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PE Easter Games

Nest raids, cone egg hunts and bunny hop tag with plastic eggs, for a gym class aged 5 to 9.

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  1. Nest Raid: One Egg a Trip, Carried on a Scoop1. A gathering game for four teams. Each team has a hoop in a corner, its nest, and all the plastic eggs start in a fifth hoop in the middle.2. Teams send one runner at a time, who carries one egg home on a scoop or a big spoon with no hand on the egg.3. Once the middle nest is empty, eggs may be taken from any other nest. Nobody guards, and a dropped egg is returned to the nest it came from.4. Stop on the whistle and count each nest. Play again with the scoop in the other hand.Ages: 7 to 9. Players: 12 to 32. You need: five hoops, thirty or more empty plastic eggs and a scoop or a big spoon for each team.
  2. Parachute Basket: Roll the Eggs to the Middle1. A parachute game played gently. The class holds the edge at waist height, and the teacher drops six light balls on top: the eggs.2. Nobody shakes. By raising and lowering the edge a little at a time, the class rolls each egg to rest in the middle of the parachute.3. An egg that rolls off the edge is put back on by the nearest player.4. Count how many eggs sit in the middle together. Then try it with every player kneeling.Ages: 5 to 9. Players: 10 to 30. You need: a parachute and six light plastic balls.
  3. Bunny Hop Tag: Three Carrots and Back In1. Tag at a hop. Mark off half the court. Everyone, taggers too, moves only with two-foot bunny hops.2. Three taggers carry an orange beanbag each and tag with a touch on the arm or the back.3. A tagged bunny hops to the carrot patch, a row of orange cones along one wall, touches three different cones and hops back in.4. Change the taggers every minute. Any bunny may walk for a while with hands up as ears.Ages: 5 to 8. Players: 10 to 30. You need: three orange beanbags and a row of orange cones.

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Elementary PE Easter games 10

  • Bunny Hop Tag: Three Carrots and Back In 1. Tag at a hop. Mark off half the court. Everyone, taggers too, moves only with two-foot bunny hops. 2. Three taggers carry an orange beanbag each and tag with a touch on the arm or the back. 3. A tagged bunny hops to the carrot patch, a row of orange cones along one wall, touches three different cones and hops back in. 4. Change the taggers every minute. Any bunny may walk for a while with hands up as ears. Ages: 5 to 8. Players: 10 to 30. You need: three orange beanbags and a row of orange cones.
  • Bunny, Bunny, May We Cross Your Garden? 1. A crossing game with a password. Every player holds a plastic egg and stands on one end line. One bunny stands in the middle, the garden. 2. The class calls, "Bunny, bunny, may we cross your garden?" The bunny answers with a color: "Only with a yellow egg." 3. Players holding that color walk across untouched. Then the bunny calls "Hop to it", and everyone else runs for the far line. 4. The bunny tags with a touch on the arm or the back. The first player tagged is the next bunny, and everyone swaps eggs with a neighbor before the next call. Ages: 5 to 8. Players: 10 to 30. You need: an empty plastic egg for each player, in four or more colors.
  • Egg Hunt Under the Cones: Fewest Lifts Wins 1. A hiding and hunting game for two teams. Scatter thirty cones over half the gym. 2. While the hunters face the wall, the hiding team puts ten plastic eggs under ten of the cones. 3. One hunter at a time runs out and lifts a single cone. An egg that is found comes home, and an empty cone is set down again where it stood. 4. Count the lifts it takes to find all ten, then swap jobs. The team that needed fewer lifts wins. Ages: 6 to 9. Players: 12 to 30. You need: thirty cones tall enough to cover an egg and ten empty plastic eggs.
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Elementary PE Easter games, continued

  • Egg Toss to a Moving Basket 1. A toss-and-catch game in threes. One player tosses from behind a line, one holds a bucket three steps away, the basket, and one fetches. 2. The tosser lobs a plastic egg underhand. The basket may move to get under it, but no hand may help the egg in. 3. After five tosses, everyone moves on one job. 4. When all three have tossed, the basket starts one step farther back. Count the catches of the three in each round. Ages: 7 to 9. Players: 3 to 30. You need: a bucket and five empty plastic eggs or beanbags for every three players.
  • Herd Your Egg: A Ball Inside a Sliding Hoop 1. A steering game. Each child lays a hoop flat on the floor with a ball inside it: an egg in its nest. 2. Slide the hoop along the floor with two hands so that the ball rolls along inside it, and steer between the cones to the far wall. 3. If the egg escapes, stop, fetch it and start again from that spot. 4. On the way back, pull the hoop from the front. Then pairs herd two eggs in one hoop. Ages: 5 to 8. Players: 6 to 30. You need: a hoop and a small ball for each child, and cones.
  • Nest Raid: One Egg a Trip, Carried on a Scoop 1. A gathering game for four teams. Each team has a hoop in a corner, its nest, and all the plastic eggs start in a fifth hoop in the middle. 2. Teams send one runner at a time, who carries one egg home on a scoop or a big spoon with no hand on the egg. 3. Once the middle nest is empty, eggs may be taken from any other nest. Nobody guards, and a dropped egg is returned to the nest it came from. 4. Stop on the whistle and count each nest. Play again with the scoop in the other hand. Ages: 7 to 9. Players: 12 to 32. You need: five hoops, thirty or more empty plastic eggs and a scoop or a big spoon for each team.
  • Open an Egg, Do the Move Inside 1. A hunt with a job in every egg. Before class, put a slip of paper with a move inside each plastic egg: five frog jumps, one lap of the gym at a skip, ten toe taps on a line. 2. Scatter the eggs. On the whistle each player picks up one egg, opens it and does the move. 3. Then close the egg, set it down in a new place and find another. Nobody opens the same egg twice in a row. 4. For players who cannot read yet, draw each move as a stick figure. Stop after five minutes and ask which move was the favorite. Ages: 6 to 9. Players: 8 to 30. You need: a plastic egg for each player and a few more, each with a slip of paper inside.
  • Parachute Basket: Roll the Eggs to the Middle 1. A parachute game played gently. The class holds the edge at waist height, and the teacher drops six light balls on top: the eggs. 2. Nobody shakes. By raising and lowering the edge a little at a time, the class rolls each egg to rest in the middle of the parachute. 3. An egg that rolls off the edge is put back on by the nearest player. 4. Count how many eggs sit in the middle together. Then try it with every player kneeling. Ages: 5 to 9. Players: 10 to 30. You need: a parachute and six light plastic balls.
  • Put the Eggs Back Together: Tops at One End, Bottoms at the Other 1. A matching run. Pull twenty-four plastic eggs apart. Scatter the tops along one end line and the bottoms along the other. 2. Each player picks up any top, runs to the far end and finds a bottom of the same color. 3. Snap the egg shut, put it in the class basket in the center circle and run for another top. 4. A two-colored egg is pulled apart and sent back. The class times how long the basket takes to fill, then tries to beat the time. Ages: 6 to 9. Players: 8 to 30. You need: twenty-four or more empty plastic eggs in several colors and a basket.
  • Spoon to Spoon: Pass the Egg at Every Cone 1. A carrying game for partners, with no race in it. Each pair has two big spoons, one plastic egg and a line of five cones to walk along. 2. One partner carries the egg on a spoon to the first cone and tips it onto the other partner's spoon. No hand touches the egg. 3. Pass again at every cone. A dropped egg goes back on the spoon at the place where it fell. 4. Count the clean passes there and back. On the next trip, hold the spoon in the other hand. Ages: 6 to 9. Players: 2 to 30. You need: two big spoons, an empty plastic egg and five cones for each pair.

Easter games for a field 6

  • Empty the Basket: Laps While the Fielders Fill It 1. A batting game with no bat. One team stands at a basket of twelve plastic eggs or tennis balls. The other team spreads out over the field. 2. On the whistle the first team throws every egg out into open space, as far from a fielder as it can, then jogs laps around two cones as a group. 3. The fielders bring every egg back to the basket, carrying one at a time. When the twelfth is in, they shout "full". 4. The runners score the laps they finished. Swap jobs, and play three turns each. Ages: 8 to 11. Players: 10 to 30. You need: a basket, twelve empty plastic eggs or tennis balls and two cones.
  • Hatch and Dash: Start Curled Up Like an Egg 1. Short sprints from an odd start. Six runners at a time curl up small on the start line, each an egg. 2. The starter says "crack", and the runners hatch and sprint to a line twenty steps away. 3. Run it in heats, so that everyone races several times against different people. 4. Change the start each round: lying on the back, sitting and facing the wrong way, kneeling with hands on the grass. Ages: 5 to 11. Players: 4 to 32. You need: four cones to mark two lines.
  • Scoop Catch Down the Field: Three Steps and Throw 1. A throw-and-catch run for partners with scoops. Each pair has two scoops and one plastic egg or a small soft ball, and starts on one end line. 2. The partner with the egg throws it from the scoop. The other catches it in a scoop, takes up to three steps and throws it back. 3. The pair works down the field this way to the far line. A dropped egg is played from where it lies. 4. Count the throws the trip takes, and try to make the way back in fewer. Ages: 8 to 11. Players: 2 to 30. You need: two scoops and an empty plastic egg or a small soft ball for each pair.
  • Six Baskets Around the Field: One Egg of Every Color 1. A collecting run for partners. Put six baskets around the edge of the field, each holding plastic eggs of one color. 2. Each pair starts at its own cone in the middle. The two run to any basket, take one egg, and bring it back to their cone before setting off for another color. 3. Partners stay within reach of each other the whole way. 4. A pair with all six colors sits down. Then every pair puts its eggs back the same way, one basket a trip. Ages: 7 to 11. Players: 8 to 32. You need: six baskets or boxes, plastic eggs in six colors and a cone for each pair.
  • Three Bunny Hops for Distance: Mark It With Your Egg 1. A jumping contest against your own mark. Lay a rope on the grass as the take-off line. 2. Take three two-foot hops in a row without stopping, and put a plastic egg where your heels land after the third. 3. Walk back and try again. If you land past your egg, move it. 4. After five tries, the class looks along the row of eggs. Then try three hops on one foot. Ages: 5 to 9. Players: 2 to 30. You need: a long rope and a plastic egg for each player.
  • Wobbly Egg Roll: A Football Never Rolls Straight 1. A rolling relay with an egg-shaped ball. Each team has one oval football and a cone fifteen steps away. 2. The first runner rolls the ball along the grass with one hand, around the cone and back. It may be pushed, but not carried or kicked. 3. The ball wobbles off line, and the runner has to follow it wherever it goes. 4. Hand over on the start line. When everyone has had a turn, run it again pushing with the other hand. Ages: 6 to 11. Players: 8 to 32. You need: an oval football or a rugby ball and a cone for each team.

How this list was compiled: Our suggestions for a gym class in the weeks before Easter, in a gym or on a field. The wording, the ages and the player counts are ours. Every egg is an empty plastic one, no food is used, tags are a touch on the arm or the back, nothing is thrown at a player and nobody is put out of a game for good; those are our own rules for play. Checked on 12 October 2026 at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_stage) for the ages of each United States grade. Licence: own work

How it works

These Easter games for PE use empty plastic eggs, hoops and scoops, so a whole class can hunt, carry and hop at once. No food is used, and a tagged player is back in within seconds.

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Ten for the gym, six for a field

The page opens on the Elementary PE Easter games, ten for kindergarten to grade 3, each printed with its own ages. The menu under the button changes to Easter games for a field: sprints, a hopping contest and a throwing inning for a class outdoors, up to age 11.

Eggs, and what else to fetch

A bag of empty plastic eggs runs most of the list. Add hoops, cones, big spoons or scoops, and a parachute for one game. Pull the eggs apart beforehand for Put the Eggs Back Together.

  • Start with Egg Hunt Under the Cones: one team hides the eggs while the other faces the wall.

Questions and answers

What are good PE Easter games for a whole class?

Nest Raid keeps four teams running, and in Open an Egg, Do the Move Inside every player is busy from the first whistle. Neither puts anyone out.

Which are K-2 Easter PE games?

Bunny Hop Tag and Herd Your Egg are written for ages 5 to 8, which covers kindergarten to 2nd grade. So is the crossing game Bunny, Bunny, May We Cross Your Garden?

What can a class play outside at Easter?

Six games are written for a field. Hatch and Dash needs only cones, Wobbly Egg Roll needs one oval ball and a cone for each team, and Three Bunny Hops for Distance is a jumping contest that even kindergarten can join.

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