One-Minute Easter Games With a Built-In Timer

Deal a game for plastic eggs, jelly beans or kitchen spoons, read out the goal and run the 60 seconds beside it.

One-Minute Easter Games With a Built-In Timer

  1. Six-Egg AnagramYou need: 6 plastic eggs, each holding one letter of BASKET on a slip of paper, mixed in a bowl. Goal: open all six, unscramble the word and lay the letters in order inside the open halves. For the next player, swap in SPRING, BONNET or TULIPS.

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One-Minute Easter Games With a Built-In Timer: how it works

These 39 one-minute Easter games use what is left on the table after the hunt: plastic eggs, jelly beans, kitchen spoons and an empty egg carton. Press New game to deal one, then Start timer to run the 60 seconds. You may know the format from the TV show Minute to Win It. The games and their names are our own.

Run one game after the egg hunt

Tap a chip to match your props: Plastic eggs holds 23 games and Spoons and ladles holds 9. Read the You need line aloud. Untick Next one automatically before you press Start timer, or a new game replaces this one at zero, mid-recount. Tick Sound for a beep at zero.

Plan the afternoon at size 5

Switch the size to 5 and five Easter one-minute games appear together. Press Lock on the keepers and New games to replace the rest. Easy for kids (5 and up) holds 20. For one-minute Easter games for adults, tap Harder, for teens and adults: its 12 include Curve Ball Egg and Stand an Egg on End.

Tips

  • Two dozen plastic eggs, a bag of jelly beans, a slotted spoon and an empty egg carton cover most of the list.
  • Jelly beans and loose egg halves can choke a child under three. Count the beans back into the bowl after each round.
  • Cooked eggs should not sit out for more than two hours, and the FDA says not to eat eggs that have been hidden or played with. Boil a separate batch for Egg Tap Knockout.

Questions and answers

Are these the Minute to Win It Easter games from TV?

No. This page has no link with the show. It is a game show franchise that began on NBC in the United States in 2010, built on 60-second challenges with household objects. All 39 games were written for this page, nobody has run them against a stopwatch, and each target is a starting point.

Which of the games are real Easter traditions?

Tap Old Easter games, one minute each for 8 of them. Egg tapping, rolling eggs down a hill, the egg dance and the egg toss are old Easter customs, and the egg and spoon race has been in print since the 1890s. Jelly beans became an Easter candy in the United States in the 1930s.

Can we play them in a classroom or a church hall?

Yes. Tap No candy or real eggs (classroom-safe) for 25 games where nothing gets eaten. For a big group, Pairs, teams and the whole room holds 16, and Dozen in a Minute, Egg Dance Minute and Sixty Bunny Hops keep every child moving at once.

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Plastic eggs 23

  • Baking Sheet Hill Roll You need: a baking sheet propped on three books as a hill, 5 plastic eggs and a line of tape four feet past the bottom. Goal: let the eggs go from the top, one at a time, no pushing. Two that stop past the line wins. In parts of Britain, families still roll decorated eggs down a real hill at Easter, and the egg that goes farthest wins.
  • Basket Shot You need: 10 plastic eggs and an Easter basket on the floor six feet away. Goal: land 5 eggs that stay in. Plastic eggs bounce, so line the basket with paper grass or a dish towel and toss underarm. Move the line to four feet for under-sevens.
  • Blind Spoon Delivery You need: a blindfold, a tablespoon, 4 plastic eggs in a bowl, a basket across the room and a partner. Goal: the blindfolded player carries the eggs over one at a time on the spoon while the partner steers with words only. Three in the basket wins. Clear the floor first, and the guide walks alongside.
  • Bunny's Night Shift You need: 8 empty plastic eggs and a bowl of jelly beans. Goal: fill every egg with exactly 3 beans and snap it shut, all eight before zero. The judge opens two at random, and a miscount loses the round. Wash hands first if these eggs are going into a real hunt.
  • Crack and Act You need: 10 plastic eggs in a basket, each holding a slip with something to act: a hopping bunny, a chick hatching, painting an egg, an egg hunt, a lamb, a tulip opening, tying a bonnet, an egg and spoon race, carrying a full basket, a duckling. Goal: crack an egg, act the slip with no words and get your team to guess 5.
  • Crown the Dozen You need: 12 plastic eggs standing pointed end up in an egg carton, and 12 jelly beans. Goal: balance one bean on the tip of every egg so that all 12 wear a crown at the same moment. One hand only. Nudge the carton and you may lose the whole row.
  • Curve Ball Egg You need: a plastic egg, a smooth table, a mug in the middle of it and a washcloth at the far end. Goal: roll the egg on its side so it bends around the mug and stops on the washcloth. Two stops wins. An egg never rolls straight, so spend the first try learning which way yours curves.
  • Dozen in a Minute You need: 12 plastic eggs hidden around one room and an empty egg carton on the table. Goal: the whole group hunts at once and fills every cup of the carton before zero. Each hunter carries one egg at a time, so the fast finders have to keep coming back. Walking only indoors.
  • Egg and Spoon Slalom You need: a tablespoon, a plastic egg and 4 chairs in a line. Goal: weave through the chairs and back, twice, with the egg on the spoon and your free hand behind your back. A dropped egg goes back on where it fell. Holding the egg on with a thumb is the classic cheat, so the judge watches thumbs.
  • Egg Dance Minute You need: 12 plastic eggs scattered over a small patch of floor, and music. Goal: everyone dances among the eggs for the whole minute, feet moving all the time. Touch an egg and you step out. Anyone still dancing at zero wins. The egg dance is an old Easter game, once played with real eggs.
  • Egg Pond You need: a big bowl of water with 8 plastic eggs floating in it, a slotted spoon or a ladle, and an empty egg carton. Goal: scoop the eggs out one at a time and set 6 in the carton. Your free hand stays behind your back. The eggs bob away from the spoon, so come up from underneath.
  • Half-Shell Tower You need: 12 plastic egg halves. Goal: stack 8 halves, domes up, into one tower with one hand, and have it stand while the group counts to three. The long halves and the short halves nest differently, so choose as you build.
  • Leaky Shell Water Run You need: half a plastic egg, a bowl of water and a small glass with a line drawn on it, six feet apart. Goal: carry water in the half shell, one hand only, until the glass is full to the line. If your eggs have pinholes in the ends they leak, so hurry. Play it outside or on a towel.
  • Over and Under Eggs You need: a line of five players, 6 plastic eggs in a bowl at the front and a basket at the back. Goal: pass each egg down the line, over the first head, between the next knees, over, under, and into the basket. All six in wins. A dropped egg goes back to the front.
  • Rainbow Row You need: 6 plastic eggs, one each in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, hidden around one room, and an empty egg carton. Goal: find all six and stand them in the carton in rainbow order, red first. Hide them in plain sight for under-sevens, and walking only.
  • Shell to Shell You need: two plastic egg halves, one in each hand, and a jelly bean. Goal: flick the bean out of one half shell and catch it in the other, back and forth. Eight catches in a row wins. A half shell is a very small cup, so keep the tosses low. A bean that hits the floor is retired.
  • Six Egg Faces You need: 6 plastic eggs, a washable marker and a judge who has not seen the list. Goal: draw a different face on each egg: happy, sad, angry, surprised, sleepy and scared. At zero the judge names each feeling. Five right wins. Two dots and a line are enough, so keep moving.
  • Six-Egg Anagram You need: 6 plastic eggs, each holding one letter of BASKET on a slip of paper, mixed in a bowl. Goal: open all six, unscramble the word and lay the letters in order inside the open halves. For the next player, swap in SPRING, BONNET or TULIPS.
  • Snap the Dozen You need: 12 plastic eggs in at least 4 colors, pulled apart, with all 24 halves mixed in a basket. Goal: snap 12 eggs back together with the colors matched. A two-tone egg does not count, so pop it apart and find the right half. Tops and bottoms are different shapes, which is half the trouble.
  • Step-Back Egg Toss You need: a partner and a plastic egg taped shut with a spoonful of dry rice inside for weight. Goal: toss it underarm to your partner. After every catch you both take one step back, and a drop brings you both back to the start. Five steps apart with a clean catch wins. The old Easter version uses a real egg, on grass.
  • Two Spoons, One Egg You need: a tablespoon each, a partner, 5 plastic eggs in a bowl and a basket across the room. Goal: pinch one egg between the backs of your two spoons and walk it to the basket together. Four delivered wins. Each player holds their own spoon with one hand, and nobody touches an egg.
  • Which Shell Hides the Bean You need: 3 plastic egg halves in one color, a jelly bean and a partner. Goal: the hider covers the bean with one half and slides all three around for five seconds, then the guesser points. Three right guesses in the minute wins. The halves never leave the table.
  • Wooden Spoon Egg Roll You need: a long wooden spoon, a plastic egg and a course of 10 feet marked on grass or carpet. Goal: push the egg to the far line and back with the spoon, no lifting and no batting. Two laps wins. Children at the White House Easter Egg Roll push their eggs across the South Lawn the same way.

Jelly beans 8

  • Copy the Row You need: a bowl of mixed jelly beans, a dish towel and a host who lays out a row of 8 beans in a color order of their choosing. Goal: study the row for ten seconds, then the host covers it and you rebuild it from memory beside the towel. All eight in the right order wins. Six beans for under-tens.
  • Grab Twenty You need: a big bowl of jelly beans and a plate. Goal: grab one handful, drop it on the plate and count. Exactly 20 wins on the spot, and you get three grabs. If nobody hits 20, the grab closest to it takes the round. Small hands play for 10.
  • Jelly Bean Egg Outline You need: a bowl of jelly beans and a sheet of paper with an egg drawn on it, as tall as your hand. Goal: lay beans end to end along the line until the outline is closed with no gaps. Older players add two stripes across the middle. One player's beans stay that player's beans.
  • Name That Bean You need: a bag of jelly beans with a flavor guide on the pack, and a partner who holds it. Goal: shut your eyes, take the bean your partner hands you, chew and name the flavor. Four right wins. Ask about food allergies first, and keep the pack so anyone can read the ingredients.
  • Sift for Beans You need: a mixing bowl of dry rice with 15 jelly beans stirred in, a slotted spoon and a cup. Goal: sift with the spoon only, let the rice fall through and tip 10 beans into the cup. Fingers stay out of the bowl. Play over a tray, because rice travels.
  • Speed Tic-Tac-Bean You need: a tic-tac-toe grid drawn on paper, 5 jelly beans of one color for you and 5 of another for your partner. Goal: play as many games as you can before zero, placing beans instead of writing. Most wins takes both piles. Nobody thinks for longer than a count of three.
  • Spoon Launcher You need: a teaspoon, a marker pen to rest it across like a seesaw, 10 jelly beans and a basket two feet away. Goal: set a bean on the handle end, tap the bowl of the spoon and launch the bean into the basket. Three in wins. Aim away from faces, and sweep up the misses before a toddler finds them.
  • Spoon Load You need: a tablespoon and a bowl of jelly beans. Goal: hold the spoon out at arm's length and pile 12 beans on it with your other hand, one at a time. Hold the full spoon still while the group counts to three. A bean that rolls off stays off, so you may need a thirteenth.

Spoons and ladles 1

  • Spoon on the Nose You need: a clean teaspoon and a chair for every player. Goal: sit down, hang the spoon from the tip of your nose by its bowl and let go. Ten seconds in one go wins, and everyone plays at once. Breathe on the bowl and rub it first. Stay seated, because a tilted head and a walk do not mix.

Baskets, cartons and bunny hops 5

  • Bunny on Your Head You need: a sheet of paper on a hardback book and a pencil for every player. Goal: hold the book flat on top of your head and draw a bunny on the paper without looking: two long ears, a face, whiskers and a round tail. At zero the group votes by pointing, and nobody votes for their own.
  • Easter Basket Words You need: paper and a pencil for every player, with EASTER BASKET written across the top. Goal: write 8 words of four letters or more using only those letters, each letter no more often than it appears. Beast, skate, street and treats all count. The longest list at zero takes the round.
  • Five Carrot Hop You need: 5 carrots, real or cut from orange card, in a pile and a basket across the room. Goal: hop with both feet together, carry one carrot at a time and get all five into the basket. A step instead of a hop sends that carrot back. Play on carpet or grass, not in socks on a hard floor.
  • Paper Basket Weave You need: a sheet of construction paper with 6 slits cut across it, stopping a finger short of each edge, and 6 paper strips in a second color. Goal: weave all six strips over and under, each one starting the opposite way to the last, and push them tight. A checkerboard with no gaps wins, and the mat goes on the table.
  • Sixty Bunny Hops You need: a jump rope or a strip of tape laid flat on the floor for every two players. Goal: hop side to side over the line with both feet together, counting out loud. Sixty hops in the minute wins, and everyone goes at once. Shoes on, a clear space around each hopper, and anyone may stop to breathe.

Old Easter games, one minute each 2

  • Egg Tap Knockout You need: a hard-boiled egg for every player. Goal: pair off and knock the pointed ends together. The player whose shell cracks sits down, and winners find each other for the next tap. Whoever holds an uncracked egg at zero wins. One old English name for the game is egg jarping. Eggs that have been played with are not for eating.
  • Stand an Egg on End You need: a fresh egg in its shell, a bare table and a bowl close by. Goal: stand the egg on its broad end and take your hands away while the group counts to three. The story that this works only on the spring equinox is a legend: a patient player can do it on any day of the year. Wash your hands afterwards.

How this list was compiled: Written by the Game Night Generator editors for this page on 2026-09-18 from general knowledge of traditional party, picnic and parlor games. Every description is in our own words, and no game name or wording is taken from a television show or from another site's list. No game here repeats one from the one-minute game timer page or from another one-minute page on this site: where a mechanic is shared (a tower, a toss, a spoon walk), the props are this page's own, which are plastic eggs, jelly beans, spoons, baskets and egg cartons. Each game was written to be playable in about a minute. The games have not been stopwatch-tested, so every target (8 halves, 5 eggs, 60 hops) is a starting point for the host to raise or lower. Screened line by line for the clean-deck rule: no alcohol, nothing aimed at a player, plastic eggs wherever an egg is carried or thrown, and nobody eats an egg that has been played with. Facts checked on 2026-09-18: egg rolling down hills in Britain with the farthest egg winning, and children at the White House Easter Egg Roll pushing eggs across the South Lawn with long-handled spoons, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling; egg tapping with the pointed ends, its English name egg jarping and its knockout form from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tapping; the egg and spoon race in print since 1894 and the finger-on-the-egg cheat from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg-and-spoon_race; the egg dance as a traditional Easter game from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_dance; the egg toss as an Easter game in which partners step apart after each catch from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tossing; an egg standing on its broad end on any day of the year, and the equinox story as a legend, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_balancing; jelly beans becoming an Easter candy in the United States in the 1930s from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_bean; cooked eggs left out no longer than 2 hours, and eggs that were hidden or played with not eaten, from https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/what-you-need-know-about-egg-safety; the under-three small-parts caution for jelly beans and egg halves from https://www.cpsc.gov/Business--Manufacturing/Business-Education/Business-Guidance/Small-Parts-for-Toys-and-Childrens-Products. Licence: own work