One of the biggest joys of Easter (apart from all the chocolate, of course), is leading your family around the house and garden on a magical Easter egg hunt. There’s no better way to spend a springtime afternoon than watching your egg-cited flock of little lambs hunting high and low, watching their faces light up as they solve clues and fill their baskets with treasure.
Keep the kids (and the big kid in you) entertained this Easter Bank Holiday with our top Easter egg hunt tips. Follow our free printable Easter egg hunt clues below to create a cracking quest for happy bunnies and pick up some tasty treats along the way. Happy hunting!
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🥚 Create a basket
🥚 Prepare your eggs
🥚 Print some clues
🥚 Ready, set, hunt!
Create a basket
As every seasoned egg hunter knows, an Easter basket is essential for collecting lots of chocolatey treasure. If you and your little chicks are feeling crafty, then why not have a go at creating your own? Think colourful cardboard, pom-poms, bows, ribbons, felt and lots and lots of glitter! Don’t panic if you don’t have the time or supplies for baskets, a humble bowl or paper bag will do; it’s what’s inside that most definitely counts here! If you'd like a template to print and colour, we've found one here courtesy of kidspot.
Prepare your eggs
Next, you need to decide what kind of Easter treats you’d like to hide. Those with a sweet tooth might like to opt for traditional chocolate Easter eggs of all shapes and sizes, or you could get creative and fill some hollow plastic egg containers with an assortment of sweets, stickers, toys, jokes, money, and other small prizes that children will enjoy.
Alternatively, you could use real, hard-boiled eggs which the kids can decorate beforehand with paint, crayons, felt tip pens, sequins and glitter, and you can create a special prize for the child who finds the most during the trail.
Print some clues
It’s now time to hide the eggs and - to give you some ideas for great hidey-holes - we’ve come up with a handy set of rhyming Easter clues and riddles that you can print off to make your hunt even more fun. Simply cut them out and either roll them up and put one inside each fillable egg or mount them on cards to lead children on the chase to the next discovery. Not all of these clues might be applicable to your home, so we've given you lots of different options allowing you to pick and choose which ones to use. All the answers to the clues are written below.
Download Easter egg clues
Answers:
- Washing machine
- Welly
- Grass
- Table
- Bed
- Bath
- Socks
- Cup
- Car
- Sink
- Garage
- Stairs
- Shed
- Pot
- Television
- Book
- Curtain
- Fridge
- Drawer
- Door
Ready, set, hunt!
All you need to do now is choose your first clue and give it to your little one - then hide the second one at the location their clue points to. When they get there, the next clue will be waiting ready to lead them on around the trail. For added Easter Bunny points, you could leave silly extra notes at each clue point such as ‘Do 5 star jumps on the spot’, or ‘Cluck like a chicken for 30 seconds’.
Top tip: If you’ve got a dog and you’re hiding chocolate eggs, make sure you keep them indoors during your Easter egg hunt. We can guarantee they’ll be better at finding them than you!
We hope you have an eggs-tra fun time planning your Easter egg trails with the family this year. If you’d like to make your day even more special, check out our guide to some simple Easter recipes that you can whip up at home ready for the big day – the Easter biscuits are delicious!