13 Fun Indoor Activities for Kids this Easter

It’s not going to be easy to gather a lot of kids for an Easter egg hunting activity these days. Though tasty Easter dinner and adventurous egg hunts are typically the main events of a particular Sunday every year, the fun doesn’t need to stop there.

Easter Activities for Kids

With Easter just around the corner and everybody’s practicing social distancing, there are still fun Easter crafts and activities to do with your kids. These pretty awesome ideas will keep the whole family busy and entertained during this time.

Indoor Easter Bunny Hop Sack Race

If you have a huge space inside the house and there’s a ton of kids in the family, to have fun this Easter, you’re going to need a sack where the kids race who gets to be the first to finish one cycle in a racing activity. To make it cuter, add a little white tail with a handful of cotton attached to the sack.

Make Easter cookies

Baking is a fun activity that kids at any age could enjoy. Bake some cookies together and decorate them with Easter themes using brightly colored icing. You can create chick macarons and bunny and chick cookies. For no-bake-oven cookies, you can make an Easter marshmallow bark that only needs four ingredients, and bunny Oreo cookies dipped in white chocolate and topped off with pink sprinkles for the ears and pink jellybean for the nose.

Easter Bingo

Kids and adults can play a rousing activity of Easter bingo. If you have a computer and a printer, you can make your own Easter bingo cards, or download a lot of free templates online.

Glow-in-the-Dark Easter Eggs

If you have plastic eggs laying around in your house, and a couple of glow sticks, then this is a fun activity for kids and kids-at-heart. Who said that hunting eggs was strictly a daytime event? If you have a big space inside the house, you can hide the glow-in-the-dark eggs wherever you desire.

Easter Egg Potato Stamping Craft

Do you have any potatoes that have gone bad? Instead of throwing them away, you could use it for an arts and crafts activity with the kids. However, before creating the stamp, an adult needs to cut the potato with the knife. If you have a plastic knife once you have already cut it in half, kids can create squiggly and wavy lines to create a stamp. Once done, dip the potato in the paint and stamp it really hard against a piece of paper. This will turn out great and could be used to make homemade Easter cards and many more.

Get Coloring

Print off some Easter-themed coloring pages for the kids to color or paint, then hang them up around the house for some homemade seasonal décor. Your little artist will be happy to be featured in their own little gallery.

Craft Sticks Mini Easter Basket

If you have a ton of craft sticks at home and in need of a fun Easter kids craft to do indoors, this mini Easter basket craft is perfect. Aside from the craft sticks, you’re going to need ribbon, paint, Sharpie markers, scissors, and a hot glue gun. Finish your mini basket by gluing your decorative Easter eggs.

Funny Bunny Faces Game

This game will give your kid a chance to channel their artistic side while creating some funny drawings. You can find a free template of the funny bunny faces and then print it. Give your child a pen and paper, and then each player will take a turn rolling the dice to determine how they will draw their bunny. Just keep rolling the dice and drawing until the silly faces are complete.

Easter Egg-ercises

If the indoor quarantine is making your child less physically active, then this is a fun way for them to break out a sweat for Easter. Fill plastic eggs with activities and physical challenges for little ones to complete.

Bunny Bean Bag Toss

In between their activities and the food, entertain your children with a DIY bunny bag toss.  All you need to do is to doodle a bunny on a piece of paper and then sketch it into a piece of cardboard. Cut out the mouth and tummy area, and then you’re all done. For the carrot bean bags, sketch a carrot and a leaf on felt paper, making sure that the design is small enough to fit in the bunny’s mouth and tummy. For each bean bag, trace two identical carrots and then hot glue the two pieces leaving a hole at the top to fill it in with beans. Once done, close it up with hot glue and then complete your carrots with green felt paper as leaves.

Vintage Easter books

Reminiscing with Easter books always brings back memories of dressing up in modern-day Easter outfits, large gatherings, and egg hunts around the house. It’s always exciting to read when it’s a book that brings back fond memories for you and memories that you may share with your kids while reading. If you don’t have these vintage books, you can undoubtedly find copies of them online. Some of the famous Easter books are “The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes,” “The Golden Egg Book,” “The Velveteen Rabbit Book,” and “The Runaway Bunny.”

Easter Egg Decorating Station

What would the Easter celebration be complete without colorful eggs and candy? An egg decorating station would include a hard-boiled egg and a plastic egg. Encourage your little ones to get inventive and creative by providing them a ton of paints, brushes, glue, glitter, and many more.

Salt Dough Easter Eggs

Salt dough allows its self to different shape-making. Once baked to thoroughly dry, the dough is hard and can even last for years. It’s also paintable, which makes it a fun canvas for kids to use. Create a new tradition by hanging salt dough Easter eggs on a branch where eggs, bunnies, and colorful bits can hang on to. Seeing these bright bits of color during spring would be lovely. The kids can paint the baked dough to whatever color they like and can hang them in your make-shift branch at home. Read More: The ‘Art’ in Party; Planning Kids Entertainment Painting Birthday Party