Hoppy Easter everyone! How did you celebrate Easter Sunday? We hope your Easter weekend was as fun as ours. We spent the weekend with our family in New Jersey. Easter is such a fun holiday for kids and we have some great tips on how to celebrate Easter with kids. Dylan and Keira saw the Easter Bunny and enjoyed finding Easter eggs during an Easter Egg Hunt. We also created fun Easter baskets for them filled with Easter favorites. Lastly we hosted a gorgeous Easter Sunday meal. We are excited to share how to celebrate Easter with kids.
Celebrate Easter with Kids: Easter Egg Hunt
On Saturday, we visited our sister’s country club for Easter celebrations. We kicked off the festivities with an Easter Egg hunt. Dylan and Keira were eager to collect as many Easter Eggs as possible. The kids filled their personalized Pottery Barn Easter Baskets with lots of Easter Eggs.
Celebrate Easter with Kids: Visit Easter Bunny
After the Easter Egg hunt, Dylan and Keira visited the Easter Bunny.
We even spotted a giant Easter Bunny stuffed animal. This Easter Bunny was almost as big as Keira.
Celebrate Easter with Kids: Easter Brunch
Then we feasted on a fabulous Easter brunch. We enjoyed waffles, scrambled eggs, quinoa salad and beet salad.
We enjoyed the Easter brunch as well.
Celebrate Easter with Kids: Easter Balloons
The Golf club’s balloon artist created unicorn and jet blaster balloons for Dylan and Keira. It was a fun way to start the holiday weekend and celebrate Easter with kids.
Celebrate Easter with Kids: Easter Bunny Presents
Easter Sunday began with opening presents from the Easter Bunny. We created these delicious Easter Bunny baskets with Easter Bunny chocolates, Easter Eggs, toys and more.
How to Decorate for Easter Sunday Dinner?
We created our chic Easter dinner tablescape with and complementary . Keira loves helping with holiday meals. She helps cook, bake and set the table. This holiday season when you celebrate Easter with kids, let them help with cooking, baking or setting the table. Sometimes Keira even likes to help wash the dishes.
Fresh flowers make Easter Sunday dinner more beautiful. Inga from International Garden created our gorgeous Easter dinner bouquet with pink lilies, fuchsia daisies and white ranunculus. We often bring our linens to our florist and then she uses them as inspiration for the bouquet. Sometimes we use taller vases, like this bouquet. Other times, we get two or three smaller bouquets. With smaller bouquets, everyone at the table can see everyone. With larger bouquets, we sometimes move them off the table after dinner starts. This way everyone can see each other.
We assigned seats using Williams Sonoma’s adorable Easter Egg place card holders, which served as additional table decor. Keira helped place the names in the Easter Egg place card holders and assigned all the seats.
What to Serve for Easter Dinner?
Easter takes place when the seasons are changing. The idea of warming up the kitchen with a big roast doesn’t feel out of the question. There are also a ton of vegetables that are suddenly in season including asparagus, radishes, peas, and artichokes. Unlike Thanksgiving, where you pretty much know the main and side dishes you will serve, Easter’s dinner menu is flexible. This year’s menu featured a slow roasted leg of lamb, grilled venison, asparagus and brussels sprouts.
We placed the mains and side dishes on the table and passed the dishes around. Occasionally we serve plated dinners, but most of the time we host family style dinners.
What Wines to Serve for Easter Dinner?
Great dishes should be paired with great wines. Lamb is a rich and flavorful meat that pairs well with Cabernet Sauvignon. The deep, intense fruit flavor and firm tannin structure of Cabernet complements the richness and texture of lamb. Cornerstone Cellars, based in Napa Valley, produces some of the finest Cabernet in the world.
We served two varietals of Cabernet Sauvignon:
- 2015 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, Benchlands
- 2015 Calistoga Cabernet Sauvignon
We focused on tasting the subtle differences between the two wines. Some family members preferred the Benchlands, while others raved about the Calistoga. The full-bodied Benchlands Cab features notes of black fruit with a touch of vanilla. The Calistoga Cab is also full-bodied wine but features layers of black fruit, cedar and plum. You can also taste hints of vanilla and black licorice interwoven with layers ripe fruit and silky tannins.
Celebrate Easter with Kids: Create a Kids Table
We created a separate kids table for Easter dinner. The kids Easter table had pink floral linens, pink flowers and Easter Egg place card holders. It was just as chic as the adult table.
The kids loved their kids Easter table.
For dessert, we sampled bunny cookies, key lime pie, assorted cupcakes and fruit sushi.
What a wonderful Easter holiday weekend filled with Easter baskets, Easter bunnies, Easter presents, Easter eggs, Easter candy, Easter decorations, Easter dinner and Easter desserts
Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our family and loved ones all around us.
Camilla Alves
Looks amazing! Love the colors and table decorations and the sweets looks delicious! Happy Easter!
Love Love Love the decorations and amazingly delicious treats. Happy Easter
Easter is one of my favorite holidays because it means that Spring is here and your tablescape gives me all of the Spring feelings with the flowers and bright colors. It looks like everyone really enjoyed themselves and ate very well. The cookies and cupcakes were adorable, but the fruit sushi is awesome! My boys would love that.
Easter is one of my fave holidays! What a fun menu for all ages! We always do a traditional ham and mashed potatoes but we do enjoy lamb and asparagus and Brussels sprouts!
So freakin cute! I love how you documented the holiday that was obviously a blast for you and your loved ones
AWH this looks wonderful!!! I bet that was a great time with great memories made!
It looks like you had an amazing Easter with your family! The spring colors and flowers in the decor are so pretty. And everything that was on the menu looks so delicious! I’m sure you have some great memories from the day! Love how you documented this festive holiday get together!
So amazing! Happy Easter to you and your family. Such a beautiful set up that you have here.
This sounds like an awesome Easter celebration! Love the floral tablecloth and matching plates! Everything was put together so perfectly!
This is so awesome! Everything looks so perfect! What amazing memories for years to come!
Omg, I am totally in love with the decorations. Sounds like you had lots of fun. This year we celebrated at home and had a small event only.
I love your table settings! What a fun and wonderful Easter gathering!
Such a great way to celebrate Easter. Love the Easter baskets, the table setting, the food… pretty much everything! 😉
Looks fantastic. You’ve got the whole celebration boxed off. Easter is always great family time.
Love everything I see.love the Easter decor nd foods.The kids look happy too.
Everything looks amazing, I especially love the tablescape. I always love reading posts about holidays, because it’s such a great way to incorporate your family and friends. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful pictures with us!
Holiii !!
I really liked the way to celebrate Easter. I would like to make it that beautiful.
Good day!!
What a great celebration of the Easter! Everything looked fabulous, delicious and colouristically so well! I wish I could’ve celebrated the Easter with you guys ?
such a pretty set up and decor for Easter! Those Easter baskets and the big bunny are my favorite here.
What a beautiful Easter! That wine looks so yummy too!
What a heart-warming blog post. I can feel the love coming from your photos! Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
Loved the table decorations and color theme used. Enjoyed reading about your Easter celebration.
Easter was so kind to us this year. We really enjoyed ourselves. It looks like your family did the same.
Aww you have such a beautiful family and it looks like you all had a wonderful Easter!
That is so fun that you celebrated Easter with your family like this! The Easter bunny must have been so much fun. Love the tablescape and all of the treats!
Such a fun and great experience you had. Looks like you really had a great Easter celebration with your family.
Oh wow, Seems like everyone are so happy on your Easter event. The kids looks really enjoyed it.
Wonderful to get family together. That was a very attractive setting for your Easter Celebration. Looks like everyone enjoyed themselves.
This looks like it was such a lovely get together for the holiday. Seems like everyone had such a great time!
The desserts look perfect for kids and grown-ups alike…lovely decor. My favorite was, however, the balloon animal
: ) Was it a unicorn?
– Nandita
You have a lovely family! Glad you enjoyed the Easter weekend with your nearests and dearests!
Wow it looks like you had a fantastic Easter. I love all the Easter decor and the table setting.
That looks a charming Easter celebration. You surely had a blast of a time.