EASTER PARTY IDEAS

EASTER PARTY INVITATION IDEAS:

• Start with a folded piece of green cardstock. Mount striped green paper on the front and back of card. Tear pink cardstock into a rough rectangle and adhere to the center of card. Place a little white bunny on top of the pink cardstock. Apply acrylic letters saying “Hop on Over” at the bottom of bunny and tie a pink and white gingham bow on top. Include all the Easter Egg Hunt details inside.

EASTER PARTY DECORATIONS:

• Take a white tablecloth and spread out on your table. Apply washable pastel paints on to sponge or foam stamps (ex: little bunnies, lambs, Easter baskets) and stamp onto cloth. Place an Easter basket in the center of table filled with decorated eggs.

• Use fresh whites and pastel shades of blue, yellow, pink and green on your table settings and home accents. Spread Easter grass and decorated eggs around tables and bars.

• Create an egg tree by hanging hollow decorated eggs tied with colored ribbon to a small branch. Place the branch in a small pot and fill with colored marbles and grass.

• Place a hurricane vase in the center of your table. Turn the vase upside down on the table and have a small nest with baby eggs inside. You can place a glass plate on the top of the vase and use as a serving dish.

EASTER PARTY ACTIVITIES/GAMES:

• Easter is a glorious time to celebrate. Wake up to a sunrise breakfast, attend church service and then later, gather with family and friends for lunch.

• Hide your child’s Easter basket in a place he/she wouldn’t normally look. You can create a little bunny trail by making copies of bunny feet and taping to the floor starting from their bed and ending at their basket to make it easy. For more of a challenge, give little hints and say “you’re cold," then “you’re getting warmer” and so on.

• Fill an Easter basket with handmade cards, baked cookies, little bunnies, and simple gifts and leave the basket anonymously on a teachers’ desk or friends’ doorstep

• Video tape your younger children singing and dancing to “Little Bunny Foo Foo” and “Here comes Peter Cottontail” and send the priceless treasures to out of town friends and relatives.

• Set up a little live petting exhibit with baby bunnies, chicks, and ducklings for the children to enjoy

• Create jelly bean pots by decorating terra-cotta flower pots with acrylic paints and sanding the edges to give the pot an antique look. Fill the decorated pots with Easter grass or shredded tissue paper topped off with candy.

• Flashlight egg hunt- hand each person a flashlight and have an egg hunt in the dark. Some eggs could be decorated with glow-in-the dark paints to make them easier to find.

• Barnyard is played by placing pictures of animals (you will need two of each animal) and place them in a black top hat. Have each child draw a picture out of the hat and start making the animal sound that matches their picture. They will need to listen for their partner that is making the same animal sound as they are.

• Easter Bunny Tag- the same rules apply as regular tag, only everyone must hop. If you are found not hopping, then you are automatically “it”.

• Tell the children there is going to be a stuffed animal Easter parade so they will need to bring their favorite stuffed animal. Have a little table set up with paper, chenille sticks, feathers, pom poms, and stickers and let them make little hats for their animal. Start playing music and let the kids parade around with their stuffed animals.

• Put jokes in some of the plastic eggs so that the kids can read them out loud after the egg hunt while everyone is counting their eggs.

• Separate kids into two relay lines and have a pile of eggs at the end of each line. Each player must run to the pile of eggs, bend down and crack open the plastic egg to find and action that is to be performed all the way back to their line. Some actions to include are hop like a bunny, waddle like a duck, gallop like a pony, etc…

• Egg roll- use sidewalk chalk to create a start and stop line. Kids must get down on their hands and knees and roll a hard-boiled egg only using their noses. The first one to the finish line without touching the eggs with their hands is the winner.

• Give a nice “hard luck” prize for the person that finds the least amount of eggs

• Fill plastic eggs with fun coupons and bunny money for the kids to exchange or buy items at the bunny store. The bunny store is a little table set up with a variety of toys and treats that would not fit inside the eggs.

EASTER PARTY FAVORS:

• Tiny Easter baskets filled with candy

• Bath confetti shaped in bunnies

• Jump ropes

• Airplane flingers

• Ball and jack sets

• Bunny bank