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Easter ideas for the family

Text last updated: 2024-07-04

Creative ideas for a wonderful Easter time with the family

Are you looking for child-friendly inspiration and creative ideas for the Easter season that are quick and easy to make? We have put together four instructions for you: from colorful bunny cards and a colorful chicken as a window decoration to delicious Easter bunnies made from quark and oil dough to the traditional egg race, which provides exercise and fun outdoors. Have fun crafting, baking and playing!

Funny bunny cards made from cardboard and egg cartons

Material

  • Cardboard or packaging scraps
  • Egg carton
  • Watercolors
  • Black felt-tip pen
  • Colored pens for coloring
  • Scissors
  • Glue

How it works

Cut the cardboard into a rectangular or oval shape. Cut the tips off the empty egg carton. The tip can be painted with a little watercolor. For the face, draw on the eyes and the tip of the nose with a black felt-tip pen. Cut out the bunny ears from the cardboard and stick them onto the cardboard together with the face. Then it's time to paint: The bunny gets a colorful T-shirt and the cardboard gets a decorative border. And that's it!

A chicken for the window decoration

Material list

  • Cardboard
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • Wool scraps or cord
  • Pens
  • A blown-out egg or a paper egg

How to do it

Draw the outline of the chicken and the two feet on a piece of cardboard using a pencil. Cut out the individual parts with scissors. Cut out a round hole in the middle of the chicken, where you can attach a blown-out egg or an egg made of cardboard or paper.

Now paint the chicken in bright colors. Poke two small holes at the bottom of the cardboard chicken. Thread a piece of string or wool through these holes and attach the feet to the other end with a small knot so that the chicken's feet hang down loosely.

To hang in the window, pierce another small hole in the neck of the cardboard chicken and simply pull the cord or scrap of wool through it.

Bake with children: Easter bunnies made from quark and oil dough

Ingredients for the quark and oil dough (approx. 4 pieces)

  • 125 g low-fat quark
  • 40 ml sunflower oil
  • 50 ml milk
  • 60 g sugar
  • 8 g baking powder
  • 250 g flour
  • 1.5 tbsp cornflour

For decorating after baking

  • 50 g butter
  • 60 g sugar
  • 1 packet of vanilla icing

How it works

For the dough, mix the quark with the sunflower oil and milk. Add the sugar, baking powder, flour and cornflour and knead with your hands or the dough hook of a mixer.

Then it's time to shape the quark and oil dough bunnies. First set aside some dough for the bunny puffs and then divide the dough into four equal pieces. Then shape each piece of dough into a roll, making it slightly thinner towards the end.

Fold the two ends of the dough roll over each other twice. If you like, you can reshape the Easter bunny ears slightly and make them more pointed. For the bunny bottoms, shape the leftover dough into four balls and press them onto the dough.

Bake the Easter bunnies in a preheated oven at 220 degrees top and bottom heat on a baking tray lined with baking paper for around 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown. Just before the end of the baking time, melt the butter. On a flat plate, mix the sugar with the vanilla sugar.

After baking, brush the hot dough bunnies with the melted butter. Then turn them in the sugar mixture. If not enough sugar sticks, you can sprinkle the quark bunnies with additional sugar .

The quark and oil dough Easter bunnies are ready. We wish you bon appétit!

Egg race: a fun game for young and old

Material

  • Eggs (raw, hard-boiled, alternatively potatoes or plastic eggs)
  • Soup or tablespoons
  • Start and finish line (draw with chalk or a string)
  • A suitable running track with a flat surface
  • If you want to make it a little more difficult, you can also set up small obstacles

How it works

A lot of children and adults can take part in the traditional egg race. It's best to hold the little competition outdoors, then it's not so tragic if an egg falls. If you want to avoid broken eggs, simply use plastic eggs or potatoes as an alternative.

Game preparation

Mark out a start line and a finish line. The distance between the lines can vary depending on the age and ability of the participants, but should not be too short to make the game exciting. Hand out an egg and a spoon to everyone who is playing. The participants stand next to each other behind the starting line. Now you can start, e.g. with "On your marks, get set, go!".

These are the rules of the game

Each player must balance an egg on a spoon and try to reach the finish line as quickly as possible without dropping the egg. The egg must not be held or touched with the hands. The winner of the race is the first person to cross the finish line without losing the egg. Several rounds can be played to extend the fun.

Egg race with obstacles

If you want to make the course a little more difficult, you can also set up small obstacles on the race track that the participants have to run around. This requires even more skill.

Egg race as a relay race

The egg race can also be held as a relay race. Two teams are formed for this. The egg and spoon are then passed to the next team member until all team members have reached the finish line