Fun Easter Activities And Crafts for Kids

For many families, Easter celebrations in Malta bring together school holidays, springtime activities and festive traditions. For parents, tutors and teachers, it can also be a great opportunity to keep children entertained with creative projects, simple recipes, games and learning activities.

In this article, we’ll explore a range of exciting and hands-on Easter activities designed to make the celebration fun, meaningful, and memorable for children of all ages.

Activity	Best For
Decorating Boiled Eggs	Ages 3–7
Easter Egg Hunts	Ages 3–11
Baking Hot Cross Buns	Ages 7–11
Making Chocolate Nests	Ages 4–8
Easter Colouring	Ages 3–8
Easter Bonnet Making	Ages 4–8
Egg Dance	Ages 5–10
Easter Storytime	All ages
Science Experiments	Ages 4–11
Math Games	Ages 3–8
Nature Walks & Picnic	All ages
Movie Marathon & Puzzles	All ages

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🍪 Food Activities for Easter

Easter is a great time to introduce children to festive food activities, from simple decorating ideas to traditional seasonal bakes.

🥚Decorating Boiled Eggs

While chocolate eggs are more popular these days, real eggs were traditionally decorated and given at Easter. Eggs are often associated with the symbol of new life and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

To kickstart this activity, pick a simple theme, whether it's emojis, animals, movie characters, or food, to give the kids a point of reference and prepare the necessary colour dyes, papers, and brushes.¹

Suggested age group: 3–7 years old (suitable for younger children with adult supervision)

Why it's perfect for kids to enjoy: Kids can develop their motor skills while painting, drawing, and cutting coloured paper. It's also super safe and simple, with no complex instructions.

🏃 Easter Egg Hunts

Next, let’s explore one of the staple activities of Easter — the Easter egg hunt.

🍰 Decorating or Making Figolli

No Easter in Malta feels complete without figolli. These traditional Maltese Easter sweets are usually made from pastry filled with almond paste and decorated with icing or chocolate, often in playful shapes that children love. For families, making or decorating figolli can be one of the most enjoyable Easter kitchen activities to do together.

If you are short on time, children can help decorate ready-made figolli with icing, sprinkles or mini chocolate eggs. If you want a fuller baking activity, older kids can also help with mixing the dough, shaping the pastry and adding the final decorations with adult supervision. Recipes often use pastry, almond filling and a sweet decorative topping.

Suggested age group: 5–11 years with adult supervision

Why it's perfect for kids to enjoy: It combines baking, decorating and Maltese Easter tradition in one activity, while giving children a hands-on way to take part in the holiday.

🍞 Baking Hot Cross Buns

Alongside local Easter treats such as figolli, hot cross buns can also be a lovely baking activity to try with children during the Easter season. Marked with a cross on top, they are traditionally associated with Good Friday and work well as a simple introduction to festive baking.

This activity involves mixing, shaping and decorating, so it can be a fun way for older kids to get creative in the kitchen while learning basic baking skills with adult supervision.

Suggested age group: 7–11 years

Why it's perfect for kids to enjoy: It introduces children to simple baking skills such as measuring, kneading dough and decorating, while giving them a festive treat to enjoy afterwards.

🍫 Making Easter Chocolate Nests

While the chocolate nest has no roots in the religious significance of Easter, this dessert is commonly made by families, schools, and local communities today during the celebrations because it doesn't require baking.

Here's a simple egg-free, nut-free, chocolate nest recipe you can make with your kids:

Suggested age group: 4–8 years old

Why it's perfect for kids to enjoy: No actual baking process, simple and fun indoor activity where it's easy to monitor under adult supervision

🌈 Art Activities For Easter

If you are looking for artsy Easter activities for kids, here are our recommendations.

🎨 Easter Colouring

Easter colouring is a widely practised activity in nurseries, primary schools, churches, and homes during the Easter season.

This activity is highly accessible, as numerous educational websites provide free printable colouring pages featuring Easter themes such as bunnies, decorated eggs, lambs, and spring flowers.

Suggested age group: 3–8 years (can be easily adaptable according to difficulty levels)

Why it's perfect for kids: Colouring develops fine motor control and pencil grip. It also encourages creativity and colour recognition, suitable for solo and group settings.

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😄 Interactive Activities for Easter

Looking for more "action-packed" and animated Easter games?

💃 Egg Dance

Popularised throughout late medieval Europe, the egg dance was often performed by couples who had to dance between many raw eggs on the ground.

Later, it evolved to be a traditional Easter game that includes hopping, where the players will be blindfolded and dance while hopping with one leg without breaking any raw eggs.² In a child-friendly version, players move around eggs or egg-shaped markers on the floor without stepping on them, making it a fun activity for parties, classrooms or family gatherings.

Fun tip: You can modify this activity by substituting plastic or card eggs for raw eggs to keep things neater indoors, but you can absolutely spice things up with real, boiled eggs when you're outdoors.

Suggested age group: 5–10 years

Why it's perfect for kids: It is a social and interactive activity that enhances balance and coordination in a fun setting, and is adaptable for indoor or outdoor spaces.

📖 Easter Storytime

Next, you could also read Easter-themed stories to children, emphasising the religious and cultural significance of the celebration.

Here are some book recommendations:

Title	Author/Illustrator	Age Range	Key Features	Significance and relevance
The Easter Story	Brian Wildsmith	3-7	Follows Jesus from Palm Sunday to resurrection via a donkey's view; vivid illustrations.	Ties to UK church processions and spring walks.
The Garden, The Curtain, and the Cross	Carl Laferton	4-8	Explains separation from God and resurrection access using garden/temple imagery.	Reflects British Sunday school teaching styles.
The Tale of Three Trees	Angela Elwell Hunt	4-9	Trees fulfill dreams through Jesus' life, cross, and empty tomb.	Echoes UK folklore storytelling traditions.
The Story of Easter	Fiona Boon	0-4	Rhyming board book on death and resurrection with simple text.	Suits UK nursery rhyme culture like Hot Cross Buns songs.
Good News! It's Easter!	Glenys Nellist	2-5	Rhymes nature's renewal (tulips, leaves) with Jesus rising.	Links to UK spring flower festivals and bonnets.

Explore these lovely Easter songs that you can teach the children during the celebration.

📝 Educational Activities for Easter

If you are a teacher in kindergarten or elementary school, here's how you can add an educational twist to Easter fun to help your students stay engaged throughout this celebration.

🧪 Science Experiments

The Easter eggs can be used to teach students about simple Science principles through these two simple experiments:

Learning outcomes: Through these two experiments, children can learn about chemical reactions, density and buoyancy in a simple, hands-on way.

➕ Math Games

Here are two activities to teach your students early numeracy skills and basic arithmetic.

Learning outcomes: Through these two activities, children build confidence to count and grasp abstract number concepts (adding, subtracting) through concrete objects (like eggs or jellybeans).

🍃 Recreational Easter Activities

If you're a parent planning for slower-paced Easter activities with friends in your local neighbourhood, here are some ideas for outdoor play and indoor stay.

🦋 Outdoor activities

First, you can organise nature walks to observe springtime changes, such as the budding trees and blooming flowers. Additionally, you can come up with a mission list for the children to collect specific flowers or leaves for crafts.

After the nature walk, you can gather the children and families for an Easter picnic with themed games and foods.

🎬 Indoor activities

You can enjoy a cosy indoor Easter celebration without worrying about the unpredictable early-Spring weather with family and friends, too. One way to do it is plan a movie marathon and watch Easter-themed or spring-themed movies or cartoons suitable for children. Some examples include The King of Kings and Peter Rabbit.

After the movie, you can also engage in Easter jigsaw puzzles or board games as a family.

We hope you've enjoyed the above activity recommendations for kids during Easter. Have a lovely and warm celebration!