Host a Fun Easter Egg Hunt for Any Age!

If you think Easter egg hunts are just for kids, you are sadly mistaken. This year, host an easter egg hunt that anyone will enjoy! The trick is, you can hide a lot more than just candy in those little plastic eggs. Follow this fun guide with ideas for an easter egg hunt for any age! You won't be disappointed.

CREATE DIFFERENT HUNTING AREAS FOR DIFFERENT AGES
If you are going to be at a family gathering where adults, teenagers, and small children will all be gathered, set aside different areas for different age groups to hunt, and hide different eggs there! Make sure that you distinguish clear boundaries so that kids don't end up with adult eggs. For example: hide adult gifts inside the house, put the teenagers in the front yard, and the kids in back.

HIDING EGGS FOR KIDS
You may want to separate the kid hunt into two sections if there are a lot of little kids. Have a small area where the eggs are really easy to find, and designate that for the toddlers. Let the older (school-age) kids have some more difficult eggs to find. They won't have fun if it's too easy to find them! Put some in plain sight, but put some up high, like in trees, so that they have to get creative in order to find them.

HIDING CASH EGGS FOR TEENAGERS
Sometimes the teenagers may not be into the whole egg hunt idea, but if you ask them to help hide the difficult eggs for the little kids, they might begin to have fun. If you want them to get involved with the hunting, the key is hiding things they want! Hide some money prizes... if they know there is one egg out there with ten bucks in it, you know they will want to hunt!

HIDING EGGS OR OTHER ITEMS FOR ADULTS
Money prizes and a little bit of candy or gum could be fun, but try hiding dollar lottery tickets or pulltabs to get a little more excitement going! Another fun way to do it is a beer hunt! Especially if you are in college and you can't go home for easter this year, tell all your friends to decorate a plastic sack, paper bag, basket, or cooler, and hide different types of beer cans and bottles throughout your house or yard! The bonus prize is... if they don't find them all, or you get too drunk to remember where you hid them, then you will have drinkable surprises later in the year as well! If you are a true partier, hide the "eggs" the night before when you are drunk so you will be just as surprised as your guests when you search for the eggs.

SMALL GATHERINGS OR JUST -FOR-YOUR-OWN-FAMILY HUNTS
If you are not planning on having lots of family around for Easter, and you only have one or two kids, make an easter basket for each kid and hide it somewhere in the house! Even if you are going to a big exchange later, this is fun to do at your own house. Find a cute basket and pack in candy, movies, money, funny socks, or other stocking-stuffer-type gifts. Some good hiding places where I remember finding my basket as a kid: in the oven, in the dryer, under clothes in a hamper, in a tree outside, in the dishwasher, in the top of a closet... just make sure you don't try to use one of these appliances while the basket is in it!

Happy hiding and hunting!