6 Easter games and Ideas

1. Easter Egg Dash: 

This is a totally off the wall take on an Easter egg hunt and was first spotted in a small village in Herefordshire!  The Easter Bunny can be relied on to deliver the goods on Easter Day itself, however if you’re looking for something a little more energetic and high speed, then consider an “egg dash”.  All participants line up with their empty baskets at one end of a garden or field, and wait.  When a flag is waved or a whistle is blown, an Easter Bunny appears from his hiding place, armed with a big sack of chocolate eggs.  He then legs it round and round the garden chucking out fists full of eggs in his wake.  The players dash after him to collect up as many chocolates as they can before the bunny disappears for another year. 

2. Egg Decorations for an Easter Tree

Although this can be a bit messy it is a great pre-Easter activity that can be done in small groups at home or at a party, probably best for 6yr olds and up.  Each child is given a clean hen or duck egg, that you have made a small hole in the top and a slightly larger hole in the bottom of using a needle.  Give each child a bowl and an egg cup at this stage and demonstrate how to blow through the small hole whilst holding the egg over a bowl until all the contents of the egg splats out into the bowl.  It’s definitely worth having some spare eggs as some may get dropped or squashed and a good cake or quiche recipe to get cooking with all the egg you’ll have to use up.

Once everyone has successfully blown their egg, run water through each egg to remove anything left in the shell, then everyone decorates their eggs using deco pens, acrylic paint, glue and glitter or stickers.  As soon as they’re ready, thread each egg with ribbon and hang on an Easter tree, which can be made with freshly cut sticks of willow or hazel arranged in a vase.

3. Eggs-treme Easter Boule

Head outside to a bit of grass and give each child a hard boiled egg to decorate in a way that is unique to them, purely for identification purposes.  Choose a throwing line to start the game from and get someone to throw the ‘chick’ or ‘jack’. The ‘chick’ can be anything that’s smaller than an egg and is very visible and not too light, so a golf ball or light coloured stone would work fine.  Each player then takes it in turns to throw their egg and try to land it as close to the chick as possible. At the end of the round, the egg that is closest to the chick earns a point and the owner of that egg gets to throw the ‘chick’ for the next round.  What makes this game ‘eggs-treme’ is up to the creativity of the thrower of the ‘chick’, it could be up a hill or onto a bench, or behind a tree stump, the beauty is that every round is different from the next.

4. Spring Scavenger Hunt

Head to a local park or garden and before you start, collect 10 spring specific items and lay them out together on the grass and cover with a coat. The sorts of things you want to find are: a yellow petal, a feather, a bright green leaf, a daisy etc.  When you’re ready to start, get everyone to gather around the coat and explain that they’ll have 30 seconds to look at the items and try to remember them all.  Reveal the items, give them 30 seconds and then cover them over again.  The race is then on to be the first person to return with all 10 items.

Alternatively, you could take part in your nearest Cadbury x National Trust Easter egg hunt.

5. Hot Cross Bunnies

If you feel like baking, modify a hot cross bun recipe to be shaped as bunnies.  Check out our blog for the full ingredients and instructions here. 

6. Have a Sharky & George Easter Party!

If this all sounds like a bit too much to organise, why not get in touch to get help planning an Easter Party.  We'll send a couple of our team to run  would love run Easter games, arts, crafts and lots of fun.  Check out the Sharky & George Easter Guide here.