EASTER GAMES
Here are some fun games just for Easter!
Egg Hunt
Each year I have an easter egg hunt for the smaller kids in the
family. In order to keep things somewhat fair...I hide dozens of
plastic eggs empty. Once the kids find all the eggs they turn
them in for a special bag of goodies. It doesn't matter how many
or how few of eggs the kids find...they all get the same amount
of goodies. This really prevents them from getting upset at the
end of the hunt if a cousin happens to find more eggs than
another because they all know they will still get the same amount
of treats. .
Egg
Roll
Here is another easter game my children love. We also do this at
our church's childrens egg hunt. Mark off a start and stop point
anywhere from 5 to 10 feet apart. Using a hard boiled egg ( can
be decorated or plain) have the kids down on hands and knees.
Roll the egg across the floor using only there noses. The first
one to the finish line without touching the egg with their hands
is the grand champion nose roller.
Easter
Fairness
Each year my family hosts a GIANT Easter egg hunt for the
children at our church. Since ages range from toddlers to 5th or
6th grade we have come up with a way that is fair for all. Each
child is asked to bring 12 plastic Easter eggs filled with
goodies. After the eggs are hidden, the children are told that
when they've found 12, to come sit down until everyone has found
that many. When all the children have found that amount, we send
them out to find the rest (I always provide about 50 extra.) The
kids have a great time and everyone goes home happy!
Capture
the Egg
You might have heard of "capture the flag" this is just
the Easter vesion. Divide a group of kids into two groups. Each
team has four eggs.They place the eggs on the gound in a row and
then run to the other teams side and try to take there eggs back
to their side without getting touched.
If they do get touched they have to stand still until one of
their teammates can free them by touching them on the shoulder.
Easter
Fun Hunt
First you paint however many eggs you want to then leave one
blank [no paint on it] and not boiled then who ever finds it has
to pass it back and forth to every body. you don't pass it in a
circle the person who finds it has to pass to one person then
back to him or her, then pass it to someone else thats my Easter
game!
Easter
Egg Hunt
Every other year I have an Easter Egg hunt at my Grandma's house.
Every child who comes to her house for Easter has their own
special spot to find eggs. I usualy have to look at a nearby
park. Some of my cousins have to search one of the neighbors
yards. Then we come into the house and count the money that's
hidden in the eggs!! Sometimes their are sheets of paper that you
can hand in for a gift!
Easter Fairness
Every year my mother has a basket for each of us and to keep
people from taking eggs that aren't theirs my mom has a different
colour for each of us to find. Eg. yellow for my sister, green
for my brother. And because I don't like pure chocolate my mom
hides candy caramels instead! It works and there is never a
fight. Besides you can trade hints about where a sibling saw one
of your eggs so you don't get stuck.
Easter Hat Parade
Give everyone a white baseball cap.
(can be found at any craft store)
Give many materials such as ribbon, elastic, colored fabric,
etc... then, after they're done have them walk in a sort of
parade to show off their Easter hats.
*Optional--have judges to pick winners such as prettiest,
scariest, most original and so on.
Bunny
Tag
I have a game we use to play its called bunny tag and you play it
like this: you pick a person to be it and everybody hops around
...if you run you're automatically it.
Have fun this Easter.
Golden
Easter Egg
One of the best egg hunts my kids will tell anyone about is when
mom hides one glittery gold Easter egg with a dollar in it. The
kids had fun. It was not expensive and the winner of the golden
egg is a real delight. I always tell my kids that the younger
ones get the eggs in plain view and the older ones must look
harder. They also have a limit to how many they can find this way
all get their fair share.
Bunny, Bunny, Hop....
This
game is just like duck duck goose, with 2 changes.
1. Obviously, the words change to "bunny" as you tap
each child, and "hop" when one child is selected.
2. Instead of running around the circle, players hop with their
feet together.
We found these results to be more fun than duck duck goose. When
you start with a great original game which kids already know and
like, it doesn't take much to explain the new rules and see their
excitement soar! We played this with 6th graders and kindergarten
buddies together and they loved it!
Matching
Game
As a Kindergarten teacher I use this game for all holidays.
Depending on the number of children it takes 10-20 minutes.
For Halloween I print the children's names on pumpkins and hide
the pumpkins all around the room. I give them one with their name
printed on it for them to use as a model. Early in the school
year this is enough of a challenge!
At Christmas I do it again using trees or stars. This time I give them a letter and they have to find five more that match. Sometimes I give them the lower case and they have to find the upper case matches.
For Valentine's Day I give them 2 and 3 digit numbers in varying sequences. I always give them one as a reference and they have to find the others to match.
By Easter they are really good at how to play the game. I hide egg shaped paper with letters all over the room. On the egg that I give them for reference it has one word e.g. Spring or Easter. They have to find the six letters that spell Spring and put them in the correct order. I have also used this for a unit on spiders where they find the letters to spell spider.
I have always found that they love this game and have even used it for my nephew's birthday parties. When hiding 42 sets of letters for my double Kindergarten class, I make piles of complete class sets to hide so I don't end up hiding all one child's eggs at one end of the room. After they have shown me their complete set they help a friend to find theirs.
Give
it a try! It works, it's fun, it's educational and it works off
excess energy on special days!
Egg
Toss
No Easter games can be complete
without a round of egg toss.
People
pair-off and face each other at a starting line. each pair is
given one egg. An official blows a whistles (or shouts some
appropriate term), and each person takes a large step backwards.
The person in each pair with the egg tosses it to the person
without. When all couples have completed their toss, the official
signals for a second round and the process repeats (large step
backward, toss, pause, etc, etc).
If a couple does not successfully complete its toss, and the egg
has not broken, they return to the starting line. If it breaks,
they're out. The couple that's left in the end (presumably far
away from the starting line) wins.
Use raw eggs for maximum excitement. Game is best with at least
five couples.
Egg
Crazy!!
Dye 10 eggs.Then boil for seven minutes. The person who cracks
and eats the most wins.
Easter
Egg Hunt
I love Easter Egg Hunts! The only problem is that usually one kid
gets a ton of candy and some kids hardly get any. I think it
should be fun for everybody.
My
sister in-law has a great idea that really works. She puts out an
equal number of eggs for each participant, with their names
written on them. This way nobody has to run over others grabbing
in that traditional "greedfest" attitude.
I am trying something new this year with the hunt at our church.
We are explaining that Jesus Christ gave his life, and Easter can
be a time of giving--so in our hunt we will tell the children to
find a treat for their own basket, then find one for someone
else. This will repeat itself until the hunt is over. I have also
gone to a hunt where a few adults with bags of candy walked
around sneaking candy into empty baskets.
Chocolate
Egg Hunt
An adult can hide chocolate eggs in grass. Then, the children
have to find them. The child who finds a chocolate egg with a
number or sticker on it wins a prize. Also, whoever finds the
most eggs gets a prize too.
Egg
Hunt
Great game for kids and big kids too!
Purchase plastic Easter eggs and put numbers in them. Each number
should correspond to a gift for the adults. Have the children
hide the plastic eggs for their parents.
Plastic eggs with numbers can also be hidden by the parents for
the children with numbers that correspond to children's prizes.
Duck
Pond
Put plastic ducks in water and the children pull out a duck and
get the prize associated with that duck. You could put numbers or
shapes on the bottom of the ducks.
Barnyard
Each child is given the name of an animal with three children
having the same name. No one is allowed to tell another which
animal he is. At the signal each child makes the noise of the
animal that he has been given. The first group of three animals
to find each other and sit down are the winners.
Spoon
Walk
Put an egg (can also use a marshmallow) on a spoon and walking
across an area; make an obstacle course if you like. Can also
play where you have to pass it to a partner to go back to the
beginning is fun. If the egg is dropped, you have to start over.
Grown ups have to put the spoon in their mouths.
You
can also play hide and seek: all of the people who are hiding
must balance an object on a spoon as they dash for a hiding spot.
If it falls, that's where they have to hide.
Animal
Relay
The players form two lines with equal numbers on each team. The
first animal on each team is an animal, the second a different
animal. On the word "go", the first person acts like
the animal they represent, run, hop or crawl to a given place and
back. The next person then acts like their animals and so on
until one team is finished and sitting down. Use animals such as
kangaroos, bunnies, dogs, cats etc... Bean Bag Relays -
Walk/run/hop with bag on head/between knees/between feet. Leap
Frog - Well... you know.
Duck
races
Players line up on a start line. At the signal, they must all
bend over and grasp their ankles. The first one to waddle to the
finish line without letting go of their ankles, wins.
Adult fun too!
It's
always fun to watch the kids hunt for Easter Eggs but have you
ever saw a bunch of adults act like children. Or, should I say,
have as much fun. My mom started this a few years back and, boy,
do we ever look forward now more so for Easter. Except what the
meaning really is. Anyway she puts money into the plastic eggs,
anywhere from a couple dollars up to five or ten. Then her and
dad go hide them. Let the adults go and watch them act as
children again.
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