Be sure to check out our main Easter index for even more fun ideas including Easter crafts, egg hunt tips, egg decoration ideas, Easter printables, recipes and more.

Remember, most games can be adapted to all ages of children with a bit of creative thinking. Also, if you choose to play a game that requires teams and you have an odd number of children, one person will need to go twice. Ask for a volunteer and if one doesn't surface you might want to leave it up to the team to choose who they think will be the fastest.

How Many Eggs?

Supplies:
Large glass jar filled with chocolate eggs
Small pieces of paper
Easter basket
Pencil

How To Play: Have children write their name on a small piece of paper and their guess as to how many chocolate eggs are in the jar. The child who guesses the right number or comes closest takes the jar of candy home to share with their family.

 

Easter Pictionary

Supplies:
Chalkboard
Chalk
Eraser
Easter Basket
Papers with Easter objects written on them
Timer

How To Play: Put papers with Easter objects written on them into basket. Divide children into two groups. Flip a coin to see which team goes first. Invite a child from the playing team to approach the chalkboard, draw a slip of paper and read it to themselves. On your mark, the child 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.

This game can be simplified for young players utilizing words such as: carrot, bunny, candy. Make more difficult for older players by using short phrases: chocolate bunnies taste good, marshmallow chicks are yellow, etc.

 

Word Find

Take an Easter related word such as: Basket, Chocolate, Chickens, etc. and find as many little words as possible before the timer runs out.

Example: Chocolate
Words: late, at, ate, tea, tale, tool, cool, hat, hot, cat, coat...

Example: Basket
Words: ask, set, beat, tea, skate, bat, at, sat, bet, ate, eat...

 

Easter Twenty Questions

Teacher starts by choosing an Easter related person, place, or thing. The teacher says, "I'm thinking of something". The children 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 student who guesses correctly is next up.

 

Easter Memory

Supplies:
16 Laminated cardstock Easter eggs with shapes, words, or pictures on back
Board to hang eggs on
Tape

How To Play: Depending on the skill level of your children put 8-16 laminated Easter eggs with shapes, words, or pictures on the back on the chalkboard. The players must remember which egg has which object on the back (similar to concentration).

 

Easter Clue

Teacher thinks of person, place, or thing. Teacher gives a clue. Begin at one end of the room and work your way around allowing each student to take a turn guessing until one student solves the case. The student who solves the case goes next.

Example: Easter Bunny
Clue: I'm thinking of someone who has big ears.
Clue: He's a painter.
Clue: His job is to fill baskets.

Clues should be appropriate for the knowledge of the children playing.

 

Easter Scramble

Supplies:
Index Cards
Paper Bags

How To Play: Choose an Easter word such as: Easter Bunny, Chocolate, Basket, Hippity-Hop.... Write the letters of the word on individual index cards. Do this two times, making two sets. Put each set in a brown paper bag.

Divide children into teams. Give each team a bag. The first team to decipher what the word in the bag is, wins. A variation of the game would be to divide into teams with the same number of children as there are letters in the word. Each child get's a letter and they must hold onto the card and stand in the proper order to spell the word for all to see.

 

Easter Bingo

Supplies:
Make your own egg shaped bingo cards
Small candy, such as M&M's, for markers
Easter basket to hold call cards

How To Play: Create your own cards using an Easter, April, or candybar theme. Easter theme might include: basket, egg, green, yellow, blue, bunny, chocolate. April theme might include: Umbrella, trees, rain, boots, raincoat, puddle, tulips. A candybar theme might include: Skor, Mr. Goodbar, Milkyway, Hershey, Kisses, Hugs, Joy (go to the grocery store for this one).

Another variation to create your own Bingo card: Write the names of all the children on pieces of paper and drop them into an Easter basket. Note: remove the names of any children absent that day.

Create a BINGO card with blank spaces. Across the top it will say "N-A-M-E-S". Have the children go around and have their classmates sign their name to the spaces on the card. When all are done, have them sit down at their tables.

Play NAMES by drawing a name out of the bag. Play regular BINGO or blackout. If the children really like the game, then play "Postage Stamp" any 2x2 square (4 names) on the board, etc.

 

Barnyard

Supplies:
Picture of animals - children must know what sound they make (2 of each animal)
Hat or bowl

How To Play: Have each child draw a picture out of the hat. They must then find their partner by making the sound that the animal makes and listening to the other children for an animal making the same sound as they are.

 

Find your Egg-Match

Supplies:
Construction paper Eggs
Scissors

How To Play: Cut eggs in half either in different angles, or with decorative large cutting scissors. Hand out the eggs and have the children find their egg-match!

 

Broken Egg Riddles

Supplies:
Large eggs cut in two
Riddle written on the first half of the egg
Answer written on the second half of the egg

How To Play: Children go around and ask the riddle and the second child will give the answer. If the answers are correct, the two children who are matched up then sit down. Game is over when all children have matched up the riddle to the answer.

 

Easter Bunny Says

How To Play: 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.

 

Freeze

Supplies: Music

How To Play: Begin playing music, everyone moves and dances until the music stops then they must "freeze" in whatever position they happen to be in.

 

Pin The Egg On The Basket

Supplies:
Big picture of a basket
A decorated paper Easter egg, for each child, with adhesive on back and their name on the front (could be an art activity before playing--everyone makes their own)
Blindfold

How To Play: Blindfold the player, spin 'em around and let them try to stick the egg on the basket. Give a prize for the player that gets the closest.

 

Egg Toss

Supplies:
Large cardboard with Easter basket drawn on one side Good size hole cut-out in center of basket, or a few small holes for older kids.
Colorful egg-shaped bean bags (Easter eggs)
Bucket to hold bean bags
Tape to mark distance line

How To Play: Place cardboard basket a little distance from a wall with a paper box lid on floor to catch Easter egg bean bags. Mark your distance line according to age and skill of children. Line children up behind the line and place a bucket of Easter egg bean bags beside them. Give each child three tries to get their bean bag through the hole. Get all three Easter egg bean bags in and earn a 'egg-licious' reward.

 

Rainbow Ribbons

Supplies: Cardboard egg with ribbon attached

How To Play: Show the children the cardboard egg. Have them close their eyes until you tell them to open them. Hide the egg with the ribbon attached so only the ribbon shows. Have the children open their eyes, stand up and search for the egg ribbons. If they find it they should not say a word but return quickly and quietly to their seats. The first person to sit down wins and may take a turn at hiding the egg.

 

Find the Easter Eggs

Supplies: 100+ Construction paper Easter eggs cut out

How To Play: Hide the eggs while the children are out of the room. Have the children find as many eggs as they can. Then have children go back to their tables or groups and count how many eggs the whole group has. Highest number of eggs collected get to make their treats first.

 

Egg Clue

Supplies:
Egg for each child with instruction written on one side and a chocolate egg taped on the other
Instructions might include: Hop like a bunny, walk like a crab, waddle like a duck, skip, walk backwards, etc.

How To Play: Children divide into two teams. Put the eggs at the end of the room in two piles. On your mark, the first child on each team runs to the pile, takes an egg and does what the egg says while returning to their team, then sits down. The next team member then runs to the pile...etc. The first team to be sitting down wins. Everyone enjoys a chocolate in the end.

 

Musical Chairs

Supplies:
Chairs with laminated Easter eggs or Bunnies taped to the seats
Music

 

Easter Egg Stomp

Supplies:
Large laminated Easter eggs, taped to the floor, one for each child
Music

How To Play: Every child begins by standing on an egg that has been taped to the floor. Start the music and have the children walk around the room. When the music stops they need to stand on an egg or they're out. Remove one egg after each musical segment.

 

Bunny, Bunny, Rabbit

How To Play: Have children sit in a circle. One child is "it" and hops around the circle tapping each child on the head and saying, "bunny, bunny, bunny..." until he/she finally says, "RABBIT". Both children hop around the circle trying to reach the vacated spot first.

 

Easter Egg Roll

Supplies:
1 hard-boiled Easter egg for each team (maybe a few extras)
1 spoon for each team

How To Play: Divide children into teams. The goal is for the first person to roll the 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.

 

Bunny Hop

Supplies: Pillow egg for each team

How To Play: Children divide into two teams. Give each team an egg pillow. Pillow size should be larger for younger children and smaller for older children. Have one child 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.

 

Pass The Egg

Supplies: Pillow egg for each team

How To Play: Children divide into two teams. Give each team an egg pillow the size of an orange. On your mark, the first child puts the pillow between their chin and neck and passes it to the next player. Here's the catch, players may only use their heads to pass (no hands or teeth allowed). The process continues to the last person in line and then reverses sending the pillow back to the first player in line. The first team to complete the game wins.

 

Duck Race

Supplies: Tape to mark distance lines

On your mark the children bend over and grasp their ankles. The first one to waddle to the finish line without letting go of their ankles, wins.

How To Play: A variation of the original.

 

Straw and Easter Cup Relay

Supplies:
A bendable straw for each child
An Easter cup for each team

How To Play: Each child receives a bendable straw. Each child will place the short piece in mouth. A cup will be placed on the first person of each team'­s straw. The first person passes the cup to the next person in line without touching the cup only by using the straw. First team with the cup to the end wins!

 

Easter Egg Relay

Supplies: 2 large construction paper eggs per team

How To Play: Divide children into teams. The first person of a team takes the 2 eggs and lays one of the eggs out on the floor. The child steps on the first egg and then places the second egg in front of them. The child steps on the second egg, reaches back and picks up the first egg and then places that egg in front of them. Continue to the end of the course and then run back and tag the next team member. Variation: Divide the teams in half and have the person walk on eggs to the other side.

 

Walk the Egg

Supplies:
2 hard-boiled Easter eggs
Enough spoons for each child

How To Play: Divide children into teams and have them form a line. The first child 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.

 

Bunny Tag

How To Play: A child begins by being "it". Everyone hops like a bunny trying to keep from getting tagged by the child that's "it". Watch out, if you run you're "it".

 

Capture the Egg

Supplies:
Four blue flags with a bunny on the front
Four green flags with an Easter egg on the front

How To Play: Divide children 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 three of there flags back to their own side without getting touched. If they get touched, they must stand still until one of their teammates touches them.

 

Mirror Relay

Supplies:
For each team:
Candy
Bowl
Small cup
Mirror

How To Play: Divide into teams. First child on each team holds cup on head. The child looks into the mirror held by another team member (or it can be mounted on the wall) and tries to fill their cup with candy. When the cup is filled, they dump the candy back in the bowl and pass the cup to the next person. First team that finishes filling their cups wins!

 

Beautiful Bunny

Supplies:
A cut out bunny for each child
Scissors
Markers
Cotton balls (for tail)

How To Play: Everyone makes 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.

 

Decorate Easter Cookies

Supplies:
Large sugar cookies for each child in shape of an egg
Canned frosting
Small candies, sprinkles, etc.

How To Play: A deliciously fun way to be creative.

 

Easter Cupcake Walk

Supplies:
Cupcake for each child
Numbers taped to the floor
Easter basket to hold number call cards
Music

How To Play: When the music starts the children begin to walk around the room stepping on each of the numbers as they go. When the music stops the children should step on the number closest to them. A number is pulled from the Easter basket and the child standing on that number gets to choose a cupcake and return to their desk. That number is then removed from the floor and the bag. Continue until every child has a cupcake.

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