One of my Internet grandma friends, Susan Adcox, told me about some Easter games that she wrote about on her site. They are great games that you can play with your grandchildren. What wonderful ideas!

I really loved her game The Wolf and the Eggs and also Steal the Egg. These would be a hit at your Easter activities with your grandchildren.

So, hurry over to her site and read all about her Kids’ Easter Egg Games. Then, be sure to play them with your grandchildren.

Thanks so much for sharing, Susan!

Grandpa and I just HAD to drop in and see our new little grandson. And I’m glad we did.  I saw a fabulous Easter egg idea.

Our niece purchased some ‘jewel’ Easter eggs from Target. Then, she went to Michael’s craft store and bought some small battery-powered LED lights. (She found them in the section with bridal stuff.) She put a light in each egg. When the light was turned on, it glowed through the egg and looked really cool. She gave a bucket of these eggs to our grandson.  What a kind niece!

Here’s a picture of some of the eggs.

Here is a picture of what the little LED lights look like.



And here are some pictures of my cute grandson with an Easter egg. Actually, only half of an Easter egg . . .

Wouldn’t it be fun to have an Easter egg hunt in the dark for older grandchildren? After they found their lighted eggs, you could have an egg rolling contest to see who could roll their lighted egg the fastest from a starting line to the finish line. Of course doing it in the dark.

You could play catch with the lighted eggs.

You could do a towel toss where two grandchildren hold the edges of a towel and toss a lighted egg to another set of grandchildren holding a towel. (This is like a water balloon toss.)

You can play Duck, Duck, Goose and use a lighted egg instead of a handkerchief. (Duck, Duck, Goose is basically a game of tag where everybody sits in a circle facing inwards. One grandchild is selected to be IT. IT takes the lighted egg and goes around the outside of the circle lightly tapping each grandchild on the head saying, “Duck, duck, duck . . .” When he says “Goose,” he drops the egg behind that grandchild and runs around the circle. The other grandchild picks up the egg and chases after IT trying to tag IT before IT makes it around the circle and into the spot vacated by the ‘goose.’ If IT is tagged by the goose, he stays IT and goes around tapping grandchildren again. If the goose can’t catch IT, he becomes IT.)

Play freeze tag. One grandchild is IT. When IT tags another grandchild, that grandchild freezes and stays frozen until another grandchild touches him with a lighted Easter egg.

What other activities could you do with a lighted Easter egg??

This picture was taken last year at my first annual Easter egg hunt for my grandchildren. The two youngest ones had no clue as to what was happening. Still, a good time was had by all.

Yesterday, I found a plastic Easter egg out in my yard left over from last year. Sad to say, there wasn’t any candy in it.

Wait. Why am I sad? I wouldn’t let my grandchildren eat the candy if there had been any candy in the egg and I certainly wouldn’t eat the candy that had been in a plastic egg hidden outside for a year. Out in the rain. The mud. The snow. The spiders. Eww!

On to more pleasant thoughts.

If you are like me, you sometimes don’t want to go digging around a site to find all of the ideas on one topic. (I’m so lazy, it’s pathetic.)

So, I thought that I would create a round-up page of some of the popular Easter activities on my site that you can do with your grandchildren.  (I’m nice like that . . .) Here they are:

• Egg Crafts for Teenage Grandchildren
• Easter Crafts
• Easter Ideas Take Two
• Celebrate Easter with a Little Help from Hershey’s
• Ukrainian Easter Eggs (great activity for older grandchildren)
• Don’t Snooze, Granny
• Easter Fun with Grandchildren

Hope this gets you off to a great start for Easter!

Oh, little Bentley.  How dear you are.  How sweet.  How cuddly.  How cute. And so clever that I want to pinch your little cheek. (But therein lies the problem.  His cheek is little.  My digits are large-ish.  I’d probably break his egg-mobile.)

Don’t you agree he’s the cat’s meow?

Bentley is the amazing creation of Benita on her site Chez Larsson.

It’s always a challenge to find activities for teenage grandchildren, isn’t it?  Benita has solved that problem for Easter with her egg craft ideas. Her ideas are appealing to that age group of grandchildren. (My favorite is Bentley and Bick.)

I think teenage grandchildren would have a great time making some of her egg craft ideas — and then coming up with their own ideas.  (Maybe grandma could sponsor a little contest to see which grandchild could come up with the most creative creation . . .)

Take a look at Benita’s wonderful ideas.  I’m sure you’ll find one that will catch your fancy.

These egg craft ideas require a dremel tool.  Methinks that’s not something that grandmothers generally have in their crafting supplies. Not to worry!  You can find one for around $30 (and even a little cheaper) and some up to the amazing price of $120.  This would probably be a great tool to have on hand for lots of other crafting activities.

Two of Benita’s egg ideas could be done using plastic eggs in case you don’t have (and don’t want to get) a dremel tool. In fact, I bet you and your clever teenage grandchildren could come up with more similar ideas using plastic eggs.  (If you do, I would love it if you would send me a picture.  I’d love to share it here on my site.)

Remember: you can get my free document of Easter ideas for additional ideas of Easter activities to do with your grandchildren.

I hope you have a wonderful Easter celebration with your family!