Recreation Guy

Here’s an activity for your Easter event that kids will line-up. It’s called the Cupcake Walk.

1. Tape numbers to the bottom of 10 carpet squares or poly spots.
2. Lay down the carpet squares or poly spots in a circle
3. Have one kid stand on each space.
4. When the music starts the kids walk around the circle, almost like musical chairs.
5. When the music stops each kid stops and stands on one of the spots.
6. A number, between 1 and 10 (or however many numbers of spots you have) is then drawn out of a bag. Let’s say the number drawn is a 7.
7. The kids look underneath their spots and the one with a 7 gets a cupcake.
8. You can either do another round with the same kids or have those kids get back in line and take the next 10.

Easter events that I have been a part of sell tickets that can be used for food, games, crafts or activities like a bounce house. If you’re charging a ticket or two for the cupcake walk then I suggest you have 2 or 3 cupcake winners each round.

In the past we had volunteers make the cupcakes or we bought them from the store or we had our teen cooking classes make them. Buying them already made from the grocery store is, of course, the easiest. I like easy.

Two more things; make sure you rope off the game and have a clear place where the line should start, and make sure you have a lot of cupcakes. The number of cupcakes depends on how many people attend your event and how many cupcakes you give out each round.

What other games or activities do you have at your Easter events?