Easter

Easter is a Christian celebration of Jesus's resurrection, held on a Sunday whose date changes each year; church calendars can give different dates. Decorated eggs, baskets and egg hunts are popular seasonal customs in many places. These pages focus on those playful motifs for coloring and family activities.

Choose a difficulty

One chick or a basket of patterned eggs

Choose a broad character first, or several repeated patterns.

A chick spreads its wings from a cracked eggshell decorated with dots, flowers and curved bands; a shell piece rests beside it.

Chick in an eggshell

The chick has large open areas above a patterned shell. Finish the chick first and save the egg decorations for later.

Chick in a Decorated Egg →
A bow tops a woven basket holding three Easter eggs with stripes, dots and zigzags.

Three eggs in a basket

Stripes, dots and zigzags divide the eggs into smaller sections. Choose it for repeating or changing colors across patterns.

Basket of Easter Eggs →

Color the chick and leave its shell for later

Print the original line drawing linked below. The numbered areas match the color key and steps; use the colored example as a starting point, then choose your own colors if you prefer.

Digital coloring example

Yellow chick with orange upper beak emerging from a white patterned eggshell; broken shell piece white.
A digital color suggestion, not a photograph of a printed result. Open the original line drawing to print and try your own colors.
  • 1. Yellow chick
  • 2. Orange beak
  • 3. White shell
  1. Color the chick’s head, tuft, body and wings yellow, keeping the eyes clear.
  2. Color only the upper beak orange; keep the open mouth as drawn.
  3. Leave the entire patterned shell and its broken piece white.

The yellow chick separates from the white shell. Its eyes and open mouth remain clear.

More selection and activity ideas

Choose a page

The three-egg basket has bold outlines and roomy patterns. For more detail, choose the greenhouse, garden egg hunts or bunny workshop, with small flowers, woven baskets and patterned eggs.

Try it together

Print an egg basket or egg-hunt scene and give each egg a different pattern of colors. Take turns finding the striped, dotted and zigzag eggs in the finished picture; the paper-egg craft scene can inspire your own paper decorations.

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