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How to Make Homemade Watercolor Bags for an Easter Activity

March 20, 2015 by Sheryl Cooper

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 Inside: This Easter activity results in colorful homemade bags that can be used for an Easter egg hunt with toddlers and preschoolers. 

 

In both my toddler and preschool classrooms, we needed something to hold the goods from our Easter egg hunt. I know I could probably find some plastic baskets in the dollar section, but I wanted these to be made by the children. I needed easy homemade Easter bags that would be fun, colorful, sturdy, and special to take home.

Oh, and I wanted a bit of extra fine motor going on, since we are always working on strengthening their hands and fingers. I didn’t want something cute and crafty. (Pinterest is full of that, thank you.)
When I was in Walmart I found white paper lunch bags and the light bulb went off. I had an idea!

Easy Easter Bags

 

 

How to Make Homemade Watercolor Bags for an Easter Activity

 

What you will need to make your Easter bags:

 

    • White craft bags (I got ours at Walmart, but I linked to Amazon in case you don’t have access.)

 

    • Watercolors

 

    • Paint brushes or pipettes

 

Putting this activity together:

Pour watercolors into cups and dilute with water for desired color. With our preschoolers, we used pipettes. Needing to squeeze the tip of the pipette to transfer the watercolors to the bags is a wonderful fine motor activity. With our toddlers, we used paint brushes.

 

Easy Easter Bags

 

Easy Easter Bags

 

Easy Easter Bags

 

Assembling the Easter bags:

Once the bags are completely dry, open the bags up and fold the top a couple of times. Then add some filler. Some years we make our own, putting colored paper through the shredder. Other years, we use commercial Easter basket filler.

Cut colored paper into approximately 1 inch strips and staple them to the opening of the bag to make a handle.

 

Easy Easter Bags

 

Pretty nice for starting out as white paper lunch bags, don’t you think? Now they are ready for the Easter egg hunt!

 

Easy Easter Bags for Kids

 

 

 


 

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Filed Under: Art, preschool, Spring Activities, Toddlers Tagged With: Easter, preschool, spring, toddlers

About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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Comments

  1. Growing a Jeweled Rose says

    March 25, 2012 at 2:00 am

    These are adorable! I love that each little one knew exactly what bag was theirs. Aren’t little ones the best 😉

  2. Anonymous says

    March 26, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    Wow, I’m going to let my 2’s use a shredder to make Easter grass. The ones who aren’t scared will love it! I really enjoy your blog!

  3. Meredith Magee Donnelly says

    April 10, 2014 at 1:36 am

    These are great Sheryl! Sharing on the Homegrown Friends FB Page!

  4. Sandra Watts says

    March 21, 2015 at 9:10 pm

    These are super cute and would be a lot of fun for the grand kids to make.

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