Toddler Easter Activities You Can Do at Home
Looking for toddler Easter activities you can set up at home with minimal fuss and maximum toddler joy? You have come to the right place. This collection is specifically designed for home — no trips out required, no elaborate materials, and no hours of setup. Everything here uses items most families already have, or supplies that are inexpensive and easy to find.
Easter is a perfect holiday for toddlers — the pastel colours, the egg theme, the springtime energy, and the simple joy of discovery all land beautifully with children aged one to four. Whether you have a rainy Easter weekend indoors or you want to extend the celebrations with home activities, these ideas will fill your days with connection, creativity, and fun.
Why Home-Based Easter Activities Work Best for Toddlers
Toddlers thrive in familiar environments. Home-based activities reduce the sensory overwhelm and social demands of busy Easter events, and give your toddler the freedom to move at their own pace, revisit activities they love, and explore without performance pressure.
Home activities also give you more control over the mess, the pace, and the content — which makes them far less stressful for parents too. Most of the activities below take 10 to 20 minutes of setup and entertain toddlers for far longer. For more year-round activity ideas, browse our full activities section.
15 Toddler Easter Activities for Home
1. Indoor Easter Egg Hunt
Hide plastic eggs around the living room or a single room and let your toddler find them. Keep the hiding spots visible at first — behind a cushion, under a chair, next to a plant. For younger toddlers, make it even simpler by hiding just five eggs and watching them search with delight. The joy of discovery never gets old, even when the eggs are in plain sight.
2. Egg Painting with Sponges
Cut sponges into egg shapes (or use regular sponge pieces) and dip into washable paint to stamp Easter egg patterns onto white paper. Toddlers love the satisfying press-and-lift action of sponge painting, and the egg shapes create a naturally festive result. Display the finished artwork as Easter decorations around the home.
3. Playdough Easter Nests
Give your toddler brown or green playdough and a handful of small chocolate mini eggs or coloured plastic eggs. Let them create birds' nests, press eggs into the dough, and build little Easter scenes. This activity builds fine motor skills and creative thinking, and can be extended with toy birds or animals for imaginative play.
4. Easter Sensory Bin
Fill a tray or large container with dried rice or lentils dyed pastel colours (use food colouring), and bury plastic Easter eggs, small chicks, or bunny figures inside. Give your toddler cups, spoons, and small containers and let them dig, pour, and discover. Lay a mat underneath for easy cleanup. For more sensory ideas, see our rainy day activities for toddlers.
5. Paper Plate Easter Bunny
Provide a paper plate, cotton wool balls, googly eyes, and pre-cut ear shapes from card. Let your toddler glue everything on and create their own Easter bunny face. Children this age love gluing — the physical act of squeezing glue and pressing materials is deeply satisfying regardless of the end result.
6. Egg Transfer with Spoons
Set up two bowls side by side and a collection of plastic Easter eggs. Challenge your toddler to transfer the eggs from one bowl to the other using a large spoon. This is a brilliant fine motor activity disguised as a game — it builds the hand control needed for writing and self-care tasks while keeping toddlers completely absorbed.
7. Easter Colour Sorting
Gather coloured plastic Easter eggs and set out matching coloured bowls or spots of coloured paper. Ask your toddler to sort the eggs by colour. For younger toddlers, do two colours. For older toddlers, challenge them with five or six. This is an excellent early maths activity that develops classification skills. For more ideas, see our colour sorting activities.
8. Footprint Chick Art
Paint your toddler's foot yellow and press it onto white paper to make a chick body. Add an orange triangle beak, two black dot eyes, and orange zigzag feet with a marker once dry. This classic activity creates a keepsake piece of art that captures exactly how small your toddler's foot was this Easter.
9. Easter Story Time
Set up a cosy reading corner with Easter-themed picture books and spend time reading together. Classic choices include 'We're Going on an Egg Hunt', 'The Easter Egg' by Jan Brett, and 'Spot's First Easter'. Pair with warm drinks and a blanket for extra cosiness. Reading together builds language and deepens your connection. See our language development at home guide.
10. Easter Egg Rolling Race
Roll hard-boiled eggs across a flat surface (the kitchen floor works perfectly) and see whose egg goes furthest. Toddlers love the unpredictability of rolling eggs — they wobble and veer off course in a way that feels genuinely exciting. No equipment needed, and it works even in a small space.
11. Bunny Ears Headband Craft
Use a pre-cut strip of card as a headband and add cut-out bunny ears decorated with markers, cotton wool, or stickers. Your toddler wears the finished creation for the rest of the day, which is enormously motivating and builds pride in their own creation. Take photos for the Easter memory bank.
12. Eggshell Mosaic
Crack and rinse empty eggshells, then dye them pastel colours (food colouring works well). Once dry, let your toddler glue broken shell pieces onto card in any pattern they like — abstract mosaics, egg shapes, or free form. The tactile experience of handling shells and the bright colours make this a memorable sensory craft.
13. Easter Baking Together
Simple no-bake Easter treats — chocolate cornflake nests with mini eggs on top — are perfect for toddlers. They can stir the mixture, spoon it into cases, and press the eggs on top. The waiting-for-them-to-set phase is challenging for toddlers, but the pride in eating something they made is incomparable.
14. Spring Collage
Collect natural materials from a short walk — petals, leaves, small twigs, grass — and use them to create a spring collage on card using glue sticks. This connects Easter to the season, builds knowledge about the natural world, and uses materials that cost nothing. For nature activity ideas all year round, see our nature activities for toddlers.
15. Easter Small World Play
Set up a small world Easter scene in a tray: green fabric or paper grass, small plastic eggs, toy bunnies or chicks, and a small basket. Let your toddler play freely, telling stories and moving the figures around. Small world play is deeply absorbing for toddlers and develops imaginative and narrative thinking simultaneously.
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Keep activities short and follow your toddler's lead. If they engage deeply with one activity for 30 minutes, that is a success — do not push to move on. If they lose interest in five minutes, that is also fine. Set up the next one and move along.
Having a simple Easter routine over the holiday weekend — morning activity, lunch, quiet time, afternoon activity — helps toddlers feel settled rather than over-stimulated. See our simple toddler routine tips for help building a holiday structure.
Most of all, remember that your participation is the most important ingredient. You do not need perfect craft supplies or Instagram-worthy results. Your toddler just wants you — present, playful, and delighted by what they create. For more on learning through play at home, visit our dedicated guide.
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