And now the days of strict fasting and exhausting preparation for the great holiday of Easter are behind us. Your home shines with cleanliness, smells of flowers and the incomparable aroma of freshly baked Easter cake. The house will soon be filled with festive sounds, the twitter of long-awaited meetings, joyful children's laughter and the grace-filled, uniting everyone: “Christ is Risen!” Relatives who will soon gather in your home after a long separation will probably find something to talk about and remember. And if, suddenly, ridiculous silent pauses arise, you can always fill them with fun entertainment that smells so sweet of childhood! And, of course, fragrant plum pie, egg salad and many other inimitable delicacies!
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Easter entertainment, which I am sure you have been thinking about for many days, should, first of all, be unobtrusive. Let’s say that your devout Aunt Lisa, at over sixty years old, is in no way able to take part in “Egg Bowling” (where you need to run quickly and “shoot” accurately). But she will be happy to “outrace” everyone in the “Easter Quiz” (where you need to sit still and know all the nuances of the Easter service and the history of the holiday). And her grandson, Mishka, will really enjoy the Easter relay race, but he knows absolutely nothing about the nuances of the Sunday Liturgy. Choose games and fun for the holiday so that all guests can (and want!) to participate in them. Well, a few possible options, as always, I will offer you!
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM FOR FAMILY EASTER HOLIDAY
To begin with, I’ll say a few words about music. It should certainly (in the background) accompany your holiday. Of course, for such a solemn event as family dinner on the day of Great Easter, majestic church works and hymns, as well as classics, are best suited. Take “Iolanta” by Tchaikovsky, “The Seasons” by Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi, and other playful spring compositions.
Among other things, oriental motifs, for example, “Cherry Blossom” and, of course, ethnic Russian folk rock and simply traditional folk songs, will sound great in unison with your joyful spring laughter.
The combination of such directions will (don’t even doubt it!) be interesting to everyone. Older generation will kind of get acquainted with the musical preferences of young people, and vice versa, young people will learn how the “Cossack Circle” can sing and what chorales are.
Well, now - a few words about the promised fun!
ACTIVE OUTDOOR PLAYS
 Game 1. “Easter Bowling” |
Participants: everyone is interested. Props: several hard-boiled eggs different color. Rules: This game can be played both indoors and outdoors. outdoors. A white (unpainted) egg is placed in the middle of the room (lawn). All participants stand a few steps away from the egg. The task of each of them is to roll their egg as close to the white one as possible. The participant whose egg is closest to the center wins. |
 Game 2. “Easter Race” |
Participants: children and young people (active game). Props: plastic eggs (cups), cocktail straws. Rules of the game: all participants stand at the starting line. The goal is to get the egg (a cup turned upside down) to the finish line as quickly as possible. Younger participants are allowed to simply roll the egg with a straw, while older participants can make the task more complicated. Let them push the “Easter cup” or egg with the force of their breath (you need to blow into the straw). The winner is awarded applause and sweet prizes! |
 Game 3. “Spring Relay” |
Participants: young people. Props: large plastic eggs. Rules: all participants stand in a circle. The first one squeezes an egg between the neck and chin and tries to pass it in this way to the next participant. It is prohibited to touch the trophy egg with your hands. If the egg falls during the transfer, the participant who unsuccessfully tried to pass it leaves the game. The most dexterous one wins, as always! |
 Game 4. “What’s in the basket?” |
Props: a large box decorated with Easter designs or a real one wicker basket, small items (sweets, eggs, hairpins, paper clips, balls, toys, etc.). Participants: everyone is interested. The essence of the game: everyone who wants to participate is allowed to take one item from the basket (box). But! You need to name it without taking it out of the box and without looking at it. You just need to guess by touch which Easter gift you got. If the answer turns out to be correct, the gift belongs to the participant; if not, it is returned back to the basket and the game continues. |
 Game 5. “A pair for each creature” |
Props: cards with animal names (so that the name of one animal is repeated on two cards). Participants: everyone with a sense of humor (at least 6 people). Rules:“God, before the universal flood, allowed Noah to take a pair of each creature on his ark”... So you can start a game, the essence of which is that all participants must recognize their own kind as quickly as possible, run up to him and take his hand. At the beginning of the game, participants take one card from the hands of the presenter and read the name of the animal whose habits they will have to imitate. At the command “start!”, everyone must show in an accessible form what animal they have reincarnated into. Those who were unable to show recognizable character traits their animal and have not created a pair - they leave the game. |
 Game 6. “Capture the Easter Egg” |
Participants: children (at least 8 players). Props: 8 Easter eggs. Rules: The game is best played outdoors. All participants are divided into two teams. Each team receives 4 eggs, which must be placed at the same distance from each other on two opposite sides of the lawn (playing field). These are team fortresses. On the command “march!” members of each team must get to the enemy’s castle by any means and take his eggs. But this must be done in such a way as not to be caught by opponents who will try to win back their eggs! The game continues until the leader blows his winning whistle. |
 Game 7. “Easter bunnies” |
Props: rope or scarf for each pair of participants. Participants: everyone who is not deprived of a sense of humor (in pairs). Rules: couples stand side by side to each other. Their legs and arms (which touch each other) are tied. The task is to convey chocolates to other guests (who are on the opposite side of the room) in such a hobbled state. Easter eggs). The couple that completes the task the fastest retains the proud title of the “Easter Bunny.” |
 Game 8. “Naughty Basket” |
Props: baskets with Easter treats. Participants: everyone is interested. The essence of the game: carry the basket on your head from one end playground to the other so that it does not fall and its contents do not spill onto the floor. For older participants, the task can be complicated by adding an obstacle course. In addition to active games in the fresh air, offer your dear guests several options for creative joint projects. |
PASSIVE CREATIVE FUN
 Easter IQ Quiz |
Participants: older people. The essence: in Easter themed quiz. All participants need to ask questions related to Easter. For example, how long does the Easter Liturgy last or how to calculate the date of next Easter? This fun is dangerous because it can turn into a theological dispute. Therefore, I would advise, when selecting questions for the quiz, not to focus on purely church and religious aspects (let the meaning of Christianity remain in everyone’s soul), but to take lighter and funnier questions, for example, “what is the difference between the Easter Bunny and Easter chick?”, or “What came first: the chicken or the egg?” While adults are looking for answers to the tricky and meaningful questions of the Easter quiz, invite the children to assemble an original egg puzzle or arrange a competition among them for the most beautiful Easter egg. |
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Props: paints, varnish, unpainted eggs, tassels, beads. Essence: Draw your vision of the holiday on the egg. Choose colors and patterns so that you can later explain why such a choice was made. The author of the most interesting and unusual idea- there is a prize. |
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Props: plastic plates, scissors, colored paper, glue, buttons, etc. The essence The competition is to assemble any Easter symbol from available materials in 15 minutes: a bunny, a chicken, a pysanka, a basket, an Easter cake, etc. When the most creative “Easter miracle” takes its honorable, prominent place in the festive hall, you can invite guests to a festive meal! |
EASTER TREAT AND TABLE GAMES
On this day there should be a lot of baked goods on the table. Hot, steaming. This is a symbol of the presence of the Holy Spirit at the festive table. Pies, donuts, buns, cheesecakes - joyful Easter abundance!
Oh yes, don’t forget to make juicy curd paska with candied fruits and dried fruits! After all, there is an opinion that such a product is really the Russian national paska in full meaning words!
Games with paints
1. The guys lay out the eggs they brought on the table and cover them with hats. There are also hats on the table with nothing under them. Then the hats are moved around the table. One of the participants in the game is in another room at this time. They call him and ask: “Where are you floating the coki?” The driver, and if there are dyes there, takes them for himself. The game continues until all the colors are taken apart. Whoever is luckier has the most eggs
2. Egg rolling. This game was arranged like this: they installed a wooden or cardboard “skating rink” and cleared a flat area around it, on which they laid out colored eggs, toys, and simple souvenirs. The playing children approached the “skating rink” one by one and each rolled their own egg. The prize was the object that the egg touched.
3. The children who gathered for Easter loved to look for eggs in the apartment or in the garden. One of the elders hid cardboard, paper or plastic eggs with surprises in advance. To get a surprise, you had to find the egg. If there were a lot of children, they were divided into “teams”, and each team tried to win by finding as many eggs as possible in the allotted time.
4. They compete to see whose egg will spin the longest. On command, the children simultaneously spin their paints. Whose egg spins the longest is the winner, he takes the loser's egg.
5. The players sit next to the walls of the room opposite each other and roll paints. Krashenki collide. Whose egg breaks, he gives it to his opponent.
7. Paint fight. The players shout: “One, two, three! My egg, get stronger! Ready for battle!” Players hit paints with any side, usually sharp. Whose egg breaks or cracks is the loser.
Directions: These games can be played anywhere. The older the children, the more complex options they can be offered. You can play with two people, but with more they are more interesting.
Among the favorite spring pastimes in the old days and today are games, competitions (with jumping rope, with pebbles, with a ball), hide and seek games, riddle games, trap games, round dance games with choice.
1) Competition for the most unusual, beautiful egg.
Offer children boiled, blown or plastic eggs, food and inorganic dyes, leaves and blades of grass, stickers, etc. everything that (you think) will help children fulfill their creative ideas. On this day, let the children give their egg to whomever they want and say the words “Christ is risen.” Thus, they will learn one of the Easter rituals.
2) In the old days, men, girls and boys had as much fun as they could with colored eggs. Two people each take one egg and hit it with the sharp ends. Whoever breaks it loses, and the winner gets a point. Of all the couples, who will be the winner? An alternative to hitting eggs is to roll them along grooves on an incline. The principle of the game is the same.
3) "Search for Easter eggs."
Hide the eggs in one of the rooms of the house or in the yard. Divide the children into 2 teams. Notes in which you indicate (allegorically) the place where the next egg is hidden will help children look for eggs. In total, the team needs to collect, for example, 4 eggs. This means there should be 4 clue notes, each of which is revealed with a newly found egg. Which team will be smarter and faster?
4) Relay race "Easter table".
2 teams are participating. Depending on the number of participants, determine and come up with stages of the relay. For example.
1st stage
The first participant runs to the table (5-6 meters away). He needs to peel the egg, boiled for Easter and painted, eat it (put salt, warm tea so that he can wash it down), put the shell in Matchbox, close it and come back with it.
2nd stage
The second participant, having reached the table, must carefully cut the Easter cake and place it in pieces on a plate.
Stage 3
The third participant prepares Easter from the proposed set of products: cottage cheese, butter, raisins, cream.
Stage 4
The fourth participant is given a spoon and an egg. He must roll an egg to the “Easter table” along a paper path with a spoon. And the fifth participant must roll the egg with his nose.. You can continue the number of stages of the relay yourself.
After the competitions, invite the children to festive table, do not forget to prepare sweets for the kids in addition to Easter dishes. And after a light snack, you can offer children the game of pebbles, which was very popular in Russia at one time. (This game is not so active, but very exciting and useful, develops attention, resourcefulness, and develops dexterity of hands and fingers). To play the game, children use a special lot to decide who will throw pebbles after whom: the players take 5 pebbles, slightly throw them up, turn their hands palms down and try to catch them on the back of their hands. Whoever has the most pebbles on his hand starts the game. Then the participants sit in a circle at the table, each with their own stones. The place where the game takes place is called the kon. The line of players is set in a circle.
Heat
The player takes five pebbles in his hand, throws one of them up, and scatters four on the table. He catches a thrown pebble and throws it up again. While he is flying in the air, you need to have time to touch one of the pebbles lying on the table. If several pebbles lie together, you can touch them all at the same time and have time to catch the falling pebble. The pebbles touched by the player are put aside.
Verts
The same game, but the scattered pebbles need to be turned over or moved from their place.
Breast
Children take five pebbles in their hands, throw one up, and place four on the table with their chests and catch the thrown pebble with the same hand. The pebble is thrown up again, the four pebbles lying on the table are quickly taken and the thrown one is caught. The game ends when all players complete the task.
On the hem The player scatters four pebbles on the table and throws the fifth one up. Before catching a thrown pebble, you need to have time to take one pebble from the table and put it on your knees, the hem of your dress. The game is repeated until the players pick up all the pebbles and place them on their laps.
Barter
The player scatters four pebbles on the table, and throws the fifth one upward. You need to quickly take one of the lying pebbles and have time to catch the thrown one. One of the two pebbles is thrown up again, and the second is quickly placed on the table; Instead, you need to take the next one and catch the thrown one. The game continues until the players exchange all the pebbles.
Loner
The child takes five pebbles in his hand. One of them is thrown up, and four are scattered on the table. He catches the thrown pebble and throws it up again, quickly takes one pebble from the table and catches the thrown one. The game is repeated until all the pebbles are collected from the table.
Even and odd
One of the players takes a handful of pebbles, throws them up and, turning his hand palm down, catches the pebble on the back of one hand. Covering the caught pebbles with his other hand, he asks the players: “Even or odd?” Whoever guessed wrong pays forfeit. The one who gave all his forfeits leaves the game.
Scratches
To play you need 40 pebbles. All the pebbles, except one, are placed on the line. The first player throws one pebble and, before catching it, quickly takes as many pebbles from the horse as he can and catches the thrown one. Having caught it, the player puts all the pebbles aside except one, throws one pebble again and, while it flies, again takes pebbles from the horse. If the player does not catch the stone thrown upward, the second player starts the game. Whoever picks up the most pebbles is considered the winner
This is a simple competition as a warm-up for the brain. Whoever remembers and gives the answer the fastest wins a prize. The questions are: eggs with their own designs? (paintings); eggs in the same color? (colors); eggs painted using a special technology? (pysanky); eggs with a plain background and spots or stripes? (speckles); painted eggs with a scratched pattern? (rags); decorative eggs made of wood, for example, or beads? (eggs).
Easter Quiz
The competition is quite simple and does not require special effort from guests. The presenter asks questions, and whoever is the first from the audience to raise their hand answers. If the answer is correct, the participant earns his point. At the end, you can select 3 prizes, for example, with certain awards. Questions may be of the following nature: bread kvass, distributed in Orthodox Church, and they say that if you drink it on an empty stomach, you can get rid of all diseases (artos); name a product or object that is made before Easter in Bulgaria, it is thrown out of the window during the holiday, and the one who picks up a fragment of this object will find happiness (pot); the word "Easter" comes from the Hebrew word meaning "passes by", from the Egyptian expression "bestows light" or from the Romans "unearthly joy" (from Hebrew); this is the name for the solemn ringing of bells at Easter (blagovest); and Easter cookies in Poland, and the name of the dance (mazurka) and so on.
Fight, don't be afraid
Guests are divided into pairs. The host asks riddles to each pair, and whoever guesses first gets the right to be the first to beat the egg. Riddles can be very different, depending on the age and circle of guests, for example: the sun is shining brightly and birds are singing around, everyone has red... (testicles) on the table today; painstaking work before the holiday in the oven to bake delicious and rich miracles - ... (Easter cakes); Everything in the house is clean, but my soul is joyful, like in a fairy tale, because everyone is prepared for... (Easter) and so on. Then, in pairs, the participant who first guessed the riddle beats his partner’s egg. Whoever's egg remains intact has the right to make a wish, which the guest grants, with a broken egg.
Fun rides
In this competition, children will simply have fun, and adults can resort to knowledge of physics and mathematics, calculating the trajectory and speed. The participants' task is to roll their egg down a slide, which can be used as a board, or to make a special slide out of plastic. Whose egg stops the farthest wins. For general interest, multiple winners may be selected.
Each of the guests takes turns writing on a common sheet 3 words that he associates with today, for example, holiday, joy, eggs, and so on. Then the presenter announces that it is the turn to write a story or sing a song, that is, each of the guests, only in reverse order from the beginning of the sheet (from the first words), must make up sentences from which the Easter story will be built. At the request of the guests, you can make up not a story, but sing a song, whoever is good at what, in general.
Delicious Easter cake
For this competition it is necessary to prepare several small Easter cakes that the participants will eat. You need to be the fastest to eat your cake without using your hands. The most dexterous and fastest one wins a prize.
This is an interesting and fun fortune telling, a competition for the most interesting and fun future. But before the start, the host does not say anything to the guests. The task of each participant is to take turns going outside and name 3 objects they saw. When all the guests are outside, everyone stands up in turn and names their objects, for example, grass, sun, puddle. And the host turns on his imagination and talks about what awaits the guests in the future. For example, grass - great luck and green light awaits you in any endeavor, the sun, you will shine like the sun, warming everyone with its warmth, a puddle - you saw it, which means you have been warned, and no one can put you in a puddle.
Fun coloring pages
For this competition you will need eggs (wooden, chicken, paper, etc.), paints and brushes. Behind certain time Each of the guests must decorate their egg in their own way, while trying to do it very beautifully and better than the others. The best decorated Easter egg (maybe several) is chosen by voting, for which guests receive their prizes.
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Easter is a holiday that is usually spent with family and friends at a set table. But Easter traditions include not only a festive meal, but also various games and entertainment - especially if there are children among those celebrating. We will tell you about what Easter games there are for children. On our website you will find not only outdoor games for Easter, but also educational Easter-themed games: memories, mazes, Easter egg search games, Easter coloring books.
Search for Easter eggs and surprises
This game can be organized both in the apartment and in summer cottage or in the forest. It will be interesting to conduct it both with one child and with a group of children.
You will need colored eggs and small surprise prizes: candy, stickers, small toys, etc. An adult hides Easter eggs and prizes indoors or at a summer cottage in advance, and a child or group of children will have to find them. If there are a lot of children, you can divide them into two teams. Children take the surprises they find for themselves.
The simplest version of the game is to simply hide the gifts in different places. Unusual options for hiding places: stick it with tape under the seat of a chair or put it in the paws of a soft toy.
More difficult game options:
Before putting the prize in the cache, tie a thick thread to it, then walk around the apartment with this thread, entangling it with various objects on your way. The child finds the end of the thread and, winding it into a ball, reaches the prize. Use threads of different colors.
You can borrow an idea from the game “Cossacks-Robbers” by marking the path to the surprise with arrows.
Most interesting option, when a child finds a surprise from a series of notes. Moreover, the first note indicates where the second is hidden, the second - where the third, etc. From the last note, the child learns where the cache with the prize is.
Egg rolling
A traditional Easter game in Rus' is egg rolling. For these purposes, adults made a slide for children with sides on which eggs could be rolled. Small souvenirs and colored eggs were laid out around her on a flat surface. The playing children approached the slide one by one and each rolled their own egg. The winning item was the one the egg touched. The trajectory of the eggs is set by turning the slide.
An Easter slide for rolling eggs can be made from wood or regular cardboard, as in the photo below.
Competitions for Easter
How to spend Easter with children? Divide the kids into two teams and give them competitions and competitions for Easter.
Option 1.
Give each child a spoon and one egg (hard-boiled) for each team. Draw start and finish lines on the floor or ground. Children line up one after another at the starting line. Everyone has their own spoon in their hand. The first competitors from each team must put the egg in a spoon and, with the spoon in hand (or in their teeth), run to the finish line and back, and then pass the egg to the next player. Thus, all team members in turn must run with an egg in a spoon from start to finish and back, trying not to drop the egg. The team that completes the task faster and with the fewest number of eggs falling to the ground wins.
Option 2.
Each child is given a colored egg a certain color. One egg should be white. A white egg is placed in the center of the room, after which each child must roll his egg once towards white egg. The player whose egg is closest to the non-colored egg gets a point. The first one to score a certain number of points wins.
You can also draw a playing field with chalk or stick it with electrical tape, and the player whose egg rolls out of the field receives a penalty point (-1 point).
Option 3.
There has long been a tradition of clinking eggs with each other. The egg is picked up with the blunt or sharp end away from you and hit with it against the opponent’s egg. The winner is the one whose egg remains intact. The winner takes the loser's egg.
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Memory game "Easter eggs"
The game is designed to train visual memory. The set contains 16 cards with Easter eggs of different colors - two each with the same design. Two people play. Before starting the game, you need to lay out the cards face down on the table, and then turn them over two at a time. If they match, the player takes them and gets another turn. If not, the turn goes to another player. The task is to collect as many cards as possible.
Print out the form with Easter eggs from the link in duplicate. Before cutting out the eggs, reverse side Print out the “shirt” of each sheet (see the same link). Cut out Easter eggs (8 pairs). Easter memory game is ready!
Another version of the Easter Memory game can be downloaded from the link >>>>
Educational Easter games for children
Labyrinths for children
Search games. Easter egg search
The Bright Resurrection of Christ is a family holiday and it is customary to celebrate it in the family circle, together with all household members. Easter is also a reason to have a picnic in nature. And if for adults this is a reason to cook porridge over a fire, chat, breathe fresh air, then children prefer active leisure, so it’s worth thinking in advance what Easter games you can organize for children.
And to make this task easier for parents, we will give several examples of children's Easter fun - both traditional and new, original. Almost all of the competitions and games described below require a minimum of props, which means they are simple to prepare. And, to put it mildly, dragging a lot of things into the forest or to the river is not very convenient. But there are also those that are easier to organize at home - the choice is yours.
Everyone knows this fun and it’s hard to imagine Easter without it. The point of the game is to hit your opponent's egg with your egg so that yours remains intact, but the opponent's testicle cracks.
But you can diversify this game somewhat by, for example, assigning small prizes to the winners - then the kids will be more interested in the process itself and they will be interested in winning.
You can compete in such a battle either alone or in a group. For the company, they choose a driver who beats the eggs of other participants in turn until his testicle is broken on both sides, after which the driver becomes the one on whose testicle the previous driver broke his own. This continues until the eggs of all participants are broken, and the owner of the last intact Easter symbol receives a prize.
Gurneys
Another traditional fun. It will require a small gutter, which was previously made of wood, but in modern conditions it can be constructed from a piece of cardboard.
And the competition is held like this: small souvenirs, sweets, and toys are laid out on a flat surface. A trough is installed at a short distance, and the children take turns rolling their eggs along it. Whichever prize the egg catches, the child takes for himself.
Another variation of this fun is for children to roll eggs not for accuracy, as in the previous version, but for distance - whose egg rolled further wins.
Spinners
There is also an entertainment familiar from childhood, in which participants spin their paints - whose spin lasts longer wins.
Easter Quiz
In addition to active competitions, it will be useful for children to compete in intellectual fun. Moreover, such a quiz will help them in game form assimilate .
For the quiz, you should prepare a list of questions in advance, as well as many small pleasant prizes. The prizes can be the paints themselves, as well as small cakes in the shape of Easter cakes, other sweets, small books, calendars, keychains and other little things.
And here is the list of questions for the quiz with answers:
- How do you greet each other on Easter? (Christ is risen!)
- How is it customary to respond to such a greeting? (Truly risen!)
- On what day after his death was Jesus resurrected? (on the third)
- Which of the disciples betrayed Christ? (Judas)
- What is the name of the mountain on which the Son of God was crucified? (Calvary)
- What does the Easter Easter symbol mean? (Body of Christ)
- What other symbols of the Resurrection of Christ are there? (eggs, cross, fire, rabbit, wreath and others)
- Who met women in the cave who came on the third day after death, see
anoint Jesus' body with incense? (angel) - What is customary to do in Maundy Thursday? (wash, clean the house)
- On what day of the week is Easter celebrated? (on Sunday).
Treasure Hunt
Carry out this nursery Easter game you can either at home or in the forest or near
rivers We hide eggs or toy bunnies in the area in advance - whoever finds the most is the winner.
The game can also be organized in the form of a mini-quest, drawing up a search plan and at each stage asking a riddle or giving some kind of task.
Another option is to unwind a ball of thread on the way to the “treasure”. It is better if the threads are thick and knitting so that they are less tangled. The child, gradually winding the thread into a ball, reaches the hidden egg or rabbit.
The most accurate
For this fun, it is better to take not real, but wooden or plastic eggs. Capsules from Kinder Surprise toys are perfect. You will also need any wide container - a basin or bucket. The participants' task is to throw eggs and hit maximum amount once on target. This competition will appeal to both kids and teenagers - depending on the age of the children, the competition can be simplified or complicated by changing the size of the target and the distance from the participant to the target.
Easter coloring pages
You need to prepare for this entertainment in advance by printing out coloring pages. Here are a few templates for Easter coloring pages (save to your computer and print):
You will also need to take pencils or markers with you. Each child is given a coloring book, and his task is to color it within the allotted time. The winner is determined by general voting. It is still better to organize such fun at home, although it is quite possible to carry it out in nature if you have a level table.
Easter relay
When organizing Easter competitions for children, do not forget about such popular entertainment as the relay race. There can be a lot of options for the Easter relay race, the main thing is that it includes eggs, Easter cakes, rabbits and other items associated with this bright day.
Here are some ways to run the Easter relay:
First- the participant is given a tablespoon containing paint. His task is to carry the spoon from start to finish and back without dropping the egg. If the valuable cargo still falls, the participant returns to the starting line and starts over.
Second- children roll the egg with their hand or spoon to the finish line and back.
Third— near the finish line we place a plate with chopped Easter cake. The child runs to the finish line and eats one piece. Here it is worth clarifying that the pieces should be small, and place a container of water or compote near the plate so that you can wash it down. Also, before the start, we instruct children not to run until they have chewed, otherwise they may choke.
Fourth- kids jump on one leg with an egg in a small basket or bowl. The task is to jump the distance without losing the load.
You can come up with a lot of similar relay races, based on the availability of the necessary props, as well as the age of the participants - easier for kids, more difficult for schoolchildren.
Let's color the egg together
Props: a paper egg template, the size of a regular plate, and pencils. In the absence of a template, it is quite possible to use a disposable cardboard plate, just draw on the reverse, non-laminated side. The first participant paints the top of the “pysanka” and bends it so that what is painted is not visible. Then he passes the template to the next one, who also paints the strip and folds it. So we pass the template around until it is completely colored.
Advice - take several templates at once, depending on the number of participants. Each participant begins to color his own template, and then the children exchange templates with each other and continue to color them. At the end of the process, we unfold the templates and vote for the best Easter egg. But since the work is joint, we declare all the kids winners.
Puzzle egg
This entertainment can be either an independent game or a continuation of the previous one. Its essence is that the painted Easter eggs templates are cut into several parts, and the parts are mixed together. The participants' task is to find all the parts of one Easter egg and assemble it. The competition is for speed - who can complete the puzzle the fastest. The only props for this competition you will need are scissors to cut the templates into pieces.
Mini golf
You will need several wooden Easter eggs and tablespoons. We dig holes in the ground, and the players' task will be to get the egg into these holes, pushing it with a tablespoon.
Why wooden eggs? Because it’s somehow inappropriate to roll a holiday symbol on the ground, and wooden Easter eggs are easier to direct towards the goal, it’s easier to give them the desired trajectory. For kids we organize a simplified version - we place the hole close, make it large, and for schoolchildren and teenagers we complicate the competition by digging a smaller hole and moving the starting line further away.
These are just a few options that can be used to entertain the kids on this bright day. Perhaps, using these ideas, you will come up with your own, no less exciting Easter game.
How do you spend your leisure time on this bright day? Share in the comments!