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An Easter egg hunt is fun and traditional, but the fun is over too quickly and your guests are soon gone.  If you want the fun to last longer why not combine your Easter egg hunt with an Easter party?  This way your egg hunt will still be the highlight but you can offer your guests lots of other fun in the form of treats and fun!  Your party can be a way to celebrate Easter and the arrival of spring with family and friends, or a chance to catch up with your neighbors after a long winter. Either way, with some planning you can make your Easter egg hunt party the hit of the spring season.  Here are some tips for having a great Easter egg hunt party!

Use invitations to set the theme. You can let your guests know with pastel colored invitations that they are invited to an Easter egg hunt and party. While simple invitations are easy to make, you can print them from your computer, you want to be sure they reflect the tone of your party.  Ribbon wrapped around your invitation or simple embellishments will let your guests know that this will be a special event.

Fill the eggs. In addition to planning for all of the usual party events, you will want to make sure the Easter egg hunt is off the charts.  To avoid the last minute rush, start filling your eggs long before the date of the party.  You should figure about 10-12 eggs for each participant.  Multi-colored plastic eggs can be filled with candy, small toys and even money (think quarters and fifty-cent pieces). Put a coupon in a couple of the eggs to redeem for an extra special prize too large to fit in the eggs. A large chocolate rabbit or box of chocolates can make a great prize. Enlist family and friends to help with this step.

Decorate for the party. You will want to decorate the house and yard where you are holding the party with lots of pastel-colored helium balloons, streamers, and paper cutouts of eggs, rabbits, and carrots. If you are planning to have the party in a location that does not belong to you make sure to get permission to decorate.

Hide the eggs. The morning of the party you will need to hide all of the eggs. Try to make some of the eggs easy to find for the little kids and some a bit tougher for the older ones. This way everyone gets a chance to participate in the hunt.

Welcome your guests. The young children will be especially excited for the festivities.  While you wait for everyone to arrive you should set up a table inside with colored paper bags, colored markers and stickers. Have each child decorate and personalize a bag for the eggs they find. Begin the hunt after all of the children have had a chance to decorate their bag.

Have some games. After the Easter egg hunt is finished you can encourage your guests to play games while you set out the refreshments. You can have an egg relay or even an egg toss. Any game that is Easter or spring themed will be fun! This is a good time to hand out the large prizes for the special eggs.

Serve the refreshments. After a few games put out the refreshments. Some good choices are pink, fizzy punch, sandwiches cut out into shapes (rabbits, eggs, carrots), decorated Easter cookies and even baby carrots.