Tea party ideas work for every holiday. Let’s think about using tea party ideas to make a fun-filled children’s Easter tea party.

My ideas include inviting some of my daughters’ little friends and making the theme an Easter egg hunt. Living in a warm climate means that children can search outdoors for their eggs and treasures. If you live in a colder climate, do the Easter party search in a room like your family or game room. Coloring the eggs is something my daughter and I can enjoy doing together. She likes to help the Easter bunny with his job of dyeing eggs. If you want to have a party like this, be sure to leave the eggs in a cool, safe place for the bunny to find when he stops by your house. Leave him a note mentioning the egg hunt and he will do the rest.

No doubt the bunny will find good places in his garden to hide the eggs, one here and a couple there in the grass or in a flower bed. If your area doesn’t have spring flowers yet, you may want to buy some potted plants. Place an egg or two between the leaves or put straw grass in the pots to hide the eggs. Put eggs or other treats in the hollow of a tree or shrub branch, under seat cushions on your deck, or on a window sill. Allow some of the prizes to peak in their hiding places so that the youngest have the best chance of succeeding. Give each child a small basket to store their treasures as a party favor to take home and enjoy. Make sure you have extra treats on hand in case some of the kids are out of luck finding the eggs.

Provide a tea that is healthy and tastes good. Rooibos tea comes from the African red bush and is not a true tea. It has even more antioxidants (think healthy) than a real tea. Your young guests won’t know or care, but their mothers may not want their children to drink the caffeine found in real tea. I have personally had the pleasure of drinking iced teas and teas since my childhood with no ill effects. You can decide to offer two teas, a rooibos and a real tea. Children generally like flavors like vanilla rooibos or blueberry black tea.

They will feel very old if you use small porcelain tea sets and set your table with pretty plates and flowers as the centerpiece. Thinking back to healthy, you may want to offer good snacks like carrot sticks and gravy or a variety of cheese cubes with crackers. Fresh fruit cut into smaller pieces for little hands is also a good idea. A tea party requires tea party ideas for snacks. Most kids love peanut butter and jelly, but be sure to ask all moms if their kids are allergic to peanuts before adding them to your menu. Egg salad is always a good tea sandwich filling that is healthy too. Use an Easter egg cookie cutter or after cutting all the crusts cut the sandwiches into thirds.

After the Easter hunt and light tea, have the children participate in an activity. Bake sugar cookies cut with a teapot cookie cutter before the party and have the kids decorate them with frosting and sprinkles. This can be a bit tricky, so provide plastic aprons to cover children’s clothing and supervise closely. They may like a little help and may need an extra adult or two to supervise. Your creations can serve as dessert. Make sure the children wash their hands and faces before sending them home to Mom.

Use tea party ideas to create memories for the little ones in your family.