Paper Plate Easter Basket Craft

Get ready for Easter with this adorable Paper Plate Easter Basket Craft! A super fun Easter craft idea for kids to create leading up to the big day of finding eggs. Only this time, for this craft, they get to color in their paper eggs!

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Be sure to print our Free Easter Eggs Coloring Page to go along with the Easter baskets! I mean, what’s an Easter basket without bright, beautiful eggs to put in it? The designs on the Easter egg coloring page are really simple, so little ones can easily color their own, with their choice of coloring supplies.

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Easter Basket Paper Plate Craft

Paper Plate Easter Basket craft supplies needed.

To make our paper plate easter baskets you will need paper plates, acrylic paints, lots of bright markers or your choice of coloring supplies, scissors, and a glue stick. And don’t forget the Easter eggs coloring page!

Paper Plate Easter Basket Craft Supplies Needed

  • Easter Eggs Coloring Page
  • Paper plates
  • Acrylic paint – blue, brown, purple, etc.
  • Markers or other coloring supplies – many assorted colors
  • Scissors
  • Glue stick

Easter Basket Craft Step by Step Directions

Begin by coloring a paper plate.

Paint a paper plate.

We made 3 baskets and colored our plates blue, purple, and brown. Let the paint dry completely.

Color eggs using your choice of coloring supplies.

While the paint is drying, print the Easter eggs coloring page. Gather your coloring supplies, we chose markers so they’d be extra bright, but you could use paints, coloring pencils, crayons, paint sticks, you name it.

Continue coloring eggs.
Easter eggs colored in.

Continue coloring until all eggs are filled in.

Cut out the eggs.

Cut out the eggs.

Carefully cut out half the inside of the paper plate.

Now, when the plates are dry, have an adult carefully insert a pair of pointy scissors in the paper plate. Cut out half the inside of the plate.

Use a marker to draw hatch marks.

Then, use a marker close to the same color as the plate to draw some hatch marks.

Glue eggs to the back of the paper plate.

Finally, all that’s left is to glue your eggs in place to the basket!

Paper Plate Easter Basket

Such a sweet Easter craft that really gets the creativity flowing!

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More Easter Egg Crafts for Kids

Need more Easter egg craft ideas? Check out our Tape Resist Easter Egg Painting, Salt Painted Easter Eggs Craft, Paper Strip Easter Egg Craft, and our Folded Paper Easter Baskets Craft to name just a few of our many fun Easter crafts for kids at Our Kid Things!

Paper Plate Easter Basket Craft

Paper Plate Easter Basket Craft

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Active Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

A fun paper plate Easter basket craft with Easter egg coloring page!

Materials

  • Easter Eggs Coloring Page
  • Paper plates
  • Acrylic paint - blue, brown, purple, etc.
  • Markers or other coloring supplies - many assorted colors
  • Scissors
  • Glue stick

Instructions

  1. Begin by painting a paper plate in your choice of color. Let the paint dry completely.
  2. While the paint is drying, print the Easter eggs coloring page and gather your coloring supplies. We chose markers so they’d be extra bright, but you could use paints, coloring pencils, crayons, paint sticks, you name it.
  3. Continue coloring until all eggs are filled in.
  4. Cut out the eggs.
  5. Now, when the plates are dry, have an adult carefully insert a pair of pointy scissors in the paper plate. Cut out half the inside of the plate.
  6. Then, use a marker close to the same color as the plate to draw some hatch marks.
  7. Finally, all that’s left is to glue your eggs in place to the basket

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