Easter activity for a large group of kids at church Easter brunch...

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I need to come up with something for the kids to do at our Easter brunch in a couple weeks. We have about 70 kids that come out to Sunday meetings...I don't know if they will all be around for Easter weekend or if many will be out of town. Either way...I am sure I can expect a reasonably large group (ages 3-11). It is a family activity...but we'd like to have something special for the kids. Several people have said, "We always do an Easter egg hunt...the city does one of those as well...Easter is so important...we should do something different" So I'd either like to do something to change up an Easter egg hunt...or do something else all together. I'm trying to find some activity that I can somehow tie into the spiritual meaning of Easter...Jesus/Resurrection/etc. Because families will be there and there will be a brunch...it's not like I have to think of something to entertain all those kids with for 2 hours or anything...but even if I can come up with something for about 20-30 minutes - I think that'd be great. I've tried googling things...and just haven't found anything that I can see doing. There are a lot of younger kids...definitely WAY more 3-4 year olds than 10-11 year olds. I thought of possibly breaking them up into 3 groups (3-4 year olds, 5-7 year olds, 8-11 year olds - that's how the numbers would balance the best)...and having an activity for each age group. But again...what to do?? I don't mind doing an Easter egg hunt...(that's a lot of eggs for somebody who's used to doing something with just my 4 kids - but I do have many people who have volunteered to help). Then I would just need away to change the Easter egg hunt up a bit...maybe somehow make it a game with a spiritual side? Anyway...it's been a long day...and my brain is feeling quite fried. Anybody have any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks :)

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I was thinking a play, but since it is only 20 or 30 minutes, have the children make clay figures of the stations of the cross. They can order and display them for their parents to see. It will also be a fun lesson for them. Have pictures ready for them to model from.

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Bunny hop? (burlap sacks/pillow cases and have the kids have races. )

Not sure what would be good for the spiritual side....good luck!

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TONS of good ideas here, the Articles of Faith Easter egg hunt looks cute, but if you scroll down a bunch, there are the spiritual and food ideas too:

http://www.sugardoodle.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3155Itemid=456

There is also the easy hard boiled egg relay race... even fun for the sunbeams ;)

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This doesn't tie in the spiritual side but when our children's groups have get togethers at our church they get large sugar cookies (baked & undecorated) and set out icing, sprinkles, etc and have the kids decorate their own cookie. They just need a little supervision and sometimes the little ones need a little help but they love it.

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We always have done an egg hunt at our church. The older kids (10 & up) hide the eggs (or just throw them on the ground for the tiny kiddos). We had one area designated for the smallest kids who really can't "hunt" and then a larger area where the eggs were actually "hidden".

Some of the eggs had special coins in them that could be exchanged for prize Easter baskets. If any of the kids got more than one coin, then the usually gave it to someone who didn't get one, so all the kids ended up with a basket. Of course, we didn't have 70 kids, so you'd have to figure out how to handle that--you wouldn't want to have that many "prizes".

The older kids usually got a basket for hiding the eggs. Even though they thought it was great fun.

Win - win - win.
:)