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25 Fun Adult Easter Egg Hunt Ideas That'll Make You Feel Like a Kid Again
Get egg-cited for these grown-up twists on the tradition.
You are never too old for an Easter egg hunt, but you can absolutely put a grown-up twist on this beloved Easter tradition with one of these fun Easter egg hunt ideas for adults.
How can you make an Easter egg hunt more fun for adults? Try glow-in-the-dark eggs for your late-night soiree. If you're hosting a 21-and-up crowd, you can plan a craft beer hunt where the baskets are six-pack holders or hide boozy egg-shaped Jell-O jigglers in bowls around the house. Don't overthink it—your adult egg hunt twist can be as simple as ending a traditional hunt with a round of refreshing Easter cocktails to wet everyone's whistle. Of course, adult doesn’t always mean alcohol.
For a low-key Easter brunch with friends, we're sharing creative ways to combine your hunt with a craft, a manicure session, and other fun activities. Got a large group? Fill eggs with raffle tickets or scavenger hunt clues leading to a grand prize for the winner—or skip the hunt and go for an alternative, perhaps a friendly competition like an egg relay race. And for "almost grown-up" kids, upgrade your standby Easter egg hunt ideas with a “mystery numbers” or “scrambled” egg hunt for a fun challenge for parents and older children alike.
What can you put inside Easter eggs for adults? The sky is the limit, that is, if it fits. Pro tip: Size up to jumbo Easter eggs for a bit more room. Prize ideas include cash, lottery scratch-off tickets, mini wine or liquor bottles, mini tins of mints, small beauty product or samples, golf ball markers, funny enamel pins, gift cards, or key chains, just for starters. Jump into these adult Easter egg hunt ideas, and see what makes your bunny hop.
Easter Charades Hunt
Here's an adult Easter egg hunt idea that will help break the ice for a large group: Fill plastic eggs with charades prompts. After the hunt is done, divide up into teams, crack open those eggs, and get ready for a laughter-filled round of charades.
Get ideas for adult charades prompts. (If it's an office party, not to worry—none of these are NSFW.)
Winner-Picks-the-Movie Egg Hunt
Combine your adult Easter egg hunt with a movie night with friends. Fill plastic eggs with small adult-friendly goodies, except for one, which will contain a special privilege—the right to pick the movie! It might be an Easter movie, a nostalgic spring flick, a crowd-pleasing classic film, or anything really. Winner's choice!
Mystery Numbers Easter Egg Hunt
This adult Easter egg hunt idea comes (paradoxically) from one of the bloggers behind Busy Toddler, whose traditional family hunt includes plenty of shenanigans for adult children and their kids-at-heart parents. For this game of luck, everyone will need to arrive with a little cash in their pocket. After the hunt, the meaning of the mysterious numbers written on the eggs will be revealed—and some will go home a little richer, but others will have to pay up!
Get the tutorial at Busy Toddler.
Note: As the organizer, you will be assigning monetary values to the mystery numbers. Keep those values low so that no one loses their shirt. It should all be in good fun!
Vintage Finds Easter Egg Hunt
Here's an Easter twist on a recent Country Living office gift exchange. Ask all your guests to bring a small vintage find worth around $15–$20, then hide the treasures in plastic eggs before the hunt. Just be sure to give everyone the egg dimensions to ensure the trinkets fit. Ideas: vintage Easter broach, adorably tiny silver salt spoon, embroidered handkerchief, ornate button, cuff links, etc. One egg/prize per person, and any bartering after the hunt is up to the guests.
Bath Bomb Easter Egg Hunt
Create these delightful Easter egg bath bombs for your guests to hunt for, along with other pampering goodies.
Get the tutorial at Soap Queen.
Raffle Ticket Easter Egg Hunt
Use the same rules of this raffle ticket Easter egg hunt, but swap the prize ideas for ones adults will enjoy such as gift cards, books, or kitchen gadgets.
Get the tutorial at Research Parent.
Wine-Filled Easter Egg Hunt
Single serving wine bottles make for the perfect treasure hidden inside your 21+ Easter eggs.
Get the tutorial at Courtney's World.
Crafty Easter Egg Hunt
Gather your crafty crew for a hunt that requires everyone to search your yard for all the supplies they'll need to put together a sweet Easter craft (print out lists so they know what they're looking for!).
Get the supplies list and tutorial for this wreath at Simple Joy.
Recipe Swap Easter Egg Hunt
Fill each egg with a different recipe covering a wide range of meals and treats. (You can supply the recipes or ask guests to bring a copy of one of their tried-and-true favorites.) Everyone will love the surprise of opening the egg and seeing what dish lies inside!
Boozy Jelly Beans Easter Egg Hunt
Fill the eggs for your adult Easter egg hunt with jelly bean flavors like champagne, mojito, and beer. They're not actually alcoholic, but they'll make for a fun twist!
Easter Egg Race
Because no one's ever too old for Easter game fun, incorporate a bit of friendly competition into your annual egg hunt. You can go about it a few different ways, like setting a time limit and rewarding the family member who found the most eggs the fastest. Or, mix it up with a relay race—have participants juggle a plastic Easter egg on a spoon while running across the lawn and back. First person to finish without dropping it wins!
Personalized Easter Scavenger Hunt
For the crew that likes a bit of an extra challenge, use crepe paper and custom prompts to convert Easter eggs into scavenger hunt clues. Each time they find a new prize-filled egg, they also unravel a clue that leads to the next. Game on—and last person is definitely a rotten egg.
Get the tutorial at Lovely Indeed.
Money Egg Hunt
Candy's cool and all, but a bit of extra moolah really caters to the adult crowd like nothing else. Disperse some $1's or scratch-off lottery tickets around the hunt, and leave a few lucky eggs with more big-ticket bills.
Easter White Elephant
Yep, this kitschy activity can work especially well for an adult-friendly Easter. Buy your gag gift, write the name of it on a slip of paper, and stuff it inside an egg. Once the eggs have been hidden, instruct friends and fam to find and snag only one—with absolutely no peeking! Then, reconvene with everyone's physical presents for swapping and plenty of snickering.
Glow-in-the-Dark Easter Egg Hunt
Since you have to wait till the sun goes down, this game is perfect for an older crowd. Once the kids go to bed, have your own fun hunting cool, glow-in-the-dark eggs.
Get the tutorial at Lil' Luna.
Easter Egg Treasure Hunt
Instead of candy, put a series of clues in Easter eggs that lead the finder to a grand prize. It could be a money pot, a gift card to a local restaurant, or a big-ticket item like a grill for those neighborhood cookouts.
Easter Egg Drinking Game
All attendants over 21? With a drink in hand, look for plastic eggs, each containing instructions on how many sips to take. You could even make it "Never-Have-I-Ever"-themed. Write prompts like "Never have I ever…lied to my children" or "Never have I ever…put gum under a table"—and if the finder is guilty, he or she drinks!
Easter Beauty Hunt
Hosting a hunt just for the girls? Hide items they'll actually want to uncover. Free samples of beauty products fit perfectly inside plastic eggs (think packets of perfume, foundations, creams, and nail polish), as do most lipsticks and travel-sized toiletries. Tell everyone to bring a handful to hide and find.
If everyone's of age, swap Easter baskets for empty cardboard 6-pack carriers—or this cool wooden caddy. Then, send everyone searching for ales, IPAs, and stouts. Beer not your thing? Hide miniature bottles of liquor or even canned rosé instead. Cheers!
Scrambled Easter Egg Hunt
Have older kids? Give your traditional hunt the Freaky Friday treatment. Let the kids hide requests (say, for fewer chores or a favorite dinner) in eggs, and have parents do the hunting. But beware: Parents are on the hook for whatever they don't find.
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