DIY Easter Egg Filler Ideas - Non-Candy Egg Fillers
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Easter is a joyful season of renewal, and one of the most beloved traditions is decorating and filling Easter eggs. While store-bought treats are always an option, homemade non-candy fillers can make your Easter celebration even more special. If you're looking for 20 creative and stunning DIY Easter egg filler ideas, look no further! From easy felt crafts to stuffed animals, I've rounded up some of the best non-candy Easter egg filler ideas around to help make your festivities extra fun.
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My kids love Easter egg hunts (they cannot wait to start), and I love setting them up and watching them find the eggs. As I prefer that they don't end up with sugar overload, I looked for felt craft makes and other non-candy fillers that could enter into the plastic Easter eggs and would be lovely for my own kids to have. My kids are six, eight, and ten years old and would enjoy many of the ideas from the list. Younger kids will also enjoy these Easter egg filler ideas. They are great starting from age three or four when kids can look for Easter eggs independently.
What Size Easter Eggs Should You Use?
You can find 3 different sizes of plastic Easter eggs for your Easter scavenger hunt. You may want to purchase a mix of sizes to add some variety and excitement. A good tip I read is to assign each kid a color of plastic egg for the hunt so that they get their age and potentially gender-appropriate gifts. On top of that, they won’t fight who got more and who got less. I used this tip at last year's neighborhood egg hunt, which proved a great idea.
These are the plastic eggs to consider:
Small Easter eggs - 2 3/8 inches
Medium Easter eggs - 3.5 inches
Jumbo Easter eggs - these eggs are 6-inch tall jumbo eggs. These will give you the option to hide quite an item :) I like to have one of these giant eggs for my kids.
The great thing about these plastic eggs is that they are reusable. So you can keep them for the next year's Easter hunt. Simply gather the eggs once your kids have opened them and collected all the surprises.
What to Hide in Easter Eggs - Non-candy DIY Easter Egg Fillers
Here are 20 genius non-candy Easter egg stuffers that aren’t candy and fit inside plastic Easter eggs! I found these little handmade crafts, perfect to put in Easter eggs, that are going to be fun to make and have. Some are for complete felt crafting beginners, and some require some embroidery skills. Have a look at the list and choose your favorites!
DIY Finger Puppets as Non-candy Egg Stuffers
Finger puppets are my favorite fillers for Easter eggs for little kids. Kids love using them to create their own stories and act out different scenes. This is a compilation of Spring and Easter finger puppet designs that I discovered while looking for a festive craft to sew for Easter, including several free patterns you can access!
Easter Bunny Finger Puppets with Free Pattern
Follow the step-by-step instructions to make these Easter bunny finger puppets. Visit Freebies for more Fun Cloth Crafts finger puppets with free pattern.
Image: Floral Blossom, ETSY
Floral Blossom shares this spring pattern for five garden friends. These puppets are stitched entirely by hand, using the whip stitch or blanket stitch.
Image: Precious Patterns, ETSY
Precious Patterns shares these cute 10 flower finger puppets pattern. If you want a variety of this pattern, the flowers will be lovely on hair clips.
Image: Purl Soho
Purl Soho shares these adorable bunny finger puppets with free pattern. The instructions are very detailed and shouldn’t be a problem for a beginner.
Easy Hair Clips Egg Fillers
Hair clips are girly Easter egg fillers. If you have some girls participating in the Easter egg hunt they might love some new hair accessories.
Image: The Yellow Birdhouse
The Yellow Birdhouse shares cute felt flower hair clip with free pattern. It's going to be so lovely in girl's hair. I want to make one for my daughter.
Image: The Craft Train
Make more felt flower hair clips with this easy pattern from The Craft Train.
Egg Filler Ideas: Pencil Toppers
Pencil toppers are a great way to add fun and personality to your pencils. They are surprisingly quick and easy to make, making them the perfect gift for Easter egg fillers.
Image: Sustain My Craft Habit, ETSY
Sustain My Craft Habit shares an easy pattern to make pencil toppers. The pattern shows you how to make three adorable felt animal pencil toppers: an owl, a frog, and a penguin.
Image: Dear Creatives
Dear Creatives, shares a tutorial to these colorful pencil toppers. Grab the free printable butterfly template, and make the butterfly craft for a pencil topper.
Plastic Easter Egg Crafts: Keychains
A felt keychain is an incredibly practical item that can be used by anyone. It's small, lightweight, and easy to attach to your keys or bag. All these attributes make it a perfect filler for eggs.
Image: Repeat Crafter Me
Repeat Crafter Me shares a free felt pattern for adorable little forest friends. These keychains are easy to make, even for a complete beginner felt crafter, and great as Easter egg toy fillers. They are sewn using running stitch, the basic embroidery stitch.
Image: Wild Olive
How cute is this peach keychain! Wild Olive shares free pattern for the fun to make a little felt peach with a kawaii face.
Tiny Felt Animals Cute Non-Candy Items
Tiny felt animals are a wonderful addition to any toy collection and make delightful Easter egg fillers for toddlers. They can also be held in hand, making them easy to take around and play with. Their small size also means they can be held in hand and fit easily into a pocket, so you can take them with you wherever you go. These tiny felt animals will surely bring smiles and laughter to children of all ages.
Image: Little Softie Shoppe, ETSY
Little Softie Shoppe shares a pattern for four tiny domestic animals that can fit in the palm of your hand: a cat, dog, bunny, and mouse. She shares patterns with other cute tiny animals. Just check them out!
Image: Woodson Says, ETSY
Swoodson Says offers a pattern for these tiny animal critters. A lamb, chick, cat, bunny, and bear all play nicely together and fit in most standard Easter Eggs.
Image: Little Dear, ETSY
A cute softie pattern from Little Dear: a felt animal plush pattern for nine dinosaurs that you can sew on your own. The dinosaur is each around 2-3 inches high, just a perfect fit for an Easter egg toy filler. Take a look at other cute animal plushies patterns from Little Dear, they are so adorable.
Image: Baby Felt Great, ETSY
The garden party pattern from Baby Felt Great includes 11 beautiful ornaments from felt. It’s another great pick as the filler for Easter eggs.
Image: Molly and Mama, ETSY
Perfect for Easter as a chocolate-free gift, the Bitty Bunnies from Molly and Mama are the excellent palm-sized pocket friend to include in Easter garden egg-hunt.
Cute Felt Dolls Egg Stuffers
Felt dolls have been around for generations, providing children with a creative outlet for their imagination. These charming little dolls are often created in the likeness of a princess and provide endless hours of fun and imaginative play.
Image: Blueberry Patterns, ETSY
This PDF pattern from Blueberry Patterns let’s you create really simple 11 felt princess dolls. It’s going to be a fast felt project.
Image: Delilah Iris, ETSY
Mini felt doll pattern from Delilah Iris Designs. What is special about this tiny felt doll? This doll is pose-able as it has a wire sewn in. These dolls are so fun to make, and even more fun to play with!
Image: Miss Felt Designs
Find a free baby boy doll pattern from Miss Felt Designs. The blog post includes a video on how to do this doll.
Image: Red Ted Art
Follow the doll tutorial and sew an adorable Little Felt Mermaid. You can also learn a lot about felt doll sewing from this free pattern, such as how to sew doll eyes and hair sewing, fill the doll, and embroider on felt.
Fun Easter Egg Fillers: Tiny Felt Food
Tiny felt food is a wonderful way to encourage pretend play in children. Many felt food pieces are designed to look like real-life snacks, desserts, and meals. This gives children a chance to roleplay as chefs or restaurant owners. For those with a sweet tooth, there are plenty of tiny felt sweets such as cake slices, donuts, and cupcakes.
Image: July Hobby, ETSY
For a sweet tooth, there is a set of 8 Chocolates and a heart box from July Hobby. These adorable little chocolates will be so much fun to play with.
Image: Delilah Iris
Delilah Iris presents a printable sewing pattern to make these adorable felt fruit brooches – watermelon, pineapple, strawberry, and an orange slice! Although they are meant for brooches, they can be also lovely as stuffies.
Felt Brooch Egg Hunt Filler
These cute bunny brooches can be a great addition to any awesome easter egg for a festive surprise. Little ones and older children alike will love finding these non candy easter egg fillers inside the egg. They're great easter toy fillers for kids of all ages.
Image: Red Ted Art
Other Non-Candy Easter Egg Hunt Filler Ideas
If you are looking for alternatives to fill your Easter eggs to accompany your felt makes, there are plenty of non-candy Easter egg fillers. Small toys, such as figurines or wind-up animals, can bring a smile to any child's face when they open their egg. You could also fill your eggs with stickers and small art supplies like crayons or colored pencils; these are great for creative minds and encourage children to explore their artistic side. Alternately, you can always go with the classic Easter egg filler – tiny toys that can be used in a game of hide and seek!
Here are a few other non-candy options:
Lego Minifigures, ideal easter egg fillers for toddlers and older kids.
Little Plastic Animals
Little Toys (for example, cars)
Stickers
Temporary Tattoos
Bracelets, Beads
Lip balm
Bouncy Balls, an exciting filler idea to put in Easter eggs for toddlers.
Keychains
Puzzles (a few puzzle pieces in each Easter egg, collect them all and have the full puzzle)
Tokens Printable Easter Egg Coupons for Kids
Crayons
Erasers
Easter Stamps
Bath Bombs
Small Craft Supplies
The Best Felt Craft DIY Easter Egg Fillers
Now you have some great felt craft ideas that fit into Easter eggs. With this inspiration, you should have some perfect non-candy DIY Easter egg fillers to give your children this Easter. Remember to take an Easter basket for the scavenger hunt. Once the plastic eggs are opened, collect them and store them for the following year's Easter.
Have a good Easter egg hunt!
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XO, Anna
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