How to Throw an Adult Easter Egg Hunt This Year, Because We're All Kids at Heart

Create these delightful Easter egg bath bombs for your guests to hunt for, along with other pampering goodies.

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SHOP EASTER EGG MOLDS

Use the same rules of this raffle ticket Easter egg hunt, but swap the prize ideas for ones adults will enjoy such as gift cards, books, or kitchen gadgets.

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Single serving wine bottles make for the perfect treasure hidden inside your 21+ Easter eggs.

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SHOP JUMBO EASTER EGGS

Gather your crafty crew for a hunt that requires everyone to search your yard for all the supplies they'll need to put together a sweet Easter craft.

SHOP JUMBO EASTER EGGS

Fill each egg with a different recipe covering a wide range of meals and treats. Your guests will love the surprise of opening the egg and seeing what dish lies inside!

SHOP EASTER EGGS

Fill the eggs for your Easter egg hunt with jelly bean flavors like champagne, mojito, and beer. They're not actually alcoholic, but they'll make for a fun twist!

SHOP JELLY BEANS

Because no one's ever too old for Easter game fun, incorporate a bit of friendly competition into your annual egg hunt. You can go about it a few different ways, like setting a time limit and rewarding the family member who found the most eggs the fastest. Or, mix it up with a relay race—have participants juggle a plastic Easter egg on a spoon while running across the lawn and back. First person to finish without dropping it wins!

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For the crew that likes a bit of an extra challenge, use crepe paper and custom prompts to convert Easter eggs into scavenger hunt clues. Then, send friends off on a mission to top up their baskets with hidden items, like a pair of bunny ears, a carrot, or a photo of a church as a reminder of the true meaning of Easter. Game on—and last person is definitely a rotten egg.

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Candy's cool and all, but a bit of extra moolah really caters to the adult crowd like nothing else. Disperse some $1's or scratch-off lottery tickets around the hunt, and leave a few lucky eggs with more big-ticket bills.

SHOP EASTER EGGS

Yep, this kitschy activity can work especially well for an adult-friendly Easter. Buy your gag gift, write the name of it on a slip of paper, and stuff it inside an egg. Once the eggs have been hidden, instruct friends and fam to find and snag only one—with absolutely no peeking! Then, reconvene with everyone's physical presents for swapping and plenty of snickering.

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Instead of candy, put a series of clues in Easter eggs that lead the finder to a grand prize. It could be a money pot, a gift card to a local restaurant, or a big-ticket item like a grill for those neighborhood cookouts.

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All attendants over 21? With a drink in hand, look for plastic eggs, each containing instructions on how many sips to take. You could even make it "Never-Have-I-Ever"-themed. Write prompts like "Never have I ever…lied to my children" or "Never have I ever…put gum under a table"—and if the finder is guilty, he or she drinks!

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Hosting a hunt just for the girls? Hide items they'll actually want to uncover. Free samples of beauty products fit perfectly inside plastic eggs (think packets of perfume, foundations, and creams), as do most lipsticks and travel-sized toiletries. Tell everyone to bring a handful to hide and find.

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If everyone's of age, swap Easter baskets for empty cardboard 6-pack carriers—or this cool wooden caddy. Then, send everyone searching for Ales, IPAs, and Stouts. Beer not your thing? Hide miniature bottles of liquor or even canned rosé instead. Cheers!

Have older kids? Give your traditional hunt the Freaky Friday treatment. Let the kids hide requests (say, for fewer chores or a favorite dinner) in eggs, and have parents do the hunting. But beware: Parents are on the hook for whatever they don't find.

Slip pieces of paper containing written questions and dares into the eggs to keep you and your buddies busy (and laughing) for hours after the hunt.

If running around in search of stuff sounds like a whole lot of work, your older guests might appreciate an Easter game that keeps everything a bit more contained. Make or buy an Easter piñata and stuff it with more grown-up prizes (money, lottery tickets, golf tees, lipstick, you get the idea). Don't DIY? Nipyata creates custom designs bursting with plastic bottles of booze and candy.

Pitch in on a prize and hide a "golden ticket" à la Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in the winning egg and regular candy or other small prizes in all the rest.

Since you have to wait till the sun goes down, this game is perfect for an older crowd. Once the kids go to bed, have your own fun hunting cool glow-in-the-dark eggs.

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SHOP PLASTIC EGGS