42 Best Easter Party Ideas for the Sweetest Sunday Celebration
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Easter is almost here, and if you’re just now planning your Sunday celebration, you’ve come to the right place. Our best Easter party ideas have you covered, whether you’re looking for festive spring table settings and centerpieces, fun party food ideas to complete your Easter dinner buffet, or crafts and activities to entertain the kids. There’s still plenty of time to make your Easter party special.
Just a few ideas to begin: Convert your eggs into a table runner (idea #14)—you’re dyeing them anyway, right? Or, teach the kids how to fold napkins into a bunny shape (idea #41). Need to make an Easter egg hunt more accessible for toddlers? See idea #25. And by the way, we’re giving you permission to make your life easier by serving the meal on pretty patterned paper plates (idea #37).
There are plenty more easy Easter party ideas to get you started in this guide. But if you need more inspiration, check out these fun Easter games for kids, crafty ways to decorate eggs beyond dye, and egg hunt ideas that put a twist on tradition. (PS—If your party is grown-ups only, we've got adult egg hunt ideas too.) Happy Easter!
Serve an Easter Brunch
Treat your family to a decadent brunch menu:
Make Parsnip & Carrot Napkin Rings
Made from mini wooden craft beads, these napkin rings mimic bunnies favorite foods, root veggies!
To make: Dye wooden craft beads orange or white. Arrange eight beads small to large in a row, and thread a piece of twine in a corresponding color through beads; knot on both ends. Wrap a wooden craft ring with twine, and tie between the beads for the napkin holder. For the stems, attach lengths of preserved grass or green crepe paper to the top with hot-glue.
Set the Table with a Vintage Egg Basket Centerpiece
Vintage Egg Basket VaseA vintage French egg collecting basket filled with colorful wooden eggs makes the perfect home for displaying your abundant spring bouquet (here are lilacs, anemones, Scabiosa lavender, allium, and ranunculus).
To make: Dye or paint wooden eggs white or robin's egg blue. You can also leave a few natural. Place a vase inside the basket and surround with eggs. Fill vase with water and flowers.
Bake a Spring Daisy Lemon Layer Cake
Talk about a sweet show-stopper. This layered lemon cake isn't just an inspired dessert idea for your Easter brunch—it can also act as a centerpiece.
Decorate with Vintage Seed Packets
Seed packets are such an appropriate accompaniment to Easter brunch. Even better, this seasonal setting is so simple to recreate at home: Just slip the greens of baby radishes through vintage seed packets.
Serve Peanut Butter and Candy Egg Blondies
Colorful blondies decorated with candy eggs don't just say "Easter"—they scream it! We can't get enough of this perfectly on-theme dessert.
Make Fun Carrot Patch Cupcakes
Take one look at these potted cupcakes, and you'll be inspired to get in your kitchen and whip up a batch of your own. They're that cute.
Stamp Floral Napkins
DIY-ing your own napkins might sound like hard work, but in reality, it's pretty simple: Roll a floral stamp with a thin layer of fabric paint and apply it to light pink linens (really, any color will work). You'll get major visual payoff with minimal work.
Set Up Easter Favors
This little guy can double as a place setting and eco-friendly take-home gift for your Easter crew.
Get the Mason Jar Succulent Planters tutorial at A Pumpkin & A Princess.
Make Bunny Rice Krispies Treats
Your tiny party helpers can have a hand in making the best brunch course: dessert!
Get the recipe for Bunny Rice Krispies Treats at Lovely Indeed.
Display Balloon Bunnies
Can any gathering without balloons really call itself a party? Take your decorations one step further by converting 36" white balloons into adorable Easter bunnies.
Spruce Up Plain Napkins
All it takes is a pastel pom-pom lining to turn standard white linens into gorgeous Easter decor.
Serve Popcorn... With a Twist
After the Easter egg hunt, reward little ones with the perfect sweet and salty treat. You can even experiment with more candy combos.
Get the recipe for Pistachio Easter Candy Popcorn Mix at A Joyful Riot.
Convert Your Eggs Into a Table Runner
So your Easter eggs have been artfully dyed and left to dry, but what next? We recommend putting them to good use on a DIY table runner during Sunday brunch.
Get the Easter Egg Centerpiece tutorial at A Wonderful Thought.
Upgrade Your Desserts
Easter cupcakes will be undoubtedly be huge crowd pleasers on their own, but three-dimensional egg toppers make your treats truly next-level.
Get the 3D Easter Egg Cupcake Toppers tutorial at The House That Lars Built.
Create a Rustic Spring Tablescape
Replicate this woodland-themed Easter display with wood slabs, fresh flowers and ferns, moss and twigs, and monogram, speckled eggs. Create these Easter eggs and place card alternatives by using a small paintbrush to fleck tan acrylic paint (thinned with a bit of water) on undyed farm eggs. Once dry, handwrite guests' initials with a gold paint pen. Display on a nest of moss and twigs.
Make Mini Basket Place Settings
Forgo your usual handwritten cards for these tiny and oh-so adorable basket place cards.
Get the Mini Basket Place Settings tutorial at The House That Lars Built.
Mark Buffet Dishes with Pretty Labels
Hosting a crowd this year? Let everyone dig in whenever they want by creating a buffet table of mains, appetizers, and desserts, alongside pretty food labels. Craft the displays by cutting a thin sliver in a small piece of a branch. Place atop a wood round and add moss and eggs.
Get recipe ideas for your Easter dinner buffet.
Make a Floral Centerpiece
If you have an old wire basket around your house, simply add some baby's breath and speckled eggs for an easy centerpiece.
Display Festive Mason Jars
Decorate your space with these adorable, candy-filled jars, or send them home with your guests as party favors.
Get the Easter Bunny Mason Jars tutorial at Happiness is Homemade.
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