Easter Games

I have compiled a list of popular games you can play on Easter, or for an extra little family time.

v  Easter Egg Hunt – You can use real eggs or the plastic. Personally I would go with the plastic. That way if they aren’t found no big deal. You won’t have to worry about finding something rotting away later on. You could also put little treats in the eggs if you wanted to.

v  Designing Easter Baskets – Gather a bunch of different objects – both for the basket and the decorating. Like various boxes, egg cartons, old containers, use your imagination. And then gather a bunch of decorating items like glitter, glue, wiggly eyes, paper, ribbon…again use your imagination. And have everyone design an Easter basket.

v  Dying Easter Eggs – you can use the old fashioned and standard die kits, or there are all sorts of die kits out there now. Or you could even experiment with it and find new ways to color eggs.

v  Puzzles – find a cool Easter puzzle that the whole family can help put together.

v  Coloring Pages – you can find free Easter coloring pages online and print them out at home.

v  Egg Catching – Get a bunch of plastic eggs and a bucket for each person. Pick one person to throw the eggs and everyone else has to catch them, whoever catches the most wins. You could make this even harder with a smaller opening on the bucket, or use real eggs (outside of course) and see who can catch them without breaking any.

v  Decorate an Easter Egg – cut out paper eggs and get a variety of decorating items, fake flowers, colored paper, twine, ribbon, again use your imagination.

v  Egg Egg Easter Bunny -  Just like “Duck Duck Goose” but for Easter. Have the children sit around in a circle and one of them go around touching them gently saying “Egg Egg” until they decide who is going to be the “Easter Bunny”. The one chosen to be the Easter Bunny jumps up and chases them, if the Easter Bunny tags “it” they have to be “it” again but it “it” reaches the Easter Bunny’s sitting spot before they are tagged they’re safe. The Easter Bunny then becomes “it” and the game starts over gain.

v  An Easter Treasure Hunt – Find a list of objects that are related to Easter and hide them. Write a clues paper so the players know what they are looking for and a possible location to find it. ( I’m used to carry things from point A to point B, and come Easter morning the Bunny will have left treats in me!)

v  Egg Races – Have a starting point and a finish line, players stand at the starting point and hold am egg in a spoon, they have to walk to the finish line without dropping their egg and breaking it. First there wins.

v  Easter Twenty Questions – Pick someone to be it first. It has to pick something that is Easter related and then everyone else playing has to guess what it is by asking yes or no questions. First to guess what it has picked gets to be it next.

v  Easter Memory – gather pictures of Easter related objects and print them out in pairs. Cut all the pictures to be the same size and shape, and lay them all face down. Player one flips one picks two cards to flip over if they are a match they get to go again if not then it is player twos turn and so on. The player who has matched up the most wins.

v  How Many Eggs – Fill a glass jar up with candy eggs; have everyone guess how many eggs are in the jar. The person who guesses the closes wins.

v  Easter Pictionary – Make strips of paper, write Easter related objects on the pieces of paper and fold them in half. Place them in a basket. Divide people into two groups. Pick who will draw first. Have a giant paper pad, easel, chalk board or whatever to draw on that the whole group can see. One player from team one draws a piece of paper, reads it to themselves, and draw the object. His team members have to guess what the object is, before time is up. You could also have both teams drawing at once on separate easels. The first to team to guess what the object is gets a point. Whichever team has the most points wins.

v  Decorate the Easter Bunny – everyone gets a cut out of a bunny. Everyone decorates it themselves. Hang them up for decorations.

v  Baby Noises – Compile pictures of animals and put them in a basket. The children playing have to know what noise the animals make. You could make this game harder for older kids by having them know the sound and the name of the baby animal. ( A baby Sheep is a Lamb and says baa)

v  Color Egg Match – Cut eggs out of construction paper – two per color. And have the children match up the eggs.

v  Capture the Easter Eggs – Make two different colors of eggs, the same amount for each color. Team one gets color one team two gets color two. Make a straight line to divide the teams up by side.  Have the eggs placed equal distances from the mid line. Each team tries to capture the other team’s eggs. Players from the opposing side trying to capture the eggs can be frozen by the players trying to protect their eggs. The frozen players can be unfrozen if one of their teammates touches them. The first team to capture all the other teams’ eggs wins.

v  Decorating Easter Cookies – Make your favorite recipe for sugar cookies. Cut them out into Easter shapes such as eggs, bunnies, chickens, ducks, or whatever you find to be spring time and Easter oriented. Bake and decorate with whatever you want – frosting, candy, sprinkles, marshmallows. Use your imaginations.

v  Duck Race – Have a star and finish lines, players bend over and hold their ankles or squat and hold their ankles and waddle to the finish line. Whoever crosses it first wins.