Paper Mache Easter Basket

Shredded music sheets and cut out magazine flowers turn into a sweet upcycled Easter basket with jennifer perkins.

Good for ages 6 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://jenniferperkins.com/2010/04/i-love-to-create-a-tisket-a-tasket-a-recycled-easter-basket/

Easter Egg Nature Hunt

Send the kids outdoors to find things to place into plastic Easter eggs with crystal and comp.  The kids will be so excited with what the can find.

Good for ages 2 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://crystalandcomp.com/2013/03/activities-for-kids-reverse-easter-egg-hunt/

Plastic Cup Easter Bunny

A white plastic cup, foam sheets, pipe cleaners and googly eyes turns into an Easter bunny with she knows.

Good for ages 5 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/986513/animal-themed-easter-crafts-for-kids

Family holiday has a bunny and chick cup.  They turn the cup right-side up and stuff with pink Easter grass -- A great place to hide surprise treats.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.familyholiday.net/easter-bunny-crafts-for-kids  

Spoonful uses a foam cup and includes legs in their version.

Get the instructions here:
http://spoonful.com/crafts/foam-cup-bunnies

Terra Cotta Pot Easter Baskets

A simple terra cotta pot gets dressed up for Easter with colorful scrap booking paper from video convert decode.

Good for ages 4 and up.

Get the instructions here:

http://video-convert-decode.blogspot.com/2010/03/easter-ideas-for-kids-easter-2010.html

Easter Eggimals

Plastic Easter eggs become cute animals with the addition of folded paper arms and legs.  Our everyday art also draws on their faces and sticks on other paper embellishments like the ears and eyes.

Good for ages 9 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.our-everyday-art.com/2012/04/easter-craft-hoppy-easter-eggs.html

Siayla uses pipe cleaners, pompoms and googly eyes to make her version.

Get the instructions here:
http://siayla.blogspot.com/2014/03/egg-animals-diy-from-plastic-easter-eggs.html

Paper Cup Easter Basket

A paper cup turns into a pretty mini Easter basket with some added trim, a handle and decorative paper flowers.  About's child parenting channel shares step by step photos in their tutorial.

Good for ages 7 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://childparenting.about.com/od/funcelebrations/ss/Easter-Crafts-Mini-Easter-Baskets_8.htm

Paper Plate Chick Purse

A folded and stapled paper plate turns into a little chick purse for Easter once colored yellow, given a googly eye and paper orange beak, drawn on wing and pipe cleaner handle.  Free preschool crafts shares all of the details.

Good for ages 4 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.freepreschoolcrafts.com/easter-chick-purse-from-paper-plate/