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With Easter just around the corner, now is the time I start thinking about different games I can play with my family to get them in the holiday mood. Whether the week before or the day of, carve out some time to have some Easter fun with your family with some of these games.

• Beautiful Bunny Contest
  • Everyone draws their own version of the Easter Bunny. Hang them up for decoration and, if you wish, have a Beauty Contest. Recognize the most creative, prettiest, funniest, etc.
  • My family is always fascinated to see what Daddy draws!
• Jellybean Relay
  • Divide into teams. First person on each team holds a cup on his/her head. The person looks into the mirror held by another team member (or it can be mounted on the wall) and tries to fill their cup with jelly beans. When the cup is filled, they dump the jellybeans back in the bowl and pass the cup to the next person. First team that finishes filling their cups wins!
  • Not enough people to make teams?  Time each person and the one with the fastest time wins!!
• Twenty Questions
  • Leader starts by choosing an Easter related person, place, or thing. The leader says, “I’m thinking of something to do with Easter”. Other players try to guess what it is by asking no more than twenty questions that can be answered “YES”, “NO”, or I DON’T KNOW”. The person who guesses correctly is the next leader.
• Word Find
  • Take an Easter related word such as: Basket, Chocolate, Bunnies, etc. and find as many little words as possible before the timer runs out.
  Example: EASTER…eat, east, sat, tea, rest, rat, tear
• Easter Bunny Says
  • This game is played similar to Simon Says. The player up is the “Easter Bunny”. Player will say “Easter Bunny says hop on one foot”. The children will hop on one foot. Player will say “Stop”. The children are to keep hopping on one foot until player says “Easter Bunny says stop”. Repeat for additional activities such as take one baby step forward, step backwards, turn around, sit down. Sometimes Easter Bunny will say “Easter Bunny says” and sometimes he won’t.
• Easter Pictionary
  • Put papers with Easter objects written on them into basket. Divide family into two groups. Flip a coin to see which team goes first. Invite a person from one team to draw a slip of paper and read it to themselves. On your mark, the person should then draw the object in hopes that his/her team members will guess the object on their paper. If the team guesses correctly before time runs out, they score a point. If the playing team does not guess correctly, the other team has five seconds to try to come up with the correct answer. If they guess correctly, they score a point and it is their turn to play.
• Find your Egg-Match
  • Cut paper eggs in half either in different angles, or with decorative large cutting scissors. Hand out the eggs and have the players find their egg-match!
  • This game is better to play when you have a large group, like on Easter day  If you are playing with a small group, tape the second half of eggs around the house and have your family search for their match.
• Broken Egg Riddles
  • Cut a paper egg in two. Write a riddle on the first half of the egg with the answer written on the second half of the egg. Give each player one half of an egg.
  • Players go around and ask the riddle and the second player will give the answer. If the answers are correct, the two people who are matched up then sit down. Game is over when all people have matched up the riddle to the answer.
  • Again, this game is better to play when you have a large group, like on Easter day.  If you are playing with a small group, tape the second half of eggs around the house and have your family search for their match.
• Bunny, Bunny, Rabbit
  • Think “DUCK DUCK GOOSE”…Have everyone sit in a circle. One person is “it” and hops around the circle tapping each person on the head and saying, “bunny, bunny, bunny…” until he/she finally says, “RABBIT”. Both people then hop around the circle trying to reach the vacated spot first.
• Pin The Egg On The Basket
  • Make a large Easter Basket and tape it to a wall. Give everyone playing a blank egg to decorate.
  • Blindfold the first player, spin her around and let her try to stick the egg on the basket. Give a prize for the player that gets the closest.
• Easter Cupcake Walk
  • Tape numbers to the floor. Put papers with the numbers on them in a basket.
  • When the music starts everyone begins to walk around the room stepping on each of the numbers as they go. When the music stops everyone should step on the number closest to them. A number is pulled from the Easter basket and the person standing on that number gets to choose a cupcake (or other treat).
• Egg Ribbon
  • Show the players a cardboard egg with a ribbon attached to it. Have them sit in a designated place (like the couch) and close their eyes until you tell them to open them. Hide the egg with the ribbon attached so only the ribbon shows. Have everyone open their eyes, stand up and search for the egg ribbon. If they find it they should not say a word but quickly and quietly to their sit on the couch. The first person to sit down wins and may take a turn at hiding the egg.
• Bunny Tag
  • A person begins by being “it”. Everyone hops like a bunny trying to keep from getting tagged by the person that’s “it”. Watch out, if you run instead of hop, you’re “it”.
• Capture the Egg
  • Decorate four blue flags with a bunny on the front and four green flags with an Easter egg on the front
  • Divide group into two groups. Each team has four Easter flags. Place the flags on the ground in a row. The object is to run to the other team’s side and try to take all of the other team’s flags back to their own side without getting touched. If they get touched, they must stand still until one of their teammates touches them.
• Egg Toss
  • Place a Easter basket a little distance from everyone to catch Easter egg bean bags. Mark your distance line according to age and skill of children. Line everyone up behind the line and place a bucket of Easter egg bean bags beside them. Give each person three tries to get their bean bag into the basket. Get all three Easter egg bean bags in and earn an ‘egg-licious’ reward.
• Easter Egg Roll
  • Divide players into 2 teams. The goal is for the first person to roll a hard-boiled egg with the spoon to the end of the course and back. The person hands the spoon to the next person in line and the relay continues until a team finishes.
  • Not enough people to make teams?  Time each person and the one with the fastest time wins!!
• Bunny Hop
  • Players divide into two teams. Give each team an “egg” pillow. Have one person from each team place the egg between their legs and hop to the end of the room and back. They sit down and the next team member goes. This repeats until one team is all sitting.
  • Not enough people to make teams?  Time each person and the one with the fastest time wins!!
• Walk the Egg
  • Divide players into teams and have them form a line. The first person in line puts an egg on the spoon and passes is to the next person in line. The egg goes all the way to the end and then comes back to the front of the line to determine the winner.

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