Celebrate Easter at Home
Get festive and creative this Easter with celebrations at home, in your yard or around the neighborhood.
For more ideas and tips for planning your Easter egg hunt, click here.
Find easy ideas for creating an Easter basket here.
Kids will love creating these fun Easter crafts and recipe ideas.
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Show the Spirit
Create Easter decorations to hang around your home or yard with egg ornaments, bunnies, chicks or spring flowers.
Involve the Neighborhood
Ask families in the neighborhood to hang Easter eggs, coloring pages or signs in their windows. Next time your family goes on a walk through the neighborhood, see who can spot the most.
Get Scientific
Experiment with science with this Easter Egg Rocket project from KiwiCo. Decorate plastic eggs. Head outside with the eggs, and place two fizzy tablets into the bottom half of the egg. Fill the top half about halfway with water. Quickly close the egg and step back. Pay attention to how far the egg flies!
Rock Out
Paint rocks to look like decorated Easter eggs. Place them throughout the neighborhood on spots by the sidewalk so your family and others can search for them while walking.
Get Decorative
Decorate and dye your own eggs. Create dyes by combining ½ cup boiling water, 1 teaspoon vinegar and 10 drops food color. Dip eggs for five minutes, or until the desired shade is reached. Make patterns with stickers, rubber bands or tape before dipping eggs in dye. Remove after eggs dry.
Connect with Family
Share what’s special about the day with distant loved ones through Zoom, or hold an Easter storytime. Send Easter-themed cards a few days before the holiday.
Bunny Hop
Put on some dance tunes and get your groove on. To do the Bunny Hop, dance in a line or circle and hold onto the person near you. Tap the floor two times with your left foot, then your right foot before hopping forwards, backwards and three hops forward to end the sequence.
Move Night
Stream an Easter-themed or bunny-themed movie, such as “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown,” “Hop,” “Rise of the Guardians,” “Zootopia” or “Peter Rabbit.”
Egg Hunt Twists
Mix It Up
Fill plastic eggs with non-candy treats to add variety and limit sugar, such as coins, eraser, finger puppets and other small toys.
Prize Egg
If your kids are older, have one egg be the prize egg with a bit of cash.
Make It Last
Extend the egg hunting fun by placing Easter baskets in one location. Children have to bring each egg back to the basket before looking for more.
Switch It Up
Sometimes, the fun is in the hiding! Give your kids the chance to hide the eggs for their siblings for multiple rounds of egg hunting fun.
Keep It Fair
Make sure younger members of the family get a fair chance to find the treasures. Older kids can pair up with younger ones to help. Color code eggs by age groups, or use a different color for each of your children.
Virtual Egg Hunt
Sign up to join a public or private game with Watson Adventures’ virtual Easter scavenger hunt. Find eggs from all over the world hidden in museums, homes and more.
Easter Basket Gifts
Some-Bunny to Love
Give your baby a cute new friend for Easter with GUND’s Oh So Snuggly Bunny. This adorable pastel pink bunny is super soft and features quilted textures on body, feet and ears for tactile play. And if your bunny creates a mess digging carrots out of the garden, he’s easily machine washable! $25 at gund.com; Hippo and Puppy animals also available.
A Puzzling Egg
Test your problem-solving skills with the Smart Egg Labyrinth Puzzles from University Games. These decorative eggs contain different puzzle-solving labyrinths for an exciting challenge. Eggs come in multiple levels and are perfect brain teasers for ages 8 and older. Available at universitygames.com for $10.99-$19.99.
Read All About It
Storytime is delightful with “Scrambled Eggs: Mix and Match” from Happy Yak. Scramble up some fun with more than 140 combinations to create an interactive story. This board book features a space egg, a pirate egg, a disco egg, a chocolate Easter egg and more. Available at amazon.com for $9.99.
An Eggs-cellent Family
Stack and separate this cute little egg family. Tomy’s Sort & Squeak Eggs have distinct features, and removing the top shell reveals a little chirper. Pressing down on the chick has the bird chirp. Mix and match the faces to teach colors or emotions. Available at tomy.com for $15.99.
