Taking the Easter egg hunt to a new level!

I’m not sure who loves the Easter egg hunt more, me or the kids? However, gone are the days of eggs being put in plain sight for my toddler and pre-schooler to easily fill their baskets. Now it’s a challenge and they must work for their chocolate prize!

Playing for zones

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed last years hunt… I used a floor plan of our house, printed it up and sectioned off the rooms into different zones - kitchen, dining room, study, etc. I then wrote a load of questions, a mix of easy to hard, so ‘how do you spell…?’ ‘what’s 7x7?’ ‘Which King had 6 wives?’ and so on. I kept it topical to things they had been reading, learning at school, and spellings, but it obviously depends on the child’s age. I then hid 6 eggs of various sizes in each zone, and we were ready to go.

The kids had to pick a zone to play for and then answer 3 questions to win the zone, once they won the zone, off they ran to search the area. While my family and I enjoyed sitting in the garden catching some spring rays, the kids ran back and forth completing zones and trying to win new ones. It made the whole hunt last so much longer and was far more exciting for all.

A minute to win it, well 30 seconds!

Again, why make getting chocolate super easy, my aim is to get the kids running around a bit and create some fun memories. This weekend we are getting messy (and when I say we, I mean the kids), so 6 plastic eggs have been filled with flour and all chocolate eggs are hidden in the house.

Out in the garden, a filled plastic egg will be part of a game of catch. If an egg breaks on you then the other person gets 30 seconds to race into the house and find as many eggs as possible in that time. Then the game of catch starts again, until all filled plastic eggs have been broken and all eggs found.

I am planning a little twist and will include a few plastic eggs inside the house with forfeits, like ‘give Mummy 3 of your eggs’ and will fill some with rocks (that was my daughters idea!).

I’ll post some photos of and let you know how it went.   

Turn the tables

Get the kids to create an Easter egg hunt for the adults to have a go at. The idea of making the adults work for their chocolate rations has had my kids plotting for the last couple of weeks. My 8-year-old has been seeking out suitable hiding places and the back seat car chatter between the 2 of them has been lovely to listen to, well worth the extra eggs I’ve bought for it.

Don’t forget to share your Easter Egg hunt ideas, in the meantime Simply for Kids wishes you all a Happy Easter x