Festive Easter Egg Paper Chain Craft: A Fun and Educational Activity for Kids
Get Ready for Easter with This Colorful and Engaging Craft
Easter is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with a fun and educational craft that your kids will love? Our Easter Egg Paper Chain Craft is the perfect activity for preschoolers to early elementary-aged children. Not only is it a great way to get into the festive spirit, but it also helps develop essential skills like cutting, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Before we jump into this craft, take a moment and pin this to your craft board.
The Benefits of Patterns in Child Development
Creating patterns with the pastel-colored strips in this Easter Egg Paper Chain Craft offers more than an aesthetically pleasing result. Patterns play a crucial role in child development, helping to cultivate critical thinking skills that extend far beyond the realm of crafting.
Recognizing and working with patterns is a foundational skill that supports children in various areas of learning, including reading and math. By engaging in pattern-based activities, children learn to identify the underlying structure and order in the world around them, building their confidence and understanding of how things work.
What you will need to make an Easter Egg Paper Chain:
You most likely already have all the supplies you need in your home. If you don’t, a quick run to your local drugstore or office supply store should be able to supply you with all you need. However, I have included affiliate links to Amazon, where you can purchase everything you need.
- Download the Egg template
- Construction paper
- Card stock (pastel shades)
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Markers
- Scissors
- Glue
- Glitter (optional)
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Easter Egg Chain Template
How to make an Easter Egg Paper Chain:
- First, you draw lines about 1.5 inches apart on each paper.
- Then your little one can cut these lines, which is excellent for fine motor skills and to help with learning to cut (it doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful).
- Once all the strips are cut, you connect each end, circle, and link each strip as you go, gluing the ends. (Make sure to leave some extra strips for later)
- If you have varying pastel shades, as we do, you can make a perfect pattern for development.
- Once your chain is complete, cut the eggs from the template on white cardstock or construction paper.
- Decorate them with markers and/or glitter.
- Next, with the extra strips, attach the eggs to the strips, and attach them to the chain so they are dangling off.
Easter Egg Paper Chain Video Tutorial
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A Craft That Brings Joy and Learning Together
Our Easter Egg Paper Chain Craft is a beautiful way to combine holiday festivities with valuable learning experiences. As your child cuts, glues, and decorates their way through this activity, they’ll create a beautiful decoration and develop essential skills that will serve them well in their educational journey.
So, gather your supplies, clear some space at the crafting table, and get ready to celebrate Easter with this engaging and educational activity. Your kids will love the opportunity to express their creativity while learning essential skills along the way.
Don’t forget to pin this craft to your board for future reference and share the joy with other homeschooling families looking for fun and meaningful Easter activities!
HOW PATTERNS HELP CHILDREN
Patterns help to develop critical thinking skills. It is so much more than that. Patterns are all over our world, so by teaching children how to recognize the patterns in their world, you are opening a door that not only gives them tools to think critically, which will help them in reading and math but also teaches them how to see the order in their ordinarily chaotic world, it builds their confidence and understanding of how the world around them works.
