An egg hunt is a classic Easter activity that children of all ages love and doing one at home is a great way to keep them entertained for a few hours during the holidays.
If you’ve never organised one before, or are looking for a bit of a twist on the traditional hunt, here are 5 ways to do an Easter egg hunt at home.
1. Keep it simple
The easiest way to do an Easter egg hunt at home is to keep it really simple.
Just get some eggs, hide them around your home and/or garden and then let the children search for them.
You can get kits from pretty much all the big supermarkets or from Amazon which make the whole thing really simple to set up.
Or you can buy a pack of reusable plastic eggs and fill those with treats or little gifts and hide those instead. The great thing about doing it this way is that once you’ve bought the eggs you can use them over and over again, year after year.
2. Get creative with clues
If you want to get a bit more creative with your Easter egg hunt then you can turn it into a hunt with clues that the children have to follow to find the eggs.
You can keep it simple for younger children with straightforward clues/instructions like:
- look in your bed
- the next clue is in a shoe
- look for a clue by the front door
Or you can write riddles or rhyming clues for older children.
I’ve created a set of 8 Easter themed rhyming clues that you can download and print out to use, if you don’t want to make up your own.
You can find them at the bottom of this post (click here to jump straight to them), and they’re completely free to download.
3. Try an Easter escape room
This is a really fun twist on a classic Easter egg hunt!
If you’re creative you could come up with your own escape room puzzles for the children to complete to win their eggs.
Or you can buy a kit like this Easter escape room game from Etsy where all the hard work has already been done for you. You just have to print out all the pieces and set it up.
4. Hide letters that spell out an Easter-related word or phrase
Think of a word or phrase related to Easter or spring like:
- Easter
- bunny
- hot cross buns
- Easter egg
- chick
Then hide the letters that make up the words around the house for the children to find and unscramble.
You could print the letters out, write them on pieces of paper and hide them in plastic eggs, or use scrabble tiles or magnetic letters.
5. Keep things contained with an Easter sensory bin
If you don’t have the space to do a full egg hunt around the house, then try doing one in a sensory bin instead.
You could hide Easter eggs or tokens that can be exchanged for eggs in:
- a plastic tub filled with coloured rice or dried oats
- a paddling pool filled with ballpit balls
- a sandpit, or plastic tub filled with sand
You can make it even more fun by giving the children spoons, cups, and child-safe tweezers to use to pick out the eggs.
Whichever way you decide to do it, your children will have loads of fun with their Easter egg hunt.
Just be prepared for them to ask you to re-hide the eggs so they can do it all over again (something mine do every year!). While we do like to do other Easter activities too, Easter eggs hunts are definitely the main event in our family, so I love having options on how to shake the idea up now and again!
Looking for my Easter egg hunt clues to print out? Here you go!
There are 3 versions of the same clues to download.
The first is a set of complete clues and instructions on where to hide each one.
The second is a set of complete clues, for younger children who might not be able to guess the missing word.
The third is a set of clues with the last word missing, so children need to work out the rhyming word to find where the next clue is hidden.
Just click on the ones you want and they’ll open in a new tab for you to download and print.
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