The key thing is to be creative when you hide the eggs, but make sure you are thinking about the hunter when you design your easter egg hunt.
Decide The Difficulty
The first thing you need to do when making an easter egg hunt is decide on the difficulty. This will often be easier if you understand who you’re making the easter egg hunt for. If there are multiple participants of different skill levels, it may be worth adding in different difficulties – you don’t want people discouraged or bored. You could even colour-code the eggs by difficulty so the people completing the different levels know which eggs to go for. Alternatively, you could assign different point values to different difficulty eggs to create that balance between encouraging and exciting.
Utilise Your Surroundings
Use your environment to your advantage. Building the ultimate easter egg hunt is easier to do if you understand your surroundings. Taking into account colours, levels, and unique features in your garden can help create an interesting easter egg hunt. You can find clever hiding spots by working with the things your garden has to offer:
- Colourful eggs hidden within flower beds can help mask the attention-grabbing eggs by disguising their colour and thus making the hunt more challenging.
- Incorporate your garden buildings into your plan, as these provide interesting hiding places both on the inside and out. They also allow you to explore different difficulty levels, with easy and hard finding places being simpler to find.
- Use angles to cleverly hide things so that your easter egg hunters have to take time to slow down and look at things from a different perspective. It can also be great if the hunters are working in groups, as it can help everyone be active participants.
Keep It Interesting
Consider using riddles to create a combo easter egg and scavenger hunt; having interesting landmarks in your garden can make this easier.
Riddles for each garden building
Log Cabin
Wood, I am, but branches I have none,
But flexibility and uses, I have a ton
Pergola
A garden on the ground is what you normally see
With the use of me, that’s not all, it has to be
Gazebo
No matter what comes, be it rain or shine,
With me overhead, you’ll be just fine
Garden Office
For year-round comfort, I’m the best
And the cut to your commute allows more rest
Shed
Sorted, colour-coded, put away
With me, it is an organisational soiree
Addroom
1 room 2 room 3 room 4,
I’m what you need if you want even more
Garage
Bike, boxes, and cars are here,
Hurry now, get into gear
Climbing Frame
Pirates on the seas and monkeys in the trees,
If that’s what you see, you know where I’ll be
Garden Bar
Talking and drinking with your friends,
This is where your easter hunt ends
Extra Tips
Chocolate stand in – here’s hoping it’s sunny and warm
Having a placeholder for chocolate eggs on the hunt would be wise, as they would allow you to keep treats somewhere safe and would prevent pests at a later time should one egg be forgotten. Additionally, it gives you the freedom to switch up the prize system, for example, offering cakes instead of traditional chocolate eggs or having different-sized eggs for first, second, and third.
X marks the spot
Keep a map – you wouldn’t want to forget where you’ve put all the eggs and end up playing the game alongside the hunters. If you cross the eggs found off your map as people find them this way, it’ll be easier for you to give clues if you need to or to collect unfound eggs yourself if need be.
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