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How to Make Easter Egg Drawings for Kids

March 11, 2025

These back-and-forth Easter egg drawings are simple, fun, and interactive for kids. A favorite family art games with an Easter theme.

Updated April 2025

These Easter egg drawings are simple, fun, and interactive — perfect for kids of all ages!

This activity combines two of our favorite kids’ art games with an Easter theme. It’s a spin on back-and-forth drawings and interactive mandalas where players take turns adding details and elements to a drawing.

Each Easter egg starts as a blank canvas, but as kids add their doodles and designs, it turns into something fun and unique. Whether you’re working one-on-one with a child, in a group setting, or letting siblings create together, this activity invites connection, imagination, and fun.

Plus the end results are so pretty!

Back-and-Forth Easter Egg Drawings

MATERIALS

Paper
Oil pastels (we’ve also done this with markers, pens, pencils, and crayons)
Watercolor paint (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

Draw an Easter egg
Start by drawing a large Easter egg on a sheet of paper. We started with two so we could switch papers each turn.
Add details
Each person adds a band of decoration to the top of their Easter egg with an oil pastel.

Then switch papers, choose a different color and draw another band of decoration below the first.

Pass the drawings back, pick another color and draw the next band of decoration.
Keep going!
Continue to go back and forth between the players until the Easter eggs are completely decorated.
Add watercolors
As a final (optional) step, you can add watercolors for a lovely wax resist effect.

We love this activity because it’s a perfect example of how you can take any art activity or technique that you like and make it an Easter art activity by using Easter themes and colors.