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!

My life has been so blessed by the virtual friends and acquaintances that I have made on the Internet. Sometimes I marvel at how my life is enriched by new friends and new ideas because of technology. Without the Internet, I would not know these great folks, be able to associate with them, rub virtual shoulders with them, or be inspired by all of their creativity and fabulous ideas. I am a better person because of them.

If you, Dear Reader, do not ‘know’ Granmdma’s Little Pearls, I suggest you drop by her site. Wait!  What am I saying.  Don’t just do a drive-by visit, by golly.  Bookmark her site and visit it regularly.  She is one of those wonderful virtual friends.  She has some of the most clever and the most creative ideas that you ever did see!

Take, for instance, her Easter cupcakes. They are so pretty and festive.  They are almost too pretty to eat. (She has graciously allowed me to use her photo.  See?  Isn’t she wonderful?)

When my klutzy little hands saw these sweeties, they almost fainted.  They worried that those cupcakes would be complicated. (My hands were remembering my cake pop flops.)

“Never fear,” I cajoled them after reading Grandma Shelley’s directions.  “‘Twill be easy.”

My hands grumbled and snorted in disbelief.  I can’t wait to prove them wrong.  Making these cupcakes is on my to-do-with-the-grandkids-when-they-get-a-wee-bit-older list.  (Maybe they should be on my list to do now so that I will be skilled when the time comes to make them with my grand chickabiddies!)

Grandma Shelley also does some great things for her annual Grandma Camp.  Please check out the secret agent theme that she is doing this year.  Fun, fun, fun. Her ‘senior agent’ looks so authentic!  Gotta love what she did for his tie.

What are your Easter traditions that you do with your grandchildren?  Or for Grandma Camp? Leave a comment and let me know.