subject: Easter Arrangements Party Planning your Five Tip Quick Guide [print this page] Easter Arrangements Party Planning your Five Tip Quick Guide
Easter parties can be both fun and tiring to plan; organizing yourself before organizing the party is important or you're likely to be too tired to enjoy your own party.
Know your crowd
How many guests do you plan on inviting and how much space do you have? Do your guests include children and are they young enough to get high on sugar? This is stuff you need to be thinking about from day one of party planning. The party space is extremely important if you're going to have fun. You're bound to plan activities for your guests and the Easter egg hunt has to be on the top of your activity list. You can't enjoy or even organize any games without enough space so make sure you know how much you need. If you're short on space, ask your neighbors if they'd let you use their yard or try a park nearby.
Invitations and RSVPs
Make sure you send your invitations out early or at least let your friends and family know you're going to have an Easter party. Remember that if you don't invite them, someone else will. Get your guests to RSVP so you know how many people are showing up. Some people like to invite guests on the phone and others like to send out invitations. If you want to send invitations and your party supply store hasn't started stocking Easter themed invitations, go online and find some that you can print out.
The games and activities
This is something you should spend a lot of time planning on. Make sure you have something for both kids and adults to do. Depending on the age of children that will be attending the party, make sure you have age appropriate activities planned for them from coloring, crafting to hunting for Easter eggs.
Gifts and favors
It wouldn't be an Easter party without gifts and party favors. You can go with traditional chocolate and candy or something unique like fresh fruit boxes. Easter fruit baskets are a popular gift, especially if you want to give something to an entire family instead of just some ordinary candy to the kids. Easter gift baskets are one of the more popular gifts to give on this holiday and since you can send it out to a family of four and six, it's pretty affordable too.
The food
Fresh fruit bouquets with pineapple bunnies, roasted lamb, cupcakes and buns are great for stacking your table. Fruit bouquets can be used as table centerpieces and for Easter dessert. You can go online and look for some traditional recipes and maybe even make some simnel cake.
