Ideas and resources
If you are looking for an easy Easter game that you can easily make, check out this printable Don’t Eat the Peep game create by Mique from Thirty Handmade Days. This is a silly Easter game that young kids especially will get a kick out of. The rules of the game are simple and it is fast paced and even funny. Best of all, kids get to eat the candies, pretzels, or whatever you decide to use for the game pieces.
Print out and make your own Don’t Eat the Peep Easter Game.
When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.
But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.
What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.
There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.
I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.
This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).
Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.
Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.
[Photo: What We Do All Day]
Feeling particularly dense about the directions: one kid leaves the room, everyone else puts candy on the board, the kids comes in and eats one piece of candy at a time while everyone yells, “Don’t eat the peep”? What step am I missing?
I understand your confusion… Let me try explaining it in a bit more detail
Place small candy on each Peep. One person is chosen to be it and leaves the room and the others all decide which Peep is the one that can’t be eaten… When the person who is it returns, they eat the candy off of one Peep at a time until they touch the candy on the Peep that everyone selected while they were out of the room. Once they touch that candy, everyone yells “Don’t Eat the Peep” and that person’s turn is over. Choose someone else to be it and continue this until everyone gets a turn.
Hope this helps!