Easter Egg Hunt Activities

We’ve put together our best Easter Egg Activities.

Easter Egg Hunt

There’s nothing like the lure of chocolate to tear little ones away from tablets and the TV in search of hidden goodies. Easy to organise and always the most memorable part of Easter for any child, it’s a really fun way to hone your kids’ foraging skills and involve the whole household in a lovely Easter tradition. Whether the treasure you hide is foil-wrapped and of the chocolate variety or painted eggs with the promise of a chocolate prize at the end, you’ll be amazed at how focused youngsters can be in their bid to find the most munchies.

Why not make your own own chocolate treats with our chocolate moulds?

Decorating For The Hunt

Setting up a chocolate treasure trail doesn’t have to be an elaborate affair. Sometimes it’s good to keep the organisation simple and the gratification instant, and there’s no better way than with a super-easy indoor egg hunt. You can hide a few little treats or a single foil-wrapped egg, and you don’t even have to use any clues – a game of ‘cold, warmer, hotter’ will do the trick perfectly (and is as much fun for adults as it is for kids!). As well as being almost zero effort to set up, an indoor egg hunt is brilliant fun if heading to the garden isn’t an option, and can be ready to go in seconds… ideal if the ‘Easter Bunny’ has overslept a little and the kids wake up wanting to find his presents RIGHT NOW.

When Easter rolls around, what better way to spend a fun afternoon with the kids then decorating some eggs for the annual egg hunt? Inside the Spring Bunny Egg Decorating Kit from Talking Tables, you’ll find brightly coloured paints, brushes, stickers and stencils to spark their imagination and help them their create colourful eggy masterpieces ready for hiding around the house or garden, or using as Easter decorations.

Fresh Air Fun

Blessed with good weather on Easter Sunday? If you don’t need to stay indoors, why not take your egg hunt into the garden? Depending on the size of your outdoor space, you may find it helpful to use easy clues to steer things along and keep everyone on course. You can be as creative as you like, but keep clues nice and simple, or you’re likely to find younger children straying off the path and eager egg hunters racing ahead and missing out on the Easter Bunny’s bounty.

How many clues and hiding places you need depends on how long you want the hunt to last, but once all the treats have been found and divvied up, reward your hunters for their efforts with a bit of instant Easter indulgence. Even the best-behaving children will be itching to tuck into their hard-won chocolate hoard, so allow them one or two goodies then and there, and pop the rest in a bag to devour later at their leisure!

*Don’t forget your pets – keep them out of the way or safely supervised until the fun is done and all the chocolate has been collected!

Egg Decorating

If you’ve a houseful of children over the long Easter weekend, why not start by getting everyone to decorate their own boiled eggs? Be sure to hard-boil your eggs to avoid any messy accidents then let your guests go wild with their designs (Make sure your eggs are perfectly hard-boiled using the Egg Perfect Colour Changing Boiled Egg Timer or our Lakeland Boiled Egg Cooker) – just supply paint, glue, glitter or whatever crafty supplies you have to hand. Or for those among you who prefer a craft activity with an educational slant, let the kids recreate the pace eggs of old for an authentic hands-on learning experience.

Egg Rolling

When everyone’s egg creations are dry, why not engage in the tradition dating back hundreds of years of egg rolling as we know it in this country. This has always taken place around Easter and has always been all about children having fun – first by decorating hard-boiled eggs and then by rolling them down a grassy hill to see whose will go the furthest and survive with the least amount of cracks. It’s simply a case of picking a safe hill to line all your entrants up before they send those eggs-a-rolling! Generally speaking, the top of a steady slope with a good covering of grass is a good place to start, but it goes without saying that the more heavy-handed the launch the less the chance of survival! Expect a few eager egg-rollers to follow their eggs by rolling down the hill themselves, and be ready with a chocolate prize for the winner as well as smaller treats for everyone-else to ensure there are still smiles all around at the finishing line!