Easter egg hunt
This is
an old favourite and is always great fun for all ages
You will need:
Chocolate Easter Eggs
(Mini eggs are ideal)
Small baskets or bowls to
collect them in (see our Easter boxes and bags)
Your Easter Egg Hunt and take place either outside
or indoors depending on the weather.
Hide your eggs in various places around your chosen area (remember where
you've hidden the eggs or you could be finding them for days afterwards).
If you have a wide age range playing, you can set a
limit on the number of eggs each child can find. This avoids the older children finding all
the eggs.
Easter Bunny Says
This is a twist on the classic Simon Says game,
replacing “Simon Says” with “The Easter Bunny Says”.
You can choose a child or adult to be the Bunny.
The Bunny will say ' the Easter Bunny says...' and the rest of the children
will carry out the instruction - for instance when the Bunny says “The Easter
Bunny Says hop on one leg” all the players apart from the Bunny should hop on
one leg.
When the Bunny gives an instruction but doesn’t say
“the Easter Bunny says” at the beginning, then anybody who follows the
instruction is out of the game.
The winner is the last child remaining.
Easter bunny tag
This is a twist on the classic tag game but instead of running everybody hops.
One child starts as “it” and they hop around to try and tag another player by touching them and shouting “it”.
Easter egg bowling
You will need:
One large Easter egg
Small eggs for each person (can use a chocolate creme egg or each person can decorate a hard boiled egg)
How to play
Place the larger egg at one end of the room and give each child a smaller egg. Each person then takes it in turn to roll their egg from the other end of the room in just one roll. The winner is the one whose egg stops nearest to the large egg.
You will need:
Hard-boiled eggs for
everybody
A large spoon for each person
Chalk or tape to mark the
start and finish lines
Mark out a start and finish line. Give each person an egg and spoon at the
start line. When the race starts each player runs towards the finish line
trying to keep their egg on the spoon (without touching the egg). The winner is
the first person to reach the finish line with their egg on their spoon.
To make the game more fun you can put obstacles in
the way or play it as a relay race.
You could
also have the children paint their eggs prior to the race, they will love it
and it will keep them entertained while you set up the game.
Guess the number of Easter eggs
You will need:
A large clear plastic
bowl or jar
Chocolate eggs (or any
other small sweet)
Envelope
Small pieces of paper
Pens
Fill the clear jar with the chocolate or sweets
(remembering to count the number of sweets in the bowl/jar). Write down the number of sweets and seal it
in the envelope.
Give everyone a piece of paper and ask them to
write on it their name and their guess.
Everyone takes one turn at guessing how many
eggs/sweets are in the jar and the person who guesses the nearest gets to take
the jar of eggs/sweets home.
You will need
Hard-boiled eggs for
everybody
Chalk or tape to mark the
start and finish lines
Your Easter Egg Roll can take place either outside
or indoors depending on the weather. Mark out a start and a finish line. Line the children up on their hands and knees
and get them to roll the egg from start to finish using only their noses. The
winner is the one to reach the end first without touching the egg with their
hands.
You could
also have the children paint their eggs prior to the race, they will love it
and it will keep them entertained for a bit longer
Easter bunny race
You will need:
Chalk or tape to mark the
start and finish lines
All the children line up
side by side at the start line. When you
shout go they must hop the the finish line.
The winner is the child that crosses the finish line first.
Easter Party Games
