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.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

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

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.

[heatherinks]

on 4/4/2009 Have your older children make a centerpiece like in How to Make an Easter Table Centerpiece for Cheap or FREE http://www.ehow.com/how_4888926_easter-table-centerpieces-cheap.html or allow the older ones to help plan the hunt.

[beezo]

on 4/19/2008 good ideas, but I just saw on ABC's new channel some safety tips from Mr. No-No. Here is what they recomended... Happy Easter

I also went to his website, very helpfull. www.mrnono.com

Easter is here and that means egg hunts.

But before you start looking for the best new hiding spots to challenge your kids, safety expert Mr. No-No has a few safety tips to keep in mind.

If your egg hunt is indoors:

• Keep hidden eggs far from electrical outlets or plugs.
• Do not hide eggs in light sockets.
• Do not hide eggs in, on, under or around glass.
• Hide eggs at or below the eye level of your children.

If the search is outside:

• Do not hide eggs in trees or holes in the ground.
• Keep eggs out of thorny plants and other foliage that may be poisonous.
• Do not hide eggs in any animal’s home, food bowl or play area.
• Do not hide eggs in grass where pesticides or poisons may have been dispersed.

No matter where you plan to put them, Mr. No-No suggests keeping track of all the eggs you hide and throwing away all eggs that are cracked or damaged.

on 4/19/2008 When children get older, instead of hunting for eggs, fill a basket with things like candy, clothes, money, jewelry or other age appropriate things. Then hide it around the house.

on 4/19/2008 If the weather is bad, my family does an indoor Easter egg hunt, using small foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. We form two teams, and each team hides their eggs in one room of the house. We then switch rooms to hunt for the eggs. Since both the eggs and the rooms are smaller, it poses the same challenge as being outside.

on 4/19/2008 When all the kids in my family got too old or "cool" to hunt for eggs, we switched, and we hid the eggs for my parents to find. It was tons of fun!