The most traditional is hunt the easter egg.
Traditionally proper eggs are used but now it's more likely you'll
want to use chocolate eggs.
You could hard boil and colour eggs - or blow the insides out thorugh
pinholes and colour them.
Take enough eggs for each child to have the same amount.
Hide them either in the garden or in the house - you decide according
to space and weather and how child friendly your garden is.
Give each child a container to collect eggs in. Save and wash margarine
tubs and either paint them and add a ribbon handle or stick coloured
paper or wallpaper around them to make them look nice.
You could make this the first part of the task - to make the game
last even longer and be more fun, especially for smaller children
who adore cutting and sticking.
You could also put some clean pet hay (available from most supermarkets
and all pet shops) in the basket you've made for each child to make
it more cutesy!
Then send the children out collecting eggs. Tell them to bring
them back and whoever has the most wins a prize - or of course if
you're using chocolate eggs then you can let them eat them.
This game can take any length of time - it's up to you how much
searching you want the children to do, so a few very hard to find
eggs will extend the game, or even adding more in towards the end
to even things out if one child has none.
Aim that every child has some eggs and feels included in the game. |