The Speech-Language MOMologist: 5 Fun Egg Hunt Ideas

5 Fun Egg Hunt Ideas

The boys are totally into egg hunts this year! It seems like we’re doing egg hunts when we wake up, after dinner and all different times in between. It’s adorable seeing them get excited each time they find an egg! There are quite a few ideas out there for how to make egg hunts a little more interesting. Here are my 5 favorites!

1. Glow-In-The Dark Egg Hunt

I’ve seen this idea all over Pinterest and various newsletters I subscribe to and it was at the top of my list to try out. Luckily, I have a good friend who was just as excited about it so we decided to have an egg hunt play date. We gave the boys some cute bunny visors to make them official!

Here’s what you’ll need:

Large plastic eggs

Glow-in-the-dark bracelets

Flashlights

Small treat (candy, small animal figures, etc.)

Simply roll up the bracelets and stuff them in the egg along with a little treat. You can tape around the seal to ensure they don’t pop open. Hide your now glow-in-the-dark eggs, turn off the lights and call in the kids! The boys used their flashlights to help them find the eggs. They truly had so much fun that we had to put the eggs back together and hide them again and again. The weather was bad for our play date so we had to have the egg hunt inside, but I think it would be lots of fun to do it outdoors as well. Best part is this egg hunt would really appeal to children of all different ages!

2. Puzzle Piece Egg Hunt

Choose a puzzle that would be of interest to your little one and appropriate for them to put together. Place a puzzle piece in each egg and then hide them. Once you’re little one has collected all the eggs, the fun still isn’t over. Work together to piece the puzzle together!

3. Easter Egg Checklist/Scavenger Hunt

Give each child a list of which eggs he/she has to find. For example: Anthony, find: 2 purple eggs, 1 blue egg, and 3 yellow eggs. This is a great idea if you’re working on colors and/or counting with your little one.

4. Bunny Money Egg Hunt

Fill your eggs with “bunny money.” You can use fake money or this free printable: Bunny Money. Once all the eggs have been collected, have each child add up their bunny money. Have little prizes that the children can purchase using their “bunny money.” This one is especially great for school aged children working on money skills.

5. Color-Coded Egg Hunt

Assign each child a specific color to find. I like this idea because it allows all of the children to get the same amount of eggs, giving equal opportunity to your younger and older hunters. Of course, great for practicing colors as well!

Egg hunts in general have many embedded language skills – SPATIAL CONCEPTS (where the eggs are hidden), DESCRIPTIVE CONCEPTS (color, design, and size of the eggs), and MATH CONCEPTS (how many and how much) to name a few, but what I think is most significant about eggs hunts is the EXPERIENCE you create with your little one. SHARED EXPERIENCES give you and your little one SOMETHING to TALK ABOUT, SOMETHING to REMEMBER, SOMETHING to RELATE and COMPARE to other things and provide your little one with PRIOR KNOWLEDGE for FUTURE EXPERIENCES. There’s no greater way to ENCOURAGE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT than that!

Before I sign off, I can't resist showing a few pictures of my littlest bunny with our plastic Easter eggs that we got TONS of use out of!