Easter Bulletin Board Ideas for Toddlers

Easter Egg Hunt

• Turn the bulletin board into an Easter egg hunt for the toddlers. Start by creating a scene with lots of different elements. Make fringe on a strip of green paper for grass. Add flowers, swings, slides and other playground equipment cut out of colorful paper. Cut out several Easter eggs from construction paper. Place the Easter eggs on the decorated bulletin board, hiding them partially with the grass and other decorations. The toddlers search around the bulletin board to find where all of the eggs are hidden.

Chicks

• Each child needs a baby chick cutout. Let the toddlers paint the chicks. They can also cover them with squares of yellow tissue paper or yellow craft feathers. Take a picture of each toddler. Cut out the kids' heads from the pictures and glue them onto the chick. The toddlers get to see their artwork and their faces on the Easter bulletin board.

Bunnies

• Use the children's handprints to make bunnies for an Easter bulletin board. Help each toddler paint her palm and fingers white. Leave their thumbs without paint. Help the kids press their hands down on paper to create a bunny. They should hold the first two fingers together and the last two fingers together with a space between them to create two bunny ears. The palm of the hand is the face of the bunny. The kids can dip a finger into black paint to make the eyes and nose and pink for the mouth. Cut out the handprint bunnies and hang them on the bulletin board. Add a bulletin board heading such as "Hopping into Spring."

Eggs

• Let the toddlers decorate paper Easter eggs for the display. Each child needs his own Easter egg cutout. Cut each egg into two with a zigzag pattern to make it look like the egg is cracking open. The kids decorate the eggs with markers, paint or squares of tissue paper depending on personal preference. Take a picture of each child. Cut around the head and upper body. Attach each child's picture to the bottom half of his egg with the head sticking up to look like the child is hatching out of the egg. Hang the top half of the egg right above the child's head.