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With spring just a stones throw away we have some fun ideas to build into your party plans or to simply do with the children in the coming months. Simple Spring Party Ideas

Easter Eggs

With spring just a stones throw away we have some fun ideas to build into your party plans or to simply do with the children in the coming months.

Easter Bonnets have been a popular spring tradition since the 18th century. Creating a work of art to wear for fun is something both boys and girls are sure to enjoy (although boys will probably want the term bonnet dropped from the title). Let their imagination run riot! Cheap straw hats can be bought from many local shops and decorated or paper plates or card shaped into a cone will also do the trick.

Eggs are to Easter as crackers are to Christmas...they are everywhere, chocolate, candied or hard boiled you cannot fail to be surrounded by them. As well as the popular theme of boiling eggs until hard and decorating with paint or colouring pens another fun idea is to create an ‘egghead’. Simply remove the top of an egg and empty the yolk and white. Fill the cavity with compost add some cress seeds, a little more compost and water to commence ‘hair growth’! The shells can then be decorated with fun faces...you could create a whole family for your child’s windowsill.

An outdoor ‘egg themed’ game that is sure to have the children running around laughing is Hen and Eggs. Played with 3 or more players you will need a box or basket and a selection of different coloured balls. To play...one person is the hen, who moves some distance away from the other players and covers their eyes. The other players then steal an ‘egg’ from the basket. Once the players each have an egg the hen calls out a colour. All those holding eggs of that colour then have to return them to the basket without being tagged by the hen. Whoever is tagged is out of the game, the last person to be caught is the winner.