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Step 1
For fun clues, take a hollow chocolate bunny and poke a small hole in the bottom (minding not to damage too badly the foil wrapper.) Now, take a written clue and roll it tightly. Push the roll up into the hole you carved into the bunny – when it is all the way inside, you will here it unravel, making it impossible for it to fall out. Now, when your loved one eats the bunny, they’ll find a fun clue to start your treasure hunt!
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Step 2
Set ahead of time an order for egg color difficulty, based on the color of eggs you have. For example, yellow eggs are easiest to find, green eggs are next harder, red eggs are harder still to find and blue eggs are hidden in the most difficult places. Then, assign point values for each color (in the above example, the blue eggs would be worth more points than the yellow ones.) In this way, it isn’t the person who finds the most that wins, but rather the one with the most points.
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Step 3
A third variation is to play it like poker. Someone who has found five red eggs has a flush. Perhaps two red and three green has been set as a full house. One of each color may be a straight. You can also utilize other unique color combinations (4 blues are four aces, 4 reds are four kings, etc.)
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Step 4
Include actual puzzles to solve in the Easter Egg Hunt. Either create your own or download some that were designed to be inserted in an Easter Egg Hunt (see the RESOURCES section below for a link.)
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Step 5
Inside your plastic eggs, put small pieces of paper with directions (as described later below.) First, hide the eggs in any way you choose (either the traditional way or a variation of any ideas so far listed). Then, once everyone has their eggs (and everyone firmly told NOT to open their eggs before you’ve given the go ahead) all the participants are to sit in a circle (wherever convenient and comfortable). Now each person (in turn, clockwise if you wish) is to open one egg and follow the directions written on the paper inside. Some examples of directions are listed below:
• Pass the egg two people to the left
• Hand the egg two the nearest female on your right
• Hand the egg to the person sitting directly across from you
• Pass the egg to the closest sibling on your left
You get the idea. In this way, it’s not the one who collects the most eggs that is the winner, but rather the one who collects the most eggs once all the directions have been followed in turn. -
Step 6
Here’s a different variation…make only paired colors ‘count.’ Conduct a traditional Easter egg hunt but only award points to those that have a colored pair (two reds, two greens, etc.) If they have only one orange, for example, they are given no points – they must find another orange in order for the ‘find’ to ‘count.’ An added fun to this is watching all the trading go on during the hunt – so that the participants end up with matches (beware, the haggling at this time can get ruthless…)
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Step 7
Include actual puzzles to solve in the Easter Egg Hunt. Either create your own or download some that were designed to be inserted in an Easter Egg Hunt (see the RESOURCES section below for a link.)
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Step 8
Put raffle tickets inside the plastic eggs. The more eggs the participant finds, the greater the chance they’ll have in winning the prize drawing.
