Kids love to decorate Easter eggs, and these paper eggs are especially easy to work with. You can make them from plain colored paper or construction paper and let the kids use markers, crayons, or colored pencils to decorate them, or you can use fancy papers, such as scrapbook paper or wrapping paper, that already comes with fun prints. If you don’t mind a bit of a mess, you can even let the kids use glitter to give the paper Easter eggs an “egg-stra” special look.
When making this craft with young children who may have difficulty with scissors, you may want to cut out the paper eggs and ahead of time, then let them decorate the eggs and glue them to the wreath.
Although older children can make the paper plate Easter egg wreath by themselves, make sure to supervise them carefully when they’re working with scissors.
Supplies:
- Paper plate
- Pastel paper (assorted colors)
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Glue or double-sided tape
- Markers, crayons, or colored pencils
- Glitter (optional)
- Ribbon
Make a Paper Plate Easter Egg Wreath
- Cut away the middle of a paper plate, leaving only the outside rim. (You may need to carefully poke a hole in the center to get started cutting.)
- Draw an egg shape on a piece of paper, or trace an egg-shaped cookie cutter. Cut out the egg to use as a template.
- Trace the egg template on assorted sheets of colored paper, until you have about 16 eggs. (If you’re using four different colors, you may want to cut four eggs from each color.)
- Decorate the paper eggs using markers, crayons, colored pencils, or glitter. Let the kids get creative and make each egg unique.
- Make a chick popping out of one or more eggs (optional) by cutting out a small chick from yellow paper. Cut one of the eggs in half from side to side using a zigzag pattern. Draw eyes and a beak on the chick, then glue the top half of the egg to the top of the chick’s head, and the bottom half of the egg to the chick’s body.
- Turn the paper plate rim face down and arrange the eggs around the paper plate rim, overlapping them slightly so that the entire plate is covered. If you used several colors of eggs, you may want to alternate colors to give the wreath a balanced look.
- Glue the paper eggs to the plate, or attach them with double-sided tape.
- Cut a piece of ribbon about 12 to 18 inches long. Glue or tape both ends of the ribbon to the back of the paper plate wreath.
You can use the ribbon to hang the Easter egg wreath on a doorway, wall, or the refrigerator. You can even use turn the wreath into an Easter photo frame craft by gluing the edges of a whole paper plate to the back of the wreath, and slipping a photo between the two plates.
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