Need something new to try for your Easter egg hunt this year? Combine Easter egg hunting with charades for giving clues for the most hilarious Easter egg hunt ever. I’ve included some tips and tricks for making this as fun and enjoyable for everyone as possible based on my family’s experience doing a charades egg hunt!
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Easter Egg Hunt with Charades Clues
Over the years, we’ve come up with all sorts of different Easter egg hunt ideas. The ones that my family has loved the best are the ones with clues to where the eggs are hidden versus just looking for eggs. I think it’s because it turns them more into Easter games than just searching for eggs – definitely more fun for the teens and adults!
We’ve done Easter egg hunt clues that are written, a picture wall egg hunt with actual photo clues, and this year we thought it’d be fun to try out giving the clues via a round of charades!
I’ve explained exactly how we did this below but let me tell you – it was pretty hilarious to watch and for everyone to play. People got pretty competitive thinking they knew where to find an egg only to realize they interpreted the actions wrong and were searching in the complete wrong place.
This may be one of my new favorite indoor egg hunt ideas, especially if you have a family willing to get up there and act things out!
Set Up the Charades Egg Hunt
Doing a charades egg hunt is pretty much just like it sounds – people act out clues and people use those acted out clues to find eggs! Setting it up is the hardest part but it’s really not hard at all!
1 – Write Your Clues
Start by figuring out where you want to hide your eggs and writing charades clues for them. I’ve included examples of mine below, they’re less clues and more just descriptions of locations in my house.
This is the most important part of the entire egg hunt because you want to make sure you clues are:
- Specific enough that people can find the eggs but won’t be able to just see two seconds of charades and know where to find them. For example, I did Emmit’s (my youngest) sock drawer and as soon as people saw someone putting on socks or shoes, they ran and looked where we keep our shoes instead of waiting to figure out it was actually a sock drawer.
- Easy enough that you can act them out – for example I did the game Killer Bunnies because you can act out that phrase versus doing one of our favorite board games Doomlings because no one is acting out Doomlings.
- Something most people can find – if you’re doing this with more than just your immediate family, you’ll want to do clues that everyone can figure out and find in your house. One of our clues was unicorn purse by the front door. No one knew anything about my unicorn purse but they could figure it out based on someone acting out unicorn, purse, and door.
- Somewhere you can hide an egg out of sight. You don’t want people to just be able to find them at first glance, you want them to have to be able to figure out the charades clue to find the egg (Killer Bunnies instead of just board game.
- Somewhere inside. This would be really tricky to do outside unless you have very specific types of plants or something outside. It’s hard to act out tree 1 versus tree 2.
Once you have your clues written, print them out so they’re easy to read, cut them up into strips, and put them in an Easter basket for people to choose from in the charades game.
2 – Fill Your Eggs
What you fill your eggs with is totally up to you. I have a bunch of great Easter egg fillers if you need any ideas or just choose what you think will people want to find.
Or don’t fill your eggs at all and just offer a prize to whoever finds each egg, like we did $5 for every egg found because money is really what the teens wanted to win! This also saves you from having to fill your eggs – you could even just do something like setting up a bunny mart and if they find an egg, they can choose a prize.
3 – Hide Your Eggs
Once you have your clues written, hide eggs in all of the places that you created a charades clue for. Make sure they’re hidden out of sight as mentioned above so that people actually have to intentionally find the eggs, not just come across them.
Also, I highly recommend making sure that your clues send people to different locations, not ones that are near each other. This will help to make sure no one is accidentally finding the wrong egg!
How to Do the Charades Egg Hunt
Okay, now that your eggs are all hidden, it’s time for the actual egg hunt!
- Randomly choose someone to go first as the actor. Or just select someone you know will do a good job and get everyone excited about the game!
- That person chooses a clue from the clue basket and has to act it out. No need to use the actual rules of charades (sounds like, movie, two words, etc.) because they’re acting out clues – not actual things!
- As soon as someone thinks they know, they can go start hunting for the egg but be careful about going too early because there may be more to the clue that still needs to be acted out!
- Whoever finds the egg wins whatever is inside the egg (or whatever prize you’ve decided on ahead of time).
- The person who found the egg becomes the next actor and the first person that acted is in the hunt for the next egg.
- Keep going through having the finder become the actor each time until all the clues have been acted out and all the eggs have been found!
Tip!
While we had no problems with people being able to figure out the clues (eventually – sometimes they had to wait for a bit), if you do have issues with people guessing what’s being acted out, you can give out hints to the group guessing. You want people to find the eggs after all!
If you want to make sure that everyone finds an egg or that an even number of eggs are found per person, this may not be the right Easter egg hunt for you. Try our scrambled egg hunt instead where everyone wins a prize!
Game FAQs
Can someone find more than one egg?
We didn’t have a limit to how many eggs people could find but you can if you’d like. If someone figured out the charades clue the fastest, they could find the egg! This is one of the reasons that we had the person who found the egg act out the next clue – that way they couldn’t find ALL the eggs!
How many people can play?
You can have as many people play as you’d like. We had a group of about 12 teens and adults searching for eggs, it was hilarious!
What age is this best for?
I recommend doing this with tweens and older, people who can figure out charades. Or if you want to try it with kids, just make it super simple things like refrigerator or toilet or car, not challenging clues.
Do you have any preset printable clues for this one?
I didn’t make a set of printable clues for this one because honestly you want them to be specific to your location! I can give you some ideas of places to start based on where we did ours but you want them specific and I can’t create a printable for specific.
If you need some ideas to get started try inside a specific game or book, in a particular appliance or dish, in a particular person’s shoes, under a particular person’s bed, taped under a table, and so on. You want them to be findable but tricky!
More Easter Egg Hunt ideas
If you like this fun Easter egg hunt idea, make sure to check out these other fun Easter activities!
- Printable Easter egg scavenger hunt – a fun idea for any egg hunt!
- Easter egg hunt for teens – a great egg hunt that’s perfect for teens or anyone who can text!
- Easter bunny hunt – have kids searching for bunnies instead of eggs in a different type of hunt!
- Cash or hatch – another great Easter egg hunt idea for teens or adults, this one is like an Easter hunt version of deal or no deal!
- Hungry hungry bunnies – players have to search blindfolded for eggs then scoop them into their baskets!
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