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Bunny Rabbit Salad. Put candles on the one for the birthday child.

Juice, milk, punch

DECORATIONS

Use flowers as a centerpiece.

At each child's place put a small basket filled with Easter basket grass and Easter candy. You can make the baskets yourself ahead of time. Or for children six and up, provide tape and construction paper so the children can make and fill the baskets at the party.

FAVORS, PRIZES, ITEMS FOR TREAT BAGS

Easter eggs (decorated at the party), jelly beans, small chocolate eggs, marshmallow chicks, plastic eggs filled with candy. Fill one plastic egg with dried cereal. Whoever gets it gets a booby prize.

INSIDE ACTIVITY, NONCOMPETITIVE

Decorate Easter eggs. Cover a table with newspaper. Put out hard-boiled eggs in cartons, crayons, and bowls of dye. To decorate an egg, first draw a design on it with a crayon. Then place the egg on a spoon and dip it into a bowl of dye. The crayon design should show through. Set egg to dry in an upsidedown egg carton with the bottoms cut out.

INSIDE GAMES, COMPETITIVE

1. Hot Egg. Play like Hot Potato but with a plastic or hard-boiled egg.

2. Easter Egg Hunt. Hide all the eggs the children decorated. Wrap one egg with foil. The child who finds that egg gets a prize. As the children find the other eggs, they bring them to a safe place, such as a large Easter basket filled with grass. Afterward, the children can take the eggs they decorated home.

OUTSIDE GAME, NONCOMPETITIVE

Easter Egg Hunt. Hide small chocolate Easter eggs, the kind that are wrapped in brightly colored foil. Hide enough for everyone to get some. Stand by to drop extras near children who can't find any.

OUTSIDE GAME, COMPETITIVE

Egg Race. See who can walk around the longest holding in his or her mouth a spoon with a hard-boiled or plastic egg on it.