Simple & Fun Preschool Easter Egg Craft

Young children will love to make this Preschool Easter Egg Craft using leftover plastic Easter eggs.

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. 

Preschool Easter Egg 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. 

Preschool Crafting Skills

This preschool art project 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

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

• Poster board or thick paper like card stock or construction paper
• Scissors or preschool training scissors
• Pencil
• Plastic Easter eggs
• Paper plate or bowl for paint
• Craft paint
• (Optional) Spouncer

Instructions for Preschool Easter Egg Stamping Art

Set Up for Each Child

First, set up your crafting area. We put craft paint on a paper plate and had all of our plastic eggs ready in one spot. We covered our crafting area with paper to contain the inevitable mess that happens when kids craft.

Step 1

Take a pencil and very lightly draw an egg shape onto the poster board.

Preschool craft tip:  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.

We really liked the way her final piece of Easter egg art turned out…

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.

More Fun Ways to Use the Plastic Easter Eggs with Preschoolers

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.

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.

Plastic Easter egg ideas:

• Check out these 12 plastic Easter egg projects
• Here is a fun plastic Easter egg filler idea
• Make your plastic Easter egg into a how to spell egg
• Create a plastic egg letter matching game
• Use your plastic eggs for an Easter egg math game
• And don’t forget that you can send Easter eggs by mail!

More Preschool Easter Fun from Kids Activities Blog

Oh the fun we can have with preschoolers around the Easter holiday!  So many fun preschool Easter activities, Easter crafts, Easter egg ideas, Easter hunts…

• Preschool bunny ears craft…oh the cuteness!
• Preschool chick craft idea
• Make a really cool marbled Easter egg paper art for preschoolers
• Craft an Easter egg garland!
• Over 15 Preschool Easter crafts
• Have fun with this easy to set up Easter sorting game for preschoolers
• Make a paper Egg bag!
• Don’t miss out on our simple Easter printable cards kids can decorate and send.

Did your kids enjoy making this Easter egg stamp craft?