How To Do An Easter Egg Hunt

Last Updated on: 1st April 2026, 09:11 am

Easter is such a fun time of the year, especially for little ones at home. It’s a great time to fill them with ideas of Easter eggs and Easter bunnies. And having an Easter egg hunt can be fun for the kids during the school holidays. It can be as basic and cheap as you like, or you can make it as extravagant as you want. Here are some Ideas for how to do an Easter Egg Hunt.

Decide Where You Will Have The Easter Egg Hunt

Most people have an Easter egg hunt in the garden, but of course, this only works if the weather is good. Nobody wants to have a hunt in the rain. So you can use the indoors as an alternative too. If you live near a park or patch of grass somewhere, you can move the Easter egg hunt there, especially if you don’t have a garden. If you live near the beach, you have that option too.

Who Is Coming And How To Adapt Your Hunt

If you are keeping it small, just for your kids, it is easy. You hide some eggs for the kids to find. For the smaller kids, make sure you hide the eggs in plain view. It makes it easier, and they won’t get bored if they don’t find them. Make the eggs bright and colourful so they can spot them easily. For Teens, they might say they don’t want to do an Easter Egg hunt. But deep down, they will want to get involved. You can hide the eggs more for teens and older kids. You should make it a challenge for them.

If grandparents are coming along to the hunt, they will love being involved and joining in with the little kids. They will help the little ones and cherish the time together. Don’t forget to take loads of photos of the Easter egg hunt; these will be great memories for everyone involved. You could get other kids involved, make it a thing with school friends. The parents can get together and have a chat and catch up.

What Prizes Are You Going To Have?

For the hunt, you will just need a few tiny chocolate eggs. You could put these into plastic eggs and get each child to find a certain colour. Then have a couple of ‘golden eggs’ with better chocolate prizes in them. For older kids and adults, you could hide cadburys cream eggs or something similar. For the winner, you could give them a big Easter egg. Or you could get some winner badges or medals for the kids.

Easter Egg Baskets Or Bags

You can get Easter Egg baskets from places like Poundland or supermarkets like Asda, etc. And although they vary in price, you can always get some on a budget. You never pay more than about £3 for a basket. Although you get a better basket if you look earlier in the season, you can get a cheaper one closer to Easter. Closer to Easter, you will see stores reducing their stock to sell through.

You could make Easter baskets yourself with a glue gun or stapler and some paper or card. You can easily find an Easter basket template online or design one yourself. And you can also get Easter bags where the kids can spend an afternoon colouring them in, before the Easter egg hunt. This makes them personalised and special for them. You can also get paper Easter bags that you can use for the hunt. Paper is kinder to the environment than plastic that will end up in a landfill.

Make It Fair For All The Kids

Although it is all fun and games, you do need to set some ground rules. Kids get overexcited and older kids will grab more than the little ones. This means the little ones don’t get a chance to grab some prizes. So you could set a limit on the number of eggs that each person finds. Or get each child to find a certain colour of plastic eggs. This makes the hunt more fair for everyone. Then add a golden egg or two for a lucky winner. If there are older kids as well as smaller kids, try to encourage them to help the smaller kids to find eggs.

Adapting An Easter Egg Hunt To What You Want

Easter egg hunts do not need to be filled with chocolate. Instead, you can adapt them to how you want. You can get mini toys to pop into little plastic eggs and hide them. You could use coins or stickers instead of sweets or chocolate for the little kids. For older ones, you could hide gift cards or something similar.

You could make your hunt into a treasure hunt and hide some buried treasure for kids to find. They just need to follow some clues to get the prize. Another idea for the old kids is to do it as it is getting dark and snap some glow sticks to take on the Easter egg hunt. The choice of Easter egg hunt is completely up to you and your family.