Easter at Home Ideas

If you’re feeling stuck for inspiration over Easter with your family, we’ve compiled a list of all weather activities to keep everyone busy at home.

Many of us have put together an Easter egg hunt for small children in the past, but if you’re entertaining a household of older children or teenagers and feeling extra creative you could write up some riddles, clues or puzzles. Keep them guessing and make it a hunt to remember. You could even use a home escape room game and set the scene with themed dress, music, or background noise to create the full immersive experience.

From origami flowers to painting eggs, in our house we lay out a surprise selection of arts and crafts materials and Easter decorating equipment for the children on Good Friday. In the same way that we decorate the Christmas tree whilst munching on a mince pie, we enjoy painting and making with a hot cross bun. Try making Easter cards to post to family and friends or make a garland of paper flowers to decorate your home.

Whatever the weather, go for a walk and gather sticks to make an easter tree. When you come home, arrange the sticks in a vase and decorate! Ours is always decorated with the Easter crafts that the children make, and anything that reminds us of spring that we find on our walk. For the more adventurous explorers, try making a spring journey stick. Starting with a good “walking stick”, collect items as you walk and attach them to the stick. They might be feathers, flowers, leaves or anything else you find interesting. Just remember to take some lengths of string out in your pocket!

Start a new tradition and play a family board game, card game or make up some Easter themed charades for the family to enjoy. Even young children can be involved in charades with printed or hand drawn pictures. Games also make an excellent alternative gift to a chocolate egg for those feeling “too grown up” for Easter.

Speaking of alternate Easter gifts, books will keep the family entertained for far longer than chocolate. With a four day weekend stretching ahead, plan some quiet time to relax with a good book or to enjoy story time as a family.

Last but by no means least, enjoy baking as an activity and even hold an Easter tea party. Your Easter biscuits might follow a traditional recipe, or they may be brightly coloured, rabbit shaped sugar cookies! Homemade hot cross buns are as delicious as Easter bakes can get, or you and your smallest sous chef could get messy with corn flake nests.

Whatever you do over Easter, we hope you enjoy the break.