How to Have a Hoppy Easter at Home

Tips for a fun, family Easter celebration at your place.

April 14, 2022

By: Dakota Kim

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Essential Tips for an At-Home Easter Celebration

This year, parents may still feel iffy about throwing big, splashy Easter egg hunts and parties. To make being at home an event, it’s time to festoon the backyard and indoors with extra big Easter party decorations for a smaller crew or family only. Get gussied up in your sweetest Easter gear, make these awesome crafts and treats, play silly games, and make sure you take plenty of photos.

You’re No Bunny 'Til Some Bunny Loves You

Spring has sprung — or it will, in your photos! Whip out that triple-lens iPhone camera and gussy up your little gentleman in this Old Navy chambray shirt, and dress big sis in a chambray bunny dress by Hanna Anderson or Unique Baby’s bunny tutu dress. Let the littlest ones match too — pop Copper Pearl’s spring-themed quilt down on the lawn, snuggle them in the Cat & Jack Baby Bunny Hooded Romper and top it with Janie and Jack’s bunny cardigan, then adorn him with a bunny bib and a Lou Lou Lollipop bunny teether for the sweetest photo shoot ever. You can even ornament your infant in a full bunny outfit. Want to get it personalized? You can’t go wrong with these adorable seersucker outfits with bunny shirts you can have personalized with your kids’ names — headbands, socks and suspenders included!

Plan a Visit from the Easter Bunny

The kids love seeing Santa at Christmas, so why wouldn’t they love getting a visit from their hoppiest friend come April? Have your Easter Bunny appear as a surprise mid-party, bringing along bubbles, large chocolate bunnies and eggs, Easter baskets, plush squishy stuffed animals, and Easter crackers to pop. Bed Bath & Beyond, Walmart and Party City have all the costumes you need to hop along as your kids’ furriest friend.

Put Some Spring in Your Strut

You’ve color-coordinated everything else, so why not usher in spring while you stroll around the neighborhood? For the girliest girls, the luxury Mockingbird Single-To-Double Stroller comes in a limited edition color called Bloom that’s perfectly pink. But don’t worry boy moms — there’s a sky blue color too.

BUY IT: Mockingbird, $450.00

Make Easter-Themed Treats

Cheerful Easter-themed rice krispie treats for the entire fam are within your reach. Whether you’re following a recipe or improvising a family classic, go for bright colors and extra decorations. From lemon bar Peeps and almond macaroon nests to easy Easter cupcakes and traditional Italian Easter bread, you can’t go wrong when you’ve got a sense of fun and a taste for sharing the most delicious products of your kitchen. Have the kids help with mixing or decorating to make the baking a family project.

Organize an Easter Egg Hunt

Throw an easy Easter egg hunt by purchasing or ordering plastic eggs online and filling them with surprises, from small action figures and gift certificates to chocolates. You’ll want to count the total number of eggs you have before you hide them, so you don’t find them in six months’ time! Then, it’s time to get creative. Try secreting the little eggs both outdoors and indoors, in tree trunks, inside closets, under coffee tables, beneath the deck, under statues and fountains, beneath heaps of leaves, and even inside a coffee cup outdoors. Afterward, the kids can swap their eggs with their siblings.

Decorate Easter Eggs Worthy of a Faberge Eggzhibit

These aren’t the eggs of your childhood with their watery pastel colors. Today’s eggs are fierce, bold, and beautiful, from holographic shimmer eggs to metallic gold ones. You can create a textured marble whip, decorate them like dinosaurs, or paste on characters from Paw Patrol or Frozen. Your center for decorating is the Target Easter Egg landing page, where you’ll find links to everything you need to make a sparkly gem of an egg.

Gussy Up An Easter Tree

Who says trees are just for the winter holidays? You may have noticed the beautifully bright trend of making an Easter tree. Since you’re spending extra time at home, it’s time to make the living room extra pretty and cheer up those strolling by. We have all the info on these gorgeous corner-brighteners. You can even decorate a tree on your front lawn for passersby.

Create Easter Baskets or Crafts for Charity

If you’re tired of scrubbing the microwave smears of exploded Peeps left by your mischievous ones, it’s time to put those hands to work. If you have egg cartons, check out our tips for fun Easter crafts you can deliver to a charity to brighten other people’s day, along with handwritten notes. Grab the goodies, green grass, and flowers to make Easter baskets for a local senior citizen’s home, women’s shelter, or soup kitchen.

Roll Your Eggs Down the Lawn

If your kids are tired of the conventional egg hunt or dyeing, try this silly and fun game: an Easter egg roll! Draw lines down the lawn with dividers or spray, then give each child a long-handled spoon to push their egg. You can even do this on a slope so the race gets even sillier and more fun. The first to cross the finish line gets an especially large Easter basket.

It’s a Toss-Up!

If you played the egg toss as a kid, you’ll be happy to know it’s still the cause of hijinks and hilarity — especially when you don’t know which eggs have been boiled and which have not! Have your kids stand an equal distance apart in two-person teams. If the egg is caught, have each team member step back one step and toss again. The last team standing wins.

Do an Easter Scavenger Hunt

If you’re at home with just your family, indulge in planning an elaborate scavenger hunt complete with clues inside and outside the house that ultimately lead to a treasure room full of balloons. But if you want to reconnect with your relatives flung far and near, organize a Zoom scavenger hunt that you cast onto your TV or projector outdoors, so everyone can participate. Here’s how to do it: make a list of 25 silly, interesting or commonplace items, like "7 rolls of toilet paper," "a book with a bunny," "a dozen eggs," "a CD," "a Barbie," "a blue Lego," and "a dog leash." Set a timer and see how many items each Zoom participant can bring back to the computer in 5 minutes. The person with the most items wins!

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