Easter Activities for Your Kids

Searching for some great ways to entertain your kids this Easter? Well, hop to it with these innovative ideas that are sure to stimulate your young ones. What's Easter without an old-fashioned Easter egg hunt? Provide each participant with their own basket or bag. Opt for plastic eggs that you can reuse over and over. Fill eggs with trinkets, money and candy. Hide eggs in a safe area, away from roads, pools and other potential hazards. Color-code the eggs by age group so that the little ones won't get shorted. For example, assign pink and yellow eggs for your 5-year-old, and blue and red eggs for your 2-year-old. Let them know they should only "find" the corresponding colors. Once the search is over, thrill your kiddies with a game of Easter Bingo. You can use cardboard to make your own bingo cards. April, Easter or candy all make great themes.


Use jelly beans or M & Ms as markers. Guess what? There's nothing like "How Many?" to keep your kids occupied. Fill a Mason jar with chocolate eggs, M & M's, jelly beans or some other candy and have your kids guess how many are in there. Of course, you'll want to count them out first. Make a giant cardboard rabbit and play pin the tail on the bunny. Use cotton balls or construction paper cut-outs with tape as the tails. Have your own Easter egg roll. Split children into teams and designate a course. Have one child from each team carry the egg on a spoon to from one end of the course and back. Then pass the egg off in the spoon to another teammate. Use a hardboiled egg for optimum results.