Easter Party Ideas

For Friends and Family Easter Gatherings

With Easter just around the corner I thought you might like some ideas for your Easter get-together with friends and family.

Music sets the mood for any gathering and it is vital that the music is proper for the occasion. Here is a suggested list of Easter music to get the party hopping:

Peter Cottontail / Sing & Sway with Sammy Kaye/The Kaydets

The Funny Little Bunny (With the Powder Puff Tail) / Gene Autry

My Chocolate Rabbit / Rosemary Clooney

Egbert the Easter Egg / Ray Heatherton

The Horse with the Easter Bonnet / Gene Autry

Easter Parade / Judy Garland

On the Good Ship Lollipop / Shirley Temple

I Want Candy -- Bow Wow Wow

Sugar Sugar -- The Archies

Happy Easter -- Fed Astaire and the Mel-Tones

Food and drinks are next in order of importance, you will want food and drinks to reflect the occasion and make the photographs taken reflect the occasion by their existence in the photographs.

Depending on the number of adults at the party, you will want to increase this recipe, to make enough to go around, or, if you are opting for the non-alcoholic version, you will need enough for everyone. I suggest making both versions, one for the adults, and one for the kids.

Easter Bunny (serves 4)

• 6 oz. dark crème de cacao
• 2 oz. vodka
• 4 tsp chocolate syrup
• 4 tsp cherry brandy

Add crème de cacao and vodka to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake, and then pour into 4 old-fashioned glasses. Float chocolate syrup and cherry brandy on top

Non-Alcoholic - lemonade, limeade, carrot juice

Tip: Make some non-alcoholic version ahead of time and freeze it into an Easter shaped container to put in the punch bowl to keep it cold. If you don't have an Easter shaped container, try a Jell-O ring. This keeps the punch from getting diluted when the water melts.

Food: