Easter
Gross MotorAll Ages17 Comments
There’s more than just a traditional Easter egg hunt to do on Easter morning! These are some fun Easter scavenger hunt ideas for kids to do to celebrate and have fun with Easter!
If you’re a somewhat long time reader of Hands On As We Grow, we absolutely love any type of scavenger hunt. And the Easter egg hunt is the traditional scavenger hunt that started it all.
It’s what hundreds of thousands of kids do year after year on Easter morning.
It’s what I remember doing as a child, exploring and searching for those eggs, hoping we can find them all so we don’t have a rotten egg in a few days.
There are many versions of an Easter egg hunts, and even some that don’t include the eggs!
12 Not-So-Traditional Easter Scavenger Hunt Ideas
These 12 Easter scavenger hunt ideas have some fun learning ideas, some Easter egg hunts with a twist, along with some that don’t include eggs at all!
- A color Easter scavenger hunt that has kids filling the eggs themselves. A great fine motor activity from Sugar Aunts.
- Kids can learn their sight words or spelling words with a little egg scavenger hunt to make words!
- Add a glow stick to plastic Easter eggs and hunt for them at night! From Lil’ Luna
- No glow sticks? Use a flash light instead for a nighttime explore Easter egg hunt! From The Frugal Girls
- Print out these clues to search and find their Easter gift from This is Me Sarah Mum of 3. Kids don’t have to be able to read to enjoy clues! You can draw pictures as clues too.
- NurtureStore has a few clues to find the Easter eggs themselves too!
- Pack lunch in the plastic Easter eggs! Go on a hunt for lunch! From Gluesticks
- Make a color coded egg hunt for them to find the exact egg! From Make and Takes
- Get the kids moving with a gross motor skills Easter scavenger hunt!
- Go on a hunt, or a walk with Jesus! A great Easter scavenger hunt that utilizes the true meaning of Easter from Parenting in the Latter Days.
- Give the kids a puzzle to hunt for and piece together as they hunt for their eggs! From It’s Always Autumn
- Print out this free printable for a faith-based Easter scavenger hunt, its a Resurrection scavenger hunt from Happy Home Fairy.
Add to Your Easter Fun
Read these Easter scavenger hunt books to the kids too (these are all affiliate links to help support Hands On As We Grow): Peppa’s Easter Egg Hunt, Olivia and the Easter Egg Hunt and Mickey’s Easter Hunt.
And if you really, really want to do an egg scavenger hunt (okay, what kid doesn’t want to?), here’s some plastic Easter eggs to stock up on. Or get some that are pre-filled!
How to do Easter scavenger hunt?
As you can see in the list above, an Easter scavenger hunt doesn’t have to be difficult! You can add any twist to bring extra excitement.
From simply hiding eggs all over the house or yard and releasing kids to explore and search for them, to having clues at each spot to send you off to the next.
kids just love to hunt for things. It’s like hide and seek, but mommy and daddy don’t have to keep taking turns to be the hider and seeker.
I hope you enjoy adding a twist to your next Easter egg scavenger hunt with these simple ideas.
We sure did!
What Easter scavenger hunt ideas do you have to share?
How do you celebrate Easter?
Do you go on an Easter scavenger hunt?
Share them in the comments! I’d love to hear all about how you do it!
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Christa De Luna says
I read an article. There are few ideas given about scavenger hunt. This and that both ideas are perfect for kids.
Faye says
HELP I am looking for ideas for Easter egg hunt for residents in a nursing home. They are in wheel chairs and some need assistance with anything they do. It will need to be indoors. I have Googled, but it is very time consuming. thanks
Reb says
Tie small floating balloons to each egg. They can pull on the string to lift the egg. If you want more of a challenge for finding the eggs, pin the string under the egg close to the balloon so it won’t float as high. When they find the egg they can kick/bump into the balloon to free the string.
Patty says
Last year we had our 4 year old granddaughter with us on Easter so I made her an Easter bag out of a chicken feed bag filled it with fun stuff for her to find. Gave her a map .. scavenger hunt was on. I drew a picture map showed going from our house that took her to where the goats lived and in their house she found a plastic egg that had another picture map in it that she had to follow, this took her to the chickens nesting boxes where she had to collect real eggs and yes she found another plastic egg … another map and clue…. last clue and map after visiting all the animals was to her grand prize…. her Easter chicken feed bag filled with lots of fun things.
Melanie says
Love this! While on Spring Break next week, I’m going to peruse your blog further. I’d love to include some of your activities in my preschool bible curriculum on my blog. Hope it’s ok to link to you at some point there. Thanks!
sarahmumof3 says
Thanks for including my scavenger hunt clues in your fab roundup :)