50 Best Easter Egg Hunt Ideas That Every Bunny in Your Family Will Love

Here's an idea that will really make your Easter pop! Instead of hiding typical eggs, tie egg-painted balloons around your home for the kiddos to grab. You can even fill them with confetti or little prizes. When the hunt is over, help the kids pop them so their prize bursts out.

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Skip the plastic for this year's egg hunt and opt for a craft instead. These egg carton bunnies can easily hide Easter goodies for your kids to find. They're so cute, too!

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What's an Easter egg hunt without decorations? This free printable banner will spruce up any space. You can recreate it yourself with some art supplies or head to your local print shop to print it out!

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Decorate your backyard or garden with these DIY bunny doors and windows. Kids will love imagining little white rabbits falling through to a wonderland! Helpful hint: They're perfect to hide eggs behind, too. 😉

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For your littlest peeps, try this egg game that mixes both Easter fun and learning! With a bucket and plastic eggs, they can practice number identification and counting.

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Get the competition going with these adorable mini trophies for the winners and losers of your family games! This fun tutorial calls for paper mache eggs, small plastic trophies, paint, and small alphabet stickers to write egg hunt superlatives and silly sayings, like "Most Eggs," "Fewest Eggs," and "Good Egg."

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The Texan Easter tradition of Cascarones involves hollowed-out, confetti-filled eggs that you break on the heads of your family and friends! Throw a few confetti-filled eggs into the Easter egg hunt mix and finish the competition by letting the winner break the egg on the loser's head!

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Instead of filling every egg with sugary treats, fill a few with these printable conversation starters for a different type of fun! Once the winners of the hunt have been announced and everyone is comparing their loot, the whole family can ask each other the questions found in their Easter eggs.

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Keep the fun going even after the egg hunt ends with an Easter egg exchange! These printable instructions show the trading possibilities for each dice side, like "Trade with a person of your choice" or "Keep your egg." That way, even if the kids aren't a fan of the treats in their eggs, they can trade them for something better!

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There's no shame in needing a little guidance during an Easter egg hunt, and these signs do just that! They're shaped like cute Easter symbols, such as bunnies, chicks, and carrots, and have directory phrases like "Follow me!" and "That way" written on them. Place them around the yard to help the kids find the eggs they worked so hard to decorate.

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Start the fun early with this Easter "advent" hunt! Instead of filling eggs with candy and goodies (which you'll be doing later in the week), fill these festive little bags and hide them around the house each day leading up to Easter for the kiddos to find.

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Although spring and swimming don't usually go together, those who are somewhere warmer around Easter can dive underwater for an egg hunt! To organize this unique hunt, simply throw the Easter eggs in the pool and let the kids swim after them.

If a simple Easter egg hunt has gotten a little too easy for the older kiddos in the family, up the difficulty by adding some blindfolds to the mix! For this Easter egg hunt, pair everyone up so one teammate can guide their blindfolded counterpart to the eggs.

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Pretty patterns on eggs don't just have to be decorative! They can also serve as a challenging addition to an Easter egg hunt. Hide eggs with different patterns or colors around the yard and then direct the kids to retrieve them in a specific order, such as striped, solid, striped, solid, etc. Once they've finished the search correctly, the winners earn a prize!

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Move the hunt from the backyard to a tub or kiddie pool for a special sensory egg hunt! Fill your container with rainbow rice and then hide the Easter eggs under it. The kids will enjoy digging the eggs out with shovels or their hands, with the added bonus of being exposed to different textures!

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Put your Easter eggs to use even after the egg hunt is over with a game of bowling! To play this creative Easter game, place a white egg at least 10 feet away from the bowlers and challenge them to roll their colored eggs from the hunt towards it. The winner is whoever gets as close to the white egg as possible!

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As much as we love the candy and camaraderie that comes with Easter, it's just as important to honor the true religious meaning of the holiday as well. One way you can do so is by placing printed Easter Bible verses in the eggs and reading them aloud as a family following the search!

Okay, this one will get a little messy... but it's so worth it! You'll hide a bunch of hard-boiled eggs as well as a few raw eggs around the yard. When someone finds an egg, they have to crack it open! If it’s hard-boiled, they win a prize. If it’s raw, they have to clean it up before hunting again.

For your littlest chickadees, make the search for eggs a little simpler by creating an Easter bunny trail for them to follow! You might even have it lead all the way to their baskets, with eggs placed along the route.

Motivate even the oldest members of your crew with this idea! While most of the eggs will contain candy, a special golden egg can be filled with a bigger prize like toys or cash.

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