The Bad Hare Day: A Left-Right Easter Story

Pass the eggs (or other goodies) with this funny left-right Easter story.

Most people know the Left-Right Game (if they know it at all) as a Christmas gift exchange. However, there’s no reason why this fun and simple gift-passing game needs to be confined to December. With a couple of tweaks, it can also be an excellent Easter activity.

All you need are some prizes to pass around and an Easter-themed story to read. The prizes could be gift bags, candy, or even Easter eggs. As for the story, I’ve come up with a funny one you can use called The Bad Hare Day, and you can find a printable of it at the end of this article.

Left-Right Easter Game Rules

Before getting to the story, I should back up and talk about the rules of the Left-Right Game. Trust me, this won’t take long – it’s one of the easiest party games around.

At the start of the game, players sit in a circle holding a wrapped present or other prize. Someone then reads a special story that has lots of mentions of the words “left” and “right.” Each time one of those words is read, players pass whatever they’re holding in the corresponding direction. When the story is over, players get to keep the prize they’re holding.

That’s pretty much it. However, one minor thing to consider is what to do if your Easter goodies go around the circle and wind up where they started. In some cases, this might be fine, or maybe even a neat result. However, if you want to avoid it, my Easter story includes an optional final line you can use to move the goodies one spot over.

The Story

Here’s the full text of my left-right Easter story. If you’re just looking for the printable, it’s down below.

The Bad Hare Day

For as long as anyone can remember, the Easter Bunny has delivered his baskets RIGHT on time. However, we all know that in any great endeavor, not everything is going to go RIGHT. This is a story of how things went very wrong for the Easter Bunny… and it all happened RIGHT before Easter.

The Easter Bunny was in his burrow making his final preparations for the big day and coloring some eggs that he had LEFT for the last minute. To reach a bucket of dye he had LEFT on a high shelf, he climbed atop a step stool. Unfortunately, as he reached for the paint, his LEFT foot slipped and the bucket fell, landing RIGHT on his head!

This LEFT the Easter Bunny in a daze. After a few moments, he came to his senses and realized he was all RIGHT. But the whole thing LEFT him wondering…

“Who am I and what am I doing with all these colorful eggs?”

That’s RIGHT – the fall had LEFT the Easter Bunny without his memory! And did I mention, this was RIGHT before Easter?

Luckily, the Easter Bunny wasn’t LEFT to deal with this crisis alone. For RIGHT then, there was a knock at his front door. The confused Easter Bunny LEFT his seat to answer the door, and standing there was his number one helper Bitsy Bunny.

“How’s it going, E.B.?” said Bitsy Bunny. “What an egg-cellent day it is. I hope you LEFT some egg coloring for me to do!”

After talking to the Easter Bunny for a short while and noticing the big bump that was LEFT on his head, Bitsy Bunny realized what had happened.

“This is an egg-stra big problem,” she said. “You’re the only one who knows where all the eggs are kept. Without you, kids will be LEFT with no baskets on Easter morning. We need to get you to the Bunny Doctor for an eggs-am RIGHT away.”

Bitsy and the Easter Bunny LEFT the burrow and after taking a LEFT at the Bunny Barber Shop, arrived at the Bunny Doctor’s office. When the Bunny Doctor saw who it was, he got him in for an appointment RIGHT away.

“Hmm,” the Bunny Doctor said after a thorough checkup. “This appears to be a bad case of bunny amnesia. Fortunately, I know a remedy that will set things RIGHT.”

The Bunny Doctor told the Easter Bunny to close his eyes. Then the doctor tugged lightly on the Easter Bunny’s LEFT ear. Then he tugged twice on his RIGHT ear. Finally, the Bunny Doctor gave the Easter Bunny’s LEFT ear one final tug, straightened out all the kinks in his whiskers, and gave his pink nose a little pinch.

And just like that, the Easter Bunny’s memories all came RIGHT back. He hopped off the exam table and, after many thanks to the doctor, LEFT to finish his Easter preparations with Bitsy.

“I’m glad all that egg-citement is over,” said Bitsy. “We still have a lot LEFT to do before Easter.”

The Easter Bunny agreed, and the two of them hopped RIGHT to it.

(Optional) It had been a bad hare day indeed, but with the Easter Bunny back in action, all was RIGHT with the world.