10 Easter Egg Hunt Ideas

Our kids are getting older and harder keep entertained for the holidays.  A boring old fashion Easter egg just doesn't keep their interest anymore.  We love to be creative and come up with our own twist on holiday traditions.  So here's what we came up with.

1.Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt

We decided to have a glow in the dark egg hunt.  We thought we could use glow in the dark spray paint or duct tape. We  even wrote stuff with glow in the dark glue for the glue gun.  Just be careful not to burn or melt anything, including yourself.  We've also used glow in the dark puffy fabric paint to draw on the eggs, it comes in many different colors.  I've even seen glow in the dark wall paint.  For added fun, we thought we'd  spray paint or duct tape each child's Easter basket/bucket to glow in the dark. Click here for a more detailed earlier post on our blog and tons of ideas for different glowing items.  The kids absolutely loved it!

2.Non-Candy Easter Egg Hunt ideas.

The kids get so much candy and sweets over the holidays, it's nice to shake things up a bit.  We did charm bracelet charms, puzzle pieces, Lego Pieces, Perler beads, etc.  Click here for a detailed earlier post on our blog.

3.Give each child a colored pail and they are only allowed to collect the eggs that are their color.  Great way to keep it equal for different age groups.

4.Easter hunt using balloons instead of eggs filled with goodies, must pop the balloons to get the goodies. *NOT recommended on grass, it might pop the balloons.

5. Jokes on You!  For older kids, fill some of the eggs with really good stuff (candy, toys or prizes) and some with gross stuff (ex. slime, vegetables or gross jelly beans).

6.  Inside each egg leave a word to a sentence or sentence of a paragraph of a huge prize.  It might be that you are taking a family trip, going to a concert, getting season passes,  or buying a swimming pool type thing.  They finders find all the pieces and unscramble the message for the big surprise.

7. Put tokens inside each egg for prizes they can buy with their tokens.  For instance a squirt gun might be worth 5 tokens or eggs.

8. Let the kids hide the eggs and the adults find them.  Kids love to feel sneaky.

9. Send them on a scavenger hunt.

Click here for a fun simple one from Mom on the side.

10.  Put funny physical things they must do inside each eggs.  For example hop like a bunny or roll like an egg.

Click here for some cutouts from Teach123.

Included because not everyone knows what they are:

A traditional Easter egg hunt is for decorated hard boiled Easter eggs in a park or backyard.

A modern Easter egg hunt is for plastic eggs filled with candy in a park or backyard.  There is usually a large or golden egg with a special prize for the lucky finder.

Hope this has inspired your creative juices, for added fun mix a few hunt into one.

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Non-Candy Easter Egg Hunt Ideas

The kids get so much candy and sweets over the holidays, it's nice to shake things up a bit.

We were brainstorming some fun and creative, candy-free Easter egg hunts, and this is what we came up with.

Charm Bracelet Hunt

We were shopping and came across a basket full of charms on clearance for a dollar.  Light bulb moment!  Wouldn't it be fun to have an Easter egg hunt, where all the eggs had a different charm inside them.

We bought a long chain that included three clasps, in the craft section of our local superstore.

I believe it was around $3.  

You could also use leather or jewelry cord.

If you wanted to insure each child got specific charms or and even amount, you could separate them by colored eggs.  Instruct each child what color egg is theirs.

This would even be fun for a girlfriend/wife.

Many women go without Easter gifts.  How surprised would she be to get lead to her own Easter egg hunt full of beautiful charms.  You could even enclose a note expressing why each charm was chosen.  Very romantic!

TIC-TAC-TOE

It would be fun to have a game inside of a game.  

Place games pieces inside the egg. 

As they are found they must be played in that order.

We used a stone game we bought in Mexico, but you could use paper.

Puzzle Hunt

Put a piece of a puzzle inside each egg.

You could do one large puzzle for the group, or separate smaller puzzles into individual color of eggs.

Jewelry Hunt

My girls love earrings.  

We thought it would be fun to  put a pair of earrings in each egg.

You could shake things up and only put on earring in each egg.

Fun rings, hair accessories or pins would also be fun.

Beaded Bracelet Hunt

It would be fun to put a bead in an eggs. 

After all the eggs are collected, make a bracelet or necklace with your beads.  

We put them on a jewelry elastic cord. 

Be sure to super glue or use clear nail polish to keep the knot from untying.

You could use cheaper pony beads for younger children.  Maybe even use pipe cleaners.

Building Blocks

You could put blocks inside the eggs to build a project at the end of the hunt.

The kids could use their creativity and build whatever the come up with.

You could buy a set and place the pieces inside specific colored eggs for each individual child.

Perler Beads

Perler beads are always a hit with the kiddos.  Again, you could separate them by color to build a specific item or let the kids use their own imagination.

Sticker Hunt

What kid doesn't love stickers?

You could just buy a pack of individual stickers 

Or you could cut up sheets of stickers.

They even sell children's books and coloring book that come with a sticker page included.

It would be fun to give the book for Easter, and then hunt for each individual sticker.

 Foam Stickers

You could put different foam stickers inside the eggs and make a picture at the end of the hunt.

Money

Who doesn't like money?

Shiny Things

I have learned form teaching preschool kids  love shiny things.

It could be a polished rock or one spray painted gold.

It would be fun for a boy to get and car rug, and then hunt for Eggs filled with small cars.

Sea Shells would also be fun!

We hope our ideas spark your creativity.

Now get hunting!

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