Easter Party Ideas - Get Them Running And Laughing The Whole Day
The air is thick with anticipation as the children count down the days until Easter. You would love to do something special for them and hence need to come up with some really nice activities. Easter Party Ideas are all over, you just need to look a little closer.
When it comes to the actual egg, one can really go all the way. Get a few class mates together at home and start a pre-Easter decorating project. Try to get even numbers, say four in a team. Give them a theme, like for instance farm animals, the egg head family, or various cartoon figures. If the children are very small give them hard boiled eggs to decorate.
The work space should be ample because they will be gluing and cutting materials like pipe cleaners, toilet rolls, scraps of material, cotton wool and anything else you found around your sewing room which they can use. The older children will of course love to blow out the egg yoke and paint their favorite rock star or super hero with glitter, beads and sequined.
What you could also do on Easter morning, is have a candy hunt by mapping out a route for each child. Take jelly beans and let them follow the trail to a plastic egg with a word placed into it. Once all the words are collected and they can make up the sentence, then only are they allowed to choose an Easter basket. Children love to play where there are rules. So give them rules of their own. Get them to hunt for a specific color plastic egg or anything you might choose as a marker. Allow the little children to go first and maybe an older child can assist a small one to find his color egg.
Children love boundaries, so give them a color boundary to work from. Hide eggs which are color coded before-hand and get them to search only for their color.Here you could let the little ones go first so the older children will not be disappointed to find toys that are not in their age group. Easter Party Ideas are fun to think out, just put yourself in a child’s shoes and see all the ideas you come up with.
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Jeff Stevens :: Mar.10.2010 :: Family :: No Comments »