Need a fun Easter activity for all the family? Use these free printable Easter egg hunt clues!
Free printable Easter Egg Hunt clues for children
An Easter egg hunt is a great activity that all the family can join in with – or you can set the kids off to track down the eggs while you have a cuppa!
An egg hunt gives children a chance to run around whether you’re doing your hunt indoors or out.
How to run an Easter egg hunt with clues
Hide some eggs – hard boiled, plastic, chocolate or pictures of eggs – around the house/garden in locations to match the clues. (See printables for locations)
Give your children the first clue to solve. Read the rhyme and you’ll know where the egg is hiding.
Have the children run to the location to find both the first egg and the next clue that tells them the location of egg number two.
Carry on on the trail of clues until you have found all the eggs.
If you give an Easter basket you can place this in the location of the final clue.
Printable Easter egg hunt clues for children
Here’s a set of silly Easter egg hunt clues for children that you can use for your hunt.
You can print a set of the clues from NurtureStore’s Free Printables Library. Follow the instructions below to get access to all the printables in the Library.
Clues for an Easter egg hunt
There are eight egg hunt cards in the set, along with three blank ones so you can make a few that are personalised to your home.
Each clue contains a rhyme with the final word of the clue omitted, so children have to work out what it is, like this…
The first Easter egg is very clean because it’s by the washing (machine)
Search around and do not blink, the second egg is hiding in the (sink)
Have a look but please don’t stare, the third egg is hiding under a (chair)
This egg’s going to make you laugh because it’s taking a soak in the (bath)
Now you have to use your head because this egg is hiding under your (bed)
& more silly clues to make you laugh!
More fun Easter activities for children
See all our Easter crafts and activities for children here.
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How about ‘you’re going to have to use your head, there’s one egg hiding in your (bed)’ ?
Fab Ellen – thanks!
Try to think of Mother Hubbard, this one’s hiding in the …(cupboard).
Don’t be lead down the garden path, this eggs upstairs in the …..(bath).
Thanks Sue – keep them coming!
I love this idea – treasure hunts like this make easter so much fun for kids. I’ve just woken up so my brain isn’t working enough to come up with clues 🙂 I’m looking forward to reading more of your posts!
Thanks so much. My family have been having an Easter egg hunt … with clues .. since my eldest daughter was three years old (she’s about to turn 25!). We continue to keep up the family tradition for all the very young cousins and we need a new way of delivering the clues .. I’m starting to run out of ideas. I’ve never left off the last word before so I’ll definitely use this one this time! Cheers Donna 🙂 🙂
Thanks Suzanne and Donna, I’m pleased you liked the ideas. Happy hunting!
What a lovely post – I have got my eggs but you have saved me the job of coming up with clues. Thank you!
Yummy!! I have easter nests! Great ideas for clues, will have to use them when my boys are a bit older x
These are fantastic. I love a good scavenger hunt. Will print these out…
What about;
If you’re felling sprite and able,
Go look under the dining room …(table).
Jude
What is a welly? lol
@ThriftyNut – a wellington boot!
How about:
Pens and Pencils
Books and lunch
You’ll find me here
I have a hunch (School bag)
Or
You love the heat
It’s great when felt
But it’s not for me,
Caue I would melt!!! (oven or microwave)
Hello Cathy
I was looking for Easter Egg hunt ideas last night and came across this post, thanks so much. I used some of these but added these ones myself
Open me, I’m not a bridge, this one’s hiding in the… (fridge)
Are you north or are you southern, these are hiding in the … (oven)
Is it me or is it smelly? There’s more eggs hiding by the … (telly)
The children had a blast and as they are able to read, I didn’t have to do much! All I had to do was be there (for which read lie in bed) and they raced around finding them then brought back the clues. They didn’t need to as they read them out and after one or two goes, they really got the idea and worked out the answers!
Thanks again, clues saved for next year now!
we do something similar to find the baskets that the easter bunny leaves – clues are in plastic easter eggs with clues to where the next egg is hidden … each child has one color of eggs to hunt for and i do about six or seven for each … the last clue leads them to their baskets … started this when my son was two and he is now 26!
We put numbers in the eggs, hide the eggs. Then I buy small gifts and they get to pick what they want in numerical order
my grandparents did something like that. We got a number and they had labeled crayons,pencils,and markers to the number(as I’m older I’m thinking it was rigged,since we were different ages. lol)
I have been doing this for years since my children were able to read. They are in their 50’s and 40’snow so not I do it for my grandchildren. They love it too. Their last clue leads to their basket. I love watching them run all over the house upstairs, downstairs, out the front door and out the back door and the excitement when the find there basket. There are 9 of them so it can get kind of wild but so much fun.
GREAT clues! My mom was an English major, and we grew up with clues – sometimes that were very challenging to figure out – but we loved them, even venturing to the neighbor’s house as we got older. Now, I’m doing them for my 3 kids – began with just pictures before they could read and now various riddles. Every year I’m racking my brain for new ones and now I’ve got some!
Some of my ‘favorites’ from prior years:
Where would be the scene, to get a Mom or Dad clear? (parents’ bathroom instead of kids’ bathroom)
There are lots of things you can build, for this place is lego-filled (toy storage)
A place for clothes to tumble and be dry for the next day’s rumble (dryer – our traditional ‘end of the hunt’)
Hi does anyone have any clues for a Hunt around a garden with lots of bushes?
What about drawing out a treasure map – for Easter bunny pirates – x marks the egg!
Thank you so much for sharing your egg clues! We did this with my kids today and they had so much fun 🙂 Happy Easter!
Happy Easter Kim!
We give each kid a colored cone of string or yarn that we have strung all over the house—upstairs and in the garden. The strings go over trees, under bushes, around cars, and cross over each other. They end in a hidden place with their basket. Older kids pair with little ones and wind string on a wooden dowel. It is wild and tricky stepping over, under and around other strings but kids love it and ask for string game each year. The parents have fun stringing the whole mess!
That sounds like great fun!