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Easter Bunny Egg Hunt

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Even though the weath­er has been a lit­tle wacky recent­ly, Spring offi­cial­ly beings tomor­row and East­er will be upon us in a mere three weeks! And what can be more fun for kid­dos than invit­ing friends and fam­i­ly to hop on over for an East­er Egg Hunt? I styled this fes­tive par­ty for the Spring issue of The Par­ty Dress Mag­a­zine, around the adorable “Grass East­er Bun­ny” col­lec­tion from WH Host­ess, specif­i­cal­ly for chil­dren. I fell in love with the dar­ling designs and vibrant col­ors, includ­ing the lit­tle bun­nies in the grass, the infu­sion of orange (per­fect for car­rots!) and the pops of pink. To com­ple­ment the graph­ics, I focused on a bun­ny patch them, with white pick­et fences and trel­lis­es, bun­ny gar­den adorn­ments and more nat­ur­al items, such as burlap, wood crates and bas­kets. The viva­cious pops of col­or paired with provin­cial decor made a per­fect pair­ing of mod­ern lines and rus­tic ele­ments. Since I had to do the shoot so far in advance, there was­n’t much avail­able in stores in terms of East­er decor (though of course, as soon as I sub­mit­ted it, retail­ers decid­ed it was final­ly time to inun­date stores with their themed prod­uct!), but I think it actu­al­ly worked to my advan­tage because it made me think out­side the box and uti­lize items that were less com­mer­cial that I could eas­i­ly re-use for future parties.
The sweets are under­stand­ably always one of my favorite aspects of any par­ty and the dessert table matched back to the entire theme. For the rur­al feel, you can uti­lize a sim­ple back­drop, such as the white trel­lis, and accen­tu­ate it with a ban­ner, like the adorable “Hap­py East­er” ban­ner coor­di­nat­ing with the col­lec­tion. The infu­sion of the vivid col­ors was also accen­tu­at­ed with the hot pink frame and dried flower balls found at Home Goods, which real­ly made the table pop. You can real­ly add an extra punch on the table with addi­tion­al details, such as food tent cards and cup­cake and cen­ter­piece toppers.
The car­rot cup­cakes were dis­played on wood­en crates with pick­et fence lin­ers and fon­dant bun­nies and car­rots in the patch! On one side of the table, I uti­lized a gar­den bun­ny dec­o­ra­tion and added cot­ton can­dy bun­ny tails to pink pol­ka dot straws from Cakes and Kids Too. I also made orange jel­lo cups and sim­ply insert­ed a small green spoon to resem­ble car­rots, as well as jel­ly beans in a ceram­ic egg crate. I had seen some adorable fon­dant “pops” cre­at­ed by my sweet friend, Brit­tany from Edi­ble Details, so I drew inspi­ra­tion from her idea and made hop­ping bun­nies, which I insert­ed in lit­tle bas­kets filled with faux grass and col­or­ful egg decor.
The oth­er side of the table includ­ed bun­ny hole push pops, con­sist­ing of choco­late pud­ding, Oreo cook­ie crumbs and fon­dant bun­ny “bums” with con­tain­ers from Cup­kate’s Event Design! I also made egg-shaped rice treats, which were shaped in plas­tic eggs, which could be also be so cute with col­ored cere­al or food col­or­ing. I found the orange con­tain­er at the 99c Only Store and added orange can­dies and green spoons to, again, resem­ble carrots.
 The lunch table was set uti­liz­ing lit­tle bas­kets embell­ished with grass and bun­nies on top of pol­ka dot plates. You can per­son­al­ize the set­tings by adding name tags to each bas­ket and accom­pa­ny it with some lit­tle details, such as car­rot rib­bons and lit­tle white poms for bun­ny tails. I also used the water bot­tle labels on glass­es and insert­ed striped paper straws from Cakes and Kids Too, match­ing back to the graph­ics. If you are famil­iar with my past par­ties, you know that I adore these felt place­mats! For this par­ty, I uti­lized them as a run­ner on the desert table and to infuse some col­or at the kids’ table.
When throw­ing a kids par­ty, I attempt to always keep their needs in mind, which is why I dis­played the food in a lit­tle cab­i­net per­fect for their heights so they could help them­selves! I tried to keep the menu sim­ple, but cute, such as uti­liz­ing cut­ters in shapes of bun­nies and car­rots for sand­wich­es. Not only did the cheese puffs and car­rots in ranch dip match back to the theme, they were per­fect for the kids’ palettes.
Tying back to the coun­try, bun­ny patch atmos­phere, you can uti­lize dif­fer­ent con­tain­ers than the tra­di­tion­al East­er bas­kets with which the kids can hunt eggs. I found cute wood­en box­es with han­dles at Joan­n’s and added lit­tle tags with rib­bon to each one.  You can also add the chil­dren’s names to each to avoid any dis­putes regard­ing to whom they belong!
After hunt­ing for eggs, the kids had a blast with the bub­bles!  For favors, say good­bye to your lit­tle guests with cel­lo bags and top­pers, which can be filled with so many dif­fer­ent options! I added orange can­dies for the boys and edi­ble fon­dant bracelets for the girls. Last year, I got an East­er can­dy neck­lace activ­i­ty kit from Wilton for my daugh­ter and I thought it would be just as cute with fon­dant, so we made bracelets! I then found an amaz­ing tuto­r­i­al, again by my friend, Brit­tany of Edi­ble Details on the Shindig blog, so def­i­nite­ly check it out for step-by-step instructions.
Going home with their bas­kets full of eggs, can­dy and bub­bles will be the per­fect “end” to the East­er Egg Hunt at the bun­ny patch! ♥
Easter Bunny Egg Hunt Party

 

Merci Beaucoup!



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Comments

  1. Oh Lyn­lee, this is Sooooooooo dreamy!! LOVE all the details but the car­rot can­dy is one of my faves!! ADORABLE lit­tle mod­els too! 🙂

  3. i love this whole par­ty! you did such a great job!!! i love the col­ors and all the lit­tle details every­where! i’m sure you will hear this over and over again but the bun­ny bums are seri­ouly amazing!

  6. wow…wow…your par­ty plan­ning is so beautiful…I too loved the bun­ny cupcakes.

  12. I mean, COME ON. This is just about the cutest thing I have ever seen. SUCH CLEVERNESS.
    The car­rot details are out of this world cre­ative and I am IN LOVE with those push pops. ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!

  13. I end up here when I was look­ing for pooh par­ties to get inspired. You sil­ly old bear par­ty was amaz­ing. And here i am again enchant­ed by your east­er par­ty. Con­grat­u­la­tions! You are per­fect on all details. 🙂

    (I hope you can under­stand my poor english)

  15. I LOVE the push pops, but I’ve nev­er worked with fon­dant. Can you give me some point­ers on how to make the bun­ny bot­toms on the push pops?

    • Oh, thank you so much for your sweet words, Chris­tine! I am try­ing to work on a tuto­r­i­al to post shorty that will hope­ful­ly help you out! Super easy… I’m sure you’ll be able to do it! ♥

  17. This is my first time to your site and I am amazed by this par­ty! You are so tal­ent­ed! Wow! Those chil­dren are going to remem­ber that par­ty for­ev­er. I love the pic­tures of the kids hold­ing the treats. Every­thing is just per­fect, I can see you worked real­ly hard on it! Great job! I just can’t stop look­ing at all the won­der­ful details!

  18. I am plan­ning a bun­ny baby show­er and am look­ing for vin­tage look­ing bun­nies like the ones you used for this adorable par­ty. Any rec­om­men­da­tions for where I can find some? I’ve searched high and low and have only found 2. 🙁 Thanks in advance for your help!

  19. Such an amaz­ing par­ty table!! I love it all! Did you make the fon­dant bun­ny bums?

  25. I want to make these bun­ny bum push pops…but I’m a tad con­fused. Were these real­ly “push­able” or did they eat it more like a “dirt cup” pud­ding cup? Thanks for the help…ADORABLE ideas!!

    • Thanks so much, Lind­say! They were indeed the push­able pops, which I lay­ered with crushed Oreo cook­ies as well. I’ll be hon­est, it was messy, but they LOVED it!!! Hope this helps! ♥

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