Kid Crafts for Easter Ages 7-9 Diy can be a lifesaver when you need a simple afternoon activity. I put this list together because holiday breaks get chaotic, and finding projects that hold an older child’s attention without causing a massive glue disaster is a real challenge.
If you want a fun weekend project that gives you a minute to breathe, these options will help. They use basic household supplies and give kids enough independence to feel proud.
1. DIY Bunny Treat Jars 🐰
Got empty jam or baby food jars piling up? This is a great way to recycle them into something adorable that they can actually use later. Kids love having their own secret stash, and these jars are perfect for holding jelly beans or small desk trinkets.
How to Make Bunny Storage
You will need clean glass jars, pastel acrylic paint, stiff white and pink felt, hot glue (with adult supervision), and a black permanent marker. Paint the jars entirely, let them dry, and glue the cut-out felt ears directly to the metal lid.
2. Popsicle Stick Easter Basket 🧺
Building a sturdy little container gives kids a fun engineering challenge disguised as an art project. It requires a bit of spatial thinking to stack everything evenly, making it an excellent hands-on task for second and third graders. Plus, they can use it for the actual egg hunt.
How to Construct a Stick Basket
Grab a large box of wooden popsicle sticks, washable school glue, pastel acrylic paints, paintbrushes, and some fake Easter grass. Have them glue a flat square base first, then stack the sticks around the edges in an alternating pattern, like a log cabin, before painting.
3. Marble Painted Easter Eggs 🎨
If your kids love a little controlled chaos, this rolling technique keeps the mess contained while producing really cool patterns. Every single design comes out completely unique, and it requires zero drawing skills to get a great result.
How to Make Marble Art Eggs
You need a cardboard shoebox with a lid, glass marbles, heavy white paper cut into egg shapes, and washable liquid paint in bright colors. Place the paper egg in the box, add a few drops of paint and the marbles, close the lid, and let them shake it vigorously.
4. DIY Easter Slime in Egg Containers 🧪
Sensory play never really gets old, and sneaking a fresh batch of putty into festive packaging makes it feel like a holiday gift. It is a fantastic science experiment for a rainy afternoon. Older kids usually enjoy measuring and mixing the ingredients themselves.
How to Mix Pastel Slime
Gather clear craft glue, baking soda, contact lens solution, pastel food coloring, and large plastic openable Easter eggs. Mix the glue and color first, stir in a pinch of baking soda, and slowly add the contact solution until it pulls away from the bowl, then stuff it into the plastic eggs.
5. Paper Roll Bunny Craft 🧻
Before you toss those cardboard tubes into the recycling bin, save a few for this surprisingly cute tabletop decoration. It is highly customizable, and they can make an entire family of characters using scraps you already have laying around.
How to Build Tube Bunnies
Collect empty toilet paper rolls, colorful construction paper, googly eyes, cotton balls, glue sticks, and markers. Wrap the tube in colored paper, glue on long folded ears to the inside top, stick the eyes on, and finish by gluing a fluffy cotton ball to the back for the tail.
6. Easter Egg String Art 🧶
Working with yarn takes a bit of patience, making it a brilliant quiet-time activity for older elementary kids. The wrapping motion is incredibly soothing and helps build fine motor coordination without them even realizing it.
How to Weave String Eggs
Find some thick cardboard cut into large egg shapes, bundles of colorful yarn, scissors, and a bit of tape. Tape the starting end of the yarn to the back of the cardboard, then let them wrap the string tightly around the egg in random, crisscrossing directions until it is fully covered.
7. DIY Chick Pom-Pom Craft 🐥
Making something fluffy from scratch feels like a magic trick to a seven-year-old. These little birds end up being surprisingly soft and look fantastic sitting on a bookshelf or attached to the top of a pencil.
How to Create Pom-Pom Chicks
You will need a skein of yellow yarn, orange craft felt, tiny googly eyes, strong craft glue, and sharp scissors. Wrap the yarn around three fingers about fifty times, tie it tightly in the middle, snip the loops, and trim it into a neat sphere before gluing on the face.
8. Easter Scratch Art Eggs 🖍️
There is something incredibly satisfying about scraping away a dark surface to reveal a hidden rainbow underneath. This project keeps kids occupied for a long time because they love designing intricate patterns and lines.
How to Make Scratch Eggs
Use heavy cardstock cut into egg shapes, wax crayons in the brightest colors you have, black acrylic paint mixed with a drop of dish soap, and wooden skewers or toothpicks. Color the egg entirely with thick crayon layers, paint over it with the black mixture, let it dry, and scratch!
9. DIY Bunny Bookmarks 📚
Encouraging reading is a lot easier when they have a customized, goofy friend holding their page. This is a practical, fold-based craft that introduces them to basic origami concepts in a very forgiving way.
How to Fold Corner Bookmarks
You will need square origami paper or thin craft paper, pink markers, scissors, and a simple glue stick. Fold the square into a classic corner bookmark triangle, then cut out separate long ears and a nose, gluing them to the top and drawing on the final details.
10. Egg Carton Flower Bouquet 🌸
Spring blooms don’t have to come from the garden when you can upcycle your breakfast trash into a permanent centerpiece. The texture of the cardboard holds thick paint beautifully, giving the final piece a cool, rustic look.
How to Paint Carton Blooms
Save empty cardboard egg cartons, green pipe cleaners, thick acrylic paints, paintbrushes, and scissors. Cut out individual cups from the carton, trim the edges to look like petals, paint them inside and out, and poke a small hole in the bottom to thread the pipe cleaner stem.
11. Easter Suncatcher Craft ☀️
Hanging a colorful piece of art in the window instantly brightens up a room on a sunny April morning. This is highly visual and easy to clean up, making it a great option if you want to avoid liquid paint.
How to Craft Suncatchers
You will need a roll of clear contact paper, black construction paper, colorful tissue paper cut into small squares, and scissors. Cut a thick black outline of an egg, stick it to the sticky side of the contact paper, and have kids fill the inside with the overlapping tissue squares.
12. DIY Easter Treasure Map 🗺️
Turning the annual egg hunt into a pirate-style adventure completely changes the dynamic of Sunday morning. Older kids can draw these maps for younger siblings, which gives them a sense of responsibility and leadership.
How to Draw a Hunt Map
Grab brown craft paper or crumpled white paper, colored markers, wet tea bags (for staining), and stickers. Dab the paper with the tea bags to make it look ancient, let it dry, and have them draw a bird’s-eye view of your yard or living room with a clear path.
13. Button Easter Egg Art 🔘
Sorting through a jar of old fasteners is a great fine motor activity that ends up looking like a fancy mosaic. It looks impressive enough to frame when it is finished, and requires a surprising amount of focus.
How to Make Button Mosaics
Find a blank canvas board or heavy cardboard, a large assortment of colorful buttons in various sizes, and strong craft glue. Lightly sketch a large egg shape on the board, and have the kids glue the buttons inside the lines, filling the small gaps with tiny buttons.
14. DIY Bunny Headband 🎀
Getting dressed up for the holiday is way more fun when they get to design their own accessories. These are incredibly simple to put together and hold up much better than the flimsy paper ones.
How to Assemble Ear Headbands
You need plain plastic headbands, stiff white and pink felt, hot glue, and maybe a few pipe cleaners for stability. Cut out two large white ear shapes and two smaller pink inner ears, glue them together, and wrap the base around the headband, securing it tightly with hot glue.
15. Paper Weaving Easter Eggs ✂️
Sometimes the most impressive results come from teaching kids a traditional, old-school technique like paper looming. It requires them to slow down and think about the over-under pattern, which is great for building concentration.
How to Weave Paper Patterns
Gather two contrasting colors of construction paper, scissors, a ruler, and a glue stick. Cut a large egg shape from one color and fold it in half to cut even horizontal slits. Cut straight strips from the second color and weave them through the slits on the egg.
16. Easter Mason Jar Lantern 🏮
Giving them a nightlight they made themselves helps make bedtime a little easier after a sugar-filled day. They look beautiful lined up on a mantel or used as a glowing centerpiece for the dinner table.
How to Paint Glowing Jars
Get your hands on clean mason jars, tissue paper or thin acrylic paint, mod podge, and battery-operated LED tea lights. Paint the outside of the jar or decouple it with the tissue paper, let it dry completely, and drop the fake candle inside.
17. DIY Easter Card Making 💌
Sending a little snail mail to grandparents or cousins teaches them how meaningful a handmade gesture can be. This is a completely open-ended project where they can draw, glue, or cut whatever they want.
How to Design Pop-Up Cards
Set out blank cardstock, thick markers, spring-themed stickers, small pom-poms, and liquid glue. Show them how to cut a small tab on the inside fold to create a pop-up effect, and let them decorate the front and inside with their own personalized messages.
18. Bunny Clothespin Puppets 🐰
Creating a toy that actually moves gives them something to play with long after the glue has dried. These are small, funny, and great for packing in a bag to keep them entertained at a restaurant.
How to Craft Wooden Puppets
You need wooden wooden clothespins, white cardstock, fine-tip markers, small scissors, and strong glue. Draw a small bunny profile on the paper, cut it out, cut it exactly in half horizontally across the mouth, and glue one half to the top bar of the pin and one to the bottom.
19. Easter Egg Wreath for Kids 🚪
Decorating their bedroom door with their own handiwork makes them feel incredibly proud of their personal space. It is a bold, chunky craft that eats up a good hour of the afternoon and looks very festive.
How to Assemble a Door Wreath
Use a standard paper plate with the center completely cut out, large foam egg shapes or thick paper cutouts, ribbon, and liquid glue. Let them decorate all the individual eggs with markers or paint first, then glue them overlapping in a circle around the paper plate ring.
20. DIY Mini Easter Diorama Box 📦
Letting them build a tiny world gives their imagination a place to run wild while containing the mess to a single box. They can spend hours arranging and rearranging the little scenes inside.
How to Build a Spring Scene
Grab an empty shoebox, fake green grass or shredded green tissue paper, small plastic spring animal figures, and some playdough. Paint the inside of the box to look like a sky, lay down the grass, and let them mold little carrots and arrange the figures inside their diorama.
Finding things that genuinely hold their attention without driving you crazy is a win. These projects are practical, use basic stuff you probably already own, and most importantly, let them get a little messy on their own terms.
If you want to keep these ideas handy for the next rainy day or holiday break, make sure to pin this post to your favorite Pinterest craft board!
