Make your child’s Easter egg hunt as fun for them in the apartment or house as it would be outdoors, by upping your game on the contents of those eggs! Adding a little note in each one prompting a different activity will keep children engaged beyond the fun of finding the eggs. Our Parenting Center offers these suggestions, good for a dozen eggs!
- Hop on one foot while you search for the next egg!
- If the next egg you find is blue, it has to be hidden (by the egg hider!) all over again.
- Play a game of “Easter egg bocce” — everyone takes turns rolling an egg across the rug, trying to land the farthest distance away (and knocking others away to help you get there!)
- Find a few magnet or foam letters in your egg, and you have to use them to spell a word that has to do with Easter.
- Get a note with the words “circus music,” and you have to try to juggle two eggs!
- Plan ahead, and before Easter morning, take an empty egg carton, and write the numbers 1 to 12 in each compartment. Tuck a note into a couple of jelly bean-filled eggs to “Place five (or three or nine) jelly beans where they belong in the egg carton.”
- Set a timer for one minute and come up with a rhyme using the word *egg.*
- Get two crayons, grab a sheet of construction paper and make the tallest and most imaginative bunny ears you can. Cut them out, and tape them to a headband to wear.
- Grab a partner and two large spoons, and have an egg and spoon race from one end of the living room to the other. If your egg falls, pretend it made a mess, grab a broom (not that a broom would do much for a real broken egg!), and “sweep” all of the already collected eggs into a little pile.
- Get a slip of paper with a color on it, and you have two minutes to gather everything you can find in that color.
- Play a game of (bunny) hopscotch! (Use masking or painter’s tape to create squares in a hopscotch pattern on your floor, number them, then play!)
- When all of your eggs have been collected, set the basket down a distance away, and have an egg toss, seeing how many you can land in the basket.