners, and stack three or four together to make these cupcake liner flowers in a variety of interesting floral patterns.
13. Easter Message Eggs
Looking for a little humor this year? This Easter egg craft idea has all kinds of possibilities. From funny bunny phrases to something more risqué, it’s an easy way to have a little adult fun.
If you use the real thing for Easter message eggs, all you’ll need are some colored markers. Otherwise, get crafty and use stamps.
20. Bird’s Nest Wreath
Yes, this Easter craft idea takes a little more patience and skill than some of the others on our list. But you can do it! A bird’s nest wreath is cute and will allow you to stretch your creative muscles. Wreaths are also one of the best Easter craft ideas to sell.
21. Greenery Easter Baskets
Looking for some more Easter craft ideas that you can sell? Greenery baskets are an ideal place to start. Plus, baskets fit naturally into the Easter theme.
They come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, as does the variety of craft greenery that you can use to bring them to life. Find greenery in your own backyard to wrap the basket in green and add flowers for a pop of color.
22. Bunny Topiary Wreath
Here’s another impressive wreath Easter craft idea that won’t require a major investment but is attractive enough to sell. A bunny topiary wreath is made using embroidery hoops, felt leaves and festive ribbon. If you don’t have the patience to cut out and attach the leaves, use this idea as inspiration and consider using craft greenery.
23. DIY Eggshell Candles
This Easter craft idea is unique and makes a cute gift. Eggshell candles can be scented or unscented depending on whether you have access to fragrance oils. Get creative by mixing and matching white and brown eggshells, or using colored dyes in the candle wax.
DIY Easter Craft Ideas for Kids
24. Mandarin Easter Bunny
Here’s a simple Easter craft idea that kids will love. The mandarin Easter bunny makes a cute table decoration plus gets your kids to pay more attention to their fruit! This is also a fun Easter craft activity for primary school teachers to use.
Just take a small mandarin orange and use toothpicks, pipe cleaners and construction paper to make bunny ears, a nose, and whiskers and add to the orange to make a little bunny snack!
25. Rice Krispies Easter Kabobs
Looking for some fun and edible Easter party ideas? Check out these Rice Krispies Easter kabobs. First, put a little colorful Easter spin on the traditional sticky treat with pastel sprinkles. Then use Easter-inspired cookie cutters to get your shapes.
26. Spring Chicks Egg Carton Craft
Wondering what to do with leftover egg cartons? Put them to use in this kid-friendly and inexpensive spring chicks egg carton Easter craft idea. A little acrylic paint makes the project fun, and the addition of simple orange paper beaks and drawn-on eyes is an easy finish.
27. Bunny Treat Cups
Bunny treat cups are easy Easter craft ideas that also make simple gift ideas for your kid’s friends. And they’re easy enough for the kids to make. Just supply the paper cups to hold snacks and let the group decorate their cups with bunny-themed craft supplies. Don’t forget to add a cotton ball tail!
28. Chick and Lamb Easter Crafts
Simple crafts like a chick and lamb Easter craft are proof that DIY projects can be easy and don’t require fancy materials. Simply supply the group with colorful paper plates to serve as the body of the chicks and lambs.
Then add things like feathers, googly eyes, construction paper and other fun decorative materials to bring your chicks and lambs to life!
29. Easter Egg Flower Art
One of the simple joys of childhood is sitting down with friends and gluing stuff onto construction paper. If you need a simple Easter craft idea that will keep kids busy for a few hours, get them to work on Easter egg flower art.
30. DIY Easter Headbands
This Easter craft idea for kids couldn’t be simpler and it’s going to put big smiles on their faces. Make some DIY Easter headbands by supplying a plan headband, some glue and decorations like pastel pom-poms, but don’t be afraid to experiment. Maybe some felt bunny ears would be fun?
31. Mini Bunny Garland
“What can I make for my grandchildren for Easter?” you ask? Nothing is more festive than garland, and there’s something very special about homemade.
A mini bunny garland project is an easy Easter craft idea to do with or without the kids. Once you prepare the bunny cutouts and string, it’s just a matter of gluing on the tails. Hang up your masterpiece for a perfect Easter party decoration.
32. Pom-Pom Easter Tree
Use this Easter craft idea as inspiration and create a simple, colorful, egg-shaped pom-pom by using pre-purchased pom-poms or other egg-shaped craft items so you can get the kids involved. Add ribbon to each and hang from an Easter tree!
Ceramic Bunny Painting Idea (Cutest Thrift Store Makeover)
Some things just look better with a rustic and weathered look. Like the cute ceramic bunnies I found at the thrift store. They had a pretty cheap looking pink finish. I gave them a faux cement treatment with ordinary paints and now they still look cute but also beautiful.
Let me show you how to paint ceramic bunnies to make them look cute and beautiful at the same time.
HOW TO MAKE ANYTHING LOOK LIKE CONCRETE
These bunnies really needed a new lease on life because their old look was old and dated. Using a bit of paint to bring something old back to life is usually the fastest and easiest way to go.
Giving something a concrete finish is not new to me. Remember my bathroom wall that I painted to look like a cement wall?
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The cement paint technique I used on the bunnies isn’t so different.
The basic faux cement paint technique is to paint your wall or object with a base layer in medium grey. Then add a layer of blended in paint in black or dark grey. This adds depth. The final step is a thin layer of white or very light grey that you wipe and blend for a soft look.
It is a quick and easy paint treatment and you only need three basic colors: a grey base color and a bit of black and white paint for the concrete finish. Now granted there are speciality craft paints out there that you can use to paint anything to look like concrete. And I am sure those paints are wonderful. I have just never invested in them because I like the look I can get with the paints I already own.
Here are my bunnies before they got their spa treatment.
Cute little pair, aren’t they. But that pink / terracotta look was not working for me. And the grey detailing made them look dirty while the white paint was a bit too rough and spotty for my liking. So they were do for a makeover. But before I show you that…
Today’s post is all about giving something ugly but with potential a makeover. If you love a good thrift store makeover as much as I do you will love all the other thrift store before and after ideas that my friends from the Thrifty Style Team share. You will find the links to all of their thrift store projects at the bottom of the post.
Now let’s get back to my sad old bunnies. I was ready to give them a good makeover.
So out came the first pot of paint.
I gave them a quick allover layer of a medium grey paint as a base layer.
I used a Fusion Paint called Little Lamb, it was a leftover from my dining room table makeover and my spring painted pots project. You can use any grey paint really, but I like the smoothness of Fusion Paint and the fact that it has a matte finish was kind of perfect for this.
I just quickly slapped some paint on my Easter bunnies with a medium large brush. The bunnies had quite a few crevices and harder to get to spots, so I had to work my brush in there a bit. But all in all painting both bunnies grey only took about 10 minutes.
The Fusion paint took about one cup of tea to be dry enough to handle the bunnies again.
Then they looked like this:
Not much of an improvement yet. Painted in one solid color made them look flat and boring.
So let’s give them some depth and character again.
The next step involved a tiny bit of regular old black craft paint, a small craft brush and a damp small sponge.
I worked in small increments. Painting on some black paint with the brush and working it into to fur of the bunnies a bit. And then almost immediately removed a lot of the paint with the damp sponge, blending the black at the same time.
I think this took 10 minutes per bunny but probably less. You can’t go wrong here because if you don’t like the look, you can always wet your sponge a bit more and wipe off the paint and start over.
Starting to like this look. With only two layers of paint my bunnies have been completely transformed. Their new style reminds me of the Essex Bunnies from Pottery Barn.
I could have stopped here. They already looked pretty and like made of concrete. But I wanted to add a bit more character and a bit of a weathered look.
So out came the medium size brush again with the stiff brittles and a small pot of regular white craft paint. I put a small bit of white paint on the brush, dabbed most of it off on a piece of paper and then dabbed the white paint on the bunnies in straight motion. Much the same as when you are stenciling something.
Immediately after applying a small section of white paint I would soften the look with a damp sponge again. Just like you put on makeup really. Dab it on and blend it in.
And now my bunnies look gorgeous in my Spring & Easter centerpiece and I couldn’t be more happy.
This faux cement paint technique is so easy and you can use it on almost anything and give it that rustic concrete look. I suspect that after Easter I will put these bunnies outside in the garden as decorations. My hope is that they will become a bit mossy and start to look even more like the real thing. We’ll see. For now they are looking pretty and cheerful on our table in my Easter bunny arrangement.
How to Paint Your Own Ceramic Bunny Box
For this cute little guy, I painted the whole thing gray and added some pretty designs using black paint and a liner brush. You can jazz up your own bunny box with some creative spring designs.
After I was happy with the designs, I added some color! For this project, I used DecoArt Acrylic paint in Sea Breeze and Royal Fuchsia to color the designs.
Because this is a make-and-take project, meaning my Paint Party customers will paint their ceramic piece and take it home the same day, I have a couple tricks up my sleeve to finish the bunny off! The ceramic material is actually called Bisqueware. Once you’re done painting, let it dry completely and then add a coat of Mod Podge for a finished look. OR, you can take it outside and use a quick spray sealer, which makes it nice and shiny and makes it look like it’s been fired in a kiln! It’s the coolest thing!
If you like to watch videos to get you in the mood for painting, check out my ceramic bunny painting video here!
When To Throw a Spring Paint Party
Obviously, this cute ceramic bunny box is a very Springy sort of project, but you can do it any time of year!
My strategy for themed paint parties is to stay a couple of months ahead. So if you’re wondering when to throw a Spring-themed paint party, February is the perfect time! Once February hits, it’s a bit too late to start thinking about Valentine themed parties. This is the time of year to immerse yourself in all things pretty flowers and cute bunnies!
If you want more Springtime Paint Party ideas, check out my canvas bunny painting tutorial here!
More Paint Party Tips
When I’m hosting a paint party, I like to have my finished piece all ready to go to show my partygoers. Then I can walk around and help people instead of being distracted by painting my own piece.
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