Easter Games and Activities for Kids

Here comes Peter Cottontail. Hopping down the bunny trail. Can your believe Easter is about to grace our presence once again? In less then a month the Easter Bunny will soon be knocking down the door and as we all wait patiently, I have some great ideas to keep those little ones entertained all month long with great games and activities for all the friends and families to join in as well.

Easter Egg Bowling

This is something I came up with a couple years ago when my son was still a toddler and throwing was not an option yet. This game combines a fun filled activity with it. First lets talk about materials and then we will get into directions of the game.

Materials needed:
10 empty water bottles (peel off any labels), one or two boxes of easter egg dye, a dozen hard boiled eggs.

Directions:
First, follow the directions on the Easter egg dye boxes. After you have your dye set up, then color your 12 easter eggs and 10 empty water bottles. Set to dry overnight. Allow your children to help you with dying the eggs and the bottles. If you are afraid of messes then make sure you cover your working area with plenty of paper towels.

The next day, or whenever you decide to play the game, set up the colorful water bottles as pins, just like bowling pins are set up. Allow each kid to have one egg, their color choosing of course, and then have them stand back about five feet from the pins. Have the children roll their eggs down to the pins to try to knock them down. Whoever knocks the most down wins. You can even go a bit further and have a prize egg for the winner. Just grab those plastic empty eggs at Wal-Mart and fill them with little candy goodies or money.

Easter Egg Hunt

No, this isn't your original Easter egg hunt, it's more like a scavenger hunt with eggs included.

Materials needed:
12 cooked eggs, at least 12 index cards, pens, prize egg (I talked about a prize egg in the previous game)

Directions:
First I would suggest coloring your cooked eggs, you don't have to, but it will be more festive since it is an Easter egg game. Next decide on where you would like to place the eggs. Follow what I would do.
1. Hand the child(ren) an index card with a clue on it :
Try to find me. I am pink. I am in a place the rhymes with my name and alot of water goes into to me.
2. The children will more then likely take a minute however after they think about it they should go to the sink and
find a pink egg.
3. On the pink egg place an index card for instructions on the next egg. The card could read:
My brother is blue, and oh so sad. He needs your help because where he is at is very dark. When you find
him hold him tight to get him warm.
4. The children should eventually figure out that the egg is in the refrigerator. When they find that egg, it should
have an index card on it with a clue leading them to the third egg, and then so on and so on.
Make sure the clues are easy for the children to understand and the eggs are in places that they can reach. Once they have found all 12 eggs, on the last egg tell them to find the prize egg. This time with no help. Just make sure if you do decide to do this game you have placed all the eggs in their hiding places first with the index cards that have the clues written out on them.

Easter Egg Shakers

As if our children don't make enough noise, I still think they will find this activity fun as much as you do when you watch them create it.

Materials needed:
Empty water bottles (make sure you have one for each child you will need one for), paint, brushes, markers, crayons, at least two to three bags of jelly beans.

Directions:
Give each kid an empty water bottle. With the paint, markers and such, allow them to decorate their bottles like they would an Easter egg. Make sure your work area is covered well with paper towels or old newspapers. Once the kids have designed they Egg bottle, allow them to dry overnight.

The next day allow the kids to fill their bottles up with jelly beans. I say only fill them about 1/3 of the way full. If you have left over jelly beans you can either add them to the bottles or just let the kids eat them.

As you lead them in song to "Here Comes Peter Cottontail" have the kids shake their Egg bottles to the beat of the song.

Easter Telescopes

Each kid loves Easter egg hunting. Lets make it even more fun this year with handmade telescopes that they can use as they hunt for them eggs. They can pretend to be avid explorers with this project.

Materials needed:
1 empty toilet paper roll (the brown cardboard roll under the toilet paper) for each child you are having to do this project, a sheet of paper per roll (make sure the paper is white and no lines, printer paper works best), markers, glitter, stickers

Directions:
First you will need to wrap each toilet paper roll with white paper. If you cut the piece of paper in half, you will be able to use one piece of paper for two rolls. Once you have cut the paper in half, use one half and place it in on the end of the paper in the middle. Place a piece of tape on the roll to secure the paper and then roll the paper on the roll all around and secure with another piece of tape. You will have some left over paper hanging over the edges of the end of the toilet paper roll. You can just simply tuck that paper into the roll. If you want to secure it, just place a tad bit of tape on it in the inside of the roll.

Pretty much now you have the telescope ready for use, however the most part is decorating and that is where the kids come in. Gather all your craft materials that you have like markers, glitter and stickers and let the kids go wild. Tell them before hand though to make sure it is Easter themed. They could color some eggs, draw bunnies on them or even just color them their favorite Spring time color.

Now they are set to search for their Easter eggs this year with their own homemade telescope.

There are so many more games and activities that you can have your kids do like pin the ears on the bunny, Easter egg relay race and more, but those ideas are pretty basic, and I am sure you all have want something different. I have given you a few of my ideas with what I use now or have used in the past, but I don't want you to feel like you have read this article and still need a little better idea. I have found this one website that I think if you can't find what you need here, then you can find it through them. Just click yourself on over to www.childfun.com and click on the link for Holidays. Once you have found yourself on the page of Easter activities you will be overwhelmed with the number amount of activities your children can do! Enjoy!