Easter Craft for 15 Mo

15 month old babies don't have the fine motor skills to do crafts. The can do handprints (with you holding their hands) or smooshy paint all over the place. Maybe place cotton ball tails on a pre-glued bunny that you made. but at this age the moms really do the craft and the child's hand is moved around.

Wait another year. At this age I would sit at the tiny table with my little ones and we'd color or make towers from legos. anythign else disproportionately too much time making up and cleaning up and very little time actually crafting...

You could get a bunch of the plastic eggs and have the little one put stickers or goggly eyes on them - don't expect them to look like anything, that's all! You can keep and re-use those eggs every year for an in-house egg hunt. Over time, you can have your child (and any other kids/guests) sort by or search by color.

Foam shapes are manageable for little kds - get a foam picture frame, have your child stick a few foam shapes in spring themes/colors on them, and put in a photo from the holiday. Or put foam shapes on a bucket and use it to create an egg collection bucket, or maybe put them on a flower pot. Put gravel in the bottom (and a hole with a saucer if you can), and put in a few large bulbs that are easy for the child to handle (tulips are easier than crocuses). You'll have to do most of it in terms of putting in the dirt but it can be something you can enjoy watching, or turn into a Mother's Day gift for Grandma.

my tinies 'helped' dye eggs and really enjoyed it, but this age is pretty young for crafts. we just did whatever fun things we usually did, and they participated to the degree they could and wanted to.
khairete
S.

At that age, I think my little ones were into finger paint and that was about it for "art". Loved squishy stuff between their fingers. I think I let them use yellow finger paint, and we stuck yellow feathers are and called it a chick. One time I think we used cotton balls stuck to a paper plate and called it a sheep. Just variations of what the older ones were doing really, just made simpler for the little ones.

One thing I did was take the older ones' dyed eggs, and my little ones printed their thumbprint on them (just dipped in a little bit of paint). We kept them all - go on mantle.

My kids used those Styrofoam eggs (the hard Styrofoam you can paint) when they were little. Some times they painted them, sometimes they glued stuff on (googly eyes, glitter..) and we didn't get into the dye until a bit later - more like school age.

Pinterest would probably have some good ideas. Honestly, my kids at 15 months would likely play with our stuffed bunnies or play with the plastic eggs (putting in and out of a basket) :)

Good luck!

The nice part about having kids is that you get to create your own family traditions. Your 15 month old can help you decorate the house for Easter (cut outs from the dollar store, window markers to draw Easter eggs on the window and then let the 15 month old add stickers) or dye eggs. Just put an old towel under the dye cups in case there's spilling and plan on him getting bored and finishing it yourself. He isn't going to remember any of it however in years to come he'll know that this is just something that he's always done.

My son is 13 months old... and I can't imagine him doing anything crafty! i don't see him advancing that far in the next two months either.

I imagine I will sit him in the high chair and give him a hard boiled egg to eat while he watches us dye the rest.

I am sure if you pinterest "easter handprint craft" you will find something really cute you can make out of his handprint. But that's about all I think a 15 month old could produce. Otherwise you could go all out mess, cut some paper into an egg shape and let him at it with the edible fingerpaints.

Too young for crafts. Possibly next year.

Stamps, hand prints, finger painting. That's about all they can manage at that age.

They are also good at filling and unfilling. so an easter egg hunt with plastic eggs might be right up your alley.

Best,
F. B.

At 15 months, he has no idea what a holiday is all about. Just let him participate to the extent that he can with whatever the older kids are doing.

Look on Pinterest for hand and foot prints. There are some adorable ones. Those are some of the only art work I saved from my kids at that age.

At this age it's mommy doing the craft and toddler hanging around and being interested for a few moments.

Color your eggs with Koolaid powder, there are recipes for mixing it up on the internet.

She can finger paint with colored Cool Whip on a flat surface at home, I use my white island. To make a picture get some white paper then help her make a fist when she has stuff on the side of her hand then she smacks her hand down on it's side. It's shaped like an egg.

Once it's dry you can use markers to draw lines or decorate the eggs.

Mine were enjoying egg dying at that age, but mostly watching me dye the eggs and then they'd pick out stickers and put them on. They also loved "dot paints" when they were that little. Circular paint markers that you stamp on paper. Those were great for early artists. We also did finger paints and play dough. Puzzles might be another option for something that is clean and fun while other kids do crafts. If you are wanting to do something else that is clean, easy and special, I'd get one of those foam crafts from the craft store that creates an Easter frame or other Easter scene. That might be a good level for your little one, if you are working closely with him.

I did the eggs with DD, though I did most of it. She put in the tablets and pointed to where she wanted the eggs to go. The rest was me.

http://www.dltk-kids.com/type/paper.htm has some cute crafts (this page and others).

How about stain glass Easter eggs. Get some contain paper, make an egg shape, ripe up tissue paper with your toddler, and then let him put it on the contain paper.