Easter has most definitely snuck up on us this year. With all of the focus on The Coronavirus, I haven’t even been thinking about Easter! If you are anything like me, some quick and easy activities for the kiddos is exactly what you need!
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I’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite Easter Activities, including sensory bins, for you. Let’s dive in!
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Easy Easter Activities
Animal Easter Egg Sensory Bin
If you’ve been around here for a bit, you know that my kids love animals. Not a day goes by without some sort of animal play. And small animals are an absolute favorite! So, adding small animals to Easter eggs was a no-brainer!
Materials
- Sensory bin container
- Small animals
- Plastic Easter eggs
- Easter grass or rice
- Easter Basket
- Tongs
How To
Get your sensory bin set up and add the Easter grass or rice. use whatever you have! If you don’t have Easter grass, you can use beans or rice instead.
Now, place your Easter eggs and small animals in the bin. Make sure that you have the same amount of eggs and animals! Add an Easter Basket for your kiddos to place their filled eggs in. If you don’t have an Easter Basket, a bucket will work just fine!
You are all set up! Now just grab those eager toddlers and let them play. You can get some great fine motor practice by using the tongs to fill each egg.
At the end of the day, this is a great set up for imaginative play. My kiddos could spend hours putting animals in the eggs, filling the basket and then dumping everything back into the bin to start again. Some of the stories they come up with are just phenomenal too! I love watching those little minds work and create.
ABC Puzzle Easter Egg Sensory Bin
This sensory bin is a great twist on the classic. I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of sensory bin puzzle set ups where the pieces are in a rice bin and your little has to find the pieces and match them to the puzzle. This is similar, but with a fun Easter twist! Here is what you will need to get started:
Materials
- Sensory Bin Container
- Easter eggs
- Easter grass or rice
- Puzzle with smaller pieces
- Tongs
How To
Start by grabbing your puzzle and gathering enough eggs for the pieces. I chose to use an alphabet puzzle, the pieces were the perfect size for the eggs!
Now, for the time consuming part. Place a puzzle piece inside of each egg. I actually had my kiddos help me with this part. They had almost as much fun stuffing the eggs as they did breaking them apart!
Go ahead and fill your sensory bin with that Easter grass (or rice if you’d prefer). Once it’s all set, add the eggs.
Place the empty puzzle next to the sensory bin, add some tongs and invite your kiddos to play!
My littles truly enjoyed this sensory bin. Popping each egg open to reveal a surprise letter was so exciting to them. Their sweet faces lit up every time they opened an egg and got to figure out where the letter went. It was so enjoyable to watch!
Easter Soup Sensory Bin
Alphabet Soup is one of my kiddos all-time favorite sensory bins. They just love the mix of water and kitchen supplies. It makes them feel like little chefs creating new recipes! Our Easter Soup Sensory Bin is simply a twist on our classic activity. Here is what you need:
Materials
- Cookie letters
- Easter eggs
- play vegetables
- Kids pots
- Kitchen utensils
- Container for water
- Sensory bin container
How To
The fun in this bin is that you can set it up however you want and use whatever you have on hand. The key is really water, Easter eggs, and cookie letters.
Start by filling your water container about half way or so. Add your cookie letters, Easter eggs, and vegetables to the set up (I put each of mine in a separate bowl, but do what works for you!).
Now, bring out the pots and kitchen utensils to complete the bin. Let your little chefs have at it and create a masterpiece!
Easy Easter Sticker Craft
One if my favorite things to do when life gets a bit crazy is to bring out the stickers and paper. My kiddos love to color and get creative with all sorts of crafting materials, just like their mommy! The best part about this activity is that you can use whatever you have! I grabbed a few things from Target and Walmart before quarantine began, so this is what I had:
Materials
- Paper
- Easter stickers
- Easter stamps
- Carrot pens
- Markers
How To
The beauty with this activity is that you can do whatever you want! To set this up I drew an egg and a bunny for each of my kids. However, you could simply hand yours a blank sheet of paper and let them do all of the creating!
My kiddos were so excited to use the stickers. We are pretty obsessed with stickers at my house. Apparently I was the same way as a child. My mom says that I put stickers on basically everything, haha! Now, just enjoy the creative quiet. What your kiddos make is up to them! This activity can make a great Easter card too.
Recycled Easter Egg Jewel Decorating
Between my Kindergarten classes and my toddlers, they have all loved our play jewels. My kiddos would carry them around all day if I let them! However, since we have a baby who still puts everything in his mouth, the jewels are reserved for occasions when baby is sleeping. I thought this activity was the perfect time to whip out our jewels; and boy, did my littles love it!
Materials
- Cardboard (you can use the flaps from old packages!)
- Markers
- Jewels
How To
This is a super easy activity to set up. And, there are so many different things you can do with it!
Grab an old box from one of those packages you received recently (you know you’ve got one!). Decide how big you want your egg to be. I cut the flaps from a box and they were the perfect size for this.
Grab your flaps and markers, then draw an egg on each flap. Don’t worry about it being perfect. Your kids won’t care, haha!
Lay out your flaps and jewels, then let your littles get creative! Pro Tip: If your littles like to see the different colors, lay your jewels out on a cookie sheet so they are easier to sort through!
Challenge
If you are looking to make it a bit more challenging for your kiddos, try some of the following:
- Draw different patterns on your eggs for your kids to recreate with jewels
- Draw each egg a different color and ask your sweeties to match the egg and jewel colors.
- Create different Easter and spring shapes (bunny, flower, cross) and have your littles use those as templates.
Get Your Activities On!
These are some of our all-time favorite ways to get in the Easter spirit and practice some new skills. Whether you choose to try one or all of them, we hope that they bring you as much joy as they bring to our family!
Happy Easter from our family to yours!
Looking to continue the activity fun after Easter is over? Check out our Top 12 Indoor Activities to Keep Toddlers Busy!
