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Pinata
(Break the egg!)
Easter Egg
Easter
Basket
Rainbow
Invitations
(Do the bunny hop)
Use a cut-out of an Easter egg and say: The Easter Bunny is
hopping by with a big surprise. Please come to our Easter Party. Or
fold the
invitation up and place inside a plastic egg.
Or
use these printable Easter invitations.
Decorations
(A springtime dream)
Use pastel colors and all your Easter decorations.
Centerpiece
can be a basket filled with grass and eggs. You
can even grow real grass in the basket if you plan a couple weeks
ahead. Print this Easter banner for your party.
Cakes
(Egghead Easter Party fun)
Use a bundt pan to bake the cake and decorate it like an
Easter basket. Frost, then fill the center with green colored coconut
and candy
eggs or jelly beans. Add some twisted raffia for a handle for the
basket with a
ribbon bow on the top.
Costumes/Dress
up (Spring into a costume)
Bunny
Headbands
Measure your child's head, and cut a piece of construction paper long
enough to
create a headband. Glue the paper together so the headband fits snugly
on your
child's head but is loose enough to take off easily. Cut from white or
gray
paper two
ears, and then pink paper for the "inner" ear. Then, either staple or
glue the ears to the back of the headband.
Games
and Activities (Hop, skip and jump for fun at the Easter
Party)
Decorate
the
Egg (ages 3-8)
This is a Pin the Tail
on the Donkey style game. Draw a large egg on white
posterboard. Then cut
circles, and straight and zig zag stripes from colored paper for
decorating the
egg. Blindfold the guests, one at a time, spin them and hand them a
decoration
with tape on it for them to put on the egg. No one loses because
there’s no way
to do this wrong.
Easter Memory Game
(ages 3-12)
Lay out, face down, egg shaped cards with pictures or words
relating to Easter on them. Have each guest take turns turning over two
cards
at a time to see if they match. If they match the guest gets to keep
their
match. Winner is the one with the most cards at the end. You may
provide each
guest with their own set of cards as a take home gift if you
want.
Egg and Spoon Race
(ages 3-12)
If you can get the eggs and spoons to race at your Easter party, take
pictures. Most of us have to race while holding eggs on a spoon. Use
colored, hard boiled eggs or plastic eggs. Give each
guest an egg and a spoon—a tablespoon, a wooden spoon or a serving
spoon. Then,
have the guests race by holding their egg and spoon in front of them,
but not
touching the egg with their hands. If the egg falls off the spoon, go
back to start
and
begin again.
Hopping Contest
(ages 3-12)
Have a hopping contest to from one point to another in the
yard. Stretch out some crepe paper for the finish line. This may be
repeated
several times for hopping with both feet or on just the left foot or
just the
right foot.
Confetti Eggs (ages
3-16)
These are an absolute must at our Easter party each year. For several
weeks before
the party save your egg shells. Gently crack the tops of the eggs with
a spoon
so ½-¾ of the egg remains intact. Rinse out the egg shell and dry.
Decorate the
egg
shells by turning them upside down and then apply spray paint. Fill
each clean
and dry egg shell with about 1 Tblsp. confetti and glue a piece of
tissue paper
across the top of the egg. Give each guest a couple of confetti eggs.
(You can
make your own confetti by putting squares of tissue paper in a bowl and
using
scissors to cut, cut, cut them into smaller pieces.) The tradition is a
wish
for good luck when an egg is smashed on someone’s head. Let the guests
smash
the eggs
on each other’s heads. If your guests have never done this before you
may need
to provide a demonstration by having an egg smashed on the head of the
hostess.
They’ll run and chase. If you’re concerned some of the guests might get
too
rough, have them smash the eggs in their hands above the other’s
persons head.
Steal the
Bunny’s Tail
(ages 3-16)
Split the guests into two teams. Give each team 4 bunny
tails (pieces of batting, colored blue for one team and colored yellow
for the
other team). The teams lay out their bunny tails and have to try to
steal the
other team’s tails without getting tagged by someone on the
other
team. If a guest gets tagged he or she has to stand in a designated
spot until someone on
their
team tags them back in the game.
Duck
Race (ages 4-16)
On your
mark the children bend over
and grasp their ankles. The first one to waddle to the finish line
without
letting go of their ankles, wins.
Easter Pictionary
(ages 7-16)
Split the guests into two teams. Have a bowl filled with
Easter or spring related words printed on strips of paper. Let the
person
drawing for a team select a paper and then draw the item, without using
any
words, while his team tries to guess the word before time is up. Adjust
the
time allowed for the age of the guests. Each team takes turns drawing
pictures.
The
winner is the team who guessed the most correctly. Click
for this PDF file here.
Egg Throw (ages
7-16)
Make several egg shaped targets on
poster board and hang them up someplace that can get very messy. Give
each
guest a dozen eggs (not hard boiled) and let them throw them at the
targets. I know of a few children (and their dads) who enjoy having
permission to do this at an Easter party.
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