Happy Friday: Amazing Egg Hunt
Sent from reader, Tera:
I’m all set to go for Sunday’s AMAZING Egg Hunt, modeled after The Amazing Race. The hunt includes Detours, Road Blocks, and Route Info, just like on the show, with clues that reveal where the kids should go next and what to do when they get there.
Some of the Detours are placing a marshmallow Peep on your forehead and getting it to your mouth using only your facial muscles and flinging plastic Easter eggs into a basket using a towel as a catapult. Road Blocks include knocking a pencil that’s several feet away down by rolling marbles at it and making a tower out of plastic Easter eggs and TP tubes. Route Info instructs the kids to move from place to place on foot, on bike, jumping, army crawling, hopping like a bunny and walking backwards. It’s all just silly fun stuff with an Easter theme.
The kids have to unscramble letters that they’ve collected along the way to discover the location of the Pit Stop. At the Pit Stop, the kids will find a few little Easter gifts, like sidewalk chalk (on sale with a coupon at Target this week), matchbox cars (buy one, get one half off at Target this week), and of course, chocolate bunnies (that I got free using the Brach’s coupons)
Setting up the Amazing Egg Hunt was low cost and not very difficult–it just took a little bit of creativity and organization–and I love that my kids will be having fun together and making memories rather than doing a traditional egg hunt where it’s over in a matter of minutes and then the kids gorge themselves on candy.
HAPPY FRIDAY! 😀
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That is so cool!!! The kids are going to have a wonderful time!
Any chance the author would share a copy of the actual rules and materials? I would love to implement this idea some time!
Thanks!
MJ, I’ll be blogging about it sometime after Easter. I’ll try to remember to come back and post a link here. 🙂
Great idea!
Amazing. ..going to do this for sure. We love the race
You have lots of creativity and energy! Have fun! I’m too boring, just doing a regular egg hunt after church with color-coordinated plastic eggs, each kid finds their color the Easter bunny leaves a card with instructions. Easter bunny hides their basket with goodies in the morning 🙂
don’t call your egg hunt boring…it will be fun and the kids will love it.
#familytime
I agree! It amazes me the things that I think my daughter would find boring that she enjoys. The kids will have a ton of fun!
Love this idea, Tera! Your kids will love it! Memories are what it’s all about and it sounds like many memories will be made. 😃 I’m saving this idea for next year… No way can I get it together for the nephews this year. Thanks for sharing! Have a happy blessed Easter to you, Collin, and all the H2Savers!
I want to do an adult scale of this 😉 haha! Love it!
pit stops for jello shots:)
OMG Hilarious!!
That’s my kind of egg hunt.
So creative, fun, and amazing! Would love to get a copy of this activity! Adorable!!!
We did an Amazing Race theme for my daughter’s 13th birthday. It was so much fun! Some of the challenges were making 50 free throws and getting 13 marbles out of a kiddie pool filled with ice using only their toes. We had one road block in which the players had to eat either a jar of baby food or a chocolate covered cricket – ALL of them chose the cricket because it was faster! 1st place prize was one hundred grand (consisting of 10,000 grand candy bars). 2nd place got a brand new (matchbox) car. 3rd place received a map of the great state of Kentucky 🙂
Would love a copy as well. We always do a flashlight Easter egg hunt. Kids love it and it can be challenging for the older kids and fun for the little ones.
Oh! This sounds fun! Like the night before Easter? Or Easter night? Please explain! 🙂
We always do it the night before Easter. Easiest to color coordinate the eggs and have each child look for one color. Just depends on the age range you have. You can make it as difficult as you want. For younger children, you can just have their eggs out in the open-grass, sidewalk, etc. For older kids you can hide their eggs well and it will be extra difficult with the darkness. Then each child is given a flashlight and the hunt begins. So much fun! We were introduced to flashlight Easter egg hunts ten years ago when the community we were living in did one. Our kids had so much fun that we’ve decided to continue the tradition. Everyone we’ve introduced it to has loved it!! Enjoy!
Love it! Great job, thanks for sharing.
Too complicated, sorry!
🙂 thought I was the only one.
This is cool, but had the same idea. My kiddo is lucky I put candy in easter eggs. LOL.
This looks fun! It will keep kids engaged for longer than a typical Easter egg hunt ( like the one I’m doing). You are way more creative than I am! Happy Easter!
I found some free pintable’s that can be used. Some of them don’t apply, but there are some black cards that I am going to use and then just write on them. Here is the link for them. Happy Hunting!
https://www.thedatingdivas.com/wp-content/uploads/Amazing-Race.pdf
For something a little easier, my favorite easter egg hunt my mom did for us was late at night.. she turned off all the lights in the basement and we had to find the candy using flashlights
I just saw something on pinterest that was so cool! Put glow sticks in the eggs and hunt at night. I wish it weren’t raining here so we could try it.
I love this we are big fans of the amazing race and would love to purchase or be able to print these cards. Can you please send me a link where I can do so. Thank you