Easter party games

These Easter party games will delight small children!

Prepare your Easter basket for a mystery game... get set with a pretty - but sturdy! - bonnet for the bonnet bean toss - and hard boil enough eggs for your egg-cracking championship.

Then you're all set!

Kids love a party. And a party celebrating the meaning of Easter can provide some powerful memories.

As part of your party you may like to include a slot explaining why these symbols of new life are so important.

Printable Easter party games

Printable Easter Games

And the result?

A no-stress method of providing your guests both young and a little older with a good chunk of Easter enjoyment!

Need some kid-friendly suggestions?

How about some Easter Bible Picture Bingo, or Bunny Tic-Tac-Toe?

Or - a printable Egg Hunt, or color in and cut out Easter Puzzles?

Split your guests into pairs or small groups - they don't have to compete, just have fun!

Easter basket games!

Oh - and here are two ideas for Easter basket games!

What's in the Easter basket?
You'll need a large box decorated in Easter themed paper, and a selection of items that are wrapped so that they can be felt but not seen!

Ideas:

• soft toy - bunny would be ideal
• boxed video
• ball
• small bottle of mineral water or box of juice
• boxed easter egg
• building blocks wrapped together in a plastic bag
• bar of soap
• book - could be a bible...

Sit the kids in a circle and take out the first item. Pass it around the circle. The kids can try and guess what it is. Open the item to find out if they are right!

Guess the color of the egg
Little children just love this game. All you need is a basket of eggs, each egg painted a single color.

• Sit the children in front of you
• Tell them to close their eyes
• Pick an egg out of the basket and hide it behind your back
• Time to open their eyes and guess which color egg is hiding behind your back!

Vary the game by including dark and white chocolate eggs. Or tell the kids that a couple of chicks want to play, and add two little toy chicks to the basket... then take out one egg and a chick too - the children just can't wait to tell you the chick's gone!

Easter party races

Bunny hop race
For this Easter party game, the kids could simply race bunny hop style to your pre-determined finish.

Make the game even more fun by dressing the kids up bunny-style!

Jazz things up a bit by getting them to bunny hop around an area. Place two or three baskets of small Easter eggs at strategic points around your course. The kids have to bunny hop to each basket and collect an egg as they go along.

Add another element if you like; let the kids bunny hop one by one to the finish or around a course - and have prizes ready for the most stylish bunny hopper, or the bunny hopper with the biggest smile and so on!

Just make sure you have a prize - and a reason! - for every kid!

Egg and spoon race
The classic Easter party game. Liven it up by using big wooden spoons and chocolate eggs, or, depending on the ages of your guests, adding a few obstacles.

If you have a lot of space, get the adults to join in a race, too - little kids love the grown ups getting involved.

Egg cracking championship

Play this Easter party game in pairs.

Here, two competitors line up their eggs carefully - the red egg at the top is going to hit the egg below - but which egg will crack? The red one - my son's... or the green one below - hubby's?

And the green one cracks! Hubby loses - my son wins - again! And now he can see if his champion egg can crack another person's egg.

Usually, one eggshell cracks, the other egg stays whole.

Pair up any "winners" to go into egg-combat until you have a champ!

Easter bonnet bean bag toss

This Easter party game tests your kids' throwing and accuracy skills. Depending on the children's ages, decide how far away from the picture they need to stand to throw their bean bags.

Give each thrower three bean bags. The aim of the game is for them to throw their bean bags so that they land on the picture of the Easter bonnet - and not outside it!