Adult Easter egg hunt ideas: colorful Easter eggs on the grass

Easter is not just for kids! All ages can enjoy this spring holiday, even if there are no kiddos in the picture. Maybe you’re having your competitive adult kids over and want to do an egg hunt with a twist. Maybe you’re hosting your friend group for Easter Sunday and want to introduce a fun party game. Or perhaps you want to let the parents of your group have their own grown-up egg hunt after the kids finish theirs.

No matter who you’re hosting, these adult Easter egg hunt ideas will provide what you need.

18 Best Adult Easter Egg Hunt Ideas

Adult Easter egg hunt ideas: Chocolate Bunnies Invitation

Design: Pedaller Designs | Chocolate Bunnies Invitation

In this list, we have ideas that the grown-ups will go crazy for. We’ve got bigger prizes, bigger stakes, creative twists, and party inspo for a full afternoon of fun.

1. Scrambled Egg Game

This twist on an egg hunt will become your new favorite Easter tradition. Set out one prize per person on a table, and print the name of the prize on a sign with large letters — “CANDY,” “GIFT CARD,” “BASKET,” “BOOK,” etc.

Fill each egg with letters that make up all the prize words, one letter per egg.

When you find an egg, place your letter on the name of the prize you want to claim. So if you find a C, you can place it on the C in “CANDY” or “GIFT CARD.” You must place your letter before you can find another egg. If you place the final letter on a prize, you win that prize and are done for the game.

2. Truth or Dare

Add a twist to your egg hunt with truth or dare prompts on slips of paper. Hide eggs with either a revealing truth question or a funny dare, customized to your unique group. You can also put a truth and a dare in an egg and let the finder choose which one to do.

Here are some ideas:

  • Dare: Do the bunny hop while singing a popular song.
  • Truth: What is the most embarrassing thing you’ve done in front of your family?
  • Dare: Recreate a TikTok dance of the group’s choosing.
  • Truth: What is the biggest lie you’ve ever told?
  • Dare: Eat a chocolate egg without using your hands.
  • Truth: When was the last time you communicated with an ex?
  • Dare: FaceTime a random person from your contacts and wish them a Happy Easter.

3. Charm Hunt

Charm necklaces are back in a big way. Hide cute charms in eggs and then add them to necklaces once the hunt is over. Of course, you can swap with one another and have a small pool of other charms if people want to add more.

4. Boozy Eggs

Adult Easter egg hunt ideas: Easter Egg Cone Invitation

Design: Make and Tell | Easter Egg Cone Invitation

Enhance your Easter celebration with one of the following:

  • Jell-O shot eggs: Fill plastic eggs with Jell-O shots. Participants can shoot back the Jell-O as they find the eggs — just make sure everyone has a safe ride home!
  • Mini bottles: Fill eggs with mini bottles of alcohol, like you’d get on an airplane.
  • Hide cans of beer: Instead of eggs, hide cans of craft beer or hard cider around.
  • Wine tasting: For your golden egg grand prize, give away a wine tasting experience at a nearby winery.

5. Hide Lottery Tickets

Up the ante on the hunt by adding scratch-off tickets into the plastic eggs. Whether your guests win big or come up empty, everyone will have fun trying their luck.

6. Glow-in-the-Dark Hunt

Since most egg hunts take place during the day, add some novelty by doing a nighttime egg hunt. Buy glow-in-the-dark plastic eggs, give out glow necklaces, and send everyone off to the races.

7. Cash-Filled Eggs

Grown-ups love this idea: Put money or gift cards in the eggs instead of jelly beans and candy. Nothing says “Happy Easter” like some cold, hard cash.

8. Themed Cocktails

Add some themed cocktails to the menu for your post-egg-hunt Easter brunch. This list of Easter beverages features spring flavors and festive specialties: think carrot margaritas, strawberry shortcake mimosas, Peeptinis, and mudslides (inspired by chocolate bunnies).

9. Craft Hunt

This adult Easter egg hunt idea is perfect for extending your gathering into the afternoon for more time together. In each egg, hide bits and pieces of supplies for a surprise craft. 

Once every egg has been found, have an afternoon of DIY activities and make something everyone gets to take home at the end. You could do pom-pom eggs, air-dry clay jewelry, card decorating, stamp carving, Easter banners, or bookmark decorating. 

Make it clear on your Easter invitation what the time frame is so everyone can plan for it.

10. Creative Egg-Dyeing Party

Painted Eggs Invitation

Design: Paper Raven Co. | Painted Eggs Invitation

Before the egg hunt, have fun dyeing eggs with your family and friends. Try out techniques like:

  • Ombre dyeing
  • Cabbage and onion skin dyes
  • Using rubber bands and stickers for cool patterns
  • Decorating eggs with paint and Sharpies

11. Egg Toss

Play this classic Easter game after you’ve found all the hidden eggs. Partner up and toss a raw egg back and forth, taking steps back after each successful catch. If you drop your egg, you’re out (and you get to deal with a yolk-y mess). Another variation is to stand in a big circle and toss the egg around the circle, taking a step back after the egg makes its way around.

12. Scavenger Hunt

Fill your eggs with riddles that lead the hunter(s) from one hiding spot to the next. This is a fun idea if you’re putting on an egg hunt for your significant other and leading them to an adult Easter basket filled with all sorts of goodies.

13. Gourmet Chocolate

This adult Easter egg hunt idea is simple: Instead of the classic grocery store candy, spring for extra-fancy chocolate. Go for truffles or small wrapped chocolates to be able to hide them in eggs. Or, to make full-size bars work, hide numbers in each egg. Once everyone is done, whoever found #1 goes first and gets to pick their bar, then #2 goes next, and so on.

14. Self-Care Hunt

Checkerboard Bunny Invitation

Design: 2birdstone | Checkerboard Bunny Invitation

Sometimes there’s not much to do on this holiday besides gorge on chocolate Easter bunnies. Turn your Easter party into a self-care day with friends by having them hunt for bath bombs, nail polish and nail stickers, face masks, eye masks, and skincare products. The golden egg could have a spa gift card. Hang around and watch movies while you pamper yourselves for the day.

15. Hide Raffle Tickets

For your Easter egg filler, add raffle tickets along with the candy. At the end of the hunt, do a raffle for bigger prizes. The more raffle tickets people find, the better their odds will be.

16. Hide Trivia Questions

Put Easter-themed trivia questions inside the eggs along with candy and treats. Once all the eggs have been found, each person has to answer the trivia questions in their eggs. Whoever gets the most right wins a bigger prize.

17. Blindfolded Hunt

Pair up your egg hunters and have one wear a blindfold. Their partner has to guide them around without touching them, only using verbal directions. Get ready for hilarity to ensue as people stumble around.

18. Romantic Date Hunt

Make a cute Easter egg hunt for your partner by hiding date ideas in each egg. Sprinkle in some eggs that have compliments written on slips of paper. They can cash in their dates whenever they want!

Let the Egg Hunt Begin

Ombre Egg Hunt Invitation

Design: Loree Mayer Design | Ombre Egg Hunt Invitation

Just because everyone has grown up doesn’t mean the fun has to end! Easter is the perfect chance to get together with friends and family for a day of festivity, food, and competition. Send out digital invitations for your adult Easter egg hunt and get ready for plenty of laughs.