Ah, Easter Sunday morning. What a peaceful, quiet time of reflection. The children come downstairs dressed in their Sunday best and the family enjoys a leisurely breakfast before heading to church.
What? That doesn’t happen at your house?
Yeah. Mine neither. My kids are up at the crack of dawn to see what the Easter Bunny left for them before scrambling to find all the hidden eggs. All is over before we have even had our first cup of coffee. Boo.
Fed up with the fun being over in 3 minutes flat, we have tried several different twists on the traditional Easter Egg hunt. My kids have enjoyed the change as it keeps the fun fresh and new each year. And most importantly, what took the “Easter Bunny” a hour to do is not decimated (and forgotten!) in less than 5 minutes.
Here are 5 Unique Egg Hunts that we have tried:
Who doesn’t like shopping? - Hide ‘Bunny Munny’ in several of the plastic eggs to buy things at the Bunny Emporium. Pick up several fun Easter trinkets at the dollar spot or things that appeal to your children (toys, movies, books). Price them at different price points and have your children “shop” with their money.
Color hunt – Assign hunters a particular color(s) to find on their hunt. This is especially good when hunting with mixed ages, as it allows the younger children a chance to find a equal amount of eggs.
Flashlight Hunt – Put together your hunt the night before Easter. Using flashlights and glow-in-the-dark paint on the eggs, kids will love to find their eggs at night!
Easter Egg Checklist- Give each hunter a list of what particular eggs they are supposed to find, “4 yellow eggs, 3 purple eggs, 1 golden egg, etc.”. This turns it into a true hunt and you will find the kids end up helping each other out.
Scavenger hunt – Older kids LOVE a good hunt. With a little bit of pre-work, this will be a favorite! Put clues to find each consecutive egg in the plastic eggs hidden throughout the entire house and have their ultimate find be their Easter Baskets. Be creative with your clues (Hop on over to the place which makes you go brrrr…) and make your kids think!
The only drawback to having a fun Easter Egg Hunt? My kids have come to expect a creative hunt every year!
Do you have any creative Easter Egg Hunts? Please share them below!
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Such cute ideas! I really like the color idea, perfect for a mix of older kids and younger kids!
Thanks! Let us know if you try it out!
I have a daycare and have used the “only hunt for your color” method for many years now. It works especially well here because I put slips of paper to larger prizes in the eggs and by having each child find their “special color” I ensure that everyone receives the same special gifts.
I love the idea of a checklist!
My kiddos loved doing this a few years back – what i loved the most was watching them help one another out!
We do our egg hunt the weekend before Easter and we hold it at night and make the kids use flashlights to go find the eggs in the yard. It’s a lot of fun and adds a bit of a difficulty factor. We also stagger who goes out starting with the youngest (18 months) and ending with the oldest. That gives the younger ones a fair chance to get eggs. And we also scatter plastic gold coins out there for the kids to find. They can then redeem the coins for the larger prizes that don’t fit in the eggs (kites, coloring books, etc, mostly form the dollar store).
I love the idea of scattering the plastic gold coins! That is awesome!!!!!
Nothing like a great Easter Egg hunt! Thanks for all these ideas!
Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy & Alissa
What great ideas! That would be fun to mix the usual routine up and I’m sure kids would love the extra challenge as well. Thanks for sharing!
Love the images and the ideas so much. I am all over them!
We are filling our eggs with pieces of a new puzzle. When the hunt is over, another fun family time begins!
Great ideas. Klutz do a great book of Treasure Hunts with about 12 different sets of clues for different ages. My girls are big now but I still have to create an egg hunt. I’ve tried using wool to wrap around my garden and they have to follow it and wind it up, collecting eggs along the way (be sure to tangle it a bit if you’re doing more than one) and one year I took photos of house hold things and cropped them in close and the girls had to identify each item which was where the next photo was.
I also hid bits of a jigsaw that I had drawn a map of the garden on and they had to collect them all , assemble it and work out where there eggs were. Great fun and slows them down a bit and makes it all last a bit longer.
Last year I did it as a challenge (my girls were 18 and 13) at each area I gave them a set of items to use, for example I put some empty (apart from the next clue) cans high in a tree and left them a basket of crab apples to throw at them to knock them down, at the pond I gave them some sticks, string, hooks a fruit bag and a few other bits to retrieve a clue from under the water and I hid one high up on the gazebo. Each challenge had a note saying what to do (I wrote in mediaeval type language cos my girl loves Merlin).
I’m running out of ideas and I haven’t written this years yet!
it’s been many years since my kids were little but the last thing I did was to have rhyming clues all over the house to find their easter basket. The eggs were inside because the weather is cold and snowey at Easter. Now my sun hides eggs for his daughter and recently (in Feb!) she found an egg that didn’t get found last Easter.
love the idea of the flashlight hunt! Aodhan is only 3, but I know he would adore that idea. Thanks for linking up to the Kid’s Weekly Co-op!
Did the color search this year – worked out great – we have a 2 yr old FD and a 5 year old bio-son. It was cute, as soon as our son finished finding his – he had a blast helping her find hers!
My mom did the scavenger hunt type search a few times – i can’t remember what we got – but loved the search!
Good day! This post could not be written any better! Reading this post reminds me of my good old room mate!
He always kept chatting about this. I will forward this article to him.
Pretty sure he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!