10 Creative Easter Egg Hunt Ideas to Try in 2022

easter egg hunt ideas 2022 from lone cone

One of the most exciting parts of Easter Day has to be the much-anticipated Easter Egg Hunt. We’ll always be a fan of the traditional egg hunt, but lately we’ve been thinking about ways to mix it up and make the hunt more interactive and interesting. These new Easter egg hunt ideas for kids encourage them to spend more time outdoors and exercise their imagination and critical thinking skills — something Lone Cone can always get behind.

Don’t forget your boots! They make for the best hunting gear.

Check out these fun and creative egg hunt ideas for Easter 2022:

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Activity Hunt

Keep the day active by adding slips of paper into the eggs, each with its own unique physical activity.

You can tailor the activities to your kids’ interests, but some starter ideas include: do a somersault, do five jumping jacks, show us how a bunny hops.

Lego Hunt

Take one Lego set and split up the pieces among all the eggs. Once all the eggs are found, your kids can get together to assemble the set.

Any Lego set works for this idea, but if you want to stay true to the Easter theme, Lego sells this cute Easter bunny set!

Scavenger Hunt

If you have budding readers this is a great way to sneak some reading into the holiday! Feel free to create your own clues for this Easter egg scavenger hunt - or use these printables! You can even hide their Easter baskets at the end of the hunt to create added egg-citement.

Glow Hunt

Egg hunts are usually reserved for the daytime but you can totally surprise your kiddos with a bonus hunt at night too! For this glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt all you need are jumbo eggs and glow stick bracelets. The bracelets are so fun you don’t really need to add prizes but you can always add a little something in the eggs, too.

Golden Ticket Hunt

Channel Willy Wonka and add Golden Tickets (add these printables) to a number of eggs.

Once your kid finds a Golden Ticket, they can trade it in for a prize like a toy, board game, card game, or puzzle kit. You can’t go wrong with a classic chocolate bar, either.

Egg Pit Hunt

For the kids who aren’t quite ready to run around the backyard unsupervised, set up a small inflatable pool and fill it with a mix of colorful plastic balls and Easter eggs.

Challenge them to identify the Easter eggs and see how many they can pull out in a given amount of time.

Adventure Hunt

The kids are in control for this one! Have them fill out slips of paper with outdoor locales they’d like to visit or fun new activities they want to try, and put the slips inside the eggs.

For every egg they find, there’s a new family outing to add to your calendar!

Chalk Art Hunt

It’s time to get artsy. Fill your eggs with pieces of sidewalk chalk. As each egg is found, your child must draw something on the ground with the chalk before they can move on to hunting for the next egg.

Soon, your sidewalk will be filled with lovely, colorful pieces of art.

Word Unscramble Hunt

Like the Lego Hunt, this one involves some teamwork to complete. Choose a few outdoor adventure-themed words and place a slip of paper with each letter in each egg.

At the end, your egg hunters will have to gather to solve the word mystery and arrange the correct group of words. Bonus points if you commit to doing the actual outdoor adventure activities later this spring!

Rainbow Hunt

Scatter eggs from all colors of the rainbow. The first person who collects all the colors wins!

You can choose whether or not to set a rule that the colors must be collected in ROYGBIV order.

Let us know which one of these cool new Easter egg hunt ideas you try this year, and don’t forget to tag us @loneconeshop.