Be sure to check out our main Happy Easter tips page for even more fun ideas including perfect Easter egg hunt plan, Easter pictures shooting tips, Easter home movie making tips and more.
Remember, most games can be adapted to all ages of children with a bit of creative thinking. Also, if you choose to play a game that requires teams and you have an odd number of children, one person will need to go twice. Ask for a volunteer and if one doesn't surface you might want to leave it up to the team to choose who they think will be the fastest.
-- Easter Memory
Supplies:
• 16 Laminated cardstock Easter eggs with shapes, words, or pictures on back
• Board to hang eggs on
• Tape
How To Play: Depending on the skill level of your children put 8-16 laminated Easter eggs with shapes, words, or pictures on the back on the chalkboard. The players must remember which egg has which object on the back (similar to concentration).
-- How Many Eggs?
Supplies:
• Large glass jar filled with chocolate eggs
• Small pieces of paper
• Easter basket
• Pencil
How To Play: Have children write their name on a small piece of paper and their guess as to how many chocolate eggs are in the jar. The child who guesses the right number or comes closest takes the jar of candy home to share with their family.
-- Find the Easter Eggs
Supplies:
• 100+ Construction paper Easter eggs cut out
How To Play: Hide the eggs while the children are out of the room. Have the children find as many eggs as they can. Then have children go back to their tables or groups and count how many eggs the whole group has. Highest number of eggs collected get to make their treats first.
-- Musical Chairs
Supplies:
• Chairs with laminated Easter eggs or Bunnies taped to the seats
• Music
• Easter Egg Stomp
• Large laminated Easter eggs, taped to the floor, one for each child
• Music
How To Play: Every child begins by standing on an egg that has been taped to the floor. Start the music and have the children walk around the room. When the music stops they need to stand on an egg or they're out. Remove one egg after each musical segment.
-- Beautiful Bunny
Supplies:
• A cut out bunny for each child
• Scissors
• Markers
• Cotton balls (for tail)
How To Play: Everyone makes their own version of the Easter Bunny. Hang them up for decoration and if you wish have a Beauty Contest. Recognize the most creative, prettiest, funniest, etc.
-- Capture the Egg
Supplies:
• Four blue flags with a bunny on the front
• Four green flags with an Easter egg on the front
How To Play: Divide children into two groups. Each team has four Easter flags. Place the flags on the ground in a row. The object is to run to the other team's side and try to take three of there flags back to their own side without getting touched. If they get touched, they must stand still until one of their teammates touches them.
-- Easter Bingo
Supplies:
• Make your own egg shaped bingo cards
• Small candy, such as M&M's, for markers
• Easter basket to hold call cards
How To Play: Create your own cards using an Easter, April, or candybar theme. Easter theme might include: basket, egg, green, yellow, blue, bunny, chocolate. April theme might include: Umbrella, trees, rain, boots, raincoat, puddle, tulips. A candybar theme might include: Skor, Mr. Goodbar, Milkyway, Hershey, Kisses, Hugs, Joy (go to the grocery store for this one).
Another variation to create your own Bingo card: Write the names of all the children on pieces of paper and drop them into an Easter basket. Note: remove the names of any children absent that day.
Create a BINGO card with blank spaces. Across the top it will say "N-A-M-E-S". Have the children go around and have their classmates sign their name to the spaces on the card. When all are done, have them sit down at their tables.
Play NAMES by drawing a name out of the bag. Play regular BINGO or blackout. If the children really like the game, then play "Postage Stamp" any 2x2 square (4 names) on the board, etc.
