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Creative and fun Easter egg hunt ideas
Easter brings with it a lot of pressure on parents to perform Easter egg miracles involving keeping kids in constant supply of chocolatey fun, keeping Easter eggs under wraps until Easter Sunday and keeping mini eggs dry and unspoilt by wildlife and rain until the Easter Egg hunt commences.
Often these hunts involved being up at the crack of dawn (even more of the crack than the kids), furtively wandering around the garden or local park, trying to hide eggs without being suspected of some sort of indecent activity.
So if you're tired of the same old hunt popular website SheKnows.com has some great new ways to outsmart the Easter rabbit this year.
Dusk Hunt
Why not send your kids hunting for Easter treasures at twilight instead of first thing in the morning? Even though it won't yet be dark, hand them flashlights, and send them on their way. They'll be sure to love this new twist on the traditional egg hunt.
If it's highly unlikely your child will be able to wait all day to search, either set up the hunt the night before or give your children a little something from the Easter bunny in the morning with a note that explains they can't search for their loot until dark.
Treasure Egg Hunt
Aye, aye mateys! A fun spin on an egg hunt is to send your kids searching for "buried" treasure. Give your children eye patches and maps to follow to find their hidden treasure eggs.
Leave clues along the way from the Easter bunny "fur," paw prints or even carrots) to let them know they're on the right trail. You can hide fun-filled eggs along the way and when they reach the end of the hunt, they will find their treasure. Burying the treasure is optional.
Colour-Coordinated Eggs
To make sure each child gets the same number of eggs, assign them their own colour. But to instil a little friendly competition, tell the kids there is one colour they can all search for: Gold. Hide one golden egg in the bunch. Whoever finds that egg gets an extra special prize. Just don't forget where you hid the eggs or how many eggs the kids are supposed to find. Make sure the eggs for younger hunters are easier to find.
Egg Puzzle
Tell your children the Easter bunny left them a puzzle, and they have to locate all of the puzzle pieces to find out what the grand finale prize is. To set up the puzzle, on a large sheet of paper, write a message to your children. Then, divide up the paper to look like puzzle pieces and cut out the individual pieces. Hide each piece in an egg.
Once the kids have found all of the puzzle pieces, they can lay them out on the floor to read their special message and find the big prize the Easter bunny left for them.
And finally if you’re sick to death and the stomach of chocolate and want to try to do something that doesn’t involve more sugar, then try this creative and sugar free Easter Hunt version.
Sugar-Free Egg Stuffers
Yes you can ditch the sugar! The kids are already "hopped" up enough on their natural energy anyway. Fill the eggs with fun surprises the children will never expect.
- Money
- Movie tickets
- Stickers
- Gum
- IOU notes (example: one large banana split, popcorn night in etc)
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