Adult Easter Egg Hunt Ideas for Every Budget

Adult Easter egg ideas for egg hunts have become popular as a way for adults to get in on the fun and excitement of Easter while enjoying a sense of nostalgia from childhood. An adult egg hunt can include children as well. Some are adults only and include alcohol, and some are more competitive. All of them include a social gathering and are lots of fun.

An Easter egg hunt is a great way to get together with the whole family for a little fun. Still, adult hunts can get pricey, so here are a few ideas if you need a little extra help coming up with reasonable rewards that are still great prizes. We want those adults to be enticed to join in on the thrill of the hunt.

1. Lottery Ticket Easter Egg Hunt

Since the grandkids got older, we’ve been playing gift swapping and stealing games at Christmas. The funniest thing is everyone fights over the silly scratch and win lottery ticket gifts. I have been buying all the gifts and find it hilarious that everyone would rather have a $1 scratch and win than a $5 book. It surprised me, so how about using that idea in an adult Easter egg hunt that adults can join in with the kids? An Easter egg hunt that includes everyone is a fantastic way to create a new Easter tradition.

The amount of supplies and what you choose will vary depending on how many people you invite to the Easter egg hunt and your budget. I suggest 10 to 15 eggs for kids and five per adult. If you have younger kids and don’t want them to win scratch tickets, I suggest giving the kids eggs in a certain color or two to collect.

You would need to grab several packages of plastic Easter eggs and various prizes to fit inside the eggs. To make the cost realistic, most of the plastic Easter eggs will have two to three chocolate eggs stuffed inside. A few will have larger Cadbury Easter eggs. A few will be empty except for a green note that says, “Oops, I am a rotten egg.” A few more will have scratch and win tickets, and the bigger prize can be a ticket for a chocolate Easter bunny, with the grand prize being a chocolate Easter bunny and lottery tickets.

Everyone collects, and no one opens their Easter eggs right away. A whistle blows for the end of the hunt in time for Easter brunch. You can take turns opening the Easter eggs while enjoying brunch.

2. Adult Only Easter Egg Hunt – Our Crafty Mom

My friend Michelle at Our Crafty Mom knows how to host an adult Easter egg hunt, beginning with larger eggs from the dollar store.

 

She then fills her eggs with a variety of treats, lottery tickets, gift cards, beauty products, movie tickets, and small bottles of liquor. Check out her post for all the rules and details.

3. Guys vs Dolls Adult Easter Egg Game

The host must remain neutral in this game and hide the eggs. You can use boiled real eggs or plastic eggs. Divide into two teams and hunt for the hidden eggs. The teams gather their eggs, and the team with the most eggs chooses the evening entertainment. A movie night, playing a board game, watching a game at the pub, or whatever other fun activities the winners choose.

4. DIY Egg Popper Tree

I saw this different hanging Easter egg from a tree with a tissue paper idea from Studio DIY and thought adults could join in this too. It looks like so much fun.

Kids of all ages will have fun with this DIY Egg Popper Tree Easter egg hunt idea. Studio DIY has the details.

5. Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt

This would be great fun, especially if you have a large yard or a park where you could set it up before players arrive. Everyone could even have a flashlight for extra safety, with older children pairing up and adults helping younger children.

Check out the Lil’ Luna Blog Glow in the Dark Easter Eggs, for all the details and how to.

6.  Board Game Egg Hunt

The cost of adult Easter egg hunts can add up quickly, so why not combine a favorite family board game with an Easter egg hunt instead?

Create slips of paper with special advantages or challenges related to a board game your family already enjoys and place them inside the eggs. I can’t be too specific here because of copyright rules, but the idea is to give players fun bonuses during the game.

For example, one slip could allow a player to receive extra money at the start of the game, have the bank pay them instead of charging them, or double a reward during the next round. Other eggs might let a player choose someone to skip a turn or take an extra turn themselves.

For a larger prize egg, you could include something like a free round where the winner doesn’t have to pay anyone at all.

7. Gold and Confetti Outside Easter Egg Hunt

This Easter egg hunt will be very fun for families with older kids, similar to a golden ticket egg hunt but with more mess, lol.

It consists of preparing real eggs into shells with confetti, with one containing gold glitter.  Check out how to do the DIY Party Confetti Egg Game at Oh Happy Day.

8. Recipe Exchange Egg Hunt

If your family members do a potluck for Easter, how about having everyone bring an extra dessert along with the recipe?

Each dessert gets numbered, and the host fills a few of the eggs with matching numbers. The hunter with the right number inside the egg wins the free dessert to take home. You could add some chocolate bunnies as extra prizes.

9. Traditional Easter Egg Hunt

You can do a traditional hunt with adults, as long as they contain adult Easter egg stuffers. A nearby antique store here carries nostalgic brands of candy we had as kids, like Cherry Blossom chocolate bars (Canada), Neapolitan leather candy, and gold nugget gum in little bags like when I was a kid.

You can use small items from stores like Walmart or the dollar store, along with coffee, tea, or hot chocolate samples, fancy chocolates, earrings, hair accessories, movie or raffle tickets, or numbers that match larger prizes like books or small bottles of alcohol.

10. Who Is It, or Where Is It Trivia Egg Hunt for Adults

Make one big prize that fits within your budget. A puzzle, a new board game, Easter candy, or a small jar filled with rolled money and change are all great ideas. 

Next, choose the answer to either “Who is it?” or “Where is it?” This could be a famous actor, singer, historical figure, country, city, or historical site.

Fill the plastic eggs with both vague and more substantial clues to the answer. At the end of the hunt, everyone opens their eggs and writes down their guess. The person with the most eggs hands in their answer first. The organizer lets them know if they have won or not. If not, the person with the second highest number of eggs submits their answer, continuing until someone wins.

If no one guesses correctly, I would have everyone cut cards as the tiebreaker.

After brainstorming some ideas and finding others online, I am feeling excited about introducing one of these ideas into our traditional day of Easter brunch and Easter games. I created a dice game printable in the library that we will use for one activity, but I think my family will enjoy the Easter egg hunt idea as well.

I hope everyone packs some extra Easter fun into the holiday this year and that I was successful in helping you find an activity you can plan for your family as well.

Happy Easter Leanna

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