Here’s a list of Easter ornaments perfect for decorating Easter trees, whether indoors or outdoors. These spring crafts also make excellent ornaments for Easter wreaths and garlands. Both kids and adults enjoy making these easy Easter crafts.
Making and decorating DIY Easter ornaments is a fun craft idea for all ages. Creative Easter activities like these make it easy to turn simple everyday materials into meaningful keepsakes that can be reused year after year and passed down as family heirlooms. In this helpful guide, you’ll find a collection of step-by-step tutorials for handmade Easter ornaments and decorations that you can use to decorate Easter trees, wreaths, and garlands.
Some ornaments are quick, easy and simple enough for young kids like toddlers and preschoolers to make. Other Easter crafts require a bit more time and effort, but the results are worth it. DIY ornaments with more details encourage crafters of all ages to slow down and enjoy the process, whether you’re crafting alone or with others. Add a personal touch to your Easter festivities with the homemade Easter ornaments and decoration ideas below.
Inside, you’ll learn how to use various common household materials you likely already have at home. Think paper, salt-dough, clay, fabric scraps, buttons, fillable plastic eggs, and the most classic Easter ornament of all, hollowed-out eggs! Along the way, you’ll also find ideas for changing materials, adding personal touches, and turning your creations into meaningful holiday traditions the whole family will enjoy. Whether you’re crafting with toddlers, older kids, or just carving out a quiet moment for yourself, these handmade decorations add a cozy, creative touch to your home. You might also enjoy these family Easter Traditions.
Crafting Handmade Ornaments and Decorations for Easter:
Crafters all over the World Wide Web have come up with several innovative ways to fashion various craft supplies and recycled materials into egg shapes and other traditional Easter symbols and characters to hang on an Easter tree. Today, you can make homemade Easter ornament crafts with all sorts of common supplies and recycled materials.
This helpful round-up of ideas includes a delightful array of homemade Easter ornament craft ideas and other decorations you can make to adorn Easter trees, wreaths, garlands, and other types of DIY Easter decor, indoors or outdoors. Real eggshells, felt, salt dough, paper, yarn, ribbon, fabric, glass, beads, buttons, natural materials, and random recycled bits and bots can be turned into ornaments from simple to complex.
First published in February 2016, this post about making Easter ornaments is regularly updated and republished to improve the content and provide even more hand-crafted inspiration. Scroll down to see DIY bunny ornaments, Easter chick ornaments, carrot ornament crafts, and more in addition to several creative types of DIY egg ornaments and decorations.
Best Easter Ornament Craft Ideas for Kids and Adults
Easter is a spring holiday celebrated by people worldwide according to their customs and traditions. Decorating an Easter tree with handmade ornaments to create a gorgeous Easter centerpiece is one way to welcome spring and celebrate Easter. You might also enjoy this list of Easter Traditions and fun things to do on Easter.
Making handmade Easter ornaments allows for more personalization than store-bought ornaments do. Make your Easter celebrations uniquely yours with the beautiful homemade Easter ornament craft ideas below. The craft ideas included in this informative guide are also fun for kids and adults to make and use to decorate an Easter egg wreath or garland.
First, invite children (toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, grade-school students, and teens) to make their favorite Easter ornament crafts from the list below. Next, use the Easter ornaments you make to decorate your Easter tree. Alternatively, you can display them on your spring nature table. Homemade Easter egg ornaments also make lovely DIY spring home decor.
How to Make Your Own Easter Egg Decorations:
Of course, as shown in the photos, the list of fun Easter ornament ideas below includes egg-shaped Easter egg ornaments, such as traditional hand-blown egg ornaments. But eggs aren’t the only Easter decorations you can make! There are a few other Easter symbols, such as carrots, bunnies, and baby chicks, that can be made into ornaments.
Scroll down to see a great list of Easter ornament craft ideas you can make at home or in the classroom. Making DIY Easter ornaments is a simple way to foster creativity and bond as a family. From simple crafts children can enjoy to more sophisticated projects that adults can proudly display, there’s a wide array of Easter ornament craft ideas suitable for all ages and skill levels. You might also enjoy making Watercolor Surprise Easter Egg Art.
DIY Easter Ornaments and Decorations
I organized this DIY Easter ornament crafts list into simple categories based on whether the craft represents a spring or Easter symbol, or on the crafting materials needed to make the decoration. This means I put some of these handmade Easter ornament craft ideas into more than categories to make it easy to find the type of Easter decorations you’d like to make for your Easter Tree.
In other words, search for the kind of ornament you want to make in the list of ideas below, based on the type of Easter symbol or the primary craft materials you need to make it. The only exception to this rule is the Easter egg decorations.
Because there are so many DIY egg ornament crafts to choose from, they do not have their own “Easter Egg Ornament” category like other typical spring or Easter symbols, such as bunnies, chicks, or carrots. Instead, Easter Egg Ornaments are included within each craft supply option for making homemade Easter decorations.
Please scroll to the bottom of this post to ensure you see each of the fantastic homemade Easter ornament options. For even more Easter decoration ideas, visit our post about making and decorating an Easter tree. It has several more Easter tree decorations you can use to decorate for Easter, in addition to the ornaments suggested below. We hope you enjoy making DIY Easter egg ornaments as much as we do! You might also enjoy making wooden egg decorations for Easter.
1. Salt Dough Easter Egg Ornament Craft Ideas:
Salt-dough Easter ornaments offer a creative Easter activity for all ages. Even toddlers and preschoolers can make these easy salt-dough crafts. First, make homemade salt dough using your favorite DIY recipe. Next, roll it out and use cookie cutters to shape it into eggs and other Easter-themed symbols, characters, and designs, such as bunnies and carrots. Then bake, allow to cool, and decorate!
Like real Easter eggs, salt-dough Easter egg decorations are fun to paint with different colors and patterns. Try the easy salt dough Easter egg craft tutorials below:
- Salt Dough Easter Egg Ornaments by Design Mom.
- Quick Salt Dough Easter Ornaments made in the shape of Eggs, bunnies, and carrots by Craftulate.
- Salt Dough Easter Eggs by The Best Ideas for Kids Blog.
Related: Salt Dough Handprint and Footprint Heart Craft
2. DIY Clay Easter Egg Ornaments:
Clay Easter ornaments are an easy alternative to salt-dough Easter decorations. Although eggs are the most popular Easter ornament shape, various types of air-dry clay can also be shaped with cookie cutters into bunnies, chicks, flowers, and other spring symbols.
Make Easter egg tree ornaments out of clay with these DIY ornament ideas:
- Baking Soda Easter Egg Ornaments by DIY Dreamer.
- DIY Clay Easter Bunting by The Mad House. Please note: The ornaments on this clay Easter egg garland can also be made into individual Easter egg ornaments to hang on an Easter tree.
Related: Clay Handprint Jewelry Dish and Ring Bowl
3. DIY Easter Candy Ornament Decoration Ideas:
Making homemade ornaments with Easter candy is quick and easy. Use pastel-colored ribbon, monofilament line (fishing string), twine, or a metal ornament hook to hang each piece of candy as an Easter decoration. Either tie ribbon, string, or twine around the candy or puncture it with a metal ornament hook in a way that keeps the candy safe and preserved, if possible.
You don’t even need to hang some types of candy. For example, Easter egg candy can be perched on branches or glued directly onto Easter decorations. Candy bracelets or necklaces can be draped directly from the limbs of an Easter tree for a simple and sweet Easter decoration.
Here are a few Easter candies you can use to make ornaments and decorations:
- Chocolate carrots.
- Candy necklaces or bracelets.
- Individually wrapped candy you’d like to make into an Easter decoration.
- Pastel or brightly colored candy canes.
- Candy eggs can be perched on tree limbs or sitting in decorative bowls.
- Peeps Easter Bunnies and Chicks dangling from the branches of an Easter Tree.
- Or put Peeps Easter chicks or foil-wrapped chocolate eggs sitting on colored paper Easter grass in glass globes hanging from the tree’s limbs.
4. Easy Easter Bunny Ornaments and Decorations:
Here are a few Easter bunny decoration ideas you can use to make rabbit ornaments to include in your Easter decor:
- Easy Bunny Craft and Easter Decoration: First, tie fishing line or ribbon through the ears or around the neck to create a hanger for this adorable bunny craft. Then hang them on your Easter tree as Easter Bunny ornaments. Alternatively, hang them from tree limbs using their pipe-cleaner ears!
- Paper Bauble Easter Bunny Decorations (with bunny ears) by Red Ted Art.
- Make Bunny Easter Ornaments with Salt Dough or Air-Dry Clay, then decorate with paint pens or paint them with acrylic paint in your choice of colors. For ideas, check out these Easter egg decorating ideas.
5. Easter Chick Ornaments:
Here’s another spring craft that looks adorable sitting or hanging on an Easter tree. Baby chicks are a classic spring symbol that you can make with paper, yarn, or a real egg containing a mini chenille chick.
Make adorable baby chick ornament crafts to decorate your Easter tree with these simple DIY ideas:
- Yarn Pom-Pom Chick Ornaments in Small or Large Sizes by Rhythms of Play.
- Paper Bauble Easter Chick Ornament Decoration by Red Ted Art.
- Glitter Diorama Egg with an Easter Chick perched inside by Willowday.
6. Carrot Easter Ornaments:
Carrots are another simple shape that can be crafted into an ornament using various craft supplies. Make carrot ornaments for the Easter tree with buttons, orange felt, salt dough, clay, or individually wrapped candy carrots.
Here are a few carrot ornament craft tutorials to inspire you:
- Button Carrot Easter Ornament by Ellie Marie Home.
- Mini Carrot Easter Tree Ornaments by American Felt and Craft.
- Use Easter cookie cutters to create air-dry clay or salt-dough Carrot Easter Ornaments.
- Hang individually wrapped Chocolate Carrot Easter Candy from the tree with the following step-by-step instructions:
- First, tie a piece of ribbon, twine, or string around the base of the carrot top to create a simple hanging loop.
- Either tie the ends together to create a loop to hang it on the tree, or tie one end to the carrot, and the other around the tree branch.
- Then hang the candy carrot ornament from an Easter tree or garland.
7. Homemade Felt Easter Ornaments:
Felt and other fabrics can be sewn or glued together to create simple Easter ornaments. Felt Easter ornaments in simple egg, carrot, and bunny shapes are easy crafts for decorating an Easter Tree.
Try any of the felt Easter ornament tutorials below:
- Mini Carrot Easter Tree Ornaments by American Felt and Craft.
- Hand-Sewn Felt Easter Egg Tree Decorations: The step-by-step Easter ornament-making tutorial from Make Time Together includes a free printable felt Easter egg pattern.
- Felt Easter Ornaments by Lia Griffith (Please be aware that a membership is required to see this complete step-by-step tutorial.)
- Alternatively, you can use a fabric marker to trace Easter cookie cutters or the printable egg outlines in the Rhythms of Play Learning Center Library to craft felt ornaments.
Related: Felt Flowers
8. String or Yarn Easter Ornament Craft Tutorials:
There is more than one way to make Easter egg ornaments to hang on an Easter Tree and other spring decorations. Use embroidery thread, floss, or yarn to make the fun Easter crafts listed below. Alternatively, you can use the step-by-step Spider Egg Craft Tutorial on Rhythms of Play. Simply use colored yarn to make colored Easter eggs instead!
Here are a few Easter Egg Ornaments you can make with yarn, string, or embroidery thread:
- String Easter Egg Ornament Craft: Use embroidery thread or floss to make string eggs to hang on the Easter tree, using the DIY instructions from Craftwhack.
- Easy Yarn Egg Easter Ornament Craft for Kids: Discover a simple way children from toddlers to teens can make egg ornaments with yarn with the tutorial by Fantastic Fun and Learning.
- Knit Easter Egg Ornaments: Learn how to hand-knit adorable little egg ornaments with the step-by-step DIY tutorial by Purl Soho.
- Crochet Easter Egg Decorations: Make crochet eggs with the instructions by Crochet 365 Knit Too.
- Pom-Pom Baby Chick Ornaments: This DIY tutorial by Rhythms of Play shares how to make pom poms two ways and then fashion them into ornaments for a spring tree, as shown in the photograph below.
9. Faux-stained glass Easter Egg Ornaments:
Faux-stained glass Easter ornaments are a simple craft with gorgeous results. You might also enjoy making Faux-Stained Glass Candle Holders. Learn how to make faux-stained glass ornaments with this creative technique:
- Stained Glass Easter Eggs by Mad in Crafts.
10. Paper Easter Egg Ornament Craft Ideas:
There are several creative ways to make paper egg ornaments. Young kids, like toddlers and preschoolers, can make the first paper Easter egg idea on the list below. While older children and adults can make the second two paper egg crafts.
Use paper to craft Easter egg ornaments with these simple spring decoration ideas:
- Tinfoil and Tissue Paper Easter Eggs for Kids by Happy Hooligans.
- Easter Egg Ornament Craft by The Life of Jennifer Dawn.
- How to Make Paper Easter Egg Ornaments by Fireflies and Mudpies.
11. Button Easter Ornaments:
Crafting simple button ornaments is fun for children and adults alike. The Easter ornament crafts below show how to make a carrot or an egg with buttons.
Here are a few button Easter ornament ideas:
- Button Carrot Easter Ornament by Ellie Marie Home.
- How to Make a Button Easter Egg Ornament by Sarah’s Craftography.
12. Recycled Toilet Tube Easter Ornament DIY:
Learn how to make birdhouse crafts that you can use to decorate your Easter tree with the recycled craft activity below:
- Toilet Paper Roll Birdhouse Ornament Craft by Rhythms of Play.
13. How to Make Hollowed Egg Easter Ornaments:
Hollowed-out eggs are the most traditional of all Easter ornaments. Learn how to make hollowed-out Easter egg ornaments for your Easter tree with the DIY tutorials below:
DIY hollowed-out Easter Egg ornament instructions:
- How to Make Blown Egg Ornaments by Our Best Bites.
- How to: (Austrian) Easter Egg Blowing by Red Ted Art.
Related: How to Decorate Wooden Easter Eggs
14. Hollowed Easter Egg Diorama Ornaments:
Here’s a fun Easter decoration idea for older kids, teens, and adults. These DIY Easter tree ornaments take hollow eggs one step further by adding a diorama or scene inside them.
Try your hand at any one of the creative diorama egg craft ideas listed below:
- Glitter Eggs with a Scene with a spring chick inside by Willowday.
- How to Make a Glitter Egg Diorama by Red Ted Art.
15. Easter Ornaments Made with Fillable Plastic Eggs:
Although it’s not Mother Earth’s favorite choice for the planet’s health, plastic eggs can also be used to make DIY Easter egg ornaments. If you have any fillable eggs saved away or happen to collect any while on a public Easter egg hunt, creating ornaments with them offers a creative way to recycle them. Make them into simple homemade decorations for Easter trees, garlands, and wreaths with the step-by-step craft tutorial below. The instructions explain how to make plastic eggs into ornaments to hang from Easter trees and other Easter decor:
How to Make Easter Ornaments with Recycled Plastic Eggs:
- Use scissors to cut ribbons 5 to 10 inches long.
- Create a loop by bringing the ends of the ribbon to touch.
- Apply glue tape or a dollop of hot glue to the top (pointy end) of a plastic egg.
- Place both ends of the ribbon in the glue (or attach them to the glue tape) to create a simple loop for hanging the egg decoration.
- Alternatively, you can place the middle of the ribbon in the glue (or attach it to the tape) and tie the ends into a bow or knot to hang on the Easter egg tree.
- Glue the egg shut, or leave it unglued to fill with lightweight Easter candy or toys if desired.
Alternatively, follow the step-by-step directions to hang an egg in this Easter Tree tutorial, “Easter Tree Decoration Ideas.” The instructions offer slightly different craft instructions for making a hanger for real or plastic eggs. You can also use plastic eggs to host a rhyming Easter Scavenger hunt. This alternative to a traditional egg hunt offers a creative way to reuse plastic eggs.
16. Quilted or Sewn Easter Ornament DIY Easter Decorations:
Use old scraps of fabric or felt to make any of the cute Easter ornaments on the list of Easter decoration ideas below:
Hand-Sewn or Quilted Easter Ornaments:
- No-Sew Quilted Easter Egg Pattern by The Ornament Girl.
- Handsewn Easter Egg Ornaments from Fabric Scraps by Crafting Cheerfully.
- Washcloth Easter Bunny Ornament: Unfortunately, the original tutorial for the white-washcloth bunnies featured in the photo collage at the top of this post by “Craft Ideas” is no longer available as of the 2026 update.
- DIY Patchwork Decorated Easter Eggs made with fabric and foam eggs by iCreative Ideas.
- Hand-Sewn Heirloom Easter Eggs by the Nurturestore.
Related: How to Sew a Pocket Pet Mouse
Homemade Easter Ornament Crafts Kids Can Make:
This collection of DIY Easter ornaments makes it easy to decorate Easter trees, spring centerpieces, wreaths, garlands, spring nature tables, and more. Both kids and adults enjoy making these easy Easter crafts and decorations. Because crafting your own Easter ornaments and decorations isn’t about achieving perfect results. It’s about enjoying the process and the time you spend creating with loved ones.
The sticky fingers, paint splatters, laughter, and even the “oops” moments often lead to something better than you expected. It’s these small unexpected details that turn simple crafts into treasured keepsakes. Each ornament tells a story of a year, a season, or a special moment shared. Over time, your Easter tree, wreaths, and garlands can become a cherishe collection of memories.
While working through these Easter craft tutorials, feel free to follow the steps or adapt them to fit your needs. Swap out materials, change colors, add names, dates, or small notes. It’s these personal touches that make your handmade Easter crafts even more special than the ornaments in the photos.
Creative Spring Ornament Ideas for Kids and Adults:
Use the ideas in this round-up as inspiration to create Easter ornaments in new and creative ways. But these homemade ornaments with common spring symbols are not just Easter decorations. These spring craft projects can also be used as DIY spring home decor. In other words, you can also use these beautiful Easter craft ideas to decorate your home to celebrate Spring Equinox.
For more spring family fun, visit these Spring Activities with Printable Bucket List. You might also enjoy this informative guide about Easter traditions from around the world. The latter also shares how and why some of these common symbols, such as bunnies, chicks, and eggs, came to be associated with the Easter holiday.
Whatever you choose, gather your supplies, clear some space, and invite family or friends to join you. The best part of these easter decorations isn’t how they look; it’s the time you spend making them. Happy Easter!
Learn more about Nell Regan Kartychok, author of this round-up of DIY Easter Ornaments HERE, and Rhythms of Play HERE!
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