If you’re looking for Easter egg hunt at home ideas you’ve come to the right place. Easter egg hunts have become a family tradition since my eldest was born and one both my kids now look forward to. We’ve been to many organised hunts as part of various days out as well as set up our own Easter egg hunts at home including in the garden. Find more Easter crafts and activities for kids here.
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How to set up an Easter egg hunt at home
The most obvious and easiest way to set up an Easter egg hunt is a simple one using chocolate eggs hidden around the garden or house (if the weather is bad). This is the best Easter egg hunt idea for toddlers. Keep it simple, I promise they will love it. My two have loved an egg hunt every year. Here’s what you’ll need. Keep scrolling if you are looking for something a little more complicated.
You will need:
- Selection of foil-wrapped Easter eggs, I like to use a couple of sizes and colours.
- an Easter basket for each child to collect eggs in.
- If you’d like to add some printables like the ones in my photos, these ones are from In the playroom.
Setting up an Easter egg hunt at home
My favourite place to set up an Easter egg hunt at home is in the garden. You’ll need to get someone to distract your child whilst you set it up or do it before they wake if you can.
My favourite places to hide eggs in the garden is in plant pots, in a patch of flowers or if you have them you could hide them on a bird feeder, bench or by a tree. Try to put them either at ground level or at a similar height to your child. It means not only will they notice them easier but they’ll be able to collect them independently too.
You might also like to include a Easter Bunny letter for your children too.
More ideas for Easter egg hunts without chocolate
As much as we love hunting for chocolate Easter egg, sometimes we want to do more hunts. I some times set up hunts for letters and numbers for my preschooler to teach her. I find theming learning around seasons makes learning really fun for young children. Here are some ideas for fun and educational Easter egg hunts.
Back in February, I set up an outdoor number hunt for my 3 year old using foam hearts with the numbers 1-10 on them. You could do something similar with eggs for Easter. Click through to the post to find out how you can use these foam numbers to teach your preschooler numbers and counting.
How about filling those plastic eggs with letters? Another great learning opportunity for young learners.
This is such a great idea. Using some plastic fillable eggs to store the pieces of a jigsaw and hide them around for your child to find. You can use a jigsaw you already have or like in this post you could make your own jigsaw with a special message on it.
Here is a great way to burn off all those extra calories from all the chocolate eggs. Includes a free printable with lots of mini exercise challenges for you to print out and hide in plastic eggs.
This post contains a free printable set of Easter egg hunt clues that work in any home. I can see these being particularly good if the weather is bad this Easter.
Why not hide a variety of Easter eggs and see how many different types your kids can find. This one includes free printable egg hunt sheets.
Fun Easter Egg Indoor Hunt Idea: Numbered Egg Scavenger Hunt
Another number recognition based Easter egg hunt. Make maths fun this Easter with this hunt.
Do you set up Easter egg hunts? I’d love to hear about your family’s Easter egg hunts.
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Looking for more ways to make Easter special for kids?
Don’t let your youngest miss out, try my Easter sensory bag for babies.
Find the best Easter books for babies here. They make great Easter gifts.
Find lots of Easter Art Projects for Kids here.
For slightly older kids then find the best Easter books for preschoolers here.
If you are looking for more Easter activities for under 5’s, what about my Easter play dough activity.
Here are 40 Easter crafts and activities for toddlers.
Find more ideas for things to do this month here – April activities for kids.
Are your kids older? These Easter egg hints for teenagers are perfect for you.
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Sounds like a lovely Easter weekend (we’ve not made plans yet). I hope your boys enjoy the Easter egg hunt.
Some great ideas here! My mum did some lovely easter egg hunts for me as a child and I’m really excited about doing them when my son is old enough. #bloggerpinparty
Lovely ideas- I like the idea of a name hunt, too! We are going to a local nature centre for an egg hunt where the kids are given a map with the eggs marked on there and they have to find the baskets and collect one egg from each one. #bloggerpinparty
These are so great! My one year old doesn’t quite get it yet, but I’m sure next year she’ll be up for the hunt!
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My eldest loves a good Easter egg hunt. I discovered her hiding out in a tunnel after one yesterday. My youngest was more interested in giving them out to others. #bloggerpinparty