Make Your Easter Egg Hunt Easy & Educational

[vc_row][vc_column][ultimate_ctation ctaction_background=”#ff93c0″ ctaction_background_hover=”#ff93c0″]Egg hunts are a blast for everyone. Kids love running around looking for hidden treasures, and we love seeing their big smiles when they find a bright-colored, surprise-filled egg! But it’s a lot of work to set up and ends with little more to show than some intense sugar rushes. [/ultimate_ctation][/vc_column][/vc_row]

So, want to make your egg hunt more worth it this year? Here are our tips for making your big event easier on you and more educational for the kids!

First, making your egg hunt easy!

Be worry-free on the big day with these tips.

1. Get the eggs ready early!

Prepare your filled eggs a week ahead of time. This way, you don’t have to try to stuff them as you’re prepping Easter dishes the night before or the day of. Then store them in a cool place so any chocolate inside doesn’t melt.

2. Fill eggs with something besides candy.

This will make your life easier because it will keep kids from hopping off the walls the rest of the day after your egg hunt. You can stuff eggs with dollars, coins, stickers, or little toys to keep kids entertained after the egg hunt ends.

3. Assign a helper to hide the eggs.

 Whether it’s grandma or an older cousin who is ‘too cool’ for egg hunts this year, choose someone ahead of time to hide the eggs when they arrive for your Easter celebration so it is one less thing you have to worry about.

Next, making your egg hunt educational!

Try adding one of these educational twists to make your hunt that much more egg-citing!

1. Practice Colors

Fill different colored eggs for each kid that will be participating in your egg hunt. Or if you have a large group with lots of kids, assign teams of children to specific colors. This could be sibling groups or randomly chosen teams. As the kids search for eggs, the will need to identify colors to find theirs and leave behind ones that don’t belong to them.

2. Make it Math-Focused 

Label ten eggs for each child from numbers 1-10. Scatter the eggs as you would for a normal egg hunt, but tell the kids they each need to find ten eggs from 1-10. They will have to keep counting their eggs as they go and practice number recognition to find the correct eggs.

3. Support Reading Readiness 

Instead of filling the eggs with candy or prizes, fill them with notes about what the children have earned. This means they have to read to receive! Maybe they’ll find a note that says “Candy” and another that says “Sticker.” Encourage older kids to help younger kids read their notes and collect their prizes.

4. Build Problem-Solving Skills 

Instead of written rewards in each egg, you can include written riddles or clues that kids have to solve to move on to another. You could make different riddle paths for each child, or you could have kids work together to follow the riddles and eventually end in a spot where they’ll find an Easter basket for each of them, or simply a bunch of goodies to share!

Want more fun learning with eggs? After your egg hunt, try this STEAM Easter Egg Tower activity

to help kids stay entertained all Easter Day!

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