Easter Party Ideas and Easter Baskets for Kids

Get everyone hippity-hopping over to your Easter gathering for an egg hunt party featuring fun favors, decorations and an exciting special guest! Hand out bunny ears so everyone has a great hare day, and thrill your little bunnies with a treats buffet full of brightly colored candy! If you hunt around this gallery you'll find basketfuls of decorating, dress-up and Easter basket ideas. Hurray for spring sweets and Easter treats!

Wow them with a sweets station filled with Easter candy and pretty white cake stands to add height. For the fabulous Peeps topiary you'll need a Styrofoam ball, toothpicks and a blue cup filled with jelly beans as the base. Put Peeps onto the ends of toothpicks and place in cascading circles onto the ball. Stick a dowel into the bottom of the topiary with the other end in the blue cup "flower pot." Fun to make and even more fun to nibble on!

Delight the kids by inviting a fun-tastic bunny to your Easter-themed party or egg hunt day. Choose a sweet and adorable bunny costume that will make the little bunnies amazed and excited. Mr. Bunny can hand out Easter baskets and take fun pictures. Set up a bench decorated with a bouquet of balloons for an Easter-ific photo op. Definitely Instagram-worthy!

The kiddos will jump happily when you hand out plush Hello Kitty, Red Bird and Mickey Mouse baskets! Have both classic woven Easter baskets and character baskets on hand – both are reusable and fun for kids to play with at the party and take home as party favors. Don't forget to pick up plenty of colorful Easter grass, plastic eggs and candy for a super-fun egg hunt day!

Get your egg-hunters pumped with a decked-out favor table of Easter baskets and goodies! Blanket the table with an egg-printed table cover and a pink table skirt underneath, then sprinkle colorful grass and plastic eggs around the baskets to make it look like the Easter Bunny's just been by. Fill some baskets with treats and toys, and be sure to provide some empty ones for the hunt – then let them hop to it!

Transform your backyard patio into an Easter playhouse with rolls of crepe streamers! Rent a tent frame or construct your own (lightweight PVC tubing works well), or use a tree branch. Throw rolls of paper streamers over the "roof" so the tails hang from both sides. Mix sleek satin ribbon and fluffy Easter garlands (available at local Party City stores) in with the crepe rolls for more visual interest – then smile in the sunshine that filters through your ceiling of streamers!

Create a lush garden of DIY flowers for your Easter egg hunt! These pretty paper blossoms are fun and easy to create with pieces of tissue paper in bright spring colors and thin wire. Attach your floral creations to the ends of stakes and place them around the yard. For a fast and easy "garden," try mixing in mini paper fans among your tissue paper blooms. Take a look at our Tissue Paper Flower How-To for instructions on making these awesome blossoms!

Let them feast their eyes on these see-through "baskets" of goodies! Instead of a traditional woven basket, place a decorative baking cup in a clear square tumbler. Then fill the cup with Peeps, candy flower lollies, gumballs and small toys. Add a little bit of Easter grass to the bottom of a clear party bag and tie the bag off with a final flourish of green ribbon – everyone will hop home happy!

Get little ones egg-cited with a basket that's overflowing with themed treats and toys. Start with a brightly colored basket filled with green Easter grass, then go wild! Add fuzzy toys with candy-filled plastic eggs, or flower cutouts on bamboo sticks with lollies and peeps. A tag tied on with ribbon and printed with a cute phrase makes sure the recipient knows "some bunny" loves them! Find an awesome selection of Easter baskets at your Party City store.

Try this 24-carrot idea: a decorative veggie that's really a creative silverware set! To make it, cut fringe onto the ends of green napkins, then roll up with orange napkins so that the green napkin and silverware inside pop out the end like stems. Tie up each "carrot" with a polka-dot ribbon, then arrange them in a basket for easy pickin'. Mr. McGregor won't be chasing anybody out of this garden!

This display will be the hit of your Easter Hunt bash. Fill adorable smiling bunny balloons and round Easter-themed balloons with a little helium, and tape them together to create this magical bunny "rainbow" with bunches of bright polka-dot balloons for "clouds"! For more fun, hang paper globes on streamers above the table and create pretty balloon favors at each place-setting.

Set your egg-hunters' hearts afloat with pretty polka-dot balloons at every place-setting. On each plate, tie a pastel balloon to a li'l basket filled with Easter grass, jordan almond "eggs" and a personalized placecard. For a centerpiece that pops, nestle your favorite plush bunny in an Easter pail brimming with colorful grass and eggs, with a floating balloon tied to his paws – awww! For the best selection of adorable bunnies, visit your Party City store.

Sweet little touches make the party more magical – like decorating the chairs with airy streamers in pastel colors, crowned with matching glittery flowers. All you need is a pack of spring-themed paper cutouts and a few rolls of crepe paper in pink, blue, yellow and green. Jump on this fun DIY project for the little bunnies in your house!

Create a spring garden of balloons by taping bright butterflies and flowers to the wall and mixing in helium balloons on short strings with weights. Get extra crafty and decorate the mantel with lines of streamers in your favorite spring pastels. A sweet way to suprise the little bunnies on Easter morning!

Fill a soft plush Hello Kitty basket with bright-colored Easter grass and oodles of pink treasures – like little notebooks, pens, games, crayons and other goodies. Be sure to tuck in some Hello Kitty eggs, filled up with jelly beans and chenille chicks. Then hide the basket for somebunny special to find on Easter morning!