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.

If you have a little one in your life, Knits for Little Ones by Lotte Rahbek is full of sweet patterns for kids ages 0-2 inspired by nature and the sea.

Rahbek is a designer of Nordic inspired knits and these projects include lots of simple but nice details like stripes, cables, ruffles and eyelets.

There are no knitting instructions in the book and one page that includes descriptions of a few techniques like raglan shaping, picking up stitches and German short rows, so it’s good if you have some knitting knowledge under your belt before you pick up this book. There is a little chart that shows some of the skills required in different projects such as I-cord, picking up stitches or cable and lace patterns.

The skill levels are described as beginner, somewhat experienced and experienced. Of the 22 patterns, 6 are rated for beginners, 7 for somewhat experienced and 9 for experienced knitters. I’m not entirely sure I agree with her ratings, which put anything with cables or lace in the experienced section, including a baby blanket that’s worked flat and mostly garter stitch with easy cabled stripes.

The patterns for beginners include socks worked on double pointed needles, which I wouldn’t consider a beginner skill. Others are a bottom up raglan worked in garter stitch with stripes, a colorblocked raglan worked from the bottom up, a pair of shorts with stripes and a drawstring waistband, top down leggings with an elastic waistband and a little knit collar with a ruffle.

Other projects include that pointed bonnet featured on the cover, a twirly dress, bloomers, a romper, cardigans and a ruffled vest, to name a few.

She leans heavily on ruffles and little cables and embellishments, which feels a little repetitive but does make the collection feel cohesive. I’d have loved to see more colorwork, but that’s clearly not what she was going for.

The photographs of kids of various ages on the beach are darling and will make you wish you had a baby and a beach to re-create some of these scenes.

If you like simple designs with a few fun details and have a kiddo under 2 to knit for, this collection is lovely and will result in pieces you are sure to treasure.

About the book: 176 pages, 22 patterns. Published 2025 by Penguin UK. Suggested retail price $16.99.

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