10 Easter egg hunt ideas for toddlers

For many toddlers, when it comes to Easter there’s nothing more fun than an Easter egg hunt. Here are 10 Easter egg hunt ideas for toddlers that will add a lot of fun to your family’s Easter activities.

If you’re looking for even more ways to celebrate Easter, here are some Easter basket ideas that you may like to try, and some Easter recipes.

Egg hunt with patterns

This is a great Easter egg hunt idea for toddlers, which involves buying eggs wrapped in different patterns, or plastic eggs that have different patterns on them, and asking your toddler to find the eggs that have a certain pattern on them.

Egg hunt with colours

Instead of patterns, you may decide to assign your toddler a certain colour that they need to find.

Sensory egg hunt

This Easter egg hunt idea is best left for a sunny day, or as part of any Spring activity that you may like to do with your toddlers.

A sensory egg hunt is one that you hold in mess, which means hiding plastic Easter eggs in a basket, container, or tray with rice, coloured water, bubbles, or shaving foam, and getting your toddler to find the eggs by scooping them out with their hands, or tongs.

Egg hunt with clues

An Easter egg hunt with clues is perfect for toddlers or even older kids, because you can make the clues easy or hard.

For this type of Easter egg hunt, you need to write some clues, with each clue leading to the location of the next egg.

If this is something you’d like to do, here are some great Easter egg hunt clue ideas.

Egg hunt with snacks

If you’d like to minimise the amount of chocolate your toddler eats over Easter, you can do an Easter egg hunt for them using eggs that have kids snacks in them instead.

You can do this Easter egg hunt idea by buying plastic Easter eggs that open, so you can place a snack in them, then close them again and hide them.

Egg hunt with prizes

Instead of placing snacks inside eggs, you can put prizes in them that your toddler loves, such as hair accessories, cars, puzzles, or bubble blowers.

You may even decide to have some eggs with snacks inside them, and some with prizes.

Egg hunt with coupons

Another type of Easter egg hunt that’s a little different is to put coupons inside plastic eggs that come apart, which your toddlers can redeem.

Some coupon examples that can be placed inside your eggs include:

• Quality time with mum
• Breakfast for dinner
• Later bedtime for one night only
• Extra dessert

Name egg hunt

Another fun Easter idea for toddlers is to get them to find eggs that spell out their name, which is also a great way to get them to start to recognise letters.

If you decide to do this type of Easter egg hunt, it involves putting each letter of your toddler’s name on one egg, and getting them to search for the eggs until their name is spelt out.

Action egg hunt

Toddler’s love to move about, so having an action egg hunt where you place a fun toddler activity inside a plastic egg that your toddler has to perform, is a great Easter idea.

Some activities you could put inside the Easter egg are:

• Hop like a bunny
• Star jump
• Baa like a sheep
• Moo like a cow
• Run on the spot

Checklist egg hunt

Toddlers love searching for things, so having a checklist for them full of fun Easter items to find is a great idea.

Some of the things you can include on your toddler’s Easter checklist are:

• Search for 4 blue eggs
• Look for bunny footprints
• Find 2 yellow daffodils
• Find 5 carrots

There are so many Easter egg hunt ideas for toddlers that you can choose from to make Easter a fun family event.

Some of these include hiding chocolate eggs, or getting your toddler to find eggs with a certain pattern, colour, or letter on them.

You can also fill eggs with snacks, prizes, coupons, or activities, or use a checklist to make your Easter egg hunt more challenging.

What Easter activities does your toddler enjoy the most?