5 Ways to Create a Memorable Easter Egg Hunt

Are you planning an Easter egg hunt this year? Are you unsure where to start? Or need some ideas to keep your egg hunting fresh and egg-citing. Easter egg hunts can be fun for everyone and with a little bit of preparation, you can take your egg hunt from being egg-stinct to egg-cellent.

This article is predominately aged at parents of children between 5 and 10 years old.

Everything You Need to Know for a Egg-cellent Easter Egg Hunt!

Here are our 5 Ways to Create a Memorable Easter Egg Hunt

1. Get some Help with Your Easter Egg Hunt

Form your planning committee. As parents, we don’t always have the time or energy to plan, organise and perfectly execute everything. So, who is helping you this year? It might be that you can outsource the whole Easter Parade to the grandparents. It might be that you include some of the older children from the start and let them enjoy the whole Easter egg hunt experience from the other side.

Work out the who. Who are you actually organising this for? Who wants to do the preparing, the hiding and who wants to do the finding? And if some of the older children are suddenly too cool for egg hunting this year – don’t take it personally. Pre-teens and teenagers are going through all sorts of developmental phases and mood changes. So if they suddenly hate something they loved last year – it’s not a reflection on your planning or last year’s event. Simply ask them to help you organise it. Maybe even let them be in charge!!

2. Prepare for Your Easter Egg Hunt

How extravagant is your Easter Egg Hunt going to be? To make it memorable it doesn’t need to be expensive or super complicated. It just needs a bit of thought and preparation.

If you have a small group, writing clues and going on an adventure Easter egg hunt is a great way to keep it fresh. There are some great pre-made egg hunts online or you can write your own. You can keep your clues as simple as is needed.

If you have a larger group of people then use different coloured eggs for different people or teams. You can then create more of a challenge for the better egg finders among us. You could also add some golden eggs as ‘prize’ eggs to add a bit of competition if that would work for your group.

If you want to ease off on the abundance of chocolate Easter eggs this year, why not decorate your own eggs beforehand ready to hide on the big day. Here are some ideas for how to decorate Easter eggs:

3. Hide Your Easter Eggs

The trick to creating a memorable Easter Egg hunt is getting the right level of difficulty for the egg hunters. You need to have a range of heights to suit all ages. You need to balance out a few easy pickings to get people started but a few tricky ones to keep everyone entertained.

If you have written clues, then you are already a step ahead in knowing where your hiding places are going to be. Just make sure to give yourself time on the day to set up properly without distractions so the right clues are in the right places.

And remember the fun starts here. It’s not a chore. You are not a professional event planner. This is a bit of fun, creating family stories to share over the years to come. Be bold, be creative, be silly.

4. The hunt for the Easter Egg begins

Do not forget baskets, bags, boxes – just something for them to collect their Easter eggs in. And you don’t need to spend a fortune – there are loads of free templates online to choose from. Or you could ask everyone to bring their own decorated Easter basket with them and have a prize ready for the best one. Paper bags that can be recycled afterwards are also a great option. You could even have a bag decorating session before the Easter Egg hunt to spread out the fun.

Also have a few extra eggs spare just in case you need to top up someone’s Easter Egg hoard. And after that, simply let the fun begin.

5. Share your story

Share your Easter Egg hunt ideas with friends and family. Share the load if you are planning an event together. Share the fun so everyone creates a special memory to take home and treasure. And above all, share your Easter eggs!

And here is an alternative idea if you are all bored of the traditional Chocolate Easter Egg Hunt – try a carrot hunt and picnic instead.