Easter activities for kids at home
During these unprecedented times when the world is quiet and the houses are bustling during the COVID-19 outbreak, Easter is looming, but things are going to be different this year. Last year, the kids and I spent Easter (and my middle one’s birthday) at The Arch London hotel. Now we are in self-isolation mode, Easter for kids doesn’t involve going out on countrywide treasure hunts or enjoying the fresh spring weather in the park (unless it’s isolated). Instead, we are confined to our home quarters and forced to spend the holidays indoors. And, as schools have closed, the Easter holidays feel like any other normal day now. So, let’s spin this self-isolation on its head and create some fun Easter activities for kids at home.
Decorate your house
Easter home décor should still include traditional Easter eggs and bunnies, but you can change it up and still keep things spring light with fresh greens and yellows. You can make your own DIY Easter decorations by creating little Easter bouquets or Easter napkin bunnies for the table. You can also make Printable Easter Cards, which you can give to each member of the family or add as decoration on the wall. (more info can be found here).
Create a mini Easter egg hunt at home
Some Easter activity ideas include a mini Easter egg hunt at home. If you have a large garden then great, you can take your Easter egg hunt outside. Otherwise, it’s fine to just hide the eggs in different rooms in the house and come up with a mini quiz to help the kids find the Easter eggs. Some egg hunt ideas can include a crystal maze type quiz and a puzzle marathon, i.e. complete the puzzle, find the clue, and find the egg. The boys were kept entertained for ages when we did this at my parent’s house last year.
If you have a garden (front or back) then see if you can find some stones and make little Painted Egg Stones or decorate your eggs using an art technique called Sgraffito, where a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip etc is scratched away to reveal a contrast of colour underneath. See image below taken from https://craftinvaders.co.uk/sgraffito-eggs/
Easter crafts to make with the kids
Homemade Easter gifts make the best gifts! The boys and I are planning to complete Lockdown activity number 16, which is Design and Make a Craft at Easter (for more lockdown ideas subscribe to 101noscreenways.com here). Think about Easter activities for toddlers that allow them to use their hands. Easter crafts are a great way to build on their imagination and creativity. You can get started with easy paper crafts like printing out stencils or colouring sheets and getting the kids to colour them in. You could also make a Paper Plate Chick using just a paper plate and some materials/colours you have in the house. Other Easter ideas for toddlers could be hand-printing cards, which can double up as lovely Easter cards for the family. Or you could try your hand at a Mix and Match Paper Chick Craft which can be personalised with a photo of your child’s face. Easter crafts for kids means that everyone has a hand in decorating the house for Easter and there are loads of great ways to get them involved, like making this Easy Kids Paper Cut Egg with some coloured paper and scissors. You can even get frugal and recycle cardboard to make little chick crafts too!
Papier mâché Easter eggs
Other Easter crafts for toddlers could be to papier Mache Easter eggs, which are surprisingly simple to do, as you can see here, but these kinds of activities make great Easter crafts for pre-schoolers too.
Easter baskets and what you can include inside
You could make some Easter baskets which would fit perfectly with the mini Easter egg hunt as players can carry their eggs in their homemade Easter baskets. Add little cardboard roll chicks in the basket for decoration or this awesome Bunny in a Basket Easter Craft which looks amazing!
An Easter Sunday activity can differ from the rest of the holidays by doing something fun but educational at the same time! Print off some Easter Activity Sheets for the kids to do while you are getting the Easter meals ready or when you need some time to prepare the games.
Other Easter craft ideas could involve catching the sun with an Easter Chick Suncatcher, which is surprisingly simple to make. All you have to do is rip small pieces of tissue paper and stick them inside a chick shaped stencil. Then hang up the sun catcher and watch the sun rays shine through. Perfect present for kids at Easter!
Edible Easter treats
When you can’t go out to buy your Easter eggs, you can always stay in and make your own! The boys and I made some Easter Peanut Butter & Chocolate Egg Cups, which tasted absolutely delicious, albeit very sugary! But you can always make sugar-free versions by getting creative on the ingredients. And it’s a great way to get in other fun Easter egg activities too. We painted plastic eggs to go in our little egg box with the chocolate egg cups, but you can use pretty much any egg-shaped material you like!
You could also use readymade Easter eggs, like the Cadbury’s mini eggs above and decorate a jar for the eggs. They make great gifts for family members, which you could drop at the door along with a note (as long as you obey the 2-metre distance rule during the coronavirus lockdown!)
Other Easter games for kids
Easter doesn’t always have to be about mini Easter egg hunts. You have time to spend with the family now, so some fun Easter activities for families can include breaking out that difficult jigsaw puzzle (lockdown activity number 18 at 101noscreenways.com) or paint faces and put on a show. And as you’re home-schooling, go for a science experiment with the kids like this Fizzy Egg Baking Soda and Vinegar Reaction which doubles up as a science lesson during Easter too! You can find more lockdown activities that don’t involve a screen when you subscribe to 101noscreenways.com here. Build in some Easter activities for adults when the kids have gone to bed like a mini Easter egg hunt but with alcohol or a difficult jigsaw. Whatever you choose, there are tons of indoor Easter games to pick from, you just have to be creative and use some of the ideas above for inspiration.
Now is the perfect time to come up with these kinds of ideas for Easter and make family bonding time fun with new things to do for the kids. Whatever you decide, quarantining with the family means you can enjoy Easter games and activities even in the confines of your home. If you need to find more Easter activities, Pinterest is a great place to look.
Happy Easter!
*Featured image by Nadine Kunath*
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