23 DIY Easter card ideas to make this spring!
Are you looking to make Easter a little easier this year? Sometimes it's better to just download and print your cards – and there's nothing wrong with that!
There are some beautiful printable Easter card designs out there, all designed by talented digital and traditional artists, and we love to share their artwork – especially when they're generous enough to offer their Easter cards for free.
We have collated some of the best printable DIY Easter cards and homemade Easter card ideas in one place, all free to download today!
Read on to explore all our DIY Easter card ideas, or click the button below if you're just here for the free Easter colouring pages!
23 DIY Easter card ideas
If you're feeling creative, take a look at our selection of homemade Easter card ideas – they all have free step-by-step tutorials or printables that you can save in your stash for later.
1. DIY Easter cards: Peter Rabbit
Bring a touch of nostalgia to your Easter preparations this year with these beautiful Peter Rabbit printable Easter cards over at Ideas for the Home by Kenarry.
Featuring vintage Beatrix Potter illustrations, they are free for subscribers to download.
2. Free Easter card idea: Watercolour card
Keep it simple with this free DIY Easter card – simply print out onto a sheet of A4, cut out and fold in half. We love this design.
Fancy learning how to use watercolour? Check out our handy guide to watercolour painting for beginners.
3. DIY Easter card idea: Brush pen lettering
This printable Easter chick card over at Homemade Gifts Made Easy features a serene spring palette of pastel shades – we love how peaceful all the Easter chicks look!
4. Free Easter card idea: Botanical
How about these beautiful free DIY Easter cards at Botanical paperworks?
They suggest printing this design on seed paper, which is eco-friendly plantable paper, so instead of tossing your cards – plant them! We think this is a brilliant idea.
5. Over 100+ DIY Easter card ideas!
The folks over at CANVA have a huge selection of free Easter cards that you can customise, or you can even design your own template.
This is a really useful resource if you are short on time and just want a quick free card to print out.
6. Four DIY Easter card ideas
You get a choice of four beautiful printable Easter cards over at The Housewife Modern.
The bright colours and sweet characters will make any recipient smile – we love them!
7. Vintage Easter card ideas
Mint Printables have a lovely selection of vintage style printable Easter cards – no crafting required! Just choose the card, print, fold and post.
8. DIY Easter colouring cards
Get the little ones involved in your Easter card giving this year, with these DIY Easter cards to colour by Louise over at Messy Little Monster.
9. DIY Easter card idea: Funky chicken
If you're looking for something bright and bold, check out this funky chicken card from Got Free Cards.
You can choose to print at A5 (print on A4 then fold in half) or you can print at A6 (print on A4 then fold in quarters) – handy!
10. Free Easter photo card template
This is a nice free printable Easter card idea – simply print out a favourite photograph and mount it onto this free Easter photo card template at LivingLocurto.
Add some crafty fun to your dining table with our free printable Easter place cards, treat boxes and party hats!
11. DIY Hoppy Easter card
There's a lot to choose from with these free Hoppy Easter cards!
Designed by Naomi Hocking, this free digi-download paper collection features Easter egg baskets, Easter bunnies, beautiful sentiments, dainty florals and coordinating patterned paper. All you need to create your own DIY Easter cards!
These free Easter printables are ideal for card making, but could also be used in other paper crafts and Easter decorations.
12. DIY daffodil Easter cards
All things are bright and beautiful with these free daffodil Easter cards!
Create your own 3D daffodils and sweet blue-tits with this exclusive free collection of patterned paper.
13. Easter cards to make: Easter egg cards
Learn how to make the most of matting and layering with this DIY Easter card tutorial. There are six easy Easter cards to make using the free Easter egg printables!
14. Easter cards to make: Cheerful Easter cards
Learn how to make these delightful homemade Easter cards (and four other designs!) using our free cheerful Easter printables.
15. Easter cards to make: Easter chick card
How about this for a homemade Easter card idea?
Print out our free Easter chick printables and cut an aperture in the front to create this adorable Easter chick card.
Find the full Easter chick step-by-step tutorial, plus inspiration for two other Easter cards to make here.
16. DIY Easter cards for spring: Easter bunny card
Learn how to make this adorable Easter bunny card in our easy 7-step Easter card tutorial with pictures.
17. DIY Easter cards: Garden birds
These free garden bird printables are ideal if you are looking for homemade Easter card ideas for any nature lovers in your circle.
Keep card designs neutral by pairing these free garden bird printables with shades of cream and brown.
18. Sheep and chicken Easter card ideas
Featuring hens and colourful Easter eggs, these free chick printables come with wood-effect patterned paper to make your own chicken coop!
If you want to get crafty with your cards, why not try some Easter cross stitch?
19. Spring bloom Easter card ideas
These free spring blooms patterned papers are just the ticket if you're looking for floral-themed Easter cards to make.
Follow the link to download your freebies, and we've also got six free step-by-step tutorials for card ideas, too.
20. Gardening-themed Easter cards
These free gardening printables have been designed by Matilda Smith and are ideal for your green-fingered friends and family.
And if you're stuck for inspiration on how to use your freebies, there are six card tutorials to follow.
21. Farmyard animal Easter cards
Delight friends and family with these free farmyard animal patterned papers.
Bright colours and cheery farmyard animals are the name of the day – we love the Just for Ewe sentiment!
22. Butterflies and blooms
This collection of free butterfly patterned paper is ideal for bright DIY Easter card ideas, or spring birthdays.
23. Easter cards to make: Bendi card
Have you ever tried making a bendi card? Learn how in this bendi card tutorial for homemade Easter cards.
Don't be put off by the "bendi" element – this clever DIY Easter card design simply slots together, so it folds flat for postage.
For more inventive seasonal papercrafts, try our DIY Easter basket tutorials.
Free Easter colouring pages
Easter colouring pages: Spring bingo!
Turn Easter colouring pages into a game with Crayola's free Spring Bingo game!
There are 10 sheets to download – each player gets a different board. One of the Easter colouring pages is cut up into squares. These squares are then jumbled into a box, and drawn one by one.
As the squares are pulled, players colour in the matching square on their board – the first person to get a line of coloured squares, wins!
Easter colouring pages: Activity Village
These Easter colouring pages from Activity Village are lots of fun – and the website also offers a lot of these designs as printable Easter colouring cards.
Activity Village offers exclusive Easter colouring pages for members, but there are also lots of freebies, including all in our picture above!
Easter colouring pages: Super Coloring
Super Coloring has an enormous range of free colouring pages. There are colouring pages for every occasion and an incredible range of different animals, themes, styles, dot-to-dots – the list is endless.
If you like choice, head over to Super Coloring for your Easter colouring pages!
Easter colouring pages: Get Coloring Pages
Get Coloring Pages have a nice selection of cute Easter colouring pages – including some Disney Frozen Easter colouring pages.
Need to keep kids entertained over the Easter holidays? Try our collection of the best Easter games for all ages.
Get creative with our DIY Easter card ideas
Whether you have lots of time to craft or are looking for a last-minute card idea, we have plenty of inspiration for you in our round-up.
As well as projects for you, we've also included colouring pages and games to keep the kids entertained over the Easter break.
Whatever you need, we hope you've found something that suits in our Easter card idea round-up.
Have more Easter fun with Gathered
Get ready for the Easter bunny's visit by making a DIY Easter basket with our papercraft tutorial.
