Easter is just around the corner. Here are some fun hands on Activities, Crafts, Books, and Sign Language for your Baby or Toddler to enjoy for Easter!
These easy baby easter activities and crafts will keep your little one busy this spring.
Don’t wait to bring out the eggs and bunnies now for hours of fun!
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Easter Activities for Babies
Playful ways to have fun this Easter with your baby or toddler. These hands on ideas encourage your baby to explore shapes, textures, and colors in a playful way.
Incorporate your favorite Rabbit Finger Puppet or Easter Bunny Egg Basket or even those adorable Easter Nesting Eggs.
- Fill the Basket-Empty the Basket– They LOVE filling a basket or bucket with eggs and carrying it around and then dumping it out, hours of fun and teaches them how to clean up
- Spring Puppets and Finger Puppets– Encourage them to begin to play imaginary play, make sure you are modeling how it’s done, they need to learn from someone.
- Sorting Spring Animals- We discovered that we have different kinds of chicks and bunnies and created piles with them with big sister.
- Egg Sounds– Put rice or beads inside of eggs and seal closed, makes great shakers for music time
- Make a Bird Nest -Using the leftover scraps from your felt eggs you can create a next and give your child a basket to create the nest in and a container to store the nest time.
Learning Spring Sign Language with Your Baby
Here’s a great chance to learn some new signs with your baby. I found a few that relate to Spring, hope you enjoy exploring spring with your baby!
Easter Crafts for Babies and Toddler
- Painting Egg Shape with Finger Paint– Just cut out an egg shape and allow your child to use finger paint all over the egg.
- Stamp Painting with Spring Cookie Cutters– Using cookie cutters, dip them into paint and encourage them to stamp onto paper. Here’s an example
- Bunny Handprint Card or T-Shirt– You can create a little bunny by painting their palm and two fingers for a T-shirt or a card. Here’s an example
- Tot School Easter Crafts for older toddlers
Looking for more ideas for Baby Easter Baskets
Ideas for Baskets for Babies and Toddlers
Easter Photo Ideas
Using Flowers and Props for Photo Fun
Easter Board Books For Babies and Toddlers
Here are some of our favorites Easter Books at our house that we’ve collected through the years with kids. We always give a book in our Easter baskets. It’s a way we remember year after year our Easter baskets.
Easter Basket Ideas for Playtime for Babies and Toddlers
Which Easter activity for babies will you try first? Which one will you add to your baby’s Easter fun?
Happy Easter from The Educators’ Spin On It
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