DIY Easter Card Craft for Kids
Create a simple, yet adorable DIY Easter card with this finger paint craft for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners and school-age children.
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Never leave your young children unattended when working with paint, even non-toxic children’s paint, to prevent them from swallowing paint. Supervise activities at all times.
We love making our own DIY cards for holidays and birthdays in this house. It just adds a personal and unique touch to holiday greetings.
Kids, even very young toddlers, can do this low-prep craft that fosters creativity and the development of children’s fine motor skills without much help from an adult.
There are also only very few materials needed, most of them you probably already have at home, and no special preparations are required, which makes it a quick 15-minute craft that busy parents can easily do.
Materials you need
Finger paint, colors of your choice (I like to use seasonal colors, like yellow, green, light pink, purple)
Paint tray or disposable plastic plate
Small pom pom in white(optional)
Clothing pin (optional)
Dish sponge (optional)
Painting apron or old shirt(optional): If you do not have a painting apron for your kid yet, and you are doing crafts regularly, I highly recommend you get one. It will keep their clothes clean, especially when working with glue and paint and you don’t have to worry about getting the stains out. Let’s be honest, who remembers to stain treat before throwing clothes in the washing machine?! I certainly forget 99% of the time.
How to make your Easter Card
1. To make your card, take a standard (US letter) white card stock paper and fold it in half. Set aside.
2. On a different sheet of white card stock paper, draw the outline of an Easter Bunny or click here for a free printable template. The bunny has to be smaller than the front of your folded card. Don’t worry about the outline too much, it doesn’t have to be perfect.
You can also draw other items that are typical for spring, such as an egg or a tulip.
3. Cut out your Easter Bunny shape. This is a great opportunity for preschoolers to practice their scissor skills. Young toddlers will need some assistance with this step.
4. Lay your cut out Easter Bunny shape onto the front page of your card that you folded in step 1.
5. Prepare your paint.
Squeeze a small amount of finger paint, in the colors of your (or your child’s choice), onto a paint tray. If you do not have a paint tray, you can use a disposable plastic plate or a piece of aluminum foil.
I like to use seasonal colors, like yellow, light green, pink and purple.
6. Take your folded card stock with the Easter Bunny cut-out on the front page and lay it in front of your child. During painting, you may have to help your small kids fixate the bunny cut-out a little with your fingers so it doesn’t move.
7. Let the painting begin.
There are two ways to do this step.
You can either have your child dip their finger into one finger paint color at a time and put fingerprints all over the front of your card.
This is a great option for kids that are sensory seekers and love to do sensory activities and to explore the feel of different textures on their hands.
Make sure your Easter Bunny cut-out stays in place and that there are plenty of fingerprints around the outline of the bunny. This guarantees that the bunny shape will be visible later.
The other option is to cut a small piece of sponge out of a regular dish sponge and clip it onto a clothing pin. Your kids can then hold the clothing pin and use the sponge to dab paint onto the card.
This is a great option for sensory sensitive kids that do not like the feeling of paint on their fingers.
8. Once the entire front of your card is covered, remove the bunny cut-out.
9. That’s it! You can add a ‘Happy Easter’ or anything you like to the front of the card or just leave it blank. We like to glue a small white pom pom onto our Easter Bunny shape.
Write your Easter greetings inside and you are done!
We glued the painted bunny cut-out onto another folded piece of card stock and turned it into another card.
You can also frame your child’s bunny card. This will make an adorable Easter decoration on any mantel or shelf. If you are looking for more modern Easter and Spring home decor pieces, take a look at my Amazon Easter home decor favorites.
Find more craft ideas your kids will love at this link.
Enjoy this DIY Easter card craft with your kids and happy Easter!
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