Easter Egg Hunt Games & Ideas
You might remember Easter egg hunt games when you were a child. Early in the morning, you would race out to see where the Easter bunny hid his eggs. As an adult, it becomes a tradition to enjoy watching your kids have fun searching for eggs. Easter offers an ideal opportunity to bond with family and enjoy the forms an egg can take.
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Scavenger Hunt
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Send a child on a scavenger hunt by hiding notes in six plastic eggs. Write a clue on six pieces of paper. Each clue should indicate where the next egg is. For example, "I am behind something that gives you oxygen." Hide the next egg pertaining to this clue behind a tree. The game also becomes educational this way. Give the child the first egg to get him or her going on the adventure. Hide as many eggs with messages as you like. Reserve the final note for a clue to where a chocolate Easter bunny is hidden.
Search
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Hide small chocolate Easter eggs in various places outside, if the weather permits. Or, hide them inside. Have a child paint hard-boiled eggs the night before and hide those as well. The child can enjoy searching for and finding the various treats. He or she also will enjoy finding and recalling the eggs painted the night before. The bright colors of the eggs are a perfect fit for Easter because they symbolize a time when many parts of North America are witnessing the year's first flower blossoms.
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Color Coordination
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If you have more than one child searching for eggs on Easter, make this activity fair by assigning each child the same number of eggs coordinating with the child's favorite color. This also helps a child learn sharing. If he or she finds one of his or her friend's eggs, he or she can give it to him or her. Or, have the children keep a secret by not saying where another child's eggs are hidden. The children can count the eggs at the end of the search to see whether they have the same number of eggs as their friends. If not, continue the search and enlist all children into finding eggs for each other.
Words
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Paint a letter on each egg. Have the children create as many words with letters on the eggs after they find them. Give the child who can create the most words a prize. Add a consolation prize for the child who comes up with the second most number of words.
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