Easy Easter Egg Hunt Ideas for the Whole Family

Easy Easter egg hunt ideas for the whole family! Make some fun memories with these egg hunts—sure to make kids of all ages smile!

I’m always looking for frugal and fun themes for our family nights. With a bag of plastic Easter eggs coming in under $2, they make a perfect focal point for our family fun night! (Not to mention, you probably already have some plastic eggs in your holiday bin!) I added in a few other things that I had around the house for a super fun seasonal celebration.

Easter Egg Hunt Ideas

This family fun night with Easter eggs takes a little prep work, but it will be worth it. I decided to prep a different basket for each hunt. That way, I could grab it when ready. I had the kids go into a room each time I hid the eggs in another room.

Egg Hunt #1: The Noisemaker

Materials:

• The Noisemaker printable (at bottom of this post)
• Plastic eggs
• Noisemakers such as: rice, beans, paper clips, pasta, corn kernels, M&M’s, etc.

How to play:

I hid 6 eggs per child (that’s 24 for my family). Once the kids found the eggs, they ran back to the table and began shaking them to figure out what was inside. They recorded each guess on their paper and then waited for everyone to finish. Once they were all done, we opened the eggs to see if our predictions were correct. And of course, we ate the M&M’s out of that egg.

Egg Hunt #2: The Nightlight

Materials:

• Plastic eggs
• Glowsticks

How to Play:

The game is simple. I placed glowsticks inside each egg and hid them in our backyard. The kids couldn’t believe that I was sending them outside in the dark to hunt for eggs. It was so fun that they wanted to take turns hiding them for each other before moving on to the next game.

Egg Hunt #3: The Puzzlemaker

Materials:

• A simple and small puzzle
• Plastic eggs

How to Play:

Put the puzzle pieces for the entire puzzle inside your eggs. Make sure you count so you know when they are all found. Next, hide the eggs and let the kids find them. Once they have found the eggs, run to the table and put the puzzle together. Or, mix it up and start trying to put the puzzle together each time you find a new egg.

Egg Hunt #4: The Guess-timator

Materials:

• A bag of jellybeans
• The Guess-timator printable (at bottom of this post)
• Plastic eggs

How to Play:

Fill the eggs with varying amounts of jellybeans. For simplicity’s sake, I color-coded it. For example, the blue eggs had 4 jellybeans. The pink eggs had 10 jellybeans, etc. Each child was instructed to find 5 eggs that were different colors. Once they had all 5 eggs, they ran back to the table and tried to put them in order of greatest to least jellybeans simply by shaking to see how many jellybeans were inside. No peeking allowed!

Egg Hunt #5: Scrambled Eggs

Materials:

• plastic eggs

How to Play:

This Easter egg hunt idea is super simple but tons of fun. I mismatched 24 eggs (12 for each team) by connecting the wrong colors to each other. Then I hid them around the house. Each team had to find 12 eggs, run to the table, unscramble them, and then put them back in the basket.

 

Egg Hunt #6: The Chocolate Surprise

Materials:

• Chocolate eggs (I bought small ones and then one each of the large Cadbury creme eggs.)

How to Play:

I simply hid the eggs all over the house, making sure to count how many I hid. Then I sent the kids to find them. Once we had them all, we practiced some division, and of course, we had a sweet treat!

More Easter Egg Hunt Ideas

If those egg hunt ideas aren’t enough to keep your family occupied, check out these other Easter egg hunt ideas found on the internet:

• Golden ticket egg hunt: only one egg has the “golden ticket”
• Relay race egg hunt: divide into two teams; one person from each team finds an egg then tags the next person until all eggs are found
• Scavenger egg hunt: put a clue in each egg that will lead to the next egg
• Balloon-marked egg hunt: (perfect for preschoolers) tie a helium-filled balloon to each egg to make them easy to find

A Few Games

If you want to extend the festivities, here are a few fun games for those plastic eggs. It’s helpful to put something in the eggs to weigh them down for the games. Of course, we used a little candy.

• egg toss: toss eggs into baskets
• egg roll: with your nose, see who can get to the finish line first
• egg and spoon race: traditional, but so much fun
• egg pass: put it under your chin and pass it without dropping it down the line. Time your whole family and try and beat your time.
• hot boiled egg: just like “hot potato” but egg-style!

Both printables can be found in one file by clicking the image below.

Now go have some laughs with this family fun night, Easter egg style!

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