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If you have to do an Easter egg hunt inside, try one of these unique indoor Easter egg hunt ideas to make it more fun! There are plenty indoor Easter egg hunts to choose from – just pick what makes the most sense for your group and the size of your space!
When I was growing up, I feel like my parents always did our Easter egg hunt inside and I honestly don’t remember going to many big Easter egg hunts outsides.
These days it feels like every church, organization, and even our realtor has a big outdoor annual Easter egg hunt. I can’t remember the last time we did an indoor Easter egg hunt unless we were forced inside.
But that all changes this year because these indoor Easter egg hunt ideas aren’t just ideas to use a backup if the weather is bad or you can’t go outside for some reason.
These indoor egg hunts are so much fun – you’ll want to do these instead (or in addition to) and won’t even miss going outside!
If you’re doing an Easter egg hunt at home inside your house, these indoor Easter games will be your best bet.
They’re ones that work best with a small group, have a specific number of eggs that you’ll hide per person, or other rules that make it so that they’re great for at home but not for a large event.
You could absolutely do any of these at home indoor egg hunts in a larger indoor space (such as a church) or even outdoors if you want to as well, they’re just a good option if you are looking for something to do at home!
To setup this Easter egg hunt, figure out how many people will be participating in the hunt. Then choose the number of rooms or areas in your house that’s equal to that many people, minus one.
So for example, if you have ten people participating, you will need to choose nine (10 minus one) distinct areas or rooms in your house.
Once you’ve chosen your areas, it’s time to hide eggs in each of them. Start with the largest room and hide the number of eggs equal to the number of people finding eggs, minus one. So in the example of ten people playing (nine rooms), you’ll need to hide nine (10 minus one) in the living room (assuming it’s the largest room on your list).
Then go to the next largest room and hide one less than the first room (in our example, this would be eight eggs).
Keep going down the list until you hide just one egg in the smallest room on your list.
I recommend hiding the eggs medium to hard. You want to make sure players have to actually look for them – not just immediately find them as soon as they get into the room. Hide them in things, under things, and around things. Keep the people playing in mind when hiding but don’t go too easy.
Take everyone playing (ten people in our previously mentioned example) into the largest room. When you say go, everyone has to try and find one egg in the room to move onto the next round.
Once all eggs have been found, whoever didn’t find an egg is out (I recommend having some sort of candy or consolation prize for the people to choose from when they get out). Everyone who did find an egg moves onto the next round, I mean room.
Repeat the same exact thing as above with the next room, only this time it will only be nine people searching for eight eggs. The person who doesn’t find an egg is out.
Keep going until you get to the final room where two people will be hunting for the same egg. The first person to find the egg wins a larger prize as well for being the overall egg hunting superstar!
This next indoor Easter egg hunt idea is best for teens or adults but could also work for kids. The idea is that for the egg hunt you’re going to hide eggs in rooms in a house and as people find eggs, they move onto the next room, moving all the way around the house.
The first person to get through all of the rooms, finding an egg in each wins a special prize. Everyone else just gets the eggs they found!
To setup the hunt, figure out how many people will be playing and hide at least that many eggs plus a few extras in a number of rooms around the house. I recommend doing 8-10 to make it the most fun possible. So if you know that you’ll have ten people playing, I recommend hiding 15 eggs in eight rooms in your house.
Hide the eggs medium to hard difficulty level. You want them to be more difficult to find than just out in the open but also not so hard that no one ever finds them. The fun is in the race around the house during this indoor egg hunt, not necessarily making the eggs impossible to find.
Once all of your eggs are hidden, it’s time for the hunting to begin.
Tell everyone the order of the rooms you want them to hunt in (e.g., living room first, then master bedroom, then basement) or give everyone a little printout with the order if you’re not doing them in order of where they are in the house. You want people to know where to go next.
You could also put a sign up in the rooms with what the next room is if you want – that way they know what’s next but don’t necessarily have to think about every room they’ll be searching in.
When you say go, everyone playing has to search the first room to try to find an egg. As soon as they find an egg, they go to the next room on the list and search for an egg. When they find an egg there, they move onto the next room.
Keep going room to room finding one egg in each room until someone finds an egg in the final room and wins the race. That person wins a special bonus prize (any of the bigger items on this Easter egg fillers for adults list would do) and the others just get whatever they find in their eggs!
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This indoor Easter egg hunt idea is a great way to keep kids entertained, hunting eggs, and not finding all the eggs too quickly – especially young kids! It’s also a good option if you have older and younger kids and don’t want the older kids to just find all of the eggs immediately!
Start by picking out a set of rooms in your house. You’ll want at least the number of rooms equal to the number of kids participating but you could also do more rooms if you want, especially if you have just a few kids doing this indoor Easter egg hunt.
Hide a bunch of eggs in each of the room, keeping count of the numbers of eggs in each room. I like to hide the same number of eggs in each room but if you’re using larger rooms and smaller rooms (like bathrooms), you may want to do more in some and less in others.
Once you’re done hiding eggs, write out or print out the name of the rooms – equal to the number of eggs hidden in each room. So for example if you hid ten eggs in the kitchen, write or print out the word kitchen ten times. Put the kitchen slips in a plastic bag along with slips for all of the other rooms and eggs you hid.
If doing this with younger and older kids, you may want to make younger kids one color of egg and older kids a different color of egg that’s hidden a little harder.
Start by having everyone participating choose a room at random from the plastic bag. Then when you say go, everyone has to go and find ONE egg in that particular room.
When they come back, they pick another room from the bag and go to find an egg in that room. Keep going until All of the eggs in all of the rooms have been found.
If you want to do something similar to the room to room hunt but want your indoor Easter egg hunt to last longer, try this variation. Have everyone choose a room from the bag and when you say go, go find their egg. The first person to get back with it wins a special prize. When everyone gets back with their eggs, choose another room (one at a time) and do the same thing – everyone goes at once and the first person wins a special prize again. Keep doing this until you’re out of eggs!
All of these indoor Easter egg hunts can be done at home or indoors at any other location. Use them with larger groups, smaller groups, and anywhere in between! They’re great for indoor egg hunts because they work in smaller spaces too!
Instead of doing a traditional Easter egg hunt, hide Easter eggs all around your house with these cute Easter bunnies from this Easter bunny hunt inside. When someone finds one with a bunny, they win the matching prize! The hunt for the bunny pictures will make people forget that their may not be quite as many eggs hidden as normal!
Instead of having people just hunt aimlessly, hide eggs in specific places indoors and use these Easter egg hunt clues to send people searching for them! It’s like a scavenger hunt without the actual scavenger part – just the clues! If you need more clues, this Easter scavenger hunt is full of them!
While I’m calling this an Easter egg hunt for teens, I’m only calling that because texting is involved and teens love to text. This really is just an indoor Easter egg hunt for two groups playing in two separate indoor locations! The idea is that eggs are hidden in each location but the clues they need are hidden in the eggs at the other person’s house. They have to work together to find the eggs!
Instead of making the indoor Easter egg hunt just a free for all, give players or teams specific eggs they have to find! Patterns, pinks, eggs with money – you name it, it could be on their list! It makes an egg hunt so much more fun because they’re searching for some specific, not just going after any egg they can get their hands on. Plus, you could throw in a special prize for the person who does it the fastest!
If none of those work for you, I have a number of ideas in my Easter egg hunt ideas post that would work indoors as well! The ones that would work best indoors include ones that work in smaller spaces, have less eggs, and better prizes for less eggs!
Some of my recommended ones from this list of Easter egg hunts include (full details for each of these ideas is included in that post):
With many of the indoor Easter egg hunts above having a game/competition aspect to them, here are a few quick prizes that would work well for the “winners” of each game!
Need some fun things to do along with your indoor Easter egg hunt, try one of these fun Easter activities!
