Easter Egg Hunt Ideas

Not Just Great Fun - They Support Behaviour Too

Want some good Easter egg hunt ideas for toddlers and preschoolers? Look no further.

These suggestions have 2 advantages:

1. They are good inexpensive activities in themselves.

2. They help with problems caused by the excitement over - and consumption of - too much chocolate.

Remember though that any sort of activity like these will increase your toddler's "boisterability" by a factor of roughly 100.

In other words, expect liveliness and don't start blaming it all on the sugar!

Types Of Easter Egg Hunt

Tiny egg hunt - scatter lots of small chocolate eggs around the garden or inside your home.

Break up a traditional chocolate egg and place the pieces inside or out. You may need to wrap the pieces.

Boiled egg hunt - not as spoilsport as it sounds if you decorate the eggs beforehand with your junior Easter hunters.

Outside-The-Box Hunt - This is where you indeed think 'outside the box' and create a hunt for non-edibles. Believe me, most toddlers are young enough to accept this without protest as long as you get excited enough about it. Why not have a search for hidden pictures of eggs, bunnies, chicks, daffodils etc?

General Tips

Invite some friends round for the Easter egg hunt. The more the chocolate is shared around, the less your child has to eat. Use your judgement - how many guests are too many?

Always have lots of things to find, and enough for every child to find. Having one egg to look for is a (chocolate) recipe for disaster.

Accept that this sort of activity will make your child very, very excitable - even if it's just the two of you. Don't attempt it when s/he is tired.

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