Young children will love to make this Preschool Easter Egg Craft using plastic Easter eggs to create Easter egg art! With just a few simple art and craft supplies and our printable Easter egg template, kids can use a paint stamping technique to decorate their preschool Easter egg craft. This easy Easter art activity for kids works great with kids of all ages at home or in the classroom and is literally the best Easter craft for preschoolers.
Easy Easter Egg Craft – Easter Crafts for Preschoolers
It’s such a simple, yet fun, kids Easter craft idea that uses the inexpensive plastic Easter eggs you already have, paint, paper, and a little creativity to make this spring craft.
This Preschool Easter Egg Craft is a really fun Easter activity, but it also is a great way to teach and reinforce several Kindergarten-ready skills that preschoolers need.
Make an Easter Egg Craft
As a mom, I just love this spring Easter craft because it uses things I already have at home, didn’t require much set up and we were able to contain the craft mess afterward! I think this would make a really easy preschool classroom craft because it would be easy to supervise multiple children while doing this art project.
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Supplies Needed to Make Preschool Egg Painting Craft
Big Easter Egg Template
Your kids can draw an Easter egg or use our free printable Easter egg template to cut and trace around:
Instructions for Preschool Easter Egg Stamping Art
Craft Set Up for Each Child
First, set up your crafting area:
- Put craft paint on a paper plate
- Arrange the plastic eggs in one spot
- Cover the crafting area with paper to contain the inevitable mess
- Have the printed big Egg Template cut out and ready to trace
Step 1
Take a pencil and very lightly draw an egg shape onto the poster board or have the kids trace the Easter egg template printable as a pattern.
Preschool craft tip: If you decide to not use the egg template, you can help kids who need it make the oval shape or find something around the house that could be traced. I found a cheap plastic deviled egg tray and used that to help guide my child. Great time to practice tracing skills!
Step 2
Kids can use scissors to cut out the egg shape. This does not need to be perfect or even close to perfect! Part of the charm of the finished Easter art is if it has its own character!
Step 3
Now it’s time for the fun part–decorating your Easter egg craft!
- To decorate, simply guide your child to dip the halves of the plastic Easter eggs into the craft paint on the paper plate and them stamp it onto your cut out Easter egg.
- The stamped Easter egg halves will make really cool circles that they can line up, be random or interlocking.
- Let them get as creative as they want.
(Optional) Step 4
My kid also used a spouncer to create solid polka dots on her egg.
She used the same stamping technique as we used with the Easter egg halves with the sponge.
Finished Easter Craft for Preschoolers
We really liked the way her final piece of Easter egg art turned out…
Reinforce Preschool Crafting Skills
This preschool art project & activity for Easter preschool will help reinforce and teach these preschool necessary skills:
- Knowing colors
- Identifying shapes
- Counting
- Fine motor skills: using a pencil to trace
- Scissors skills
- Practice of good hand and eye coordination as they stamp
Quick Summary of all the Preschool Easter Egg Stamping Craft Steps
We thought it would be fun to put everything together in one place to show all the steps we took to make this super cute and easy Easter Egg stamped painting.
Prep Time
3 minutes
Active Time
15 minutes
Total Time
18 minutes
Difficulty
easy
Estimated Cost
$1
Materials
- Printed big Easter Egg Template – see article to download & print
- Poster board or thick paper like card stock or construction paper
- Plastic Easter eggs
- Craft paint
Tools
- Scissors or preschool training scissors
- Pencil
- Paper plate or bowl for paint
- (Optional) Spouncer
Instructions
- Download, print and cut out the big egg template.
- Set up a craft space for each child with: craft paint on a paper plate, plastic Easter eggs, access to the printable egg template and cover the area with paper or plastic to contain the kid craft mess.
- Draw an egg shape or trace the egg pattern onto a piece of construction paper as large as you can make it with a pencil.
- With scissors, cut out the egg shape.
- Dip a plastic egg half into paint and then stamp it onto your cut out construction paper egg shape. Repeat with same color dipping it in the paint as necessary.
- Repeat with a new color.
- (Optional) Continue stamping color onto your big Easter egg art with a paint spouncer.
- Let dry & display
More Fun Ways to Use the Plastic Easter Eggs with Preschoolers
- Painting with Easter Eggs: Try painting with the entire Easter egg {Don’t separate it}. Roll the Easter egg around in the paint and then roll it around the paper. This version is a lot messier but just as fun.
- Easter Eggs as Stencils: Use the Easter egg halves as a stencil for tracing circles. The Easter egg is a little easier for preschoolers to hold onto. You may have to help them hold the egg half down at first. As they get used to tracing, you should be able to touch the egg less and less.
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Did your kids enjoy making this Easter egg stamp craft?