I like coming up with activities we can do with things we already have around the house, since we accumulate enough stuff as it is! Right now, we have lots of plastic Easter eggs ready to be filled with candy for Easter Sunday. But, I’ve found that there are a bunch more ways to use these little eggs. Some of them incorporate faith and some are just for fun. Pick your favorite, or if you’re feeling ambitious, go ahead and try all five!
1. Egg-cellent Snack Holders: Place plastic egg halves in an egg carton and put your snacks inside. Another option would be to put the snacks in the eggs, close them up, hide them, and then do an egg hunt. (Just keep track of how many you hide and where they are...you don’t want to find an egg full of moldy cheese in July. 🤪) Kids are sure to *eat* this one up!
2. Resurrection Egg Hunt: Draw pictures or write words that relate to the biblical Easter story inside the eggs (some ideas: donkey, Palm branch, water bowl, garden, soldiers, cross, tomb, empty, angel). Hide the eggs and have kids search for them. Open the eggs and put the pictures/words in order as you talk about the Easter story and Jesus coming back to life!
3. Egg & Spoon Challenge: Give each person a spoon and place an egg on top. Then do various challenges while trying to keep the egg on the spoon like spinning in a circle, hopping on one foot, or singing a song with your eyes closed. Take turns coming up with fun & silly things to do while trying to keep that egg on the spoon!
4. Roll the Egg: Sit in circle and roll an Easter egg to each other. Decide on a question you’ll all answer like “what are you the most excited about for Easter?” or “how can you pray for someone this week?” Then have each person answer the question when the egg is rolled to them.
5. Egg Maracas: Make maracas out of Easter eggs and dried beans (or improvise), turn on some worship music, and have a praise parade! We’ve done this one a couple of times in the last week, and the first time we used jelly beans inside the eggs. Well, we ate those, so when we made them again a couple days ago, we put coffee beans inside. And our kids may have discovered that coffee beans don’t taste quite like jelly beans. 😂 Hint: tape the eggs shut if you don’t want kids eating or spilling whatever is inside!
So there ya go, friends! Happy Easter!
