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10+ Fun and Creative Easter Egg Hunt Ideas

By: Britni Vigil
4/06/2020Updated: 8/20/2020
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10 fun Easter egg hunt ideas that work for all ages - for older kids, for adults, for teens, for toddlers, or even for babies! Children will love the unique spin on an Easter favorite! I’m definitely trying these for our outdoor church Easter Egg hunt and maybe even for our indoor community one!

Kids and adults will absolutely love these fun and creative Easter egg hunt ideas! There are tons of great Easter egg hunts and filling ideas for Easter eggs! Tons of unique ways to set up an Easter egg hunt for kids or an Easter egg hunt for adults! 

Forget the standard candy in an Easter egg hunt this year! Thrill and surprise your kids with these unique Easter egg hunt ideas instead. There's even a bunch of great Easter egg hunt ideas for adults too!

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Creative Easter Egg Hunt Ideas

One of my favorite things about Easter is the Easter morning Easter Egg hunt. Every year my parents would make us kids go upstairs while they hid plastic eggs all over the house filled with candy and sometimes even money.

While the Easter egg hunt is definitely not the purpose of Easter, it’s still a fun tradition that I’ll be continuing with my son this year and something I’ll be doing for my husband as well!

Just one of the few annual Easter activities we do every year!!

I thought it would be fun to come up with some creative alternatives to the typical Easter egg hunts to put a little twist on one of my favorite traditions. A number of these would also make fun Easter party games as well!

Easter Egg Hunt Ideas for All Ages

If you want something to do other than an Easter egg hunt, make sure to check out these 12 spring themed party games, perfect for kids or adults! Or these printable Easter games for kids are fun too, my son loved them!

#1 – Skip the Candy Easter Egg Hunt

Have kids fill Easter Eggs with slips of paper that have reasonable rewards (stay up for an extra 15 minutes, lunch date with mom) for them rather than candy/toys. Hide the eggs and the eggs that the kids find are the rewards that they get.

You could also just do this in addition to the typical candy eggs. And if you’re sticking with the no-candy theme but still want to put things in eggs – check out this huge list of Easter egg filler ideas!

10 fun Easter egg hunt ideas that work for all ages - for older kids, for adults, for teens, for toddlers, or even for babies! Children will love the unique spin on an Easter favorite! I’m definitely trying these for our outdoor church Easter Egg hunt and maybe even for our indoor community one!
Love this no-candy Easter egg hunt ideas! And the other 10 fun Easter egg hunt ideas that work for all ages - for older kids, for adults, for teens, for toddlers, or even for babies! Children will love the unique spin on an Easter favorite! I’m definitely trying these for our outdoor church Easter Egg hunt and maybe even for our indoor community one!

#2 – Easter Egg Eggstravaganza

Fill each of the eggs with a slip of paper with a silly task such as sing “Itsy Bity Spider,” name three fruits that are red, or do a handstand. This is an Easter egg hunt so make them fun.

When the finder finds an egg, they can bring it back to you and do the task. After they’ve done the task, they can either pick out a piece of candy or a toy or give them coins or tickets that they can turn in for something bigger at the end of the hunt. Any of these Easter surprises would make great prizes!

If you want to do something like this for older kids, put different numbers of points on the tasks. So say one egg might have a task that is name ten states and their capitols that is worth 10 points and another egg might have sing I’m a little teapot worth 5 points.

Keep track of points to “buy” something at the end of the hunt.

#3 – Easter Egg Treasure Hunt

Write clues that send your kids around the house searching for the next location where they’ll find a clue (e.g., Run really fast, use your legs, this is where we keep the eggs). Or if you don’t have time to write them, here’s a printable treasure hunt you can use instead!

Hide the clues in eggs and put a number on each of the eggs so they don’t accidentally skip an egg in their searching. Have the clues lead to a bigger prize at the end, one for each kid, or one that everyone can share.

Or skip the egg part of it and just do this Easter scavenger hunt instead!

The first of many Easter scavenger hunt clues

#4 – Golden Ticket Easter Egg Hunt 

Have a Willy Wonka themed Easter Egg hunt by hiding a golden ticket for each of your kids in one egg, so if you have three kids you would have three eggs with golden tickets inside. Tell your kids that they can only find one golden ticket.

If your kids aren’t the “open as I find it” kind of kids, you can also put a golden star or something on the outside of the egg so they know when they find a golden ticket egg.

Once they find a golden ticket, they can immediately (or after the hunt is over) trade it in for a bigger prize.

One word of warning – I highly recommend if you’re going to do this with kids that you put one per person. We went to an Easter hunt where there was one golden egg for the entire group of kids.

I had to deal with a sobbing child who no longer wanted to hunt for Easter eggs because he saw the golden egg first but was beat to it by a girl a few years older. It was an absolute mess. Easter egg hunts are made to be fun, not build character.

You could also use the golden egg later for this fun Easter dice game.

10 fun Easter egg hunt ideas that work for all ages - for older kids, for adults, for teens, for toddlers, or even for babies! Children will love the unique spin on an Easter favorite! I’m definitely trying these for our outdoor church Easter Egg hunt and maybe even for our indoor community one!
Love this golden ticket Easter egg hunt idea and all of these 10 fun Easter egg hunt ideas that work for all ages - for older kids, for adults, for teens, for toddlers, or even for babies! Children will love the unique spin on an Easter favorite! I’m definitely trying these for our outdoor church Easter Egg hunt and maybe even for our indoor community one!

Easter Egg Hunt Ideas for Older Kids & Teens

#5 – Easter Egg Relay Race

Split your kids into teams. When you say go, have the first kid from each team go search for an egg. Once they’ve found an egg, they come back and tag the next teammate who has to go find an egg.

Repeat until one team has found a specified number of eggs (e.g., 20) as a team.

You can also do this with younger kids, just make sure they understand that they can only find one egg and come back!

#6 – Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt

Put together a list of eggs that the kids have to find such as a striped egg, an egg with green Jelly beans, an egg with a quarter inside, etc. Or just use this free printable Easter egg scavenger hunt! 

Once the kids have found each item on their list, they can trade it in for a big gift (e.g., movie, toy, gift card, $10).

This is a great way to still let kids search for a lot of eggs without a candy overload.

Filled in Easter egg scavenger hunt

#7 – Choose Your Own Easter Egg Adventure Hunt 

Similar to the Easter Egg Treasure Hunt mentioned above, write clues that send your kids around the house searching for the next clue. The only difference is that for this treasure hunt, you are going to put two eggs with two different clues in each location.

Kids can open both eggs but will have to choose which one to follow. Or if you have two kids, they could choose two different pathways completely.

So for example, one egg might lead them to the microwave while the other might lead them to the bathtub.

This is a little more complicated to put together but so fun for kids to have a choice. It’s kind of like one of those choose your own adventure books from back in the day! You can use these Easter scavenger hunt clues to get you started.

#8 – Reverse the Roles Easter Egg Hunt

Reverse the roles this year and have the kids fill the Easter eggs with things that they want written on slips of paper (like stay up for an extra hour, skip chores for a day, etc.).

Once all of the eggs are filled, have the kids hide the eggs and have parents try to find them. Any eggs that are not found in a certain time limit are the ones that kids get to keep.

10 fun Easter egg hunt ideas that work for all ages - for older kids, for adults, for teens, for toddlers, or even for babies! Children will love the unique spin on an Easter favorite! I’m definitely trying these for our outdoor church Easter Egg hunt and maybe even for our indoor community one!

#9 – Scrambled Easter Egg Hunt

Pick out some bigger prizes (like any of these) and print out the names of those prizes on a sheet of paper (e.g., Movie Night) with each prize printed in a different color egg.

Cut out each of the letters from the prizes and put one letter in each egg that you hide.

Make a poster with matching colored blank spaces for each letter in each prize (kind of like I did in this advice graduation game) so that kids know how many letters are in each prize.

Have kids search for the eggs until they’ve found all of the letters for a particular color and then have them unscramble the letters to win the prize.

You can either let them find all of the words or just win the first 2-3.

You could also do this with puzzle pieces and have them find the pieces to put together the puzzle instead of unscrambling letters. And have the prize on the back, like I did for this DIY Christmas gift.

#10 – Perfect Patterns Egg Hunt 

Before the race, buy eggs in particular patterns or designs and colors (e.g., striped, pink polka dotted, glittery) then hide the eggs and come up with a pattern to use for the game.

So for instance, you might say you have to find eggs in the order of the colors in a rainbow (red, orange, yellow, blue, green, violet). Or they have to find striped, solid, striped, solid, etc.

Every time they find an egg, they have to bring the egg back then go search again for the next egg in the pattern.

Once they’ve found all of the eggs in the correct pattern, they are rewarded with a bigger prize.

10 fun Easter egg hunt ideas that work for all ages - for older kids, for adults, for teens, for toddlers, or even for babies! Children will love the unique spin on an Easter favorite! I’m definitely trying these for our outdoor church Easter Egg hunt and maybe even for our indoor community one!
10 fun Easter egg hunt ideas that work for all ages - for older kids, for adults, for teens, for toddlers, or even for babies! Children will love the unique spin on an Easter favorite! I’m definitely trying these for our outdoor church Easter Egg hunt and maybe even for our indoor community one!

Easter Egg Hunt Ideas for Adults

Easter egg hunts don’t have to be just for the kids! Try one of these awesome Easter egg hunt ideas for adults for a little more fun for the adults this year! This could even be something you do after the kids are in bed or while they’re enjoying the candy from their hunt!

Do the golden ticket Easter egg hunt I mentioned above and only the person who finds the golden ticket wins a bigger prize.

Speaking of gold, this confetti egg game would be hilarious! Fill some eggs with confetti and one with gold sequins. Find egg and smash them on each other – the one who finds the gold one wins. Get the full instructions here. 

Fill Easter eggs with money, lotto tickets, or other things adults would want to find! Obviously this might be a bit expensive, so only hide a few per person!

Do a glow in the dark Easter egg hunt. This could work for kids or adults!

Do a girls only Easter egg hunt and fill the eggs with mini nail polishes, gourmet chocolates, and one big gift like a gift certificate to a spa!

Try this Easter egg hunt for your spouse activity to lead them to an Easter basket full of their favorite things!

10 fun Easter egg hunt ideas that work for all ages - for older kids, for adults, for teens, for toddlers, or even for babies! Children will love the unique spin on an Easter favorite! I’m definitely trying these for our outdoor church Easter Egg hunt and maybe even for our indoor community one!
10 fun Easter egg hunt ideas that work for all ages - for older kids, for adults, for teens, for toddlers, or even for babies! Children will love the unique spin on an Easter favorite! I’m definitely trying these for our outdoor church Easter Egg hunt and maybe even for our indoor community one!
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  1. Elizabeth says

    Posted on 3/18 at 12:26 pm

    What great ideas! I love the alternatives to the typical candy. Thank you for sharing at Snickerdoodle. Pinned!

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  2. Kim @KandyKreations says

    Posted on 3/19 at 2:59 pm

    These are some great ideas! I love the role reversal one. I think I may try it with my kids this year. It would be nice to have them do the work and we get to play. Except, knowing my boys, I could be in serious trouble. They are so much taller than me and would hide the eggs places I probably wouldn’t even dream of. But it’s still a great idea. I’ve pinned this and shared on my Facebook page. Thanks for the great idea and for sharing at Dare to Share Saturday.

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  3. Shelly says

    Posted on 3/26 at 5:23 am

    I love the glow sticks in the eggs idea for a friends night before easter. Add some lotto tickets?? fun fun!! Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  4. Hazel Baguna says

    Posted on 3/30 at 5:14 pm

    These ideas are just spectacular for the kids! My hubby loves the adult ones almost as much as he loves me! I’m even thinking of buying real candy instead of baby carrots for the kids to snack on in their Easter eggs! This is something special! 😍

    Reply
  5. Cris James says

    Posted on 3/30 at 5:18 pm

    Awww yeah gurl! These ideas are insane!

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  6. Stephanie Fondy says

    Posted on 4/18 at 4:28 pm

    My sister and her family do a couple of fun things! The little ones hunt eggs and the older ones hunt dollar bills–mostly $1 but one $10–fun to see who finds that one!
    Also–scavenger hunt for Easter Baskets filled with each child’s favorite things.

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    • BritniV says

      Posted on 4/20 at 7:07 pm

      Those are great ideas, thanks for sharing! We do a scavenger hunt too!

      Reply
  7. Karen Comer says

    Posted on 4/9 at 9:35 pm

    Thanks for the fun ideas. I have 4 grandchildren in a wide age range so for the last 5 years I have hidden eggs in specific colors for each child. Those who need easy finds get them since the others can’t pick up those eggs. It also makes everyone get the same number of eggs. Maybe this idea will help others.

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  8. Olivia Rose says

    Posted on 5/7 at 8:52 pm

    Thanks for sharing the great idea.Those eggs are very colourful and attractive.

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    • BritniV says

      Posted on 5/8 at 11:01 am

      Thank you

      Reply
  9. meng says

    Posted on 9/9 at 6:14 am

    I love the glow sticks in the eggs idea for a friends night before easter. Add some lotto tickets?? fun fun!! Thanks for sharing

    Reply
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