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21 Easter Activities For Kids
21 Easter Activities For Kids
21 Easter Activities For Kids
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Activity 1. Easter Bowling 2. Easter Bingo 3. Easter Egg Toss 4. Hot Egg Game 5. Easter Relays 6. Easter Tic Tac Toe 7. Easter Riddle Match 8. Egg Throwing Competition 9. Easter Egg Hunt 10. Easter Board Games 11. Easter Word Sudoku 12. Easter Word Puzzles 13. Easter Math Puzzles 14. Easter Poems 15. Easter Jars 16. Easter Wreaths 17. Eggshell Mosaic 18. Easter Cards 19. Easter Trees 20. Easter Chocolates 21. Chocolate Easter Nests Page 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 26
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1. Easter Bowling
EASTER EGG BOWLING This is an Easter game that can be played with a small group of children but it is also suitable for a large group. For this game you can use hardboiled eggs painted or dyed in different colors or chocolate Easter eggs wrapped in different colors. Give a different colored egg to each child. Using a plain hardboiled egg, roll that egg across the floor or the ground. The kids have to roll their eggs and try to land as close as possible to the plain egg. The one whose egg is rolled closest to the white one wins that round. At this time the child can either win a small prize or points can be awarded and then prizes given out after several rounds.
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2. Easter Bingo
Easter Bingo is another fun Easter activity that kids can play again and again. Children can be involved in making their own bingo cards as well as playing the game. Bingo cards can be made with Easter words or Easter pictures. The children can draw the pictures or use Easter stickers. Each player is given a 3 X 3 grid and fills it in with a selection of Easter words or Easter pictures. The words will need to be predetermined before starting. The caller can have the Easter Words or pictures on cards and draw them out one by one. The players cover their words or pictures when they are called and compete to be the first to cover a row, column or diagonal. Then they try to be the first to cover their entire card.
EASTER MIME BINGO An interesting version of the traditional Bingo game is to have the caller mime the word that is called. The other players guess what is being mimed and when it is confirmed that the word is correct, they can then cover the word.
Try these Easter Words for your Easter Bingo Easter, egg, bunny, chocolate, candy, flowers, basket, ducks, chicks, bonnet, parade, decorate, April, find, hunt, search, Sunday, tulips, jellybean, lamb, nest. Easter Bingo Cards and other printable Easter games are available at
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Next give a value to each of the three different colors, for example, the smallest egg could be worth 20 points, the medium sized egg could be worth 10 points and the large egg could be worth 5 points.
Place the eggs on the floor and mark a spot about 3 to 4 paces away from the egg. This spot could be marked with a cutout egg shape for children to stand on.
The children stand on this space and take turns to gently toss or roll a small solid chocolate Easter egg onto the egg cutouts. Points are awarded according to where the egg lands. After several turns each, a prize is awarded to the person with the most points.
EASTER EGG TOSS TEAM GAME The Easter Egg Toss Game can also be played as a team game. Divide the group into even teams and allow each member to have one toss. Tally the points and the team with the highest points will be the winner. If teams dont all have the same number of people allow those with fewer members to have someone toss twice so that each team has the same number of turns.
5 10 20
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5. Easter Relays
EASTER RELAYS The traditional relay race can be used as a fun Easter game by giving it an Easter twist. Here are a few suggestions that will get kids rolling or hopping around like Easter bunnies. HUMAN EGG ROLL RELAY For the Human Egg Roll Relay each child lies down at a right angle to the track and rolls to the other end. Make sure there is plenty of space between each team so that kids dont roll into each other. It is also a good idea to keep the track short so that children dont have to roll too far. BUNNY HOP RELAY For the Bunny Hop Relay children hop along the track like a hopping bunny. Have children keep their feet together and hold hands up in front like paws.
EGG ROLL RELAY You can also try the Egg Roll Relay. For this relay, each team will need an egg that they roll from one end to the other. Each person has to bend down and push the egg gently to make it roll.
EGG AND SPOON RELAY The Egg and Spoon Relay is an old favorite that is perfect for Easter. This relay is one of those fun Easter games that is ideal for all ages. Each team is given an egg and each player is given a spoon. The children race from one end to the other holding the egg in the spoon. At the other end they have to carefully pass the egg from their spoon to the next persons spoon.
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The cards can be made with pictures printed from the internet, stickers or hand drawn pictures. Once the cards are made draw a large Tic Tac Toe grid on a sheet of paper. Play as usual but instead of drawing 0s or Xs, you place a card on the board. As usual the first person to make a row, column or diagonal of three is the winner.
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EASTER RIDDLE EGG HUNT These cards can be used for an egg hunt by hiding all of the cards for children to find. When all of the cards have been found, children read the cards and try to match a riddle and answer from the cards that they have found. The winner of the egg hunt can be the child who matches the most riddles and answers.
EASTER RIDDLE CARD GAMES The Riddle Egg cards can also be used to play a 'Memory' style card game. Spread out all of the egg cards face down on a table. The players take turns to turn over two cards and read them both. If they make a matching riddle and answer they keep the pair and have another turn. The winner is the player who has the most pairs at the end of the game.
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A TRACK STYLE BOARD GAME To make a track style board game, the children draw a track that zigzags across the board and then decorate it with Easter things. The track can be divided into spaces and each space can be numbered. Some spaces might have a reward written on them and some might have a hazard on them. The reward might be something like, You helped the Easter bunny. Go forward 3 spaces. The hazard might say, You dropped an Easter egg. Miss a turn.
SNAKES AND LADDERS STYLE BOARD GAME Another style of board game that the kids can make is a Snakes and Ladders game. This game is usually created on a 10 x 10 grid with the boxes numbered from 1 100. To give it an Easter twist use Easter themed pictures instead of the snakes and ladders. Carrots and bunnies or bunnies and eggs could be used instead. Choose one for the players to go up and one for the players to go down.
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More Easter Word Sudoku Puzzles and Easter Number Sudoku Puzzles are available at
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LAMB A B M A L L M E N S
NEST T N T N S
HIDE H I D F I D H D I H D
FIND D F F N
Happy Easter!
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8 = 5
1 + 3
7 1 = 3 2 6
23 7 = 16 EGG PUZZLE
4 = 8
4 1 = 6 x 7 8
17 x 4 = 68
5 + 8 = 13
32 4 = 8
For this puzzle you need 9 cards with Easter eggs on them. One card will have 1 egg, one 2 eggs, the next 3 eggs etc. Draw a large 3 X 3 grid like a Tic Tac Toe grid. The puzzle is to place the cards on the grid so that each row, column and diagonal has the same number of eggs. The following page has the egg puzzle for you to print and give to the kids. Printable Easter Math Puzzles are available at
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Materials Foil paper - Easter egg wrappers Jar choose an interesting shape Craft Glue Varnish
Tear or cut the foil Easter egg wrappers into small pieces. Glue pieces of foil all over a jar to cover the outside of the entire jar. When the glue has dried, paint varnish over the outside of the jar.
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Children draw a simple design (e.g. a flower, car, boat, balloon or Easter egg) on a piece of paper. Paint glue onto the paper. Next sprinkle bits of dyed broken eggshells onto the glue. Allow to dry then display and enjoy.
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EASTER EGG CARD To make a card shaped like an Easter egg, fold a piece of paper in half along the longer side. Draw a large egg shape on it making sure that the egg touches the folded side. Cut out the egg shape leaving part of the side fold joined. Decorate the front like a colorful Easter egg using bright colors and glitter. Write a message inside and add Handmade by . on the back.
EASTER BUNNY CARD To make an Easter bunny card, fold a piece of paper in half along the longer side. Draw an Easter bunny with long ears on the front of the card with some of the bunny touching the side fold. You can draw just a bunnys face and ears or a whole bunny. Cut out the bunny shape leaving part of the side fold joined. Decorate the bunny by adding features. Color the ears pink and add glitter. Cover the bunny with cotton balls. Write a message inside. Hes coming! Have a Happy Easter. could be used.
PRINTED CARD The card on the following page can be printed on white paper or colored paper and then decorated. To make the card, cut around the edge of the large rectangle. Fold along the horizontal line. Then fold along the vertical. Decorate the card with colors, paint, glitter etc.
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COCONUT ROUGH This time instead of adding peanuts try adding coconut. Again just spoon onto a tray, put into the freezer until set and remove from the tray once they have set. ROCKY ROAD Once the chocolate is melted, add marshmallows and jelly candies (small sized pieces). This can be spooned out in large chunks or set in the bowl. It will take a while to set in the freezer if setting it in the bowl. If it is set in the bowl, turn it out in a large lump and cut into pieces. (Best for an adult to cut this one though.)
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Melt the chocolate gently in a microwave or double boiler. Mix in the noodles and peanut butter. Spoon large spoonfuls onto baking paper on a tray. Use the back of a spoon to press down gently into the center of each nest to make a hollow. Set in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. Add a few jellybeans or other candy into the center of each nest to be the eggs.
Enjoy!
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