Kids, teens, and adults will absolutely love these fun and creative Easter egg hunt ideas that you’ve probably never heard of! Whether you use one of these ideas to replace or just add to your traditional Easter egg hunt, it’s guaranteed to be fun!
Creative Easter Egg Hunt Ideas
One of my favorite things about Easter is the Easter morning egg hunt. Every year my parents would make us kids go upstairs while they hid plastic eggs all over the house filled with candy and sometimes even money. The annual Easter egg hunt is an Easter tradition I still love to do this day!
But sometimes it’s fun to change things up, and that’s why my family has been creating brand new Easter egg hunt ideas over the past 12 years including everything from the super viral scrambled egg hunt to the best Easter egg scavenger hunt!
We don’t just create them, we also try out every single one with my extended family to make sure that every egg hunt and Easter game is just as fun as I say it is! If they’re not fun, they’re not included in this list!
Easter Egg Hunt Ideas for All Ages
These Easter egg hunts are designed to work for any age – kids, teens, and even adults! I’ve tried all of them with my entire family (grandma all the way down to grandkids) and they’re a blast!
If you want something to do other than an Easter egg hunt, make sure to check out this printable Easter games bundle, perfect for kids or adults!
1 – Skip the Candy Easter Egg Hunt
Have kids fill Easter Eggs with slips of paper that have reasonable rewards (stay up for an extra 15 minutes, lunch date with mom) for them rather than candy/toys. Hide the eggs and the eggs that the kids find are the rewards that they get.
If you need ideas for rewards, I’ve got some ideas in the photo below or you can get the printable reward options for both kids and teens here! Or if you’d rather just order something, here are some tokens you can just order to use.
You could also just do this in addition to the typical candy eggs. Change up the rewards for different ages!
2 – Golden Ticket Easter Egg Hunt
Have a Willy Wonka themed Easter Egg hunt by hiding a golden ticket for each of your kids in one egg, so if you have three kids you would have three eggs with golden tickets inside. Tell your kids that they can only find one golden ticket.
You can download some free printable golden tickets here! Once they find a golden ticket, they can immediately (or after the hunt is over) trade it in for a bigger prize.
Or you can just use golden eggs like these, instead of tickets! If you want to do this with teens and adults, you could just do one (or two) golden tickets out of all of the eggs and whoever finds it wins a special prize!
3 – Bunny Mart Easter Egg Hunt
Instead of filling Easter eggs with cheap Easter egg fillers, hide empty eggs. Then setup a bunny mart where kids can turn in empty eggs for prizes, similar to a ticket redemption counter!
We did a bunny mart this year for our Easter egg hunt using these bunny mart printables, and the kids have asked if we can do this every year from now on!
4 – Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt
Put together a list of eggs that the kids have to find such as a striped egg, an egg with green Jelly beans, an egg with a quarter inside, etc. Or just use this free printable Easter egg scavenger hunt!
Once the kids have found each item on their list, they can trade it in for a big gift (e.g., movie, toy, gift card, $10). This is great to let kids still search for a lot of eggs without filling all of them with little prizes.
5 – Bunny Tracks Easter Egg Hunt
Instead of just having kids run around trying to find eggs, hide printable bunny tracks leading them to a larger basket full of eggs or prizes instead! This one works great for teens and adults too because you can hide the bunny tracks in more challenging places!
6 – Blind Folded Easter Egg Hunt
This one gets the entire family involved! Split into teams of two – one kid and one adult per team!
Blindfold the adult and have them stand in front of the kid. When you say go, the kid has to direct the blindfolded adult out to find Easter eggs. The kid has to stay where they are at and just direct the adults from across the yard.
Any eggs that the adult collects can be shared by the adult and kid! Make sure not to actually hide them if you’re doing this so that kids can see where to direct the adults! You can see how this one plays out in this TikTok video!
7 – Easter Dice Game
Do your Easter egg hunt just like normal but instead of opening all of the Easter eggs, have everyone sit in a circle with their eggs near them! Then play this Easter dice game with the eggs they found! It’s like an Easter version of one of our favorite birthday party games!
8 – Glow in the Dark egg hunt
Do a glow in the dark Easter egg hunt by searching for glow in the dark eggs. This could work for kids or adults! This would be a really fun neighbor hunt too since you’ll need the right place with a good amount of space for the dark hunt! And who doesn’t love a glow-in the dark activiy!
9 – Reverse the Roles Easter Egg Hunt
Reverse the roles this year and have the kids fill the Easter eggs with things that they want written on slips of paper (like stay up for an extra hour, skip chores for a day, etc.).
Once all of the eggs are filled, have the kids hide the eggs and have parents try to find them. Any eggs that are not found in a certain time limit are the ones that kids get to keep.
10 – Puzzle Egg Hunt
Break up all of the pieces to a puzzle and place pieces (1 or multiple) in eggs. Hide the eggs with puzzle pieces inside and when they’ve found all the eggs, they have to put the puzzle together to win a larger prize.
Have the prize written on the back, like I did for this DIY Christmas gift.
11 – Colored Egg Hunt
Hide one color of eggs for everyone participating and tell them that they can only find their assigned color. This allows you to hide eggs for all different ages without worrying about teens taking all of the kids eggs or even older kids taking all of the toddlers eggs!
Easter Egg Hunt Ideas for Teens & Adults
If you’re looking for something different than a traditional Easter egg hunt for your teens, these would work great. These honestly also work for adults too, they’re just not great for younger kids because they’re a little more complicated or change things up a bit!
12 – Cash or Hatch Easter Deal or No Deal Game
This is the game teens are really going to love. If you’ve ever seen the game show Deal or No Deal, it’s an Easter egg hunt inspired version of that and so much fun!
Hide eggs and the eggs that they find are used in a game of cash or hatch. They have to open eggs, trying to keep the highest values on the board. Whatever is left at the end is what they win and since we all know teens always want cash – this one is perfect! Get the cash or hatch printables and game instructions here.
13 – Picture Wall Easter Egg Hunt
This picture wall egg hunt is one of my favorite egg hunts we’ve ever done! Hide eggs, take pictures, and then make a picture wall! Instead of just searching randomly for eggs, teens (or adults) have to use the picture clues to find the eggs all over the house.
This is another one going viral on social media because it’s so much fun! Here’s a video of this picture egg hunt in action!
14 – Scrambled Egg Hunt
Pick out some bigger prizes (like any of these) and print out the names of those prizes on a sheet of paper (e.g., Movie Night) with each prize printed in a different color egg.
Cut out each of the letters from the prizes and put one letter in each egg that you hide. Then have players have to find the letters in the eggs to spell out and win the prizes! Get all the details for this scrambled egg hunt or watch the viral video on Instagram here.
15 – Egg Toss Egg Hunt
Any of these three egg toss game ideas work great as part of an Easter egg hunt because it’s all about collecting as many Easter eggs as possible! There are three different variations you can choose from:
- Towel Toss – parents toss eggs using a beach towel for kids to catch (or grab from the ground).
- Bouncing Eggs – parents bounce eggs on a sheet for kids to grab, kind of like Hungry Hungry Hippos.
- Easter Egg 500 – one of the most fun Easter games where you have to try to collect eggs that are tossed in the air!
16 – Testing Easter Egg Hunt Idea for Teens
Teens love to text so they will absolutely love this texting Easter egg hunt idea! Two sets of teens in different houses have to text back and forth to help each other find their own Easter baskets and clues!
We did this with my nieces and nephews, and it was so fun with the older children and teens! Get all the details plus 25+ clues for these Easter egg hunt ideas for teens here. It’s a fun way to get teens actually engaged and having fun!
17 – Big Prize Easter Egg Hunt
This one’s just for the teens or grown ups! Fill a handful of large Easter eggs with adult prizes like cash, gift cards, lotto tickets, and other items. Or one of these Easter egg fillers for adults!
Hide the Easter eggs tough then send adults out on their own Easter egg hunt. You can limit people to finding one egg each (or 2-3) or just let them find as many as they’d like. You could also let people search for eggs as a prize for winning any of these Easter games!
18 – Egg in an Egg Hunt
Put a ton of Easter eggs in one area of your yard. Inside of a few of them, put another smaller egg or a picture of an egg. Then to play, players have to run to the eggs and grab one then bring it back and open it in front of you.
If they have an egg inside, they win an Easter basket (or other grand prize) and if they don’t, it’s worthless. Keep running and finding eggs until all of the egg in an eggs are found!
19 – Last Egg Standing
This indoor egg hunt is kind of like a combination egg hunt and a game of musical chairs, minus the music. And the chairs.
The general idea is that you hide eggs in particular rooms in the house and people playing have to all search in one room to find an egg. If you don’t find an egg, you’re out. Everyone else moves onto the next room. Keep going until until just two people are hunting and the person who finds the eggs wins!
20 – Around the House Easter Egg Hunt
This is another Easter egg hunt that requires you to hide eggs in different rooms but in this hilarious hunt, everyone will start finding eggs in one room then as they find an egg in that room, they move to the next, continuing around the house. The person to find an egg first in the last room wins!
You can get all of the rules for these three indoor Easter egg hunts in our post on indoor egg hunts!
21 – Egg Roll
Toss filled eggs all over the yard, give everyone a kitchen utensil of some sort, and let the hunt begin! Everyone has to run out and use their kitchen utensil to roll eggs they find (one at a time) back to their designated spot in the yard! We did this with the teens and older this year, and it was so funny to watch!
I put this one under my list of Easter egg hunts for adults because younger kids can struggle with this, but this worked great for our tweens and older!
22 – Gold confetti Egg Hunt
This confetti egg game would be hilarious! Fill some eggs with confetti and one with gold sequins. Find egg and smash them on each other – the one who finds the gold one wins. Get the full instructions here.
23 – Raffle Ticket Eggs
Hide raffle tickets in eggs that adults can find then raffle off prizes at the end! The more eggs they find with adult tickets inside, the more chances they have to win!
24 – Easter Trivia Hunt
This is kind of like the adult version of the Easter egg-stravaganza hunt for kids above! Hide Easter trivia questions inside eggs and when adults find them and bring them back, they have to answer the trivia question correctly to win whatever the prize may be.
If they get it wrong, they toss it back out for someone else to try and answer! You could do the same thing with these Easter would you rather questions or just mix them in with the trivia!
25 – Hard-boiled egg hunt
Hide a bunch of hard-boiled eggs and real eggs (raw ones) in an open area. When an adult finds an egg, they have to come back and crack it (you could do cracking it on their head if you want to get risky) open. If it’s hard-boiled, they win a prize. If it’s raw, they have to clean it up before hunting again.
This doesn’t have to be just an adult egg hunt, you’ll just want to make sure people know ahead of time what they’re getting themselves into. Also, we’ve done this in past years – with egg prices this year, may be a year to skip it!
26 – Money Eggs
Make your very own DIY money eggs with money symbols on the outside and hide them in your Easter egg hunt! Teens and adults are very motivated by money, so these should get them excited to look for!
Easter Egg Hunt Ideas For Kids
If you want Easter egg hunts specifically for kids, here are a few that are designed specifically for the younger kiddos – not tweens and teens. You could obviously also do any of the Easter egg hunt ideas above as well, but these are great options for kids!
27 – Easter Egg Treasure Hunt
Write clues that send your kids around the house searching for the next location where they’ll find a clue (e.g., Run really fast, use your legs, this is where we keep the eggs).
Hide the clues in eggs and put a number on each of the eggs so they don’t accidentally skip an egg in their searching. Have the clues lead to a bigger prize at the end, one for each kid, or one that everyone can share.
Or skip the egg part of it and just do this Easter scavenger hunt instead!
28 – Easter Egg Hunt with Clues
Hide a bunch of eggs that go along with these free printable Easter egg hunt clues. It makes it a lot easier to hide eggs when you have locations for them!
Then instead of just having kids run around looking for eggs, have them pick a clue out of a basket and have to find that egg before they move onto the next one. Or make it a race by reading a clue out for everyone and whoever finds it first, keeps the egg and prize inside!
29 – Room to Room egg hunt
Hide eggs in specific rooms and have kids (or any age) pick out the name of the room they have to search in first. When they get back, they can choose another room and continue hunting. Keep going until all of the eggs have been found.
Get the full instructions and other indoor Easter egg hunts!
30 – Color Coordinated Egg Hunt
Hide a bunch of colored eggs then setup corresponding baskets for each of the colors. Whatever colors the kids find is the basket they can choose from, just make sure to not tell them this ahead of time!
So for example, if they find three greens and one blue, and one pink – they could pick three things out of the green bucket, one out of the blue, and one out of the pink. This is a different version of the bunny mart and one that our younger kids loved!
31 – Easter Egg Eggstravaganza
Fill each of the eggs with a slip of paper with a silly task such as sing “Itsy Bity Spider,” name three fruits that are red, or do a handstand. This is an Easter egg hunt, so make them fun of course!
If you need task ideas, any of the tasks in this Halloween trick or treat tree game would work great!
When the finder finds an egg, they can bring it back to you and do the task. After they’ve done the task, they can either pick out a piece of candy or a toy or give them coins or tickets that they can turn in for something bigger at the end of the hunt. Any of these Easter surprises would make great prizes!
32 – Easter Bunny Hunt
Combine your typical Easter egg hunt with this Easter bunny hunt where you hide bunnies in random eggs. Then when people open up eggs and find those bunnies inside, they the prizes associated with the bunny they found!
33 – Easter Egg Sticker Hunt
Print out these Easter sticker games, put them on the bottoms of candies, and have kids try to find the candies with Easter egg stickers on them! It’s a different Easter egg hunt idea and actually a lot of fun!
34 – Perfect Patterns Egg Hunt
Before the race, buy eggs in particular patterns or designs and colors (e.g., striped, pink polka dotted, glittery) then hide the eggs and come up with a pattern to use for the game.
So for instance, you might say you have to find eggs in the order of the colors in a rainbow (red, orange, yellow, blue, green, violet). Or they have to find striped, solid, striped, solid, etc. Once they’ve found all of the eggs in the correct pattern, they are rewarded with a bigger prize.
35 – Token Egg Hunt
Switch things up and instead of putting candy (or other Easter egg fillers) into eggs, put tokens instead. I like to do 1-5 tokens so that the number of tokens kids get is random, not based on how many eggs they find.
Then let them use the tokens they find to trade for things – Chuck E Cheese ticket style! We did this with our kids and they loved walking away with “prizes” instead of just a whole bunch of little pieces of candy.
36 – Easter Egg Relay Race
Split your kids into teams. When you say go, have the first kid from each team go search for an egg. Once they’ve found an egg, they come back and tag the next teammate who has to go find an egg.
Repeat until one team has found a specified number of eggs (e.g., 20) as a team. Then everyone gets their own basket of goodies or gets to split what they find in the eggs!
37 – Easter Memory Egg Hunt
Print out this free printable Easter memory game and play it as an alternative to a traditional Easter egg hunt! If someone finds an Easter egg that matches, they get to choose a filled Easter egg out of a basket with a prize inside!
38 – Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
Hide 26 eggs for each of your kids with the letters of the alphabet either on or inside of them! Then have them put them in order once they’re all found! This idea from See Vanessa Craft is a fun one!
39 – Balloon Egg Hunt
If you have toddlers, attach helium balloons to Easter eggs to make them easier to find! This idea from Celebrations at Home is not only visually appealing, it’s actually really fun for the littlest ones who haven’t quite caught on to Easter egg hunting yet!
40 – LEGO Egg Hunt
Okay this one could definitely be for the entire family since I have a number of adult family members who are LEGO obsessed but the idea is to break up a LEGO set and hide the LEGOs in Easter eggs. This fun LEGO egg hunt idea from my friend Allison is one I’m sure my boys would love!
Easter Egg Hunt FAQs
How do you organize an Easter egg hunt?
Plan a day and a time that you’ll do the hunt. A little before that time, hide plastic Easter eggs full of treats and prizes. When you’re ready for the hunt to begin, explain the rules or guidelines of the hunt to everyone then let everyone hunt for any eggs they can find!
How do you make an Easter egg hunt more fun?
There are so many ways to make an Easter egg hunt more fun – try switching up what goes in the eggs, try one of the Easter egg scavenger hunts explained in this post, try hunting in teams, doing relays, or making the hunt a bit more challenging by assigning people to particular colors or patterns! Get creative with different Easter egg hunt ideas!
How many eggs do you need for an Easter egg hunt?
The number of eggs you’ll need depends on how many people will be hunting and how many eggs you want them to find. I typically like to hide between 15-20 eggs for each kid if there are less than 10 kids searching. More than that, and I drop it down to 10 eggs per child.
What to put in Easter eggs that is not candy?
You can put all sorts of things in Easter eggs that are not candy. Put rewards like extra screen time and skipping chores, little prizes or trinkets, money, coupons for things, or even tokens to trade up for a larger prize in an Easter egg store. I have an entire post of Easter egg fillers if you need more ideas!
More Easter Activities
If you liked these Easter egg hunts, you’ll love these other fun Easter activities and crafts!
- Bunny hop – this hilarious game will have players trying to get a bunny while also not being the last one to grab an egg!
- Easter egg games – tons of games using just plastic eggs!
- Easter bingo – an adorable version of everyone’s favorite bingo game with Easter images! Great for all ages! Or try this Easter candy bingo instead!
- Easter Lego challenge – see how many of these Easter inspired items you can make out of Legos!
- Easter i-spy – this fun printable Easter themed hidden pictures is great for the kids!
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