Tuesdays Thoughts and Tidbits

I can't believe that Easter is this coming Sunday. It is interesting to hear how different each family celebrates. At our house the Easter Bunny hides the baskets and then puts clues hidden in plastic eggs throughout the house sending the kids on a scavenger hunt to find their baskets. We usually have dinners with family. We have a dinner with my family the day before and then with Todd's family the day of. We've started having an Easter egg hunt the past few years with cousins and that has been a lot of fun. So what fun things do you and your family do on Easter?

Here are a few thoughts and ideas that I found.

Besides an Easter Egg Hunt here are a few "eggtra" ideas for your eggs.

Egg Rolling - Mark a starting line and a finishing line. Contestants must roll their eggs from one line to the next using a spoon or similar object to push the eggs. If a player touches their egg or breaks their egg they are out of the race. The first person to get their egg across the finish line wins. For an added twist, roll the eggs down a hill!

Spoon Races - Designate a starting line and a finishing line. Every person gets an egg and a spoon (larger, soup spoons work best). All contestants line up on the starting line and put their eggs in their spoons. At the word go, everyone races to the finish line; the first person to cross wins. If your egg falls of your spoon, you must go back to the starting line and begin again. For a bit of variety, make this a relay race or make the contestants run an obstacle course! If you really want to get tricky, have the races hold the end of the spoon in their mouths.

Yard Bowling with Eggs - Place one egg in the center of a large circle. Have all players stand just outside the circle. Everyone should have one egg. Everyone takes turns rolling their egg towards the egg in the center of the circle. The object of the game is to get as close to the center egg as possible without touching it. If you touch the center egg, or break your egg, you are out!

Also this is a fun link to some Easter games, especially if you are in charge of an elementary school party.

http://holidays.kaboose.com/easter-party.html/?source=newsletter

And in honor of all that chocolate you're going to eat this weekend try this cool Chocolate Calculator:

This is pretty neat. DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST! It takes less than a minute. This chocolate calculator will figure your age.

Work this out as you read. Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 ..If you haven't, add 1758.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born. You should have a three digit number. The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).The next two numbers are YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK.

And last but not least, I usually try to give my father-in-law a joke gift, here is an idea from a few years ago.

Put some chocolate eggs in a bag and attach this poem to the top:

I'm running short on eggs this year,

My chickens flew the coop,

I'd give you something better,
But here's some Bunny Poop!

I hope you have a great week and a Happy Easter with your families!