Easter Party Ideas include fun activities, decorations and yummy recipes to get your Easter hoppin’. Planning a great Easter party doesn’t take a lot of money, just a little creativity and lots of fun. Kids love to be involved, so plan decorations they can help with. Let them decorate your windows with Easter Ducky or Spring Flower window clings.

Let the kids make easter bunny bags to hold all of the treasures they find during an egg hunt. Group them together to decorate the table, but make sure to write names on the bottom so they don’t get mixed up.

You’ll need white lunch bags, construction paper, tape, and scissors. Fill one bag halfway with their treats and treasures. Slip another open bag over it to create your rabbit, taping or stapling to secure. Add construction paper eyes, nose, whiskers, ears and cotton ball tail. If you want to make some shorter bunnies, cut a few inches from both bags before you put them together.

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The ultimate Easter treat has to be a decadent carrot cake covered in cream cheese icing. You don’t have to spend hours in the kitchen grating carrots and turning your fingers orange to bake a great carrot cake. Here’s an easy recipe that will be a big hit at your Easter party.

CARROT CAKE

1 carrot cake mix

1/2 cup orange juice or water

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 can (8 oz) crushed pineapple in juice, undrained

1 teaspoon orange zest

1 teaspoon vanilla

4 eggs

1/2 cup chopped nuts, optional

1/2 cup coconut, optional

1/2 cup chopped raisins, optional

1. Heat oven to 325°F. Spray two 8- or 9-inch round cake pans or 13×9-inch pan with Pam.
2. In large bowl, beat cake mix, orange juice, oil, pineapple, orange peel, vanilla and eggs on low speed 30 seconds then medium speed 2 minutes. Stir in nuts, coconut and raisins. Pour into pans.
3. Bake 8- or 9-inch rounds approx 30 minutes, 13×9-inch pan approx 35 minutes. Done when a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
4. Remove round cakes from pans to a cake plate and cover with cling wrap until completely cooled. Frost with Cream Cheese Icing.

CREAM CHEESE ICING

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup butter, softened

2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Cream together butter and cream cheese until smooth.
2. Mix in vanilla.
3. Gradually add powdered sugar until it reaches a good spreadable consistency.