Easter Party

Carter's class had an Easter party the Thursday before Easter.  I was in charge of the party since Lauren (Sophie's mom - the other room mom) had to work that day.  I spent a few evenings getting ideas online and then had my mom help me on Tuesday get everything prepared.

My mom's main job (that took quite awhile!) was to make 13 sets of bunny ears for the kids.

We had two crafts.  Lauren had bought some foam flowers for the kids to put together and glitter glue to decorate them.  While the kids did that, I had them fill these egg buddies that my mom and I made with dirt and grass seed.  I was going to let the kids also put these together but we really needed hot glue to make sure everything stuck.

Carter's has been sitting in the window sill since the party and now looks like this:

I hope that some of the other kids' also grew hair!

I planned on doing 2 games.  One was an egg and spoon race.  The other was an egg toss into buckets.  (Only plastic eggs were used!)  After the games, the kids got goody bags filled with bubbles, Easter stamps, and some chocolate eggs.

After the game the kids got snacks.  I made Rice Krispie Treat eggs ...

and carrots of bunny crackers.

I only took 3 pictures during the party!  I was too busy keeping everything going that I never had a chance to get my camera out.

The kids split into 2 teams for the egg and spoon race.  A lot of them forgot to NOT hold the egg on with their other hand.  It was very chaotic :)

For the egg toss, I used several buckets from around the house and taped eggs to them with point values.  All the kids got 6 eggs to toss and all of them scored.

Enjoying snacks!  Carter only got to sit for about 2 minutes before we had to run off early to speech.  Luckily Lauren was there by then to finish up!

Ms. Denise also had a gift for the kids - we need to coordinate better! :)

Overall I think the party went great and the kids had a lot of fun!