Easter means the start of spring, glorious food and precious family time. What’s not to love? Spending quality time with the children is especially fun when you’ve got some great games and activities in the pipeline.
We know it can be hard to keep the kids entertained while they’re off school and very egg-citable. That’s why we’ve put together some exciting Easter egg hunt ideas that get the children involved and engaged. Ready? Let the Easter egg hunt begin!
Chocolate and dairy aren’t for everyone, and they can be difficult to avoid at this time of year. Whatever your reason for avoiding dairy, why not skip the chocolate as prizes and instead go for a dairy free Easter egg hunt? Instead of hiding chocolate, why not:
Theme the Easter egg hunt towards bunny rabbits. Get creative with the little ones and make bunny ears by sticking long cardboard ears to plain or old headbands. Let the kids decorate their bunny ears with paint, glitter, feathers or even flowers. Cut out medium-sized rabbit symbols from card (roughly the size of your palm), decorate them and label them with ‘CLUE’. Write your hunt clues on the back of the clue card and hide around the garden and house. To keep them in place, tape a cocktail stick to the bottom and stick into the ground. To make this an even better Easter egg hunt game, have the kids ‘hop’ everywhere on one leg and if they stop, they have to go back to the start!
Top Tip: For younger children, make ‘footprints’ or arrows from card and decorate accordingly. Place them leading to the clues or prizes for a successful hunt.
One of our favourite Easter hunt ideas is to create a scavenger hunt. Give the kids a checklist of items they need to find and add to their basket. For younger children, add pictures or drawings of the items they need to collect. Include a mix of easy and difficult to find objects, ranging from leaves and pinecones to toys you’ve dotted around. Have a ‘star item’ on the list (make sure there is only one of these hidden) for an instant prize. We love this Easter egg hunt because it involves the whole family and really can be as easy or difficult as you’d like.
The good old Irish weather might not turn out to be the best for an outside Easter egg hunt. Instead, keep them indoors and try a few of our indoor Easter games for children:
