hop to it! Easter baskets, hunts & tastings!
- Our Grand Lives
- Mar 12, 2024
- 5 min read
Updated: 11 hours ago
Updated on Wednesday, April 13, 2025
(Originally Posted on Tuesday, March 12, 2024)
Can you believe it?
Easter is this weekend!
Will you be hosting a holiday gathering with family or friends?
If so, no need to worry!
We’ve got you covered with fun ideas to keep everyone hoppy…
All the Littles, Middles and Grands in your life!
In the past, Laurie shared her fun tradition of A FAMILY EGG HUNT
and we offered our lists for FILLING OUR LITTLES’ EASTER BASKETS.
You’ll find all our ideas here.
Today Laurie,, in her own words, is sharing more fabulous ideas
for making any Easter celebration EXTRA SPECIAL!
Our family really embraces the tradition of Easter egg hunts
and that custom continues, with a few adjustments,
as our family also continues to grow!
An Egg Hunt for Our Middles!
During the last several years, my sister and I
have planned an egg hunt for our Middles (our own grown children)
and each year we do our best to add a new twist to the mix!
The Middles had done an egg hunt themselves since they were quite young!
As grandchildren (our Littles) came along,
we thought it was time to retire this tradition for the Middles…
HOWEVER,
our Middles had other ideas!
They wanted to continue the fun
- the razzing, the bragging rights and the fierce competition -
with siblings and cousins alike!
A few years back, my Sister S moved to a new house, and the backyard had a nice border of landscaping and shrubs that worked for our young Littles on their egg hunt. However, we also knew that our Middles would never be challenged by such a landscape!
So… what to do with a big empty backyard? We came up with the simplest egg hunt we have ever done! We counted out 10 eggs of 4 colors (10 eggs for each couple) and scattered them all over a large area of the yard. We told each couple what color they would be searching for.. Each couple started on one side of the yard with one person blindfolded and holding a bucket.
The partner NOT wearing the blindfold was the direction-giver. HIs/her job was to shout out directions to their colored eggs, while the blindfolded partner would have to find them.
“Go forward, keep going!”
“Turn left.”
“Bend down.”
“No, not that one, a little farther over!”
Once all 10 of the same colored eggs were found, the blindfolded Middle had to find the way back to his/her partner and it was over!
There was no specific prize for the winning couple
- just bragging rights -
and shame for the couple that came in last!
A SURPRISE of a Prize!
All Middles DID receive a special certificate for completing the hunt!
Each couple received money for a mini golf outing…
Cousin Time Golf
was (and is) a favorite activity for all involved!
Childcare was also provided - by the Grands!
It was a nice way for us to give our Middles a special time out,
and a chance for Middle cousins to have adult time together!
The Littles’ Egg Hunt!
The egg hunt for our Littles was pretty traditional that year, as well.
We did assign each Little their own specific color of plastic egg
so Little D (age 1 ½ at the time) could find hers easily in the open grass!
We decided to forego the candy treats and when each Little found their 10 eggs, they could turn them in for a prize. Sister S found some adorable kid-sized watering cans that they all received as their prize.. Some other fun warm weather prizes might include bug houses, hula hoops, sidewalk chalk, balls or bubbles.
In a past post we also highlighted
as an activity to do during your Easter celebration.
This year let’s talk about
JELLY BEAN TASTING!!
I remember that during my pre-Easter shopping,
I discovered two very unique bags of jelly beans -
Brach’s Desserts of the World
and
Dunkin’ Donuts Iced Coffee flavors!
I’m sure there are many fun and unique flavors out this year, too!
However there is nothing wrong with your everyday jelly bean flavors…
You’ll quickly discover who your black jelly bean lovers are!
I organized this activity by sorting the jelly beans first.
I put one flavor on each serving plate
with a sign identifying the flavor nearby.
I also put paper voting circles by each plate, too.
The idea was simple…
try each flavor, write your name on your favorite voting circle color,
and place it on the graph.
As you can see, the voting was carefully monitored by the Littles!
Let’s see, we’ve done Peeps and Jelly Beans…
M & Ms may be next!
Any other tasting ideas?
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We had a small space for an indoor hunt when my nieces and nephews were small so we used clues in the eggs for them to find the next egg. They each got a starting clue and the hunt was on. It kept them busier as they would have found the eggs much quicker if they couldn't just grab the first egg they found.
What a fun tradition. I wish we had more family nearby. I grew up with a ton of cousins but my kids only have 2. Makes me sad sometimes.
You have the funnest games and ideas. Love these!
This is so much fun! Great ideas. I love seeing all the fun activities and family fun you all have. I'm happy to feature your post tomorrow at The Crazy Little Lovebirds link party #30. Thank you for sharing your post with us. :)
Steph@Crazylittlelovebirds
These are such fun games and activities! Thank you for visiting Happy Hearts & Homes, I hope you stop by again this week.