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I planned my first Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt when my youngest, who was 12 at the time, requested to have an Easter Egg hunt. He was too old for the egg hunt at church. But I was glad that he didn’t think he was too old for one. Especially since that was the last year he requested one. We all had fun with our first Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt for teens! Now, in 2021, when we have to be careful with indoor gatherings, an outdoor scavenger hunt is a perfect fit.
Easter Egg Scavenger Hunts for Teens
I thought it might be fun, and more challenging to have a scavenger hunt instead of a regular Easter egg hunt. Here are a few links I found, then I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. Your clues will need to be specific for your house or yard. Not everyone has the same features. So have fun finding clues that will fit your house, yard, and family. And you can make it different each year!
Scavenger Hunt Clues
45 Scavenger Hunt Clues for Kids (& Adults!)
40 Scavenger Hunt Riddles for Kids
Since I did our scavenger hunt outside. I used the worksheet for the Christian Scavenger Hunt, linked above. The kids had to look up the missing word in ten Bible verses. The missing word was the item they had to find for the scavenger hunt.
I gave the worksheets to my 12, 14, 17 and 18 year olds and had them fill them out. I hide four candy filled eggs, one for each teen & pre-teen participating, at a spot outside that corresponds to the missing word.
Example: water. I put the eggs near the outside faucet. For rock, I put the eggs by the rocks of our fire pit. Of course, we have rocks as garden edging all around our house, and a gravel driveway. So they had to really hunt for the eggs. lol
It was so fun! It satisfied my 12 year olds desire to have an egg hunt. And include the teens in a fun, challenging way, when they wouldn’t have participated in a regular Easter egg hunt.
For another fun idea, use glow in the dark Easter eggs for a night time scavenger hunt! Indoors OR outside! See how we used the glow in the dark eggs.
Here are some other fun things for Easter egg hunts!
And here are a couple of scavenger hunt games to play as a family anytime!
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When my children got too old, I got black eggs (some I painted black) and put money in each. I did a 1.00 per egg and then have a gold and silver I put 5.00 and 10.00…. Then the Saturday night before Easter Sunday I hid them after dark. Each one of them got a flash light and would hunt them. They really enjoyed it. Don’t know why I’m writing in past tense because even though they are married with children we still have this Easter egg hunt. I added to it though for my grand babies I do two Easter egg hunts….. Saturday night I take glow sticks and put their eggs in those and then Sunday we have the traditional egg hunt. And as far as the golden egg, each of my children put 5.00 in a pot and the one who finds the golden egg wins the pot of money plus my ten (comes out to be the golden egg is now worth about 50.00)…. This is still so much fun to watch my children act like kids again!!!!
I love this idea too. So glad I came across this post :-0
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I really love this idea!!! I will have to remember this for my boys!
Love these ideas,and will probably use them. My son is only 5,but I’m sure he’d like some of these anyways. My mom usually does coins,and a few dollars for the grandkids. The flashlight,and glow stick ideas sound like so much fun!! 🙂
What a cool idea. I Pinned this to my Easter board. Several of my grandchildren think they have outgrown the egg hunt. I shall try this!
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my mom did the candy and money for me and my brother when we got too old but still wanted to have some fun(:
We did an Easter egg hunt once as a child; it was so fun.
The kids did hide the eggs up into their teen who does not like to find candy and $$ in them.
Those are good ideas. I think that the kids are a bit too old but that’s just my opinion.
Why would anyone be to old to have fun?
I love the idea of a scavenger egg hunt as my children get a little older.
What a fun and great idea for the older kids too, love it!
This is a great idea for teens. I love that they get to work with Bible verses. Thank you for sharing
My husband and I are 35 and still love doing Easter egg hunts :). These are great ideas for when our kids get older!
My kids use to love this when they were little. Now it’s something we can do as a family tradition.
Oh how creative and awesome to do something that would be great for everyone! I think I will try this! thank you!
I love the idea of a scavenger hunt for the older kids!
This is a very good idea! Great post!
Great ideas for kids as they get older, I really love it!
Think are some great ideas, will have to tell my children to look at this for ideas as have 8 grands from 24 to 4 years old!!
With a teen son. I lover the idea of teen friendly ideas.
How fun! I have 2 teens and we are always looking for ideas to keep the kid in them!
My oldest is only 10 but already is starting to show signs of being “too old” to do/enjoy the same things as her younger sister. I think creating an egg hunt just for her and her “older cousins” is worth doing, will try it out this coming Easter, thanks for the idea!
Great ideal with ester hut for kids and grown ups
When the kids were young we’d hide real and plastic eggs. The plastic had candy, coins or small toys. I think there was a prize for the person who found the most.
what good ideal,,i have a tween and a teen grandchild
This is a great idea. I will check it out. Thank
I cannot wait for easter!! It is such a fun holiday and gets all the kids together to have lots of fun!!
I really like the idea of using Bible verses for the scavenger hunt. What a great way to boost our faith. Thank you for sharing
Great idea. Scavenger hunts are so much fun!
That is a great idea! An easter egg/scavenger hunt in one! 🙂
I thought my grand twins would still like to hunt for easter eggs but they said they weren’t interested.
Some good ideas here. Thanks for sharing.
What a great Idea and keeps the children of many ages involved
Great idea–I may try this when the grandchildren are older.
Awesome idea , I gotta give it a go with my little ones see how it flies!!!!
I think it’s a great idea so they can have fun too.
Great idea. Scavenger hunts are fun. 🙂
it will be fun for me I am a teenager. I am 13 year old Mercedes Schmidt joy sadie we live in carmel INDiana
They would love being included!
Love these ideas, I have one child in his teens & 2 others who are younger, so doing the little kid things aren’t cool for our teen. lol. Love the glow in the dark night Easter scavenger hunt and all the ideas to make it hip for him & the little ones. Thank you for sharing.
I love this idea! 🙂
We never got to do easter egg hunts growing up, but I’m sure that we will do them when we have kids!
I am all grow en up. and not a little anymore my height is 55 in a hafe
Love the idea that the teenagers can also have fun too.
Right now my kids are still young enough for the Easter Egg hunts and our community has one. I feel a little let down after those however since it’s just a candy free for all with bigger kids pushing littler kids or parents filling up their kids baskets. I make my kids share their eggs with kids that haven’t found as much.
WoW! You gave me an idea!
When my kids were little I used to do an Easter egg hunt for allthe SUnday School kids We had so much fun~
I love this idea for older children!!!!!!!!
All my kids are grown up but i have a grandson who is 2 it will be fun to have a easter egg hunt this year.
This is a really great idea! Sounds like fun.
It’s hard to believe that Easter is right around the corner. Especially with all of this cold weather we’re having. It’s something to look forward to.
I Love our idea of the scavenger Easter Egg Hunt~The older Children don”t get left out~ Every Easter the entire family gets together. We always have an Easter Egg Hunt ..We put change in the plastic eggs and to make it fair for everyone. Every child had the same amount of eggs to find in their own color. So they all ended up with the same ..Now our children are adults and we are having the Hunt for Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren!! Fun Memories..
This is such a great idea. My grand kids are teens now no more egg hunts. I will suggest a scavengers hunt to them for Easter. Thanks.
This would be a great activity for the teens at church for Easter. Thank you so much for sharing
We do Easter Egg Hunts every year. Thanks for the Christian Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt ideas.
I like this idea because most older kids and teenagers would enjoy this sort of challenge!
I like this idea of yours! Ours are still small enough that we hide them in the house.
What a Great Idea! We used to go to the city park for egg hunts when we were kids! Then, per my parents, we were just too old to go anymore! I love your idea of the scavenger hunt along with the egg hunt. How Fun! I also love the one comment where she does a night time hunt with a silver and gold egg! Such fun! My kids deemed themselves too old to do any more Easter Egg Hunts a couple years ago, so we don’t have any anymore! Thanks so much for this Egg Hunt information which you’ve shared with all of us! I LOVE IT! Thanks again, Michele 🙂
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I love it
Loved easter egg hunts when I was young and loved teaching my children how to color their eggs. A wonderful fun family tradition.
This is a great idea for older kids. I would love to do it myself!
What a great idea for teens.
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this sounds awesome! my kids are older but we still have to color eggs every year and i still have to hide them and the Easter baskets, so I suggest a really hard clue for the scavenger hunt and put their baskets there. I think I will try the scavenger hunt this year and I think I’ll use a word search puzzle. Thanks
it would be fun ideas from pintstert
I think a scavenger hunt would be a great idea for the older kids, it kicks thing up a notch. A simple Easter Egg hunt is a good idea for the younger children. Thank you for sharing this post.
I love the idea of the kids having to fill in the missing word from the bible verse and then that is one of their clues. What a fun game to play with the teens
The church right across the street from us has a yearly egg hunt. It’s cute to see all of the kids dressed up in their Easter dress.
clues for a scavenger hunt is a great idea. o up the ante with bigger treats/rewards inside
We have been doing Easter hunts for a few years and they love them. My babies are now 17.15.& 14, I hate how fast they grow up. We got a step grandmom a couple of years ago and now have to travel for Easter, so we incorporated stops. One is at a gas station where we stop to use the bathroom. The first year while everyone was waiting to use the potty husband hid things in the store. We called ahead and made sure they would be cool with this. They know us so well we call up and tell them what time we will be there and they have already placed stickers on a few treats. We “pay” for the bathroom usage or so the kids all think. (We are paying for the treats). Its good fun for everyone.
This is a great idea. I have a few older nieces and nephews and I bad having them hunt for eggs with the lil kids. Thanks for sharing!
This is really cute idea. We may have to do something like that.
I would like to print out the clues I think that’d be cool for the kids.
This is super cute and a great idea for my 13 and 16 year old.
so fun
What a great idea and so much fun! We’ve always had Easter egg hunts because there’s always kids.First my daughter,now my two nieces and my granddaughter.She’ll be a year old,so my daughter can show her where they are.Im going to tell my sister your great idea.Thank you for sharing 🙂
awesome idea!
We have 5 kids ages 2, 6, 7, 19 & 20. We still have an egg hunt every year. We pick 1 color for our oldest 2 & hide them in the house in really tough places. We put their favorite candies, dollar bills, change, beauty products, etc in them. The littles get candy & treats & theirs are down low on their level, easy out in the open.
I think it is a great idea to have older kids help with hiding eggs and hiding them plus do the artwork for the little ones.
I wonder how that whole egg tradition started in the first place?It seems like kind of an odd thing.
The older kids I think would really love to do this. Thanks for sharing.
Great ideas my kids love interactive things to do this would be perfect for easter!
I can’t wait to try out the Christian Egg Hunt I am sure this will go over big. I appreciate you sharing
Never had one outside before,great idea
I am going to try printing the printable worksheets today. I really appreciate you sharing this
I think that teenagers could help set up and supervise an egg hunt for the younger children
well
I love your idea! Fortunately, my 15-year old still thinks the egg hunt is fun.
What a great idea for those tween years
I think my older kids would like something like this.
I love the idea of finding these colorful eggs for the teen age children. Thank you for sharing
That is a great idea. All the “kids” in my family are grown up so we haven’t had the egg hunt in a long time.
Spring is right around the corner, I hope. It’s hard to believe it’s almost easter with all this cold weather that were having.
What a nice idea. Thank you for sharing
I think this is a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
sounds like fun for all kids
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Decided to do a combo egg hunt/scavenger hunt this year by putting clues in each egg as where to find the next one with the POT of GOLD (money or gift cards) being in the bery last JUMBO egg 🙂
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One Easter we put the kids names on the egg then instructed them to find their egg only and not to tell the other players because the first one to find all their eggs, wins. I only had 5 eggs per child (3) and out took over an hour. One clue, keep a map of where you hid them.
Great idea! Thanks for sharing!
Our church does baptism on Easter sunday every year and has an Easter egg hunt afterwards for the newly baptized kids and teens.The boys have to wear a suit and tie and the girls have to wear a poofy,white,short sleeve,top of the knees baptism dress and bonnet with the lace socks and white shoes.It is really cute and special seeing the preteen and teen girls in their white outfits hunting for the easter eggs!
To Cheryl F.-All of the girls at our parish also have to wear the same outfits as you described with an undershirt,cloth diaper and rubberpants under their dresses.Many of the teen girls wear their baptism dresses to midthigh length and when they bend over to pick up the easter eggs,their dresses go up in back and their diaper and rubberpants are exposed! Some of the teen girls wear ruffled rubberpants over their diaper and some wear babyprint rubberpants.They change into their cute easter dresses later on and wear their diaper and rubberpants under it! Our daughter was baptized at 16,and she wore the ruffled rubberpants over her diaper and changed into her cute pink easter dress later on!
My two daughters are a year apart and when they were 8 and 9 they made their First Holy Communions and per the parish dress code had to wear poofy,top of the knees communion dresses and veils with lace anklets and the white mary jane shoes.White rubberpants and an undershirt were required under their dresses. Later on,after i put their outfits away,i kept out their rubberpants and sewed six rows of pink lace across the back of both pair with a white bow in the middle.They both wore the rubberpants under their cute dresses for Easter,christmas,and weddings up untill they were 14.
Great idea! thanks for sharing!
Yes i agree,I think cloth diapers and rubberpants under short easter dresses is very cute! I have seen both tween and teen girls wearing them under their easter dresses at easter egg hunts and they really do make the girls feel cute and little girlish in their outfits.
Great ideas! Thanks for posting!
Thanks Jenny!