I love having lots of fun activities to do with the kids 2 or 3 weeks before Easter. Below are ideas I have gathered from the web, Family Fun Magazine, and things I do myself. Hope you enjoy this great time of year with your family!!
In-the-Dark Egg Hunt
Have each kid bring their own flashlight from home and hunt for the easter eggs in the dark, inside or outside.
Make and color Easter Eggs with your kids
Go See the Easter Bunny
Make an Easter Egg Tree.. get a branch with several other branches on it ..put it in a pot with some rocks to keep it in place. Top with Easter grass ( Earth friendly easter grass ..aka colorful paper shreds) Then decorate it with Easter eggs, little chicks etc. You can even spray the branch a fun Easter color before hand.
Attend a local Easter Egg Hunt: Check your local newspaper or your city online calendar for dates and times. I know in my area local hunts start as early as this weekend.
Bake a cute Bunny cake with your kids..if nothing else make some Easter cookies or cupcakes and let them decorate.
Print out fun coloring pages, do online games, or make word search finds for your kids. Go to: http://www.teacherview.com
Easter Egg Match-Up
Get a bunch of different colored plastic eggs. Separate the eggs and hide each half in a different places. The kids must match up the eggs to win prizes.
Duck Walk Race
Have the kids line up at the Start Line, squat down and grasp their ankles with each hand from behind. On GO, they waddle to a designated Finish Line. They can't let go of their ankles or the are disqualified. The first child over the Finish Line wins a prize.
Easter Bunny Tag
Played in the same fashion as tag except that everyone must hop (if you do anything but hop then you're automatically it..
Easter Egg Bowling
Colour some boiled eggs and leave one white. Roll the white one into the centre of a room and take turns to see who can roll their egg closest to the white egg.
ATTEND AN EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE
Carrot Scavenger Hunt
Get your kids to actually seek out vegetables for once!
Steps
Create fake “carrots” by cutting carrot shapes from orange construction paper and gluing on green construction paper tops.
"Plant" them all around the house--under sofa cushions, in the silverware drawer, or taped to the refrigerator door, for example.
Send your kids around the house to gather all the carrots. Let them redeem their carrots for snacks or treats
Hat Parade
Fashionistas don't take a day off on Easter. Have a Project Runway-inspired challenge!Steps
create the most outrageous and spectacular Easter hats using supplied materials such as plain white baseball caps, ribbons, buttons, elastic, glitter and colorful fabric scraps.
After the challenge, put on music, have everyone show off their creations at a "parade" or fashion show. Have judges offer critiques and choose a winner, who wins a prize.
Make Easter crafts: Go to the internet and search Easter crafts...the sky is the limit!!
Read the Easter Story and other fun bunny and spring Stories!!
Find out how other cultures celebrate Easter by reading these fun facts!
In France no church bell may sound from Good Friday until Easter Sunday in observance of Christ's silence in death. Parents tell their children that "the bells have flown away to Rome" and on Easter morning the children look to the sky hoping for the bells return.
German villagers paint Easter eggs with patterns that have been in their family for generations.
Austrians make elaborate eggs where a leaf is attached to the egg and the egg is dyed. When the egg dries the leaf is removed to reveal its image on the white shell.
The British bake Easter Simnel Cake, a traditional fruitcake dotted with marzipan balls that represent the 11 Apostles excluding Judas.
Italians bake Easter Bread shaped like a crown decorated with confectionary eggs and Paska, Ukranian bread, is dressed with tiny lambs, flowers, and Easter symbols made from dough.
The Polish are renowned for making Pisnaki eggs whereby, through a process of drawing a design on the egg in beeswax and several dips in dye, a gorgeous Easter treasure is created.
A painful old Polish custom at the end of Lent, on "Switching Day" boys would swat their girlfriends with red willow switches. Then, the girls would get them back with a swat on Easter Tuesday.
Have an Easter Egg Roll Contest. Give everyone their own special hard boiled colored egg. All start at the top of a hill and see whose egg gets to the bottom first.
Go for a walk around a lake or at the park and see all the new spring trees, baby chicks and signs of spring!
Have a family Spring Portrait taken.
Make some fun snacks: Peep lollipops ( just put a peep on a stick) Put them in a small vase with some jelly beans. ,Buy the little Debbie Easter Snacks. Make a trail mix using, chex, jelly beans, raisins, Easter colored m&m's, etc etc.
Leave a comment and let me know the fun things you are doing this week!!
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ReplyDeleteLove all your ideas - great for kids.