6 Themed Easter Egg Hunt Ideas for a Fun Time for Everyone!

Easter egg hunts represent a fun way to celebrate spring with kids. Whether you have a party on the Saturday before Easter or after church on Easter itself, you expect kids and parents alike to have a fun time searching high and low for those little treasures hidden in the grass, on tree branches, on patio furniture, and other fun places to hide. 

 

You can make Easter egg hunts as fun and engaging as you want! And they don’t have to be themed for spring with Easter bunnies, chickens, and other signs of spring. You can go all-out with these six themed Easter egg hunt ideas to keep the kids engaged and entertained. Everyone will have an eggs-cellent time!

 

1. Pirates’ Treasure Hunt

 

Arrr, mateys! Follow ye ol’ treasure map to unlock loot along each step of a treasure hunt. Begin your adventure with a treasure map made from parchment paper, ready to reveal its secrets. Decorating it with colorful, textured items can point to locations on the map where pirates’ treasure is located throughout the yard.

Eggs are “golden treasures” hidden in chests or with maps guiding kids to the next steps, just like a scavenger hunt. You can hide coins in the plastic eggs as treasures worth real money. Or, go for chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil. There are pluses to each one. Real coins won’t melt. However, you need to keep the pirates’ treasure hunt theme to kids who are old enough to know they shouldn’t put small objects in their mouths (so, ages 4 and up, at least).

Give similar prizes at the end of the egg hunt to each participant, like a larger piece of candy or other gift that doesn’t necessarily fit into a plastic egg. Every child will feel rewarded for their efforts!

 

2. Farmyard Fun

Younger children love animals, especially the friendly kind. Whether you have some acreage, host an Easter egg hunt in a local park, or need to move it indoors, you can pretend the setting is a barn or farmyard when hiding the eggs.

For outdoors, incorporate real hay to help hide the eggs underneath. Set up a mock henhouse where kids can find plastic eggs underneath cardboard hens. The largest prize, and everyone gets one, could be a farm-themed Easter basket loaded with goodies.

Use cardboard mock-ups of farm animals, like goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, and chickens, as decorations. Toy farm animals can serve as prizes for various activities.

There are plenty of activities to do with this theme! Some of our favorites include:

• An animal sound matching game where kids find the name of a farm animal inside a plastic egg, and then they make the sound of the animal.
• Pin the tail on the donkey.
• Feed the animal beanbag toss, where kids toss beanbags at cardboard cutouts of animals to try to land them in the cutout’s mouth.
• Farm animal obstacle course, where you set up a course with hula hoops, hay bales, and “mud puddles” (tarps or mats) so children can crawl, hop, and dodge like animals on the farm.
• Farm animal costume contest where everyone shows off their costumes and everyone gets a prize for being well-dressed.
• Farm tools scavenger hunt, where you hide plastic farm tools, like shovels, rakes, and watering cans, throughout the area for kids to collect.
• Sack races using burlap sacks.

 

3. Princesses and Knights

Step back in time with this theme involving castles, friendly dragons, princesses, and knights in shining armor. Plastic eggs can be large jewels that kids can collect. Hide the eggs among cardboard crowns, swords, horses, knights, castles, and silly dragons. Have a throne where kids can sit for a photo-op. 

Fun activities include:

• A bouncy inflatable castle can be a fun activity here.  
• Costume contest, again, where everyone gets a prize.
• Find the treasure chest, where you use eggs as clues to help kids find a treasure chest guarded by a cardboard dragon.
• Rescue the dragon eggs, where kids can find special plastic eggs in the dragon’s lair made of blankets, hay, or cardboard.
• Catapult egg launch, where kids put a plastic egg in a catapult to see how far they can launch it with a catapult.
• Hidden scrolls hunt, where you hide small scrolls (rolled-up paper tied with ribbon) with riddles or clues about where to find special eggs.
• Moat crossing, where you set up stepping stones (cut out from cardboard or foam) over a “moat” (blue fabric). Kids must step carefully to cross without “falling in” to get to the castle entrance.
• Knight’s quest, where each kid has a special section to hunt for their own eggs, ensuring everyone gets the same amount of eggs.
• Decorate a drawbridge, where you set up a mini castle or cardboard fort, and let kids build or decorate a drawbridge with art supplies.
• King’s banquet table, with a feast after the egg hunt with castle-themed snacks like “dragon claws” (chicken tenders), “golden goblets” (juice cups), and crown-shaped cookies.

 

4. Solve the Easter Mystery

Kids love to solve mysteries and riddles! Have you ever read a book to your youngster about things that go missing or mysterious sounds you hear outside a window at night? You can have a mystery-themed egg hunt for Easter!

Kids receive clues to solve a mystery, with eggs containing pieces of the puzzle. The puzzle comes together and points to the big mystery to solve. Of course, the prize gets bigger!

See these activities to try during your mystery-themed egg hunt:

• Fingerprint detective station, where you set up a station where kids can use stamp pads to “analyze” fingerprints. Provide magnifying glasses and compare prints on pre-made “evidence cards” that lead to solving a mystery. You can make it fun where the prints are of an animal, like a dog or cat.
• Code-breaking challenge, with secret codes (like ciphers or simple riddles) inside some eggs. Kids must solve them to earn additional rewards or unlock a treasure chest.
• Spy disguises, where you provide hats, sunglasses, and fake mustaches so kids can “go undercover” during the hunt. A photo booth with a spy backdrop adds extra fun!
• An escape room experience, where you create a small area where kids need to solve puzzles to unlock a box containing more eggs or a special prize.
• Hide small keys inside plastic eggs, each of which could unlock a larger treasure chest filled with goodies.
• Magnifying glass search, where you scatter small printed clues or objects (e.g., mini letters, pictures) that kids can only see clearly with a magnifying glass. These clues can lead to eggs or the final treasure.

 

5. Under the Sea

Nothing says warmer weather than heading to the beach or going under the sea! Decorate eggs like seashells or sea creatures hidden among “coral reefs” made from pool noodles and blue tarps. You can easily find decorations, plastic fish, toy fishing poles, plastic submarines, and other underwater-themed items for this event.

Consider these activities for an under-the-sea-themed egg hunt:

• Go fishing, where you have kids cast the line on the plastic fishing rods to go over a cardboard partition. On the other side of the partition, an adult attaches a plastic egg or prize to the “hook” for the youngster to take home.
• Ocean sensory bin, where you create a sensory bin with blue water beads, sand, or rice. Hide small eggs, toy sea creatures, or treasures for kids to find in the sensory bin.
• Jellyfish craft station, where you let kids make their own jellyfish using paper bowls, streamers, and markers. They can take them home as a fun keepsake. The plastic eggs can serve as anchor points for the long tentacles.
• Pearl diving, where you fill a small kiddie pool with blue shredded paper and hide plastic eggs as small “pearls” for kids to “dive” for, with each egg having a treat inside.
• Sea creature egg match is an activity where you place stickers of sea creatures (fish, turtles, sharks) on plastic eggs and challenge kids to find and match the pairs of eggs with 
• Shark egg rescue, with a “shark” (an adult or older kid) guarding a stash of eggs. Kids must sneak in and rescue the eggs without getting tagged!
• Create a coral reef, where you set up a station so kids can use craft supplies to decorate cardboard or foam coral reefs with glitter, paint, and stickers. Include fun facts about coral reefs and their importance to our planet.

 

6. Life-Size Candy Land

Let’s be honest. Kids love candy at Easter! Everyone adult remembers the game Candy Land from when they were younger. Having a life-size Candy Land can turn an Easter egg hunt into a yummy party.

Think about these activities for this theme: 

• Eggs are hidden among oversized candy decorations, with treats inside every egg. Color-code the candy decorations with the eggs, such as orange with orange, red with red, and so on.
• Decorate plastic eggs like gumdrops, lollipops, or peppermint swirls. Kids can “collect candy” as they hunt for eggs around a vibrant, candy-decorated space.
• Create a large game board path with colorful paper squares leading to different “candy zones” (e.g., Lollipop Lane, Chocolate River). Place eggs or prizes at each zone.
• Lay out a brown tarp or mat as the “chocolate river” and have kids cross it using stepping stones (cardboard pieces or foam) without “falling in.”
• Fill a jar with jellybeans and have kids guess the number inside. The closest guess wins a larger prize.
• Host a relay race where kids balance a plastic egg or candy piece on a “peppermint stick” (spoon or stick decorated with red stripes). Kids win prizes for participating. 
• Hide small candies or candy-shaped toys in eggs, then have kids sort them by color or type at a special candy station.

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