Easter is a time when friends and family gather for an Easter dinner and maybe even an Easter egg hunt. Instead of having just another dinner, we’ve come up with some ideas to help you turn an ordinary dinner gathering into an Easter Sunday family day full of fun and entertainment.
Easter Party Invitation Ideas: A party invitation can often set the tone of the event.
- Buy a set of spring or Easter themed party invitations from the store, and tuck a little something extra, like a handful of shiny confetti, or snips of festive pastel ribbon, into the envelopes before you seal them.
- For a child’s Easter party, buy a few sheets of Easter themed stickers and tuck a few into each envelope. The little bit of extra thought will make opening your unique Easter party invitations a true delight.
- An easy way to invite everyone to your Easter gathering is to send beautiful online Easter invitations.
Easter Party Decorations: Dress your home in all things Spring! Celebrate the changing of the season!
- Natural blossoms: Bring spring indoors with an Easter centerpiece of fresh flowers for your table. Cut flowers are a perfect way to show off the season of spring throughout your home. Decorate areas with a single bloom or an entire boquet. Feel free to mix it up. Tulips and Daffodils and an elegant, fresh addition to any tablescape. Put them in pastel-colored vases to add flair to your party and enjoy the soft scents of the blooms.
- Baskets: Decorative baskets can be filled with glass eggs, flowers and chocolate candies and make a great centerpiece. Place an Easter basket near the door filled with some jellybeans and chocolate bunny rabbits for visitors, or create a cute display of bunnies and chicks in a basket.
- Banners: Decorative banners are easy to make and can cheer up a room. They’re also a good project for getting kids involved. Begin at the front of your home with a great banner saying,” HOPpy Easter!” on the main entrance or in the front yard accompanied by an Easter plaque or wreath on the front door.
Easter Party Table Decor: Table decorations are an essential part of any party. Here are a few ideas:
- Use stuffed bunnies as centerpieces on the tables. Scatter jelly beans and foil chocolate eggs around the bottom as confetti.
- As a part of Easter table decoration, place spring tree ornaments in the center of the dining table.
- Lay your table with pale butter-yellow linens. Place cream or white china over decorative chargers and tie patterned yellow napkins with sheer, yellow chiffon ribbon.
Place cards:
- Buy alphabet stickers and spell out each guest’s name on a hard-boiled egg. Dye the eggs in vibrant colors, dry it and remove the stickers. You can also brush the names with a little craft glue and sprinkle them with clear or silver glitter for a sparkly look. Set the eggs in decorative egg cups and put one at each place setting.
- You could even plant individual primroses, pansies or other spring blossoms in tiny terracotta pots. Use the pots as place cards, propping a name card in front of each pot and setting one at each place setting. They can later be given away as favors!
Easter Party Activities: Got eggs? Then you have tons of fun Easter games to play.
- If you have access to a large outdoor area, have an egg-and-spoon race or get really messy with an egg toss.
- For the Easter egg hunt, hide chocolate eggs or plastic eggs filled with chocolates and jellybeans around your yard or your home, and then start the hunt. Hide one golden egg in an especially difficult hiding place, and give a special prize to the person who finds that one.
- Easter crafts, like dyeing eggs or making and breaking an Easter egg piñata, are also great activities for all ages.
Easter Party Food: Easter festival calls for the preparation of special Easter dinner recipes. But it is not just about yummy dishes for Easter, but it’s about the entire atmosphere, that sets the mood for celebration.
Appetizers: There can be nothing better than hot cross buns. This recipe is exclusively prepared during the Easter week. Here are other great options:
- Pineapple Salsa
- Spiral-Sliced Ham
- Cornbread Muffins
- Dilled Potato Salad
- Deviled eggs
- Baby carrots with a rich ranch dip.
Main Menu: For the main course there are lots of choices. For those who would rather spend time cooking than thinking what to cook, here are two elegant Easter dinner menus
- Braised Lamb Shanks with Green Olives and Apricots
- Truffled Asparagus
- Fava Bean Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette and Shaved Manchego Cheese
- Roasted New Potatoes with Garlic
Or
- Hot Crab Artichoke
- Apricot Glazed Ham
- Basic Scalloped Potatoes
- Fresh Green Bean with Dill Butter
- Triple Chocolate And Vanilla Cheesecake (Read Recipes)
Dessert: From chocolate bunnies to jelly beans to marshmallow Peeps, Easter is definitely time to indulge your sweet tooth. Here are some options from a long list
- Try a Pavlova, an ethereal meringue dessert or Almond Tuile Cups with Raspberry Sorbet
- Decorate cupcakes with frosting dyed in pastel colors and top each one with a sprinkling of green-dyed coconut and jelly beans.
- Create a fabulous fruit “fool,” an old-fashioned English dessert, by folding together sweetened fruit puree and freshly whipped cream. Strawberry, raspberry or even rhubarb puree can be folded into cream for a rich, easy dessert reminiscent of a simple mousse. You can fill it into homemade chocolate bowls.
Note: Create your own edible bowl by dipping half of the blown-up balloons in melted white chocolate chips. Place the dipped balloons on a waxed paper lined baking sheet and refrigerate until the chocolate is hard, pop and remove the balloon, and voila — an edible white chocolate bowl.
Have a great Easter with friends and family and above all with love!
