Spend the afternoon creating a handmade Easter decoration that you can display all season long. To create this adult Easter egg hunt, simply hide the materials needed to complete a holiday craft project. Once all the supplies are found, it’s time to get crafting with your crew.
9 Adult Easter Egg Hunt Ideas that Go Beyond Jelly Beans and Quarters
Easter egg hunts aren’t just for kids. These ideas for hunts designed for grownups will keep your guests entertained all day.
Emily VanSchmus is the assistant digital home editor at Better Homes & Gardens, where she covers home decor, entertaining ideas, and more.
Updated on March 7, 2023
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Being an adult doesn’t mean you can’t participate in the annual Easter-egg hunt tradition. In fact, we’ve found that it’s actually more fun for a grownup, since the prizes for adults are way more fun than quarters and candy. Arrange a hunt for you and your partner, relatives, roommates, or friends. Use any of these suggestions to organize a casual adults-only scavenger hunt, or put together an all-out competition that starts as soon as Easter brunch is over. You can even make and fill adult Easter baskets with fun prizes. This is one holiday celebration you’ll be talking about all year.
Read on for our best tips to create the ultimate adult Easter egg hunt this year.
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Easter Egg Hunt with Candy
Yes, traditional Easter egg hunts often involve candy, but that doesn’t mean they’re a kids-only idea. Hide plastic eggs filled with wrapped candies for a good old-fashioned hunt. Bonus points if you fill the eggs with nostalgic candies or fancy chocolates rather than the usual jelly beans and chocolate eggs. This idea is sure to please.
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Charades Easter Egg Hunt
A charades egg hunt is a fun Easter game for adults. Place a charades prompt in each egg and hide them as normal—whenever anyone finds an egg, they must act out the prompt and the charade must be guessed before the game can resume.
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Pottery Barn Peter Rabbit™ Spring Doormat
Because their Easter brunch guests deserve a hoppy welcome! Lean into the nostalgia of the beloved Peter Rabbit children’s book with this one-inch thick coir doormat that’s complete with a vinyl backing.
Easter Dinner Plates
Imagine how delightful it would be to serve small bites, like deviled eggs or pigs in a blanket, on these festive paper plates. They come in a set of eight, and will quickly become a family heirloom.
SugarFina Easter 2 Piece Candy Bento Box®
We know, we know. It’s hard to say no to PEEPS, but if you really want to mix things up this year, gift this bento box with crunchy chocolates and multicolored gummy bears.
3 DIY Ideas for Adult Easter Baskets
Looking back on Easter as a child, I remember how excited I was to dig through my Easter basket. Full of chocolate bunnies, malt ball Easter eggs, Peeps, golden coins, and my favorite Cadbury Eggs. My Easter basket would be empty in a matter of hours. If you were lucky, I’d negotiate an Easter egg trade with you, but for the most part I knew I wanted it all to myself.
Remembering the joy it brought me on Easter Sunday, I knew I wanted to recreate just that for grown ups. Why should the kids get all of the fun? So as I set out to build the best adult Easter baskets around, I collected items that I, as a grown up, would want to keep all to myself as well…mini champagne bottles, jams, key lime fruit tart, truffle-filled Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies (yes, still!). And to make the adult Easter baskets truly a celebration of our blessings, I wanted them to include some of my favorite signs of spring. Terracotta pots of fresh daffodils and hydrangeas look so sweet tucked into the grapevine and moss covered baskets, along with fresh, potted basil, oregano, and few additional growing kits to keep my indoor herb garden going strong was everything.
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