Easter Picnic Party Ideas

Easter is always fun but it is especially fun when you have young children who like to go on Easter egg hunts. I don’t recall when it started but every year we host our Annual Easter Picnic in the Park event. (We have a park opposite our house). We ask everyone to bring a share plate of food, their own chairs and friends and family too.

Every year I add a little something new to the Easter Party Box. This year I am planning a Giant Dominoes games, but have made them quite yet.

I am going to include some photos below from various Parties to inspire you for Easter food, Easter decorations and even games to play at Easter time.

This was last years purchase a full size photo backdrop off ebay. I use this backdrop as an Instant way to theme my Easter Table.

Cream cheese, food coloring and parsley created this Plate of Cheese and crackers.

Veggie and dip Easter Pots

Cheese cake topped with mini Easter Eggs for a quick party food.

It wouldn’t be any fun without a little bit of family competition. How many Jelly beans in the Jar ?

Bunny Juice box covers, I laminated mine so we can re-use them every year. Free printable here.

Butterfly (peg and pipecleaners) Grab bags.

Carrot patch, Cheetos in plastic bags.

Our very popular Chocolate Bunny photo prop. Everyone wants to take a bite out of him. He was bought online, but they don’t sell him anymore.

Easter Bunny Sugar Cookies

Giant inflatable ball, I bought this for my son’s 1st Birthday “beach themed” party. That was 8 years ago. Still rolling strong with only a few patchups.

We played games to steal the inflatable carrots from The Easter Bunny from Oriental trading

The very popular Sack Races! Using these Bunny Hop bags. Again we have had these for a few years now and still going strong.

Easter Bunny Ring Toss game was from Oriental Trading, it looks like they don’t sell this product but have a new version here.

DIY Chocolate Bunny game. We used felt for the bunny and stuck it to a frame. The bunny tails were made with velcro dots and ping pong balls.

There’s something great about every state, and Clive Gifford has collected fun facts, trivia and firsts from every state in Record-Breaking USA: Celebrating America’s Biggest, Brightest and Bravest.

Each state gets a one or two-page spread, with facts scattered around the page and illustrations by Paul Hammond. The page lists a state nickname, the capital, state mammal, a fun fact and some famous residents, as well as firsts and record breaking events that happened in each state.

You’ll learn that Alabama is home to the biggest unclaimed baggage center in the world, that Florida is home to the most toxic tree (the manchineel tree, which has sap that can burn the skin and make people go blind, and its fruit is toxic) and that Iowa is home to the largest model of a strawberry, to name a few facts. Loma, Montana, holds the record for the largest temperature range in a day (from -54 to 49 degrees F, which is a 103 degree difference), while Ohio’s Geauga County once employed the smallest police dog on record, an 11-inch-tall chihuahua/rat terrier mix.

South Dakota has the world’s biggest Bigfoot statue, the cotton candy machine was invented in Tennessee, and a car that was 91 percent cake was driven (and eaten) in Washington state in 2021, now holding the record for the fastest moving mostly edible car.

As you might guess from these sample facts, kids will find this book funny and probably learn some things, too. In addition to the states there’s a page for Washington, D.C., where President Theodore Roosevelt broke the record for the most hands shaken in one day (8,513, a record that’s held since 1907), and the US territories, as well as records that cross state lines and span the globe.

Readers will also learn about records set in space and read what it takes to be a record breaker. There are even a few records listed that you can try to break yourself.

This fun and colorful book is sure to engage kids who love facts, and would be a great one to take along on your next road trip.

About the book: 96 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $24.99.

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