20 Easter egg hunt clues for indoors and outdoors

Easter just isn’t Easter without a traditional Easter egg hunt, and a brilliant one at that. Depending on whether, we particularly love an outdoor Easter egg hunt with clues where you can hide little eggs under bushes and in plant pots. However, if we aren't blessed with the weather this Easter, you can host an equally egg-citing Easter egg hunt with clues indoors too!

While some parents might want to make life easy with an Easter egg hunt kit, you might want to create bespoke maps, clues and introduce some friendly competition for older children. If you're hosting a hunt for younger children and toddlers, then the clues you choose will need to be a teeny bit easier, but don't fret as we have you covered.

With our egg-stra helpful tips and Easter egg hunt clues, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t all go to plan and leave you with one happy little hunter. So, make sure you've got enough eggs to go around, and get those baskets at the ready for the most epic Easter egg hunt they'll never forget.

10 Outdoor Easter egg hunt clues for toddlers

Start by giving your little guests their first clue, helping them with the reading along the way.

Clue 1: I live outside and have many green leaves. I grow big and tall.

Clue 2: I have four wheels and go beep, beep! Car

Clue 3: I am green and grow, and what you mow! Grass

Clue 4: Fill me up to give your flowers a drink. Watering can

Clue 5: I’m long and wriggly like a snack and you use me for water fights. Hosepipe

Clue 6: The postie likes to fill me up with lots of letters. Letterbox

Clue 7: Fill me up with lots of seeds and watch as the birds come to feed. Bird feeder

Clue 8: I hold flowers in my base, and love to be watered. Flowerpot

Clue 9: You can reach new heights by swinging on my seat, a regular chair just can’t compete. Swing

Clue 10: You dump rubbish in my belly and people say I can be a little bit smelly. Bin

10 Indoor Easter egg hunt clues for toddlers

Clue 1: You can find me in the kitchen, I’m big and cold. Fridge

Clue 2: I make a ticking sound and tell you the time. Clock

Clue 3: Turn me on when you want to watch your favourite programme. TV

Clue 4: I wash your dirty dishes and cutlery. Dishwasher/sink

Clue 5: Rub a dub dub, take a look in the tub. Bath

Clue 6: Look inside these items that you put on your feet to go out. Shoes

Clue 7: I wash your clothes and go around and around. Washing machine

Clue 8: I am under the place where you lay your head at night. Pillow

Clue 9: I hold the books you like to read. Bookshelf

Clue 10: You put me on your feet when venturing outside. Shoes

Toddler-friendly easter egg hunt tips:

1. Keep it fair

If your hunt will include more than one child, aim to avoid the tears by colour-coding the eggs and ask each tot to search for only a particular colour. Just make sure you count each colour correctly before hiding them…

2. Find a safe space

Hold your hunt in a small, safe space so your little one won’t get lost or overwhelmed. If it’s sunny, the garden is ideal or if not your house is another obvious choice.

3. Be vigilant

Be prepared to be in for the long haul – your tot’s hunt may take him a while. And while it’s tempting to use the time to get on with something else, make sure you keep an eye on your little one to stop him from wandering off or harming himself.

4. Hunt for presents

If your tot is likely to receive Easter eggs from friends and relatives, as well as from you, you can use these as the eggs to hide. It saves you from buying more and will hopefully help avoid a sugar overload!

5. X marks the spot

You may want to opt for visual clues, rather than written ones, to help your tot out with his hunt – cut out large coloured arrows to direct him the right way or up the excitement level with a very basic treasure map. Alternatively, if your hunt is indoors, you can use a trail of jelly beans or raisins to help show your toddler the way. Just follow him to make sure he keeps his attention on the task in hand. If you do fancy using written clues, check out our suggestions below.

6. Go sugar-free

You can fill shop-bought plastic egg cases with Easter toys or other non-edible treats if you don’t want to use chocolate. Or hide hard-boiled eggs that you and your tot can paint together once he’s found them all.

7. Don't make it too hard

Keep your tot’s age in mind and don’t make the hiding spots too tricky – otherwise, it will go on forever and you’ll be left with a grizzly toddler and lots of eggs to find yourself. Hide the eggs in obvious places rather than under or inside other objects.

8. Remember the baskets

An Easter egg hunt can’t happen without baskets – which can be a fun craft project for you and your toddler in the run-up to the hunt. Try making baskets from cereal boxes or decorate wicker baskets with tissue paper, ribbons and pipe cleaners.

9. Make the eggs last

No doubt your little one’s going to want to dive headfirst into his basket of eggs as soon as the hunt’s over, but try to stash them away and make them last a few days. Otherwise, Easter lunch or dinner will be wasted on him.

To organise the perfect Easter egg hunt in your garden, get your hands on this kit: