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Kyle and I have always loved entertaining at our home, and since having children it’s been fun to find creative ways to make memorable experiences for our kids and their friends! I always feel like it’s a festive way for adults to get together during the day without having to book a sitter…and creating an activity for our kids all at the same time. Two birds with one stone! This year I’m throwing an Egg Hunt Party!
We are having our Egg Hunt party on the Saturday before Easter, with some local friends and their kids. I’m filling about 200 plastic eggs with candies, jelly beans, Easter M&Ms, and even scattering some toys in to a bunch of them. Then we will hide them all over our yard, with some planted in more obvious places for the littlest kids and toddlers, and others a bit more challenging for the older ones.
You can’t have a party without food and drinks, and for my Egg Hunt party I’ll be serving some fun afternoon sweet treats! I love all the pastel colors in the aisles these days, and I decided to offer an assortment of snacks alongside some pretty little Krispie treat nests with chocolate Cadbury mini eggs inside! They were so easy to make and turned out so adorably– these are definitely staying on my Easter entertaining list for years to come! I’ll be serving Rosé and beer for the grownups, and strawberry smoothies and lemonade for the kiddos.
Sweet Easter Nests…
- Rice Krispie Treats (you can buy pre-made or make your own)
- Cadbury Mini Eggs
- Nonstick Spray
- Muffin Tin
If using pre-made Rice Krispie Treats, unwrap them, place on a microwave-safe plate, and heat for 20 seconds. In the meantime, take the muffin tin, and spray each mold with nonstick spray. When the Rice Krispie Treats are warm, pull 2 x 1 inch sections and place in the bottom of each muffin mold. Using your fingers (wet them if they begin to stick) press the Rice Krispie Treats in to the bottom and sides of the tin to create a nest shape. When the molds are all filled with the nests, allow to cool and harden, approximately 30 minutes. Remove from molds and fill each with 3 mini Cadbury eggs!
Marlowe and Major are both SO excited to look for Easter eggs this year. Last year Major was a little baby and definitely wasn’t participating and running around in the Easter festivities– it’s going to be so special to watch them experience the party together this year! Watching their bond is so special for me– they’ve been playing together so much lately and knowing they are making memories and traditions they can look back on makes everything worth it for me, even on the most chaotic days.
Do you hunt for Easter eggs as part of your Easter Celebrations? What goodies do you store inside them?
A good trick we have used for egg hunts was to classify the egg colours for different age groups. So kids under two looked for blue eggs, kids 2-3 for orange eggs, kids 4-6 purple eggs, etc. This way, the bigger kids didn’t scoop up the eggs that were easiest to find and immediately went further out into the yard or park to find their colour. Worked perfectly!
SUCH a great idea! Thank you!
Happy Easter Martino Family! I know you’ll have a great time. I’m going to an adult Easter and I’m bringing a dish (not a dessert…I know the shock and awe!) and plastic eggs filled with scratch off lotto tickets! (In January I won $500…so my friends are obsessed! Of course over the years I’ve spent $5,000! LOL)
Love to all!
Happy Easter! ? It looks like your little ones will have a great time at the egg hunt party! Last year, we filled eggs with small Toob animals (definitely a hit), stickers, mini raisins and yogurt raisins boxes (fit perfectly) and some candies, of course. Our daughter (and friends) were all 2 at the time. ?
Looks like a super fun egg hunt! My mother in law assigns each kid an egg color during the hunt. This definitely keeps the grandkids from fighting over easter eggs. Everyone is just on the “hunt” for their specific color. We especially enjoy hiding the eggs for the older kids in hard to find spots.
Happy Easter!
I totally agree with you on doing a party for the kids and giving the parents a fun way to get out of the house without a sitter. We did a “Noon Years Eve” party this year for the same reason: boozy brunch for parents and fun party for toddlers. We even DIY’d a balloon drop for the 12:00 noon countdown! The parents were so grateful to have somewhere to go and something to do to tire the kids out before naptime while sipping some celebratory mimosas. We have a new tradition on our hands!
Totally loving these simple but festive ideas!! I’m definitely using some ???
Such a cute idea, Eva! And thanks for the tip on the sweater on Instagram — I bought it for $12!!!
Omg I can’t get over the rice crispies with eggs inside! Also, the photo of both the children Kissing was just adorable! This year my son will also be partaking in egg hunts this year and I can’t wait.
They’re so yummy! Have a happy Easter! 🙂
I love the rice crispy nests!!!
We always do Easter with my in laws. They hide a ton of eggs with candy and some with quarters. We have some big kids so my father in law hides dollar bills around the yard. A bunch of $1’s, a couple $5’s, a couple $10’s, and one $20. He rolls the bills up tight and small then hides them all in odd places around the yard, like in the trampoline springs, and cracks in the fence, and the handle of the bbq. Eventually all the adults join in to help the kids find the money. It’s pretty fun!
Ha! That does sound SO fun!
When my daughter was younger we used to “plant” jelly beans in the yard after dinner the day before Easter. The next morning the jelly beans sprouted lolly pops! She couldn’t wait to run outside Easter morning to see the magic!
Oh em gee. That is the freaking cutest thing I have ever heard!!!!!!