Easter is commonly synonymous with chocolate, treats, brunches, and other calorie-filled items. However, for kids, it doesn’t have to be so unhealthy! Below are four ways that you can make Easter healthier for your children – without spoiling their fun!
1. Bypass Easter candy for the basket. Avoid all the jelly beans, chocolate bunnies and other holiday treats. Instead, fill their baskets with small toys, books, and other fun things. Along with making the gifts healthier, these will last much longer than that 1/2 pound bunny you see in the Easter aisle. If you do want to include food, opt for healthy items such as raisins, dried fruit, or a homemade version of an Easter treat (so you can make it healthier).
2. Attend multiple Easter egg hunts. Giving your children a fun way to be active is always important. For Easter, they can get their exercise from running around and locating eggs. If your family only does one event, check to see if there are others hosted in your town. If not, you can always do a few more egg hunts in your own front yard. Tip: Use plastic eggs so they can withstand multiple hunts!
3. Have Easter brunch at home. It may be a family tradition that everyone loads up in the car and goes out to eat for breakfast or brunch on Easter Sunday. However, these places tend to be packed with calories and unhealthy fats. Instead, opt for an at-home meal. Get the children involved with the preparation, and be sure to include a healthy dessert!
4. Have an Easter bunny snack! What is a rabbit’s favorite food? Carrots! Celebrate the holiday by eating carrots. They are very nutritious and the holiday will give your children a good reason to eat the veggie! Even pick y eaters may want to join in on the fun snack time.
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Thanks for the ideas. We try not to put any candy in the baskets but our family sends candy, which we limit of course. I’ll have to be in the search for some local egg hunts.
These are good ideas, but gotta have the chocolate bunny!!
The Easter bunny snack is a really cute idea! I’m just picturing my son chomping down on a carrot like a bunny and it’s making me chuckle
I love these ideas. I also love bypassing candy and filling any holiday basket with toys and coloring books or activities thats what we did for Valentines Day for our daughter!
I love these suggestions! It’s so easy to go overboard on the sweets during the Easter holiday.
I love the idea about having an Easter Bunny snack!
Easter/Spring DVD is a great basket filler too.
Great tips. Have a great Easter
I love the multiple easter hunt idea…so much fun and gets them active too!
Great ideas. Healthier for kids and for myself!!
Great ideas. I hate that every holiday now has such a strong focus on candy and sweets! We try to limit the amount of candy that goes into the easter basket by filling it with toys and art supplies. While that is more expensive, it is worth it long term!
I hate that just about every holiday now is loaded with candy. I love your idea of not adding any candy in the kids’ easter baskets.
I like to give the boys something sweet and special, but we opt for organic candies, even though they’re still not healthy, they’re a lot better for them! Thanks for these tips!
We do healthy Easter. I usually put some jelly beans inside eggs in the basket for my almost 6 year old, but nothing for my 14 month old and that’s usually all I do. I do other things like stickers, tattoos, bracelet, clothes etc.
I got each of my kids 1 summer outfit last year and I think I’ll do that this year too!
I love the sweets though! I’ll just eat them, ha. I also like Yummy Earth’s organic candy. Less junky at least.. oh and Unreal candy too.
THese are some good ideas, my granddaughters love to go on scavender hunts where I write clues and the bunny hides them on our property and the girls follow from clue to clue till they get to their basket, which I have made in past out of new fishing buckets, pinned together clothes, beauty cases, make up bags, etc and them love them…
We always try to limit the candy for Easter. My kids loved Easter egg hunts when they were tiny!
We are going to a big Easter egg hunt, but they also have rides and games (kind of like a carnival), so that will help to keep our son away from the candy :-p
These are some great tips!!! Thanks for sharing!! Sometimes we do have candy overload here! BTW, your new site look is AWESOME!
those are neat ideas my kids love the hunts i do part and part so they get their favorite candy
this year i am going to show my grandsons how to color eggs with natural ingredients. i also have a really big yard at my new home so i plan on using it to hide lots of eggs (real and plastic) in it to keep them busy looking. the longer these projects take, the longer i can keep them from playing their video games. running around the yard will be good exercise for them too.
in my son’s basket, he is going to get those organic pouches, little boxes of raisins, and home made ‘bunny tails’ – caramel corn (no corn syrup) his basket items are little things to play with outside..a kite, chalk..bucket and shovel..etc… i have a problem with easter being a mix of halloween (huge bucket of candy) and christmas (tons of presents) i don’t want him to grow up thinking that.
Love the Easter bunny snack idea! I always tried to do just a little candy in my son’s basket, but not too much, mixed in with some toys and coloring books. Of course now he wants video games!