After lunch, we started out the festivities with breaking a pinata. Here are all the kids eagerly awaiting their turn to have a whack at the egg pinata.
It was decided that it would be best to take turns youngest to oldest, to make sure everyone got a turn. Here's Hailey taking her turn - I have to admit that this girls got good aim - she hit the egg time and time again as she swung the bat around.
Here's Zach on his turn. He had that thing spinning and was whacking the egg so hard that I was sure he was going to break it before the last grandchild had a turn. We had to stop him fairly quickly as we saw cracks start to become visible on the outside. Another whack or two and he would have opened it up - a few years of recreation baseball really makes a difference!
As predicted, a few whacks from the oldest grandkid and the egg burst open showering the ground with a whole TON of candy. The kids were all giggling as they raced to pick it all up and put it into their easter basekts.
After the pinata activity, the kids headed out back to find easter eggs. Nana had certain eggs for each child to find, so I was busy trying to help Hailey find her specific eggs and didn't get a chance to get any pictures. After 4 special eggs that were turned into prizes and 14 other eggs filled with candy, they made quite the haul.
Next the kids headed back out front to play the bunny bean bag toss that Uncle Bubby and Afton had made for them. Zach was really great and got the bean bags through the holes in the cardboard almost every time.
Hailey did pretty good too - I would say she made it more than half the time - not bad for a 4 year old!
While the kids were playing with the bean bag toss, Nana was busy getting stuff ready for cupcake decorating. All it took was one call of all the kids and they ran in from outside to decorate their cupcakes. I think there was more eating of the frosting and candy than there was decorating, but each of the kids came away with at least 2 or 3 cupcakes a piece.
Next they made some candy carrots. They filled carrot shaped bags with candy and tied them off to look like carrots. They turned out really cute. After that, all the kids settled down in the family room to watch a movie while us adults rested a little bit. When the kids got restless, Nana pulled out all of the egg coloring supplies and we all helped the kids color and put stickers on hard boiled eggs. I had meant to get pictures of these last few activities, but my hands were busy almost every second, so I didn't get any to post. But let me tell you, the kids had an absolute BLAST doing all the easter activities and playing with their cousins. It sure was a fun day and they are still talking about how much fun they had!
Thanks Nana and Papa for a really fun Easter Party!
No comments:
Post a Comment