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Easter Party Planning
Church Easter Egg Hunt Ideas
Children love Easter Egg hunts, but it is also important that they
learn the real story of Easter. Here are a few ideas to combine the
story of Easter with an Easter egg hunt.
Story Hunt
Make a copy of a shorter Easter story. Cut the story into pieces and
hide in the eggs. At the end of the hunt have the kids put the story
together and read it out loud to them.
Empty Eggs
When making up the eggs for the hunt leave a few empty. At the end of
the hunt, read the children this verse: Matthew 28:6 He is not here.
He has risen just as He said. Explain to them that the tomb was empty
because Christ was resurrected. Those empty eggs represent the empty
tomb.
Tell A Story Eggs
Instead of filling the eggs with candy fill eggs with items that help
tell the story of the resurrection. Items such as a thorn, a piece of
linen, bread, coins and so on will be physical items that you can hold
up after the Easter egg hunt as you read the story of Christ's
resurrection to them.
Treasure Hunt
Divide the kids into groups and give them each a color. Cut a picture
of an empty tomb into puzzle like pieces and put one piece in each
egg. Have a puzzle for each group. The groups must find all the eggs
and put the puzzle together to get little goodie bags.
Map it Out
Hide pieces of a map along with candy in the Easter eggs. When the
kids have found all the eggs help them put the map together and read
it. Have the map lead them to a small service project for them to work
on.
Have an Easter Carnival
Put tickets to different booths inside the eggs of a specific color
(i.e. in the blue eggs hide a ticket to get their face painted, in the
pink eggs hide a ticket for a snack, in yellow eggs hide a ticket for
a bean bag toss etc.) and hide the eggs. Tell the children that they
need to find one egg of each color. Then after the hunt let them go
around and use their tickets at the carnival.
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