Mix up your Easter egg hunt this year and try this picture wall Easter egg hunt instead! Everyone playing has to use picture clues to find eggs throughout the house to win prizes! After you’ve done a photo clue Easter egg hunt once, you may never go back to a normal egg hunt!
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Picture Easter Egg Hunt for Teens & Adults
Over the years, we’ve shared a ton of Easter egg hunt ideas including everything from a bunny mart to an Easter scavenger hunt, but they’re mostly for kids. This year I had a number of people specifically ask me for egg hunts for teens and adults – probably after seeing our viral scrambled egg hunt that’s designed for the older players!
So with the help of my siblings and parents, we came up with a super fun picture based Easter egg hunt. I knew the idea sounded fun, but I had no idea how fun it would be until we tried it out with my entire family – everyone from my tween son to grandpa!
The basic idea is this – you hide eggs, take pictures of those eggs, then hang up those pictures. Players have to find the eggs that go with the pictures and if they do, they win prizes!
It’s a totally unique and different way to do an egg hunt, and I highly recommend it. It takes a little bit more prep than a normal egg hunt, but the effort is totally worth it!
Who will love this egg hunt?
This egg hunt is perfect for tweens, teens, and adults that will be able to look at pictures and figure out where things might be or at least reason it out!
It’s also best to do with people who are familiar (but don’t necessarily live there) with the egg hunting space since they’ll need to find eggs based on pictures of locations.
How to Setup Your Picture Easter Egg Hunt
For our picture this egg hunt, I did two things – I did a wall with pictures for each of the eggs AND I did a second wall with clues associated with those same hidden eggs. I’ll explain how this worked in this post – I highly recommend two different sets of clues, but you can just do the pictures if you’d prefer.
1 – Hide Your Eggs
The first step for this game is to hide your eggs. You want to hide them so that they are barely visible but still pretty hard to find. You also want to hide them somewhere that has a distinguishable (if you look hard) element so that people may actually be able to find them based on a picture.
As you hide your eggs, take a very close-up picture of the hiding spot with the egg barely visible. Make sure the picture includes something that will help people figure out where it might be. For example, I hid one on a chair with a flower print and made sure to include one of the flowers in the picture.
2 – Write Your Clues
I highly recommend writing clues to go with the pictures. They need to be specific and helpful – I always like to rhyme like I did with my Easter egg hunt clues – but you do you. If it’s easier to just write out a literal clue like it’s near a remote control, go for it.
You can download some blank grids to write the clues in here. That way the clues will be the same as the picture grid (you’ll see what I mean below).
Note!
The clues are totally optional, I just like to have them as a secondary set of clues if people can’t figure out the pictures. Or you could always just do clues instead of pictures if you want to do that. Totally up to you!
3 – Print Your Pictures and Clues
Once your clues are written, it’s time to print everything out.
I printed all of my images in 4×4 squares so that I could make a square grid. Walmart photos was super cheap and easy, so I just sent them there to print but you could absolutely print them at home or really anywhere you want!
I just printed the clues on white cardstock in the same 4×4 blocks so that I could create a square grid of the clues that matched the images as well.
4 – Add Prizes
This is where you can get creative with the idea. We wrote numbers on the back of each of the pictures that corresponded to prizes we had setup on a table nearby, but you could always write out or tape a picture of the prize they win for the egg.
Or just every egg they find wins them $1 or something. You can choose how you want to do prizes but you’ll want to do something since this is their egg hunt!
Make it more fun!
We also added a gold star to the back of one of the pictures and had a gold egg that corresponded to it with a special bonus prize inside! No one knew which egg had the gold star, so it was really fun to see when it was eventually found!
5 – Make Your Clue Walls
Find a large wall in your house (or event space) and use the pictures to create a square grid on the wall. We did a 5×5 grid of 4×4 pictures, so not huge, but enough to make a fun statement space!
I used Scotch wall safe tape and just hung them up about an inch away from each other so when people ripped the pictures off the wall, they didn’t take out my wall or the other pictures.
Once your picture wall is done, make a clue wall a little bit away from it with the clues for each egg in the exact same spot as the associated picture clue. That way when someone finds an egg, they can remove both the picture and the written clue.
Once both of your walls are complete, cover them up with something that won’t allow people to see through to the clues underneath. I used plastic tablecloths folded over a couple of times, and they were the perfect size!
Don’t have a wall?
If you don’t want to use a wall or don’t have a good wall to use (or you just want to do this outside), you can make the grids on a piece of poster board as well instead. That makes it portable to take wherever you want to go!
How to Do the photo Egg Hunt
The setup is definitely the hardest part of this egg hunt, and it’s really not that hard at all. And it’s totally worth the looks on everyone’s faces when you pull down the tablecloth, and they see the picture grid on the wall!
When you’re ready to play, have everyone gather around your covered wall (or foam board) and explain how the game is going to work. Once you’ve explained, take down the tablecloth and the hunt is on!
How the Egg Hunt Works
They have to look at pictures on the wall and use those pictures to find eggs hidden around the area. They cannot take the pictures down off the wall or take a picture of those pictures – they have to come back and look at it if they can’t find the egg or forget wha the picture looked like.
Once they’ve found the egg for the picture, they come back to the wall, take the picture down, and turn it over to see what prize (or prize number in our case), they won. They hang onto that then keep hunting for more eggs.
Add in the Clue Wall
Start the egg hunt and keep going until things start to slow down and people aren’t immediately finding eggs anymore or at least the majority of people can’t figure out what the remaining eggs are. Then it’s time to uncover the clue wall.
Note!
I loved doing the photo wall first and the written clue wall second as helper hints during our hunt, but if you’d prefer to just uncover them both at once, you can absolutely do that. Or if you want to skip the written wall altogether, you can also do that.
Remove any clues that go with eggs that have already been found (this is why it’s important to setup the written clue grid to match the picture clue grid). Tell everyone the written clues are available to use to help them find the eggs – they go with the pictures, they’re not a completely different set of eggs!
As people find the remaining eggs, have them remove both the picture and associated clue on the written clue wall as well. Keep hunting until all of the hidden eggs are found, then it’s time to give out prizes!
How do prizes work
As I mentioned above, you can setup your prize system however you want. For us, I filled medium-sized eggs with actual prizes (not just little Easter egg fillers) and then numbered the eggs. The numbers on the back of the photos corresponded to the prize eggs they won.
Another way you could do it is to just have a table full of prizes and whatever number is on the back of your photo corresponds to your order in picking prizes. Totally up to you!
Since we had multiple ages and genders, I tried to make things as universal as possible. Some of the prizes that we used included:
- Cash – we did the most cash for the gold egg winner!
- Gift cards (always a winner)
- Fuzzy socks
- Mini white noise machine
- Travel towels
- Fidget toys
- Car cleaning putty
- Mini portable fanChapstick and foot cream
Gold Prize Tip!
If you’re doing a gold egg, I recommend letting the gold prize winner open their special prize last simply to build the suspense. It’s always fun to see what a mystery prize is going to be! I made it even more suspenseful by doing a small gold egg inside of a large gold egg!
More Easter Egg Hunt ideas
If you like this fun Easter egg hunt idea, make sure to check out these other fun Easter games!
- Printable Easter egg scavenger hunt – a fun idea for any egg hunt!
- Easter bunny hunt – have kids searching for bunnies instead of eggs in a different type of hunt!
- Indoor Easter egg hunt ideas – tons of ideas that you can do for an indoor egg hunt!
- Easter dice game – this fun game goes perfectly with your Easter egg hunt for trading eggs after the hunt is over!
- Easter activities – plenty of Easter egg hunts and similar related activities all having to do with Easter!
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