Decorating Easter eggs is always an egg-citing tradition for kids, but if you’d rather skip the dye this year, there’s another fun way to create colorful eggs!
This torn paper Easter egg craft brings all the festive charm without the mess, making it a great option for little hands to explore their creativity.
Stick around to see what other creative and easy Easter crafts for kids we have in our Easter basket!
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Easter Fine Motor Activity
Tearing paper is great for building fine motor skills, hand strength, and bilateral coordination. This project gives little fingers a workout while allowing kids to express their creativity in a hands-on way.
Download our free Easter egg template to get started. Gather some colorful paper, grab a glue stick, and let kids create a beautiful display of festive eggs!
Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Easter Egg Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
Directions
Start by downloading and printing the template. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this easter egg to life!
Now, take a glue stick and spread glue all over the inside of the egg outline. You can also get the torn paper pieces ready on the side so they’re easy to grab and stick!
Take the torn paper pieces and press them onto the glued surface, covering the entire egg shape.
Now, it’s time to add some colorful patterns! Grab pieces you’re using and glue them onto the egg.
Now for the cutest part—adding the eyes! Glue them near the top and center of the egg, and just like that, it starts to come to life!
A friendly egg needs a happy smile! Grab the mouth piece and help your child glue it right under the eyes.
Grab the tongue piece and glue it inside the mouth for extra detail. This little touch makes the face even more expressive!
Using a black marker, draw on some eyelashes and eyebrows to complete your Easter egg’s happy face. This is where kids can add their creative flair!
And that’s it—your adorable torn paper Easter egg craft is complete! This simple yet creative activity is perfect for little hands and makes a wonderful springtime keepsake. Check out some of our other adorable and fun torn paper crafts for more great ideas!
Easter Books For Kids
There are so many great Easter books for kids, but these are some of our favorites. Grab them from the library or buy them to add to your child’s collection! They’re great for helping your child develop a larger vocabulary, focus, and more!
Happy Easter Mouse – Everyone knows Mouse from the classic If You Give A Mouse A Cookie book, but now he’s back and ready to celebrate Easter! Kids will love watching him as he goes on an Easter egg hunt!
Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure – Join Pete as he races to help the Easter bunny just in time for Easter! This is another new classic kids rate as a must-have!
It’s Not Easy Being A Bunny – Follow PJ the bunny as he tries to discover what kind of animal he’d rather be instead of a bunny! It’s a silly story with a great lesson.
Easter Crafts For Kindergarten
Duck Handprint Craft – Kids will have a quacking good time making this adorable duckling out of their handprint! Tiny hands turn into the cutest little ducks — sunny yellow or even a baby Mallard.
It’s a cute keepsake and a fun way to welcome spring. This hands-on, feathered fun will waddle its way into everyone’s hearts!
Easter Bunny Craft – Hop into the Easter spirit with this adorable bunny craft! This cheerful little bunny is ready to celebrate with a colorful Easter egg in its paws.
Grab some paper, markers, scissors, and glue so kids can create a sweet springtime friend. Check out our step-by-step tutorial and grab the template.
Easter Basket Craft—This fun project allows kids to fill their Easter baskets with extra creativity. Kids design their own colorful eggs and tuck them inside a basket.
There are lots of ways to decorate each egg to be as unique as its artist. Grab some paper, glue, and markers, and get ready for a basket full of fun!
Easter Card Craft – Send some bunny a little love this Easter with the sweetest handmade card! Kids will have a blast crafting a bunny bottom, fluffy tail and all, as it hops into a burrow. Inside, they can write a special holiday message for an egg-stra adorable way to spread Easter cheer!
Easter Activities For Preschoolers
Learning is egg-citing with these free printable Easter worksheets! This set is filled with adorable holiday themed animals, this set helps little learners strengthen fine motor skills, scissor skills, and handwriting.
Kids will love hopping through a letter B for bunny maze, labeling a fluffy lamb, and tracing C is for chick. Each page brings hands-on fun with letter recognition, early reading, and writing, making Easter learning sweet!
Make learning this season a blast with these Easter do a dot printables! Kids will love dotting their way through bunnies, chicks, and eggs while building fine motor skills, counting, and letter recognition.
There’s plenty of dotty fun to keep little hands busy at home or in the classroom with 16 engaging pages. Whether they’re coloring, counting, or tracing a letter B bunny maze, these printables make learning feel like play. Grab some dot markers and hop into the fun!
Easter Bunny Stick Puppet Printables
Get kids ready for some egg-stra creative fun with these free printable Easter egg coloring pages! Kids can bring six different egg designs to life with crayons, markers, or even glitter and jewels.
Print them on regular paper for classic coloring or use card stock for painting and pastels. The big, open spaces are perfect for little artists to add their own special touches.
These festive pages are a great activity for kids of all ages and will keep creativity hopping!
Make learning letter sounds festive with this Easter beginning sounds matching printable! This fun and simple activity helps kids practice isolating and identifying initial sounds which is an important early reading skill.
Kids will match pictures to their beginning sounds with a festive Easter twist. This hands-on game keeps little learners engaged while strengthening phonemic awareness, so grab your printable and let the matching fun begin!
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More Easter Ideas For Kids
Torn Paper Easter Egg Craft
Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Easter Egg Template
Instructions
- Download the template, print it, and cut out the pieces needed.
- Apply glue all over the inside of the egg outline. Keep the torn paper pieces nearby.
- Place the torn paper pieces onto the glued area, covering the entire egg shape.
- Glue the paper egg decorations onto the egg.
- Place the eyes near the top center of the egg and glue them down.
- Glue the mouth piece below the eyes.
- Then, glue the tongue piece inside the mouth for added detail.
- Use a black marker to draw the eyelashes and an eyebrow above the eyes.
Torn Paper Easter Egg Craft Template
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