Easter fun doesn’t have to mean sugar highs and lows! This year, hop into creative, active and imaginative fun that keeps kids busy and happy – without the chocolate overload.
(MaD Hack: it will also keep them away from the chocco stash long enough for you to grab a sneaky egg or three!🤭)
Because we love Easter and we love our Spencil kids, we’re giving away a whopper of an Easter Activity Pack this year. Chock full of colouring, counting, puzzles and fun, this activity pack is designed to help parents help their kids get more sweetness out of creativity and less out of chocolate eggs this Easter!
Along with that, we’ve rounded up five fun yet sugar-free activities that are full of colour, giggles, and family connection.
1. 🐣Nature Art (Bunny & Egg)
Get inspired by the Nature Art pages in your Spencil Easter Activity Pack and take the art outdoors. Kids can create vibrant nature bunnies or eggs using leaves, petals, twigs – and even turn real eggshells into little ‘grass-head’ friends.
How to do it (flat nature eggs):
- Collect natural ‘art supplies’: leaves, flowers, sticks, bark, and grass.
- Use the Nature Art egg or bunny template in your activity book, or trace large egg or bunny shapes on paper, carboard, or in a sketchpad.
- Arrange and glue natural items inside the egg shape to create colourful, textured patterns.
- Add finishing touches with colouring pencils, crayons, markers, or bright watercolours.
How to make grass-head egg friends:
- Carefully crack the top off an egg, empty and rinse the shell, and let it dry.
- Draw a simple face on the shell with a marker, or add googly eyes.
- Fill the shell with a little damp cotton wool or soil.
- Sprinkle in fast-growing seeds (like grass or cress) and place in a sunny spot.
- Water lightly each day and watch the ‘hair’ sprout and grow – kids can even give their egg friends haircuts once it’s long!
Tip: Line up all the grass-head eggs together for a hilarious Easter ‘hair salon’ display, and snap a pic for the family album.
2. 🍉Fruity Bake-Off (Sugarless!)
Time to get creative in the kitchen! These fruity, colourful snacks feel like a treat but skip the sugar rush.
What you’ll need:
- Wholemeal pitas, rice cakes, or crackers
- Greek yoghurt or cream cheese for ‘icing’
- A rainbow of fruits – strawberries, kiwi, watermelon, banana, blueberries
Let’s make it:
- Spread yoghurt on your base to create the ‘canvas’.
- Use fruit pieces to make bunny faces, carrots, or Easter egg shapes.
- Sprinkle with coconut or crushed nuts for a fun texture.
Bonus idea: Hold a friendly family bake-off and award prizes for most creative or most colourful fruity treat!
3. 🏃♂️Bunny Bootcamp
Turn up the energy with an Easter-themed obstacle course! It’s the perfect way to burn off excitement before (or after) the big family lunch.
Set-up ideas:
- Create mini ‘stations’ for each challenge, such as:
- Hop like a bunny 10 times.
- Balance an egg (or sock ball) on a spoon.
- Crawl under a ‘tunnel’ made of chairs.
- Finish with a silly chicken dance!
- Time each round and see if kids can beat their previous record.
- Finish with handmade Bunny Badges using coloured paper and crayons.
Optional tie-in: Add short puzzle breaks between rounds using pages from your Spencil Easter Activity Pack.
4. 🐇Backyard Bunny Hunt (No Choc!)
Skip the chocolate and turn your Easter egg hunt into a fun-filled adventure packed with movement and surprises.
How to set it up:
- Hide small trinkets, stickers, erasers, pencils, or colourful clues around the garden.
- Each clue could lead to a new activity, like:
- “Find something shaped like an egg.”
- “Do five bunny hops before the next clue.”
- “Sing your best Easter song!”
- End with a non-edible prize, like stationery or art supplies to use with the Easter Activity Pack.
Parent hack: Write the clues inside reusable plastic eggs, on MaD Love Notes or in tiny envelopes for extra excitement.
5. 🧑🎨Arty Picnic Stop
Bring Easter creativity outdoors with a calm, relaxing family picnic that inspires art and imagination.
What to do:
- Pack simple snacks and grab your Easter Activity Pack art supplies like crayons, watercolour pencils, sketchpads and art smocks.
- Head to your favourite park or even the backyard. Bring a backpack or tote bag to store found items in, and don’t forget your hat, umbrella and raincoat, depending on the weather. And a water bottle and insulated cooler lunch bag to keep your (non-sugar) picnic snacks fresh and cool!
- Collect sticks, stones, flowers, seedpods, grasses and other nature goodies.
- Encourage kids to draw what they see – flowers, clouds, bugs, or birds. Or simply get them to decorate the Easter egg or bunny in their Nature Art pages of the activity book.
- Collect everyone’s artwork and drawings into a “Family Easter Nature Journal.”
Bonus idea: Combine your picnic with a short scavenger hunt – “Find five things that are yellow or smell like flowers.”
🙌Takeaway Tip
This Easter, trade the sugar for creative fun, fresh air, and bunny-powered imagination! With the Spencil Easter Activity Pack by their side, kids can jump, draw, explore, and laugh their way through the holidays – all without a single sugar crash.
Imagine That!