Easter egg hunt for kids: 7 original ideas for family fun
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but for a few years now the Easter Egg Hunt has been gaining ground here too, a fun game to play with children on Easter day.
Even if the tradition is not from our parts but comes from America and Northern Europe, I find it a fun and ideal appointment for those who stay in the city and want to spend Easter day peacefully with their family.
How to organize an original Easter egg hunt for children
The Easter egg hunt is basically a sort of treasure hunt that parents have to organize and prepare a few days before . There are no fixed rules and each parent can invent the egg hunt as he wishes, as long as the hiding places and the difficulties of the game are designed according to the age of the children.
You can hide chocolate eggs, real but empty eggs, decorated eggs or plastic eggs, a solution – the latter – perfect especially if you want to hide cards with clues or messages for the participants inside the eggs.
Children can play individually or even in teams and if you have a nice garden and the weather permits, it’s nice to organize Easter egg hunts outside. Obviously it can also be done at home, hiding the eggs behind a pillow, under the bed, inside a drawer, among the leaves of a vase, inside the washing machine and so on. In short, if you know what a treasure hunt is like, you will have no difficulty organizing an egg hunt as well.
But as always the imagination in these cases is a great ally and there are those who manage to organize the egg hunt in a truly original way.
Want some ideas? Here they are!
1- Egg hunt…on the tree
For example, an alternative idea of outdoor egg hunting is to hang the eggs – in this case packed like lots of big candies – from a tree. Instead of going to look for eggs, the children will have to compete to see who collects the most. Obviously the higher they are positioned, the more difficult the game will be.
If there are very young children this is an ideal egg hunt as well as very scenic. Just place lots of eggs in the garden and tie each egg to a colored balloon inflated with helium . In this case the children will not have difficulty finding the eggs, but they will still be busy collecting only those of the color that has been assigned to them.
3- Egg hunt with signposted route
The idea of signaling the route of the egg hunt with nice signs like these is wonderful. The children will be helped – but not too much – by the signs and will have a lot of fun following the suggestions.
4-Hunt for real eggs
During the game, think about how much fun it can be for children to break real eggs at each stage instead of opening plastic eggs .
So here’s a nice trick to insert the cards with the clues inside real eggs emptied of the inside.
5-Stop the sweets. snack?
Stop the sugar. If you don’t like the idea of filling eggs with sweets, candies and chocolate, you can insert fun objects such as coins, small toys, or other items inside the eggs,
6-Educational egg hunt
If you prefer to play at home instead of in the garden , you can combine egg hunting with an educational game to teach or review letters, numbers, colors, shapes. In this case, for example, children will find colored shapes inside each egg. Every time they find one they will have to recognize it and put it in a grid. Whoever finds and guesses the most deserves a prize.
7- Egg hunt with coupons
Finally, a really nice idea could be to put many coupons inside the eggs that the children can use in the following days such as: you won an ice cream , enjoy 1 hour of video games, choose a game to play with dad … in short, the bonuses to inventing to make children happy are many. Make way for the imagination!
However, whatever Easter egg hunt you organize, I recommend you make sure that the rules you have chosen are clear for everyone, make a map to remember where you have hidden the eggs and involve as many people as possible. Grandparents too!
Good fun!
Kathryn Barlow is an OB/GYN doctor, which is the medical specialty that deals with the care of women's reproductive health, including pregnancy and childbirth.
Obstetricians provide care to women during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, while gynecologists focus on the health of the female reproductive system, including the ovaries, uterus, vagina, and breasts. OB/GYN doctors are trained to provide medical and surgical care for a wide range of conditions related to women's reproductive health.