The Easter Holidays are just around the corner. And, I don’t know about your household, but in my household my kids love to celebrate each upcoming holiday with some holiday crafts. Not only do crafts entertain my children, but it also builds their excitement for the Holiday itself. Plus, their artistic creations always fill my home with Holiday Decorations which the entire family and all that visit can enjoy.

So, with that being said, I thought I would do a link round-up of some of my favorite Easter Crafts I found through-out the blogosphere. Some of the following Crafts are more for the adults and some are meant more for children. But, all are sure to give your family plenty of Easter enjoyment. And, the Easter Bunny will be sure to know how excited your family is when he comes to your house for his annual visit.

20 Easter Crafts that You and the Kids will Love

Bunny-rama Triangle Treat Template

This Bunny-rama Triangle Treat Craft is so cute!! Seriously, he is really, really cute. Plus, it holds yummy treats for you, the kids, the family pet or even the dinner guests. Make it yourself or invite the kids to enjoy in the fun.

Baby Binky Bunnies

This Baby Binky Bunnies Easter Craft reminds me how talented some mothers are. Truly, this craft is impressive!! I know my kids would love these baby binky bunnies and honestly what small child wouldn’t? Frankly, I want one in my Easter Basket.

Tiny Fuzzy Easter Bunnies

Here is an Easter craft that is not only fun for your kids to make, but it can be used once they are finished making them. These Tiny Fuzzy Easter Bunnies are perfect for your kid’s Easter Basket, to give to their friends as gifts or to even decorate your house for the Easter Holiday.

Love bird tutorial

Check out this adorable chick. He is perfect for the Easter Holiday. Any child would love to find it nested in their Easter basket. Or, have the children help you make it and let them choose someone to give it to.

Fabric Easter Eggs

Do you have extra fabric scraps laying around? Well, here is the perfect craft to use those scraps up. Retro mama offers this wonderful Fabric Easter Eggs tutorial just in time for the Easter Holidays. And, these Easter Eggs are beautiful!! They are sure to add style to your Easter Home Decorations. Or, perfect for a stylish yet old fashioned looking Easter Basket.

Bunny & Tulip Favor Cups

Check out these cute Easter Favors just in time for the April Holiday. Here 4 Crazy Kings offers this wonderful Tulip Favor Cup craft that is excellent for you to do with your youngest children. And, they will love it. There is also a Bunny Favor Cup as well to make. These items are especially great to use for Easter parties.

M & Ms Easter Chicks

Not only are these Easter Chicks adorable they are delicious too!! These crafts are simple enough for your children (with maybe a little help from you) to put together to give as a gift to their teachers and friends. Or, keep the craft as a secret for yourself and put them in your children’s Easter Baskets.

Sponge Painting the Easter Bunny

Totally cute bunnies made by your totally cute children!! What is better than that? Not much. Here is a Sponge Painting craft perfect for your young children.

Egg Holder Craft

Using a Toilet Roll, yes a toilet roll, you can make this adorable Easter Egg holder. Plus it is a fun craft to do with your children for the Easter Holiday.

Pink Sparkly Eggs

Easter eggs can be tie dyed, they can be colored with crayons, painted with paints, drawn on with markers and they can even be decorated with glitter which is exactly what a mom did from Rainy Day Farm. Here she gives you the instructions on how to make these beautiful Pink Sparkly Easter Eggs. How beautiful would these Easter Eggs be used as decorations around the house? Very beautiful, I think.

Make your Child Look like the Easter Bunny

Shannon Hutton at Sparkplugging shows us how with using a digital camera, paper plate and some other craft supplies you can make your kids look like the Easter Bunny. Your kids will totally get a kick out of this craft.

3-D Easter Bunny Card

Here is an easy way to make a homemade Easter Card that is sure to be remembered. It is a 3 dimensional Easter Card that your child can make themselves or with a little help from you. These are great to give a school bus driver, school teacher, best friend or maybe even the Easter Bunny himself.

Dye Easter Eggs With Silk Ties

Now, this Easter Craft totally amazes me. Check this out, using silk ties wrapped around eggs you are able to dye them with beautiful and stunning patterns! No need to use expensive silk ties you can find ties at your local thrift store and the outcome is still the same. You will land up with absolutely breathtaking Dye
Easter Eggs.

Easter Gift Box

This Easter Gift Box craft is more for the adults than the children. And, even the outcome is enjoyed more by the adults than the children. Take a look at this Easter Gift Box… it is beautiful. And, how amazing will it look as part of your Easter decor in your home? Pretty amazing, huh?

Easter Treat Holder

Kimberly Crawford of For the Love of Paper wanted a crafty gift to be able to give to School Teachers and Daycare Providers and I think she found it. Here she puts together an Easter Treat Holder craft perfect for gifts. And, your kids can help you make them. Very nice!!

Easter Bunny Hand Print Craft

It might be hard to believe, but this adorable Easter Bunny was made from a child’s hand print. It’s true. And, with some other craft supplies you can help your children make their own Easter Bunny designs from their hand prints as well.

Terra Cotta Pot Easter Bunny

Check out what this woman did with a terra cotta pot. She totally made an adorable Terra Cotta Pot Easter Bunny that is sure to be enjoyed by all who come to your house this Easter. And, it is yet another craft that you can enjoy with your children. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Bunny Gift Bags

I love this craft!! And, I know my kids will too. I always keep lunch bags in the house so that my children can make hand puppets anytime they want. And, I know for a fact that this Bunny Gift Bags craft will make them VERY happy. With a simple lunch bag and some other craft materials your kids can make these awesome Gift Bags that the Easter Bunny will enjoy filling with Easter goodies.

Easter softie

How cute is this bunny? Super cute!! And, you can use left over fabric, felt or clothes your children have outgrown to make these adorable Easter Softies. They are great for your kids’ Easter Baskets or let your kids help you make them and they can give them as Easter gifts to their teachers or friends.

Bunny & Chick Cookie Pops

YUMMY!! Not only are these Easter Bunny and Chick Cookie Pops cute, but they look delicious too. These cookie pops would look wonderful in a glass or clear plastic jar full of jelly beans. They would make a great Easter Gift, wonderful Easter Party favors or save them just for yourself.

Top Image by terren in Virginia

If you are like me and have a child whose birthday happens to be in March then I’m sure you know the struggles it can be to plan a birthday party. You never know what kind of weather it will be on their special day. March’s weather is very iffy…. Is it going to snow? Is it going to rain? Will it be cold, warm or chilly? Will it be windy or icy? Will it be a beautiful Spring day? Do I plan a birthday party inside or outside?

This March my son is turning 13. He will be a teenager and his party will be different this year than in earlier years. No longer do I have to plan relay races, figure out games to entertain him and his friends for his birthday parties. But, I did for many years and I have two other younger children that I still will be planning birthday parties for them for years to come. However, their birthdays are in months that I find easier to plan for. My daughters birthday is November 23rd and her Birthday Party is celebrated during our Thanksgiving feast. My youngest son’s birthday is in the middle of July and every year we celebrate it on the deck and in the pool…. easy to plan. But, March is so different. And, with a birthday in March comes many challenges including how to keep the kids from getting bored and antsy on March days that are to wet or chilly to send the kids outside.

My answer to it all was to make sure I had plenty of indoor activities planned to make sure the children didn’t get bored. Bored children means trouble. You will have children climbing the walls, running around and most likely getting into things they shouldn’t be. But, if you have plenty of indoor birthday party activities that are easy, that don’t take a lot of skill or thought, then you will have happy children. Which means you will be able to survive your March Birthday Party with your sanity in tact.

The trick is to keep the activities as simple as possible. Don’t plan activities that you have to look up directions to understand it. Because even once you understand how to play the birthday games you will have to explain it to the children. And, if you try to explain a complicated game to the children you are likely to fail at this causing what will appear like mass hysteria. Okay, maybe that is a little dramatic. But seriously, simplicity is key. For indoor birthday party activities stick to the basics. And, make sure to have more than enough activities planned and in your back pocket ready to pull out at any point.

So, to keep it easy and fun lets keep it to a few categories….

• Balloon Activities – A birthday party just wouldn’t be a birthday party without balloons.
• Food Activities – Yes, there are some really great birthday party activities you can do with food.
• Musical Activities – Music + Birthday Party = Fun!!
• Craft Activities – Birthday party crafts are a great way to keep the kids entertained and in one place during a party.
• The Classics – If you want to guarantee a great time for all….. go back to the basics. Try the birthday party activities that worked when our parents planned our birthday parties.

Balloon Birthday Party Activities

• Static Balloon Game – Place a bunch of blown-up balloons in the center of the floor. When you say “Go” the children will run and grab a balloon. Each child will take the balloon they grabbed and rub it in their hair creating static. Now, the balloon should be able to stick to the wall. Once it is stuck the child will go for another balloon. The player with the most balloons on the wall wins. This game can be played with teams as well.
• Balloon Bust Game – A race to see who can break the most balloons. Again, place a bunch of blown-up balloons in the center of the floor. When you say “Go” children will run to the pile and begin breaking balloons. They can use their hands, their feet or their back-sides to break the balloons. The child with the most broken balloons wins. This is another game that works well in teams.
• Balloon Stuffing Game – A race to see who can stuff the most balloons in their clothes. The child stuffed with the most balloons wins. This game is another game that is wonderful to play in teams.
• Balloon Relay Game – If you have enough kids at the birthday party to have two teams this balloon game is a wonderful activity. Again, have a pile of blown-up balloons on one side of the room and the teams on the other side of the room. The idea is to be the team who can get the most balloons from the pile they are in now to they team’s side. With each child’s turn they can carry as many balloons they can to their side of the room. They may carry them anyway they can…. even stuffing them in their clothes. The team with the most balloons on their side wins.

Musical Birthday Party Activities

• Musical Chairs – This game could have went under the Classics too. I’m sure most of you have played this game at birthday parties when you were young. And, its here to stay because it is so much fun. The idea is to have one less chair than the amount of kids playing. Start the music and have the children walk around all the chairs. When you stop the music they must find a chair to sit in. The child without a chair to sit in is out. Start the music again and continue playing this way until there is one child still playing. This child is the winner.
• Freeze – When the music starts the children dance and when the music stops all the kids must freeze. The children must stay frozen in their funny positions until the music starts again. If a child can’t hold their position and moves they are out.
• Hot Potato – Another classic game, but since it is played with music I put it under the Musical Birthday Party Activity category. Choose an item that will be the “hot potato”. It doesn’t actually have to be a potato. It can be any item that you will pass around. Something soft will be ideal since the children will be passing the item quickly so as not to be the one stuck holding it. A bean bag or a soft ball would be perfect. The children will sit in a circle and they will start passing the hot potato to one another. When the music stops the child left holding the hot potato is out and will leave the game. Once there is only one child left that child is the winner.

Craft Birthday Party Activities

• Make a Card – Bring out a bunch of crafts supplies like construction paper, card stock, markers, crayons, glitter, glue, ribbons, lace and any other craft supplies you want and let the kids make the birthday child a special birthday card.
• Play-Doh - My daughter went to a birthday party this past weekend where they did a Play-Doh activity and she really enjoyed it. The birthday boy had a Sponge Bob themed birthday party and this activity used the Sponge Bob’s theme. The children were to create their favorite Sponge Bob character out of Play-Doh. Hannah made Patrick.
• T-Shirt Activity - Here is a craft that will cause the kids attending the birthday to not only have a wonderful time, but also have a memento to remember this special birthday. Using plain white T-shirts let each child decorate their own. Stores sell permanent markers that will stay put on the t-shirts even when washed.

Food Birthday Party Activities

• Decorate the Cake – This is truly a fun activity for all the kids. Instead of having the cake already decorated for the Birthday child let all the children at the birthday party participate in the cake decorating. Have a cake cooled off and brought out the the dining room table. Bring out some icing, M&M’s, chocolate chips, multi-colored sprinkles and any other fun cake toppings you wish. Take tons of pictures of the children’s birthday cake creation.
• Cupcake Decorating – This birthday party activity is along the same lines as the “Decorate the Cake” activity, but the children will decorate their own cupcakes. Bring out some goodies and icing fun for decorating cupcakes. Then let the children eat their creations…. YUM!!
• Make your own Sundaes – Bring out a bunch of ice cream and toppings and let the kids make their own Sundaes.
• Taco or Pizza Creations – Another way to keep the kids occupied and having fun is to have them prepare their own meals. Give them all the ingredients to make their own tacos or let them put toppings on their own personal size pizzas.

Classic Birthday Party Activities

• Pin the Tail on the Donkey – I am sure you all already know the rules to this game. When I was a child growing up there wasn’t a birthday party for a child under 10 that didn’t have this birthday party activity. The idea is to blind fold the child, give the child a gently spin and let them try to pin (tape…. please don’t use pins) the tail on the donkey. The child that attached the tail closest to the correct spot that the tail really belongs is the winner.
• Simon Says – The children do whatever Simon Says. The leader gives the children orders, but the children are to only obey Simon’s orders when the leader begins the order with, “Simon Says”. If the leader doesn’t give the command starting with, “Simon Says” then the children should not follow these orders. If the child does do something that the leader says, but it didn’t start with, “Simon Says” then the child is out. The last child standing is the winner.
• Scavenger Hunt – Hide things around the house and give the kids lists of what to find. For young children make sure to have pictures of the items as well.
• Whisper Down the Alley – I use to love this game as a child. Have the children be in a circle. Pick one child to begin. This child will have to come up with a short sentence to whisper in the child’s ear that is sitting next to him. Each child will whisper the sentence they heard into the next person’s ear until it comes back to the person who started the whispering. The last person will tell the first person the sentence. Listen to the laughs when you hear how different the sentence is than what it began as.

Image above by Crystl

Below you will find more than 20 fun winter activities. Some of these activities are to be done in the snow, but most of them can be done whether you have cold winters or not. But, each of these winter activities are favorites of mine that I came across in the past couple weeks while traveling through the Blogosphere.

Favorite Winter Activities from around the Blogosphere

Not everyone has winter – Winter Activities

Activities to do inside on Snow Days