Strengthen Your Family by Spending Time Together
Strengthen Your Family by Spending Time Together

Easter Activities

Try these 4 fun Easter activities with your kids. Free printables for Easter puppets and bunny masks.

Saturday we had our family Easter party.

We held an Easter egg hunt and then had an assortment of Easter activities.

First, we made stick puppets. I found a black and white pattern on First Palette.

I decided that I didn’t want to take the time for the kiddos to color them or to cut them out. So, I used Photoshop and added some color and then cut them out myself (with some help from the grandpa).

(Here is the pattern for a colored chick and bunny.)

Here we are gluing the puppets onto the sticks.

Make these little Easter stick puppets with kids.

Here are the completed puppets.

Here is the finished product.

Then, we made some bunnies out of empty toilet paper tubes. To make the bunnies, I cut out a piece of pink construction paper that fit around the tube. For the ears, I cut out two pieces of pink construction paper that were 6 inches long and 1/2 inch wide. I folded those pieces in half.

I first taped the ears on — one end on the inside of the tube and one on the outside of the tube. Then, we taped the piece that fit around the tube. We glued a pink pom pom on for the tail.

Try these 4 fun Easter activities with your kids. Free printables for Easter puppets and bunny masks.

Then, I drew on a nose, teeth, and whiskers.

pink Easter bunny

Then, we glued on googly eyes. (The grandkids used the biggest sized eyes that I had. If it were up to me, I would have used a wee bit smaller sized eyes. Oh well, this was “their” craft . . . ).

pink Easter bunny

Here’s the little pink bunny! Isn’t this adorable? Oh, yeah, and the bunny, too, huh?

pink Easter bunny

Next, we colored Easter eggs. On the Internet, I saw an idea for dying Easter eggs using Kool-Aid. The eggs were a vibrant color. I wanted the grandkids to dye eggs that were that brilliantly colored so I dutifully boiled the eggs and mixed one package of Kool-Aid with 2/3 cup of water for each color.

Isn’t this the cutest cheesy smile that you ever did see?

Coloring Easter eggs using Kool-Aid
Coloring Easter eggs using Kool-Aid.
Try these 4 fun Easter activities with your kids. Free printables for Easter puppets and bunny masks.

While some of the eggs turned out beautiful (as you can see in the picture above), others did not. The color did not ‘stick’ to the egg. I could scratch it off. It was like ‘scum’ on the egg. I followed the directions to the letter but I guess somehow somewhere something wasn’t exactly right.

Sigh.

Then, I thought that I would have the grandkiddos put on some Easter masks (here’s a link to the masks) and hunt for the plastic Easter eggs that were hidden outside.

I thought that I had card stock to print them on. But I didn’t. And I didn’t have time to go get some. So I just used plain copy paper. The masks were a little floppy. But since the grandchickabiddies ended up not wearing them it really didn’t matter.

Sigh again.

Also, I didn’t have elastic to hold the masks on. I used thread. That didn’t work at all.

Sigh for a third time.

I just held the mask up to their face to have their picture taken.

My granddaughter wearing a bunny mask.
Here's my grandson with a bunny mask.

With all of the things that didn’t work, you’d think that these Easter activities were a flop. From the kids point of view, they had fun. And that’s all that counts, isn’t it?

Live and learn . . .

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