Funny Easter Egg Hunt Ideas: Creative Pranks for Kids and Adults
We’re sharing funny Easter egg hunt ideas to fill your Easter eggs with and prank your family!
Searching for a clever twist on tradition? How about creating a gag Easter egg hunt for a hilarious way to shake things up this year? We’re sharing our favorite funny things to fill Easter eggs with and prank your family!
Just be sure to know your audience and gauge what’s appropriate and won’t be considered mean. For instance, older kids, teens, or adult friends and family would probably be better suited for this activity than young children. Use your best judgment!
Hip Tip: If you only have young kiddos, we’ve rounded up some non-candy Easter basket filler ideas!
Don’t spend a ton… shop Dollar Tree first!
Here are some creative and simple ideas you can EASILY pull off to ‘fool’ your family. These are meant to create silly memories, and not to be taken too seriously! 😂 The best part is, most of these supplies can be found inexpensively at your local Dollar Tree – I love shopping for inexpensive Easter supplies there.
5 funny Easter egg hunt ideas to try:
1. Super Glue the eggs.
Does your family love Easter pranks? Try gluing some fillable plastic Easter eggs shut with Super Glue for a sneaky trick! Simply glue the edges and secure the egg back together.
2. Give fake money instead of real money.
These pranks make funny adult easter egg hunt ideas! Make a few with real money and fill the rest of these funny Easter eggs with pretend currency. Fake lottery tickets would be hilarious, too!
3. One prank Easter egg idea is to make “pretend” chocolate eggs.
These little treats appear as wrapped chocolate eggs, but they’re really (are you ready for this?) GRAPES! Gotcha! To achieve this look, simply color small pieces of aluminum foil squares using colorful Sharpie markers, then wrap up the grapes. This Easter prank is good for an egg hunt with teens or kids.
4. Fill eggs with veggies instead of candy.
One of the funny things to fill Easter eggs with is health food! I’m not sure about your kids, but veggies would be the last item my kids would want to find in an Easter egg! 🤣
5. Stuff your eggs with unappetizing jelly beans.
Scoop up a box of Harry Potter’s Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans or Jelly Belly’s Bean Boozled Jelly Beans. Each box of these candies contains several off-putting flavors. Sit back and enjoy watching your family member’s faces as they bite into these trick candies. Just make sure to have some palette cleansers on hand! 🥴
Now that you’ve gifted funny Easter eggs, give participants some REAL candy or prizes at the end!
After all those Easter pranks, you may want to reward your participants for being such good sports. Be prepared to hand out some REAL goodies at the end of your silly egg hunt. That way nobody goes away feeling completely bummed out. These creative Edible Dollar Tree Easter Baskets made from inexpensive candy and supplies would make great parting gifts.
Do you have any funny Easter egg hunt ideas? – Please share with us in the comments!
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that is the same age my kids are boys 9 and 11 pokemon cards, lego blind bags
girls 9 take a lol doll and open it and put parts in the egg or with barbie dolls or chapsitck ,slime
girls 11 makeup like nailposh or lip gloss chapstick, money or gum any you can put candy that she can put in her locker ( you can also get candy for the boy to for his locker )
One year before mine were old enough to know they thought the Easter bunny wasn’t real and were very upset because a kid at school told them he wasn’t. Just happened that year the cheerleaders at a local school were doing a fund raiser and for a price they would come out sometime between midnight and 5am and hide 25 or 50 eggs. Whichever amount you chose and prices were different and leave a note on your front door from the Easter bunny. It’s not a gag gift idea but I just had to share. After that they were convinced he was real at least for a few more years. Lol.
That’s an incredible idea! I would have totally done that when my kids were little.
We do a glow in the dark egg hunt. We buy finger tip led lights from Amazon, about 200 and turn them on and place them in the eggs and onto the yard. The yard looks so cool all lit up. It’s just a fun alternative, no prizes just fun to pick them up on the dark
We’ve done the grape-eggs and it was sooo funny. Put it in my sons school lunch.
Another cute egg hunt idea is to put one or two small puzzle pieces in each egg. After the egg hunt, make the puzzle. I bet you can find Spring puzzles at the Dollar Tree.
Oh FUN!! That is cute!
Not a prank, but one year when our kids were little they had so much fun finding the eggs, they asked us to hide them again for a second hunting session. It cracked us up, and the kids they patiently waited inside until the eggs were hidden, though they told us that the eggs weren’t hidden as well as the Easter Bunny did it the first time.
Another year we had them busily looking for eggs, while my husband snuck their baskets on the back porch, then we excitedly yelled “did you see him?!? the Easter Bunny just came by!! and WOW, he left you a present!!” and my son SWORE he saw the Easter Bunny go by with the baskets. They talked about that one for years.
Ever since Easter was on April Fool’s Day several years ago, and the day was full of amazing Easter pranks, my kids make me promise not to do it again. 🤣 They got grapes wrapped in colored foil, “junk” in their baskets (toilet paper, kitchen utensils, dog treats, etc), and even fake money in the eggs. They thought they were getting $100 bills, man they were mad when they realized it wasn’t real, lol! It was worth the trouble and the whining and the videos I took are priceless, hahahaha!
Our tradition is to have a glow in the dark egg hunt! We live in a small one bedroom apartment but we still love this fun activity. We put glow bracelets in plastics colored eggs- most times need to tape egg closed. They glow all night and we do multiple rounds of hiding and searching 🙂
That’s so fun! Love this idea, Ginamarie! Thanks for sharing your egg hunt tradition! ❤️🙌
Our family tradition has been once the kids find all their eggs…they in turn hide them from the adults…this has been handed down now to the grand kids hiding the eggs from the adults.
Aww, Love that tradition too, Penny! I think my kids and nephew would enjoy doing that too. Thanks for taking the time to comment! 💞
I did something similar last year for the kids I painted rocks and put them in the Easter eggs and glued them together, then hide them outside for the kids to get . They weren’t happy thinking it was candy inside .. lol
I’m planning a dad joke egg hunt for the whole extended family (adults and mostly teenage kids), hiding the joke and punchlines in separate eggs and then having people match them up. Super gluing a few of the eggs would make this even better–thanks for the idea!