Take a Peep at These 25 Creative, Kid-Friendly Easter Egg Hunt Ideas
These Easter egg hunt ideas will make you very hoppy.
Looking to add a little something egg-xtra special to your classic Easter egg hunt festivities this year? You can start to tap into your creativity by gearing up for an epic family egg hunt—for adults and for toddlers—that can even take place inside if need be.
From creative Easter egg hunt ideas—like making personalized Easter egg baskets for each of your kids—to practical, kid-friendly solutions—like attaching a balloon to each hidden egg to make them easier for toddlers to locate—these fun ideas will make your Sunday, April 9, 2023, celebration even more memorable.
Trust us, these 25 creative Easter egg hunt ideas are so easy to pull that you'll wonder why you haven't tried them out sooner. What other new ideas can you think of?
25 Creative Easter Egg Hunt Ideas
1. Custom Egg Hunt Bunny Bags
Give each child a customized Easter bag to stash their egg hunt finds inside. To make it, grab a stack of white paper bags from your nearest dollar store. Then, simply draw on a bunny’s face with a permanent marker or print out a template online and glue them onto the bags. Add a pink or blue bow and a cute carrot-shaped name tag to each.
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2. Blooming Egg Hunt
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Glue faux flowers onto the top of a few of your Easter eggs to make them extra festive and to better disguise them amongst your spring flower beds. On the big day, place them like a flower in your garden and encourage the little ones to pick them when they find them.
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3. Cute Characters Easter Egg Hunt
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Make your Easter eggs look like cute characters by drawing on faces with colored Sharpies or paint and gluing on 3D ears or other accessories.
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4. Egg Hunt Markers
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Cut or trace Easter shapes out of construction paper and glue the backs of them to Popsicle sticks. Write clues on them to help the kids find their egg treasures.
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5. Personalized Egg Hunt
Write each child’s name on a plastic egg. Instruct the kids that they are only allowed to collect the eggs with their names on it.
6. Easter Egg Bowling Game
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Take a break from the big hunt and try this fun DIY Easter bowling game! Glue bunny ears onto miniature bowling pins and create your own alley out of an empty Huggies box, like @momtogether did. Your kids will be egg-static!
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7. Indoor Easter Scavenger Hunt
Leave written clues in clever places around the house that will lead kids to their chocolate-filled baskets and brightly colored eggs. Fun spots include the fridge or the kid’s pajama drawer.
8. Prank Eggs
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If you have older kids, add some dud eggs amongst the real ones to make your Easter egg hunt extra silly. Fill them with gag gifts, like fake bugs or dried beans, instead of candy to give you and your kids lots of laughs.
9. Activity Egg Hunt
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Instead of candy, fill the eggs with a piece of paper to get the kids to burn off some of that sugar-induced energy. On the piece of paper, instruct them to do fun active things like, ‘Show us your best bunny hop!’ or ‘Baa like a lamb!’.
10. Balloon Help Egg Hunt
Blow up a balloon and attach it to a string or ribbon. Then, tie the string around the eggs to help the little ones on the day of the hunt.
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11. Bunny Snack Time
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With all the little ones running about, they are sure to get hungry. Fill metal pans with healthy snacks like carrots, celery, and hard-boiled eggs. Make the munch-ables more enticing by leaving clues left by the Easter bunny himself.
12. Glow-in-the-Dark Egg Hunt
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Place a small glow stick or another glowing device inside multiple plastic eggs. Scatter around your backyard and wait till night falls to give the older kids a real treat.
13. Technology Treat
Here’s an easy way to peel teens off of social media and into the real world: Incorporate technology! Create custom QR codes that they can scan with their cellphones that will give them a clue to the next egg’s location.
14. Easter Egg Relay Race
Divide the kids into teams. When you say “go”, one kid from each team has to go and search for an egg. The catch is... they also have to balance a foil-wrapped raw egg on a spoon as they do it—making sure not to drop it and allow it to crack! Once they find one, they have to come back and tag their teammate who now has to go search for a second egg. Repeat until one team has the specified number of eggs. And, if your egg cracks along the way, you have to put all of your found Easter eggs back and start over!
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15. Reverse-the-Roles Egg Hunt Game
Instead of candy, ask your kids to write things that they want on a slip of paper (like staying up an extra hour or having ice cream for dinner) and put it inside the egg. Once the eggs are filled, the kids hide the eggs and the parents try to find them. Any eggs not found are the wishes that must be granted.
16. Rainbow Egg Hunt
Get eggs in all the different colors of the rainbow and scatter them around the backyard. Instruct the kids to find the eggs in the correct order of the rainbow. Once, they’ve completed the challenge, they receive a bigger prize!
17. Golden Egg Hunt
Add a few eggs golden eggs (one per child) into your Easter egg hunt mix. Stash a special ticket inside these special gold eggs so that, once the golden ticket is found, they can swap it out for a prize, like a chocolate bunny!
18. Play-on-Words Egg Hunt
Choose a word—like "Easter"—and write one letter on each Easter egg. Then, have kids hunt for eggs with the goal of spelling out the word "Easter". Once they do, they'll earn an extra special surprise!
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19. Follow the Bunny Trail
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Lead younger children to each egg by spray painting bunny prints on the grass. It doubles as adorable outdoor Easter decor, too!
20. Freeze Hunt
Add an extra layer of fun by only allowing hunting when a certain song is playing. When the song stops suddenly, hunting must stop and the kids have to freeze where they are standing. Those who break their freeze must re-hide an egg from their basket.
21. Matching Egg Hunt
For easy (educational!) indoor Easter fun, bury numbered eggs in a large bin filled with Easter grass and have young kids dig through the bin to find them! Once they're all found, have your kids match each paper number to the numbered egg.
22. Fortune Egg Surprise
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Scribble funny fortunes on strips of paper and leave a small treat inside plastic eggs. Smiles are sure to be had!
23. Puzzle Egg Hunt
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Buy a puzzle and hide the pieces in plastic eggs. Once they have all been found, have the kids work together to create the picture!
24. Nature Scavenger Hunt
If plastic eggs are a no-go this year, staple a checklist with things like ‘4 pinecones, 3 different types of flowers’ and other things in nature to an empty paper bag. Have the kids roam around (supervised of course) and have them place the correct items in the bag.
25. Egg-stra Special Easter Eggs
Whether you're using real-looking faux eggs or the colorful plastic kind, give your Easter eggs an even more fun and festive feel by decorating them with painted-on images of gold bunnies or yellow chicks! You can also use metallic Sharpies, if you don't want to deal with paint.
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