There may be “Blue Mondays,” but surely Easter Monday is one of the brightest, happiest days that ever dawned. Of course you are anxious for your friends to see the Easter gifts which you have received, so if mother is willing, send out your invitations for an Easter party, not forgetting to seal them with a lily seal.

For your party you will need colored tissue paper (as many different colors as you will have guests), also a small basket apiece, and plenty of little rabbits, chickens and eggs. Buy a couple of pounds of jelly eggs, and have ready a medium-sized, shallow basket. If this is a “girls’” party, have ready eggshells from which the egg has been blown, also scissors and paste. Don’t forget a little gift for a prize, and be sure to have for each guest an egg, upon which his or her name is marked.

Before the children arrive, wrap the chickens, rabbits and eggs separately in the colored tissue paper, the same number in each color, and hide them about the room. Hide the jelly eggs, too, but of course these need not be wrapped.

Then you can begin your party with an “Easter hunt.” Give each child a basket to gather “treasures” in, but (this is important!) he can only keep articles wrapped in the color with which his basket is tied. Of course with jelly eggs, “finding’s keeping.” Next in order comes “Tossing Eggs.” This sounds startling, but jelly eggs won’t make any trouble. Place the basket at one end of the room. Now, let each child stand nine feet distant and try to throw twelve jelly eggs into the basket. The one who is the best marksman wins a prize.

A race with the small Easter eggs is “run” just in the same way as a potato race, except that teaspoons are used instead of tablespoons.

The girls will enjoy trying their millinery skill by making tissue paper caps or bonnets for the Easter eggshells, and mother can decide which “egg lady” deserves a prize.

The supper table for the Easter party can be made very pretty indeed. A hen on a nest will be a good centerpiece, and scattered here and there on the table place fluffy little ducks and chickens. Your guests will greatly enjoy creamed chicken with peas, deviled eggs, ice cream in the form of lilies, or in lily paper cases, bonbons and fancy cakes.