This Easter, you don’t have to travel far for some fun Easter activities for the whole family.
Whether you’re spending time at home with the kids or having a big group of family and friends for dinner, there’s plenty of spring time fun to keep everyone occupied. Easter traditions are usually the first celebration of warmer seasons and sweet new beginnings to a great year.
Getting friends and family together for an Easter party at home is a great opportunity to play some fun games and let your creativity shine with unforgettable Easter activities.
Gather your family and friends together while you make some new family traditions you’ll look forward to every spring!
Easter Egg Hunt
An egg hunt is one of the most exciting Easter activities that families enjoy year after year. Kick your egg hunt up a notch with some fun twists to keep things innovative and unique. Take a few empty egg cartons and paint the inside of each with a different color and number the top with a black marker (Four kids means four cartons). Before the kids can start they have to pull a number that chooses the carton they have. Hide 12 eggs of each color in various areas around the yard so each kid has an equal opportunity to get the same amount of eggs. If you want to raise the stakes for your scavenger hunt, the first child to fill their egg carton wins the golden egg that contains an extra surprise.
Egg Toss
Who says your Easter fun can’t be a little messy? If you’re expecting a big group for brunch or dinner, an egg toss can be a whole lot of fun. Encourage guests to bring clothes that can get messy or encourage them to design funny shirts for their team of two! Distinguish your starting point about 3-4 feet apart, one person from each team stands on either side to start. On one side, mark up to 5 lines that go increments of a foot backward.
Dye some raw eggs with different colors and give one to each team. Using a timer, each team will have to toss the egg and catch it gently without it breaking in their hand or falling to the ground. As every minute elapses, one team member is told to move back one foot. This will make the game harder! The winners get a gift card, an Easter basket or even some cash. It’s impossible to not have fun and lots of laughs with this silly egg game.
Chicken Spoon Race
Baby chicks are one of the most identifiable symbols of spring. This spoon race is a great yard game for kids and kids at heart. Make a starting and finish line in the yard, lining the kids up across the starting line. Each kid gets a plastic spoon and an egg. The object of the game is to balance the egg on the spoon while they hold it in their mouth and cross the finish line without dropping the egg. To make this game a little funnier and more of a challenge, your game contestants need to walk and flap like a baby chicken. Play the Chicken Dance song in the background for some big laughs and even bigger photo opportunities as all your chickens scurry to the finish line.
Doughnut Munch
This activity is dessert and a game all in one. Take a fairly wide (about an inch) and colorful ribbon and for five players, string five doughnuts spaced out onto the ribbon. Stale doughnuts actually work a little better for this since they’re a little more firm. Hang your ribbon taught between two posts and have your players line up along the ribbon. The object of the game is to eat their doughnut off the ribbon first before the time is up, and without any falling to the ground. This is hilarious to watch and a delightfully sweet finale for your back yard Easter party.
Get your favorite bunnies together for some backyard activities that will quickly become awesome family traditions for your annual Easter gathering.