Looking for a fun and easy Easter egg craft for kids? This torn paper Easter egg activity is perfect for little hands and packed with learning opportunities! Tearing paper helps strengthen fine motor skills, encourages creativity, and provides a wonderful sensory experience. Plus, it’s a mess-free, budget-friendly way to celebrate Easter.
Whether at home or in the classroom, this craft will keep children engaged while letting them explore different colours, textures, and patterns as they create their own unique egg. Use our free printable egg template to make this craft even easier.
EASTER EGG TORN PAPER CRAFT
This torn paper Easter egg is a great craft for hand strengthening as well as developing fine motor muscles as children have to carefully use their fingers to tear the pieces apart. They also need to push down the pieces onto the egg to make them stick. It's also great for hand/eye co-ordination as they decide where to stick each piece and try to keep them within the egg outline.
Supplies needed:
- Free egg template
- Coloured paper
- White paper
- Glue stick
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This craft is a super easy low prep activity, you just need access to a printer, paper and glue. If you don't have coloured paper you can use any scrap paper, newspaper or old magazines or catalogues to make the paper egg.
HOW TO MAKE A TORN PAPER EASTER EGG
1. Print out egg template onto white paper. You could also print it on cardstock, but paper will work just fine.
2. Tear coloured paper into small pieces. Children can tear the paper into any shape or size they want. Tearing the paper is a great way for them to work their fine motor skills and practice hand/eye co-ordination.
3. Glue torn paper pieces onto egg template. It's easiest for children to do this using a glue stick so they can cover each piece of paper fully with glue to make sure it sticks down properly.
Children can place the torn paper any way they like, don't worry if they overlap colours or leave gaps between pieces, each torn paper egg will turn out unique. Older children are more likely to experiment using different colours to create designs or patterns such as zig zags, stripes or circles on their eggs, whereas younger children will probably just glue the pieces anywhere and everywhere.
Once the finished torn paper egg is dry you can:
- laminate it
- hang is as an Easter decoration
- cut out the egg and glue it onto a coloured background
- write a message on the back and use it as an Easter card
DOWNLOAD FREE PRINTABLE EASTER EGG TEMPLATE
Click the download template image below to download your free printable egg template to your device. The template is a single A4 PDF, however you can print as many copies as you need.
Please note this free printable template is for personal and classroom use only and cannot be digitally uploaded, shared or sold on any platform. If you would like to share this craft please link back to this blog post directly.
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