Cardstock Easter Eggs (with Free Printable!)


Published: April 2, 2020 · Updated: December 21, 2023 by Sacha

This super simple Easter craft looks gorgeous and provides a great opportunity for older kids to practice their scissor and precision skills! The lines are so clean that you can barely tell that they’re cut and glued, and the included Easter egg template makes this project extremely easy to set up!

Colourful cardstock Easter eggs made using printable template.

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Younger kids won’t be able to complete this project using training scissors, but it’s a great way for older kids to practice their scissor and precision skills! It has increasing levels of difficulty depending on the number of circles in the design you choose, and you can use the finished product to make an Easter egg garland!

Looking for more fun Easter-themed project? Download my free Easter egg template below and be sure to check out the other fun projects you can make with it!

Required Materials

Here’s what you’ll need to practice scissor skills with these gorgeous cardstock Easter eggs:

Supplies needed to make cardstock Easter eggs.

How to Make Cardstock Easter Eggs (Step-by-Step)

1. Print Template

Start by choosing the Easter egg design you like best and printing it on two contrasting sheets of cardstock.

2. Cut Template

Once you’ve printed the template, start by cutting out the eggs.

Then, decide which colour will be the background and cut up the other one right along the black lines. I tried to keep the black lines in the finished product by cutting right next to them. As you can see, it made the cuts look really clean!

Printed Easter egg template being cut with scissors.

3. Glue Cutouts

Once you’re done cutting, glue the contrasting pattern onto the background. I used repositionable glue so I could easily readjust the position of the pattern if I didn’t place it exactly in the right spot, but that shouldn’t be too hard to do with regular school glue either if that’s what you have.

Pink dots being glued onto yellow cardstock Easter egg.

And that’s it! This project is so simple, but it’s a great way for older kids to practice cutting with scissors! They’ll also have to work on their precision skills when they glue the pattern onto the background.

I wanted to give you a good idea of what the finished craft could look like, so I used all the patterns included in the template. This is what my cardstock Easter eggs ended up looking like:

Colourful cardstock Easter eggs made using printable template.

For extra fun, I made sure to vary the colour combinations. I swear that’s an actual picture, not an image I created on my computer!

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