Celebrate Easter with these 10 festive ideas

LIFESTYLE NEWS - With Easter fast approaching you may be you may be casting around for ideas to celebrate the festivities of the long weekend.

Whether you’re with family, spending quality time with your children or entertaining friends, we have compiled a list of yummy snacks, fun ideas and bonding activities for everyone to enjoy together.

Make Easter Bunny Marshmallow Treats

These treats are super cute and simple to make, so the whole family can join in on crafting and enjoying the yummy bunnies!

You require a bag of marshmallows of your choosing, mini marshmallows for the finer details, and some food colouring to dot the eyes, nose, whiskers and extra touches.

Use a pair of kitchen scissors to cut the marshmallows into halves, creating the required shape for the ears, paws and so on, and make a tiny batch of icing sugar mixed with water that will serve as the edible ‘glue’ to put the bunnies together.

Decorate Festive Easter Cookies

Who doesn’t enjoy delicious freshly baked cookies? Add the interactive fun of decorating them together with friends and family, and you have a festive activity for all to enjoy together and take home as an Easter gift.

You can decide whether you would like to be more involved by baking your own cookies and making your own icing for decorating. If so, we recommend this yummy sugar cookie recipe and this royal icing recipe.

But, you can keep simple if you would prefer to focus on the decoration and opt for buying the cookies ready to decorate from a bakery along with readymade icing. Load up on sprinkles, edible decorations and Easter themed food colouring for the decoration process. Give your creativity free rein!

Cotton Candy Nests

These cotton candy nests make beautiful AND delicious table and cupcake decorations your guests can enjoy after an Easter meal.

It is an easy and simple idea to take your decorations to the next level. Cotton candy and candy eggs are all you need to assemble them. Take it a step further by incorporating the nests into your dessert by using them as decoration on top of cupcakes.

Tape Balloons to the eggs for Younger Kiddies

Often, young ones may find it hard to find hidden-away Easter eggs, or you may even have difficulty remembering where you hid them yourself!

With this super fun trick you can help the littlest hunters out. Attach balloons to some of the Easter eggs that lead to bigger treasures ahead, giving them the thrill of the hunt.

Leave an Easter Bunny Trail

These bunny tracks will excite all the kiddies at an Easter egg hunt while simultaneously giving clues as to where the eggs have been hidden.

With this simple trick all you will need is a bit of flour and a piece of paper to cut out the shape of a bunny paw print to use as a stencil. Place the stencil on the floor and lightly sift the flour over it to create the footprint. Be careful when lifting the stencil paper to not mess flour over the footprint. Alternatively, you can use chalk to draw the bunny prints on the ground.

Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt

A scavenger hunt always ensures plenty of excitement ,whether or not there are holiday celebrations. This is a fun idea for older children as you can make the clues and riddles more challenging depending on the general age of the kids playing, creating a more engaging hunt for them.

Write down and leave clues and riddles hidden around your house or garden to lead them to a grand prize.

Colour-matching Easter Egg Hunt

When dealing with a group of children, a fun idea to keep the Easter egg hunt conflict-free is to assign each child a different colour egg to find. In doing so, the eggs are fairly split up, ensuring each child has the same amount of fun and snacks when hunting.

Find, craft or wrap eggs in designated colours for the number of kids in the hunt. You can even personalise the eggs with names to ensure there is no confusion when the hunt is on.

Bake a Carrot Cake for the Easter Bunny

Spend some quality time with your loved ones with a simple and yummy activity. What better time to indulge in some homemade carrot cake?

Bake a delicious carrot cake in celebration of the festive weekend and enjoy the yummy snack with some tea after the egg hunt. Get the family involved in the process, whether it be stirring, measuring or even decorating! We recommend this deliciously moist carrot cake recipe.

Easter Picnic

Have a change of scenery and embrace nature with a lovely Easter themed picnic in the park or at the beach, filled with yummy snacks and sandwiches in the park with your friends, family or both.

You can spice up the picnic by indulging and adding special treats, or just keep it simple with a variety of everyday snacks like fruit and popcorn accompanied by some Easter eggs to celebrate the holiday.

Easter Dress-up

Hop into the spirit of Easter weekend by organising a bunny dress-up party for you, your kids or even the whole family. Get everyone involved and spread the festive spirit.

Give everyone a laugh and some fun activities to do with a funny bunny photo booth or a best-dressed bunny competition, making the prize a lovely basket of mouthwatering treats.