Easter is a wonderful holiday, especially for children. Family and friends have a great excuse to get together, and there's great food and games. The games are key, as Easter is a time of the year that children really look forward to. After all, every year they expect the Easter Bunny to hide eggs, baskets, and/or treats, that they can than go and find.



So with such high expectations, what can we do to keep the kids happy and entertained? Why, games of course! Here is a list of some of the best Easter day games, guaranteed to meet both kids and parents expectations for a wonderful Easter.

The Egg Hunt

As already mentioned above, one of the most anticipated games of Easter is the Egg Hunt. In fact, it doesn't matter if you have a small home or the weather isn't cooperating for you to hide the eggs outside. An egg hunt doesn't actually need a lot of space to still be fun. All you really need is creativity, and a half hour to an hour to play the game.

Just remember when you're hiding eggs: don't make the game to difficult! Hide them in easy to reach places, such as under bed or couch pillows, or behind the stuffed animals in a child's room. This is a great hiding place because these soft toys are safe for children to be around, as stuffed lions, teddy bears, and other plush animals don't have sharp corners or require kids to climb to get to them. The inside of shoes can also be a really fun hiding place, just make sure that the shoes you put the eggs in aren't going to be worn, or you may find yourself with a mess! Remember, it's very important to hide them in places within a child's reach, because climbing sets them up for a fall, and safety should always be your foremost concern for children.

Also, just because the game is called an "egg hunt" doesn't mean you have to just stick with eggs. Hide a stuffed rabbit in the home also, and tell them that the Easter Bunny left them a cousin of his to play with. In fact, you can use many things besides eggs. One really popular idea is hiding an Easter basket or baskets. You can fill the basket with candy (chocolate bunny rabbits, jellybeans, etc) and toys, like another stuffed bunny or a plush duckling. If you've got several children, and you want to make sure that they each get a basket, put each child's name on one basket and tell them that they have to find the one that's for them. This will most certainly be a great start to your Easter holiday!

Easter crafts

After the excitement and chaos of the Egg Hunt, it's nice to have an activity for the kids that will wind everyone down, which is where doing Easter crafts come in. This is also great because it doesn't require as much supervision as the egg hunt, and so is a little break for everyone. All you really need is some paper and crayons and the children can create all sorts of Easter related masterpieces. You can even give them some artistic inspiration by creating a display for them to base their pictures on. The display could have painted eggs, some chicks and a bunny.

Then you can make things as structured or unstructured as you'd like. Let them use their imaginations and draw anything they want about Easter, or tell them what do draw, such as painted eggs with chicks cracking through the shell, or a picture of the Easter bunny hiding eggs. You could even turn this into a contest, with the first prize drawing winning the bunny in the display, the second prize winning the chick, and everyone else getting the eggs as a consolidation prize.

The egg hunt and the arts and craft projects are very traditional Easter games, but you can make them more fun than usual by adding plush chicks and a stuffed bunny to motivate the children even more. Remember, there's a lot you can do to make your Easter holiday one that all the kids will have fond memories of, just follow some of these simple ideas!