How to Plan an Easter Egg Hunt Party for Your Kids

Your kids and their friends will have a great time hunting for eggs and playing silly Easter games.

Things You'll Need

• Easter Greeting Cards
• Easter Decorations
• Crayons
• Easter Baskets
• Easter Candies
• Chocolate Easter Eggs
• Cookies
• Colored Ink Pens
• Easter Basket Stuffers
• chocolate bunnies

Instructions

1. Decorate the house and yard where you're holding the party with lots of pastel-colored helium balloons, streamers, and paper cutouts of eggs, rabbits, and carrots.

2. Fill several dozen multicolored plastic eggs with candy, small toys, and money (think quarters and fifty-cent pieces). Write "Congratulations" on a bright sheet of paper; fold it up and put it in one of the eggs.

3. Hide all the eggs. Make some easier to find for the little kids, and some much more difficult for the older children.

4. Set up a table inside with colored - but blank - paper bags, colored markers and stickers. When the children arrive, have them decorate and personalize a bag for the Easter egg hunt. The hunt begins after everyone has decorated his or her bag.

5. When all the eggs are found, ask who found the special egg with "Congratulations" in it. Award the recipient a prize like a huge chocolate egg or bunny.

6. Encourage the children to take part in an egg toss and egg relay race. (See the Related eHows for game instructions.)

7. Serve refreshments after the egg toss. Good choices are pink fizzy punch, sandwiches with the crusts cut off, decorated Easter cookies and baby carrots.

Tips & Warnings

• If there is a significantly wide range of ages among the children attending, try color-coding the eggs. Announce that all the yellow and green eggs are for children 8 and under, and all the pink and blue eggs are for children over 8. Make the pink and blue eggs harder to find.

• To ensure fairness, you can also tell the children to keep hunting for eggs until they have found a certain amount. Nothing can ruin a party faster than a crying child who only found two eggs when his brother found sixteen.

• Pair up older children (who may be too "cool" or too old to hunt) with toddlers to help them hunt for eggs.

• If there are going to be really young children hunting for eggs, make sure you don't put any toys or candy in the eggs that they could accidentally choke on, and be sure that the eggs are too big to fit in their mouths.