Planning an Easter Party for Kids



Posted: Sunday, April 01, 2007

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Creative Child Activity Notebook

Have an Easter party for kids to celebrate the upcoming spring holiday! Kids love parties, holidays and having lots of fun. Your Easter party can include an Easter egg hunt, party games with an Easter theme, and yummy Easter treats that kids can make themselves!

Let your children help plan and prepare for their Easter party. They can help plan what games to play and treats to make. As a fun craft project, have them make invitations to be given to their friends, family and neighbors. This is the time to decide how many children to invite.

If you are going to include an Easter egg hunt, cut your invitations into an egg shape. Let the kids decorate the front of the invitation in pretty colors like an Easter egg! Add colorful glitter with spray on glue to complete the pretty eggs. Each invitation will be unique. On the reverse side of the invitation, list the date, time, and location of your Easter party.

If you are fortunate to have mild clear weather, plan your Easter party for kids in the backyard. After a long cold winter, we are all looking forward to being outdoors! Decorate for your party with lots of pastel colored balloons. They look like very large Easter eggs! Hang all sizes of plastic Easter eggs from trees, large bushes and patio eaves. Pastel crepe paper rolls hanging in long streamers will blow with the breeze and look very festive.

Active fun games are a must for every children’s party. Kids have lots of wonderful energy and using this energy in relay and circle games ensures everyone having fun. Here are some familiar children’s games that can be adapted to include the Easter theme:

  • Three-legged Hop Race
  • Egg Toss, using a plastic egg
  • Duck, Duck, Chick Game
  • Pin the Tail on the Bunny
  • Egg Roll Relay
Don’t forget the traditional Easter Egg Hunt to be held after the other games are played. Give each child a pastel colored paper bag to collect eggs in. Use plastic eggs for your egg hunt so you can hide them earlier in the day before your party starts. There will be no worry of real eggs sitting out in the warm weather. Add special treats such as jellybeans, stickers, and small toys in the plastic eggs for a special surprise. These can be taken home as party favors.

Now it’s time for yummy Easter treats. Kids love to make their own treats to eat. Birds Nests are always easy to make and delicious to eat. Melt chocolate pieces and stir in chow mien noodles. Give each child a small mound of mixture on wax paper. Let them form a round nest shape with their hands, and place several tiny jellybeans in the nest to look like eggs. Let the candy nest cool.

Another idea is to let kids decorate their own Easter cookies. Before the party, make large egg-shaped sugar cookies. Purchase colored decorating frosting and pastel colored sprinkles. Give each child a paper plate to decorate their eggs on for easy clean up.

I hope you have lots of fun with your Easter party for kids. Don’t forget the camera to take lots of wonderful photos of this special day!
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