The good news? You don’t have to retire Easter crafting just because they’ve outgrown the “cute and simple” stage. This is the sweet spot — where projects can feel creative, a little more grown-up, and actually impressive when they’re finished.

Tween-friendly Easter crafts are less about glue-stick chaos and more about making something they’re genuinely proud of. It’s a chance for them to unplug, flex those creative muscles, and still be part of the seasonal fun — without feeling like it’s babyish.

And honestly? It’s one of those low-pressure ways to connect. No big talks. Just side-by-side creating, chatting when they feel like it, and letting them surprise you with what they come up with.

Easter Crafts for Tweens

Bleeding Tissue Paper Birds on Canvas Wall Art

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A fun decoration craft that your tween can make for Easter, this bleeding tissue paper bird canvas is perfect for older tweens who enjoy creating canvas art.

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DIY an Adorable Newspaper Moss Bunny

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Easter craft turned into a cute yard decoration for the home, this newspaper moss bunny craft is perfect for tweens to work on.

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iCord Crochet Easter Bunny Ideas

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Crocheting can be a fun activity for tweens to do and this one will have them making cute, crocheted bunnies for Easter.

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Easy Bunny Pillow DIY

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A simple tutorial that will have tweens making their own bunny pillows and show off their sewing skills. If your tween doesn’t know how to sew, this is a great opportunity for you to help them.

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Easter Egg Hot Pad

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A Cricut maker Easter craft for tweens, these Easter egg hot pads can be made and used for Easter.

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Free Bunny Doll Pattern

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If your tween loves to sew she will enjoy making these cute bunny rag dolls - includes a free pattern you can download.

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DIY Dollar Tree Rainbow Bunny Gnome

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Made from Dollar Tree supplies, your tween can make this cute fun rainbow-themed bunny gnome for Easter.

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Tulip Wreath DIY

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Let your tween get creative with tulips by making this adorable tulip wreath. After they’ve finished, they can hang it on the door to welcome friends and family.

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Easy Finger Knitting Bunny

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An easy craft that your tween will be able to do, this finger knitting bunny tutorial will help them create their own cute bunny designs.

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No Sew Sock Bunny

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Tweens can use festive Easter socks to make these no-sew bunnies. Allow them to get even more creative with dressing up their bunnies.

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Easter Loop Yarn Wreath

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Loop yarn has become a popular tool to make crafts with because the loops make it easier to knit a variety of different things. This tutorial will show your tween how to make a loop yarn wreath for Easter and spring.

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Easy Sewing Felt Bunny Brooch

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An easy sewing craft that your tween can make for Easter, these felt brooches are perfect for the Easter holiday.

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Geometrical Spring Vases - Decoupage Craft

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Let your tween get creative by decorating their own decoupage spring vases. They can also use this idea to make festive Easter drinking glasses.

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Easter Egg Bath Bombs

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Tweens love beauty products and for Easter, they can make their own Easter-themed bath bombs that are shaped like eggs.

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Whether your tween is into trendy décor, hands-on DIY, or just wants something that doesn’t scream “little kid,” there’s something here that will feel just right. Easter can still be fun at this age — it just needs a little upgrade.

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As children get older, there’s a lot more fun and creativity you can add to their Easter baskets.

Even though they may already know the Easter Bunny doesn’t exist, it is still fun to celebrate the holiday together and keep the traditions alive.

These Easter basket ideas for tweens and premade Easter baskets are great gift ideas that they can enjoy throughout the year and get some enjoyment out of. Of course, throwing a few extra pieces of their favorite candy or chocolate in there won’t hurt!

Pre-filled Easter Basket Ideas for Tweens

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Filled Easter Basket for Girls

Full of items that tween girls can use and enjoy for months to come, this Easter basket comes prefilled with beauty items, candy, and other goodies that your maturing tween girl will love.

She will love her day of pampering and the candy included in the box for a sweet treat.

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Tween Boy Gift Box

If your tween boy is too cool for cute little Easter bunnies and all things pastel, go with a neutral boys’ gift box full of favorite tween toys, from gaming gifts to small sweet treats.

A good substitute for a traditional Easter basket while still making them feel included in the Easter fun and gifting tradition.

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Queen of Crafts Easter Basket

The perfect pamper box for your discerning tween girl, filled with spa goodies and a nifty toilteries bag by SweetMarbella.

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DIY Easter Gift Baskets for Tweens

If you’d rather put together a few Easter and spring-themed ideas of your own and create your own fun non-candy Easter basket ideas to please your tween, these are the best gifts to include:

Fun Easter Egg Fillers

A fun and exciting Easter egg filler suitable to your pre-teen. Instead of finding a little chocolate or toy, a special treat or reward awaits inside each egg (or will they get a chore instead?)

These can be great for either tween Easter baskets or hiding in a tween scavenger hunt.

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Mood Change Eggs

A fun and novelty change from chocolate Easter eggs your tween is bound to love. These color-change eggs are a great idea to brighten up their Easter.

They can change to 5 different colors based on the heat in your child’s hands. Wonderfully gift box presented too by Mommysmuddleddeddesigns, these are the ideal tween Easter gift for growing kids looking to change things up.

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Cozy Cute Bunny Slippers

What could be cuter in your tween girl’s Easter basket than these fluffy bunny slippers? Practical too! A gorgeous Easter-themed gift they can keep using year-round.

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Big Easter Activity Book

Is your tween a puzzle fan? Packed full of coloring pages, mazes, sudoku, and challenging puzzles, this is a greater non-sugar Easter basket filler for older kids up for the mental challenge.

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Bunny Booty Cotton Candy

There’s something special in that bunny’s rabbit hole! It’s a sweet stockpile of fluffy, blue cotton candy! If you’re looking for fun ideas, this makes a great candy gift for children of all ages!

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Would You Rather for Kids Easter Edition

Jokes are fun no matter what age you are and if you have a jokester tween in the family, this Would You Rather book will make a great gift.

The jokes and questions are Easter-themed, making it the perfect addition to their Easter basket.

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Easter Mazes Book

Perfect for your older tweens and tweens, this challenging maze book would make the ideal non-candy Easter basket idea for a tween whose into puzzles. Over 150 entertaining puzzles with three different levels of challenge!

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Easter Eggs Toy Dinosaur Cars

Suitable for your younger kids and new tween boys who still love their plastic knick-knacks. These Easter eggs are pre-filled with pullback car dinosaur eggs you can hide around the yard or in their Easter basket for a surprise your kids will love!

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Pastel Nail Polish

A cute and colorful idea for tweens, these nail polishes in festive pastel colors for Spring make great Easter basket fillers for tween girls, ideal for matching their Easter outfits.

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Flower Pendant Necklace

Available with various colored stones, we love the spring vibes from this cute piece of girls’ jewelry. Your maturing tween girl will love getting this flower-shaped pendant necklace in her Easter gift basket, or they’re perfectly sized to slip in as an Easter egg filler too.

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Easter Bath Bombs

These cute little bunny-shaped bath bombs can be the perfect addition to a tween girl’s Easter basket.

Beautifully colored and scented, they make a wonderful sweet festive treat without the dental bills!

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LEGO Easter Bunny

Little LEGO fans will absolutely love creating this miniature LEGO Easter bunny. The perfect Easter basket gift for a creative tween. You could also try the more complex Creator 3 in 1 kit if they need more of a building challenge.

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Easter Bunny Wind Chime Kit

If your tween thinks they’re getting too old for basic egg decorating at Easter, then it’s time to introduce them to some more intricate crafts like string art.

This Easter craft kit is aimed at slightly older kids and includes all the materials they need to make cute bunny -themed wind chimes.

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Easter Facial Mask

These cute little spring-themed facial masks make the perfect Easter basket filler for a tween girl. Cute and practical, you get 9 in a set of face masks to gift together or individually to fill a basket for your tween.

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Easter Bunny T-shirt

A trendy shirt your tween can wear even after Easter; this cute bunny shirt will be a fun addition to a tween girls’ Easter basket this year.

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Easter Tattoos

An easy and inexpensive Easter basket stuffer, this packet of 100 temporary tattoos can even glow in the dark, perfect for either tween boys or girls.

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Peeps Lip Balms

Peeps are a staple at Easter, but if you want to stay away from the sweets or your tween doesn’t like Peep candy, slide this lip gloss set into their Easter baskets for extra tasty fun.

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Easter Fidgets

Soft and squishy fun, these fidget Easter eggs could be just the fun Easter gifts for your tween instead of filling them with chocolate.

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Easter Basket Stuffers

If you’ve got lots of DIY Easter baskets to fill for all your family and friends, then it’s best to bulk-buy a pack of fun toys and basket stuffers.

Fidgets are all the rage with tweens just now, so these Easter-themed sensory toys are sure to go down a treat.

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Easter Galaxy Slime Eggs

They really will think of anything these days! Perhaps a little more pleasant than cleaning up rotten eggs, these Easter eggs are completely filled with slime, eww!

Your typical tween will no doubt love these textural toys filled with stretchy metallic slimes as an Easter basket gift.

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Bunny Bracelets Cute Rabbit Charm Bracelets

A great gift for your tween girl who still enjoys embracing her cute and pretty side, these simple and sweet stainless steel Easter charm bracelets comes with engraved pendant and charms.

Coming in a beautiful pink organza drawstring pouch, they’re stainless, handmade and expandable. A great non-chocolate Easter gift for girls.

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Silly Putty Egg Filler

A great choice if you’ve got lots of eggs to fill, these value 24 pack of Silly Putty is bound to be a winner with your tweens – they make a great fidget toy to keep your tweens occupied through Easter brunch!

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Easter Sugar Scrub

A cute and colorful change from your usual Easter basket filler, these natural body scrubs come in lavender, lemon, and cherry almond and several appealing pastel colors perfect for a tween girl Easter gift – by Sassygirlboutique

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Some Bunny Loves You Easter Candle

An adorable Easter gift idea for your tween girl, this vegan-friendly soy candle by Etsy seller CreationShedShop comes in a variety of scents to suit your tween’s tastes.

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Easter Basket Mad Libs

Mad Lib fans will love this fun Easter edition of their favorite word game. Ideal for your tween age group, there are 21 fill-in-the-blank sheets to complete for an eggsellent non-candy Easter treat.

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Easter Bunny Money

If the inspiration simply isn’t coming, or you’re afraid of picking the wrong sort of gift for a choosy tween, you really can’t go wrong with Bunny Money from CozyCabinRI!

A cute and creative way of gifting your tween a little bit of cash or gift cards to choose their own Easter gift – or add it to their savings!

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Easter Treasure Hunt For Older Kids

When simple Easter egg hunts have become far too easy, you need some more creative and thought-provoking treasure hunt clues to lead your tween to their Easter basket surprise.

This wonderful printable kit from Etsy seller RiverbridgeDesigns is a great way to take the hard work out of planning a fun Treasure Hunt, ideal for big kids

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Easter Coupon

Need a tween Easter gift idea in a hurry? Try these cool printable gift coupons from the BloggingGiftShop on Etsy.

The great thing is you can download and print straight away, no waiting for things to arrive in the mail. This is the perfect little added extra for a tween Easter basket to gift to your heart’s desire – and budget in a fun way!

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Easter Gift Card

All out of other ideas for Easter? Adding an Amazon gift card to your tween’s Easter gift basket will allow them to spend the money you’d otherwise gift them on something they really want.

Look out for special Easter-themed gift vouchers!

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More Easter Ideas for Tweens

Don’t forget to head over to our Easter craft ideas for tweens, and we also have a great guide here to all the fun activities to keep your older kids involved in the Easter fun, even if they think they’re too cool for egg hunts!

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But what happens when your children get a little older?

There is no denying that as your children get older, they outgrow some of those magical holiday moments. When we are kids we enjoy the magic, but there is no better feeling than being the one who brings the magic to life, is there?

So how can you keep that sparkle going when you have a tween who is likely to want to grow up beyond their years?

It is possible to celebrate and make Easter fun for everyone, even once you reach the pre-teen years. Here we’re going to share with you several different ways this can still be a joyous holiday with tweens in the house, even if they’re not sure there’ll be an Easter bunny this year.

Fun Easter Activities for Tweens

Easter was likely a time when the Easter bunny would hide eggs for your children to find or some form of variation of it as we all have our own interpretations and traditions. So as your little ones become tweens and teens, here are some of the Easter activities for tweens that you can all enjoy together that will keep the magic going.

Easter egg hunts with a difference

First of all, let’s focus on one of the main events. Easter egg hunt for tweens are so much fun, but you might want to think about these a little differently now your children are getting older. So here are a few alternative ideas.

Solve the clue Easter egg hunt

Usually, you might just hide the eggs and let the kids go looking for them, but this time make it a little harder. With each egg leave a clue as to where they will find the next one. You can make it just inside or a combination of inside and out. Think about the different clues you could write. If you need some help you will find plenty of riddles and easter egg hunt clues for tweens online. This is a fun Easter scavenger hunt for tweens.

Glow-in-the-dark nighttime Easter Egg hunt

Instead of hosting the Easter Egg hunt during the day or in the morning, why not save it as a nighttime activity instead? You could find glow-in-the-dark plastic eggs or even add a bit of glow-in-the-dark paint to different eggs so that they can be seen. You could look at adding Easter egg hun riddles for tweens or just hide them and let the children find them.

The timed Easter Egg hunt

Why not make the Easter egg hunt competitive? You could do a timed Easter egg hunt and the person who finds the most eggs win. Or leave clues and a trail and time your children to see how long it takes them to complete it.

Prize every time Easter Egg hunt

Lastly, you might want to think about adding prizes to plastic eggs this time. It doesn’t need to be expensive gifts, but perhaps your tween collects sports cards or little collectibles that are found in blind bags. You can buy a few of them and add them to plastic eggs.

Easter Family Games

Another thing you might want to think about is family games. Many families come together at Easter and anything competitive will always get your tween interested. Here are some ideas to help you get started.

Easter Egg Charades

Charades is always a fun game, so why not get a bulk load of plastic eggs and fill them with charades. Then split the family into teams and then play the game as normal, but instead, you will pick an easter egg from the basket each time. You could try and make them easter or spring themed.

Easter Egg taboo

Another fun game that can be played throughout an Easter gathering is the Easter Egg taboo. Each person will have a basket filled with a set amount of eggs. Then as a group, you need to decide what the taboo is.

For example, it might be standing and saying the word Easter at the same time. It could be anything. Then when anyone spots that person doing that taboo they take an egg from the basket. The person with the most eggs at the end wins.

Easter Egg Toss

A simple game that can get very competitive is Easter egg toss. Grab a basket and some hard-boiled eggs that have been painted or even mini eggs in foil. Then take turns throwing the egg into the basket. You could have specific colors for different players and the person who does it the most times wins.

Easter Egg Bowls

This is a great one that involves a bit of crafting first. Have hard-boiled eggs that you can paint. Paint a couple of eggs in different colors. Then paint one white egg. First of all, toss the white egg, and then take it in turns with your nominated colored eggs to throw your eggs to try and get as close to the white egg as possible. The person closest at the end of the round wins.

Capture the Egg

Finally, this is a great game for older kids.

• Get four eggs in red and four eggs in blue.
• Split your group into two teams.
• Hide the eggs in the garden and then send your team on their way to find their colored eggs.
• The aim is to have all four eggs in your basket at the end, however, the other team will try and stop you!
• You can also steal eggs from the basket and re-hide them.
• The team that has all of their eggs in the basket at the same time wins!

Easter crafts

You might like the idea of crafts and often we think that tween’s are not interested but they still like to be creative. So here are a few Easter crafts ideas that will interest even the most unwilling tween.

Painting eggs

Get yourself some hard boiled eggs and let them cool, then get the paints out and decorate them. This can be extremely therapeutic.

Dyeing eggs

You can also tye dye hard boiled eggs by placing them in different bowls of food coloring that has been combined with water.

Decorate the house for Easter

Decorating your home for Easter can be a lot of fun. Your tween could take the lead with this. They could create an Easter reef, an Easter tree and have fun making decorations with their younger siblings.

Baking

Even older children love a chance to get in the kitchen. So why not bake some easter cookies and decorate them? You could also make an Easter cake.

You can find all our tween Easter craft ideas over here.

Easter gift ideas for Tweens

Many like to give gifts at Easter, and so you might be wondering what gift ideas for tweens there is that is appropriate to Easter. You can still do very suimialr things to what you have already done in previous years. So if you are looking for Easter gifts for tweens here are a few suggestions however I have a whole post on gift ideas here.

Chocolate

Chocolate eggs and chocolate bunnies are still a great thing to enjoy at this time of the year. You can find some great Easter eggs in the store that are a little more grown-up that they might appreciate.

Easter baskets

Some parents like to do Easter baskets and you could still do this for your tween, with a few more grown up themes. You could look at adding a few of the things they may be collecting, blind bags, or even extra chocolate and goodies when looking to make an easter basket for older kids.

A tween girl might like a few self-care bits like face masks or soap bombs, for example. Or how about some Easter and spring themed jewelry?

You can find all our tween easter basket ideas over here.

Vouchers

Sometimes you can’t go wrong with an iTunes or Amazon voucher. These options can be the perfect Easter gifts for older kids.

Keeping it fun for younger siblings

It can be hard when you have an older child to keep the same level of magic alive for their younger siblings, especially if they are not showing much interest. However, a great tip is to get your older siblings involved in creating the magic instead.

I mentioned earlier that this has got to be one of the best feelings for a parent, so why not let your tween in on the action to keep the magic alive for younger ones? I bet they know all the good hiding spots in the garden!

You want to keep the balance just right, so having fun games the whole family will enjoy but still keeping some of the traditional things going will help you to strike that balance and keep everyone happy.

We hope this has given you plenty of Easter ideas for keeping your pre-teens involved in the fun and excitement of Easter.

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