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Easter Egg Lunch Hunt – A fun activity and lunch for kids!

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Make your kids’ lunch into an Easter Egg Lunch Hunt! They’ll have a blast opening each egg to see what surprise awaits them! Lunchtime has never been so fun! Scroll to the end for a fun Easter egg lunch idea for older kids!

8 years ago, Kaylee and I decided to do something a little different with lunch! We filled Easter eggs with all sorts of lunch items. Bite-sized lunch items for a fun Easter egg hunt. Even little peanut butter & honey sandwiches. It has become one of our favorite activities and we also go on Easter egg lunch hunts (or snack hunts!) when friends come over.

This will be our 2-year old’s first year to participate. He is the perfect age to catch on quickly and have fun with this Easter egg lunch hunt.

Scroll to the end to see what we do for our older 4 kids who are all in school now!

This is the most popular Easter post on Gluesticks and for good reason. It’s SO EASY and SO FUN and honestly, the quickest way to skyrocket yourself to “best mom ever” status for the 5 and under crowd, ha!

What food items can you use for this Easter egg lunch hunt?

Grapes, raisins, nuts, goldfish crackers, cheese cubes, mini sandwiches, and dry cereal are some of our favorite things to put inside of the eggs.
Make your kids lunch into an Easter Egg Lunch Hunt! They'll have a blast opening each egg to see what surprise awaits them! Lunchtime has never been so fun!

How do you split the Easter eggs evenly amongst groups of kids?

I like marking the eggs when multiple children are going to be hunting for lunch, that way everyone has a well-rounded collection at the end. The unmarked eggs were Aaron’s and the marked eggs were Kaylee’s. At the end of the egg hunt, they exchanged eggs.
Make your kids lunch into an Easter Egg Lunch Hunt! They'll have a blast opening each egg to see what surprise awaits them! Lunchtime has never been so fun!

Where do you hide the Easter eggs?

We’ve had just as many Easter egg lunch hunts indoors as we have outdoors. It just depends on the weather. Make sure to find all of those eggs so that the food doesn’t go bad!
For our first hunt 8 years ago, Kaylee ran right up to the bus when Aaron got home from kindergarten, handed him a basket, and they hit the grass running looking for their lunch. He was totally game for having to search for his lunch!
Make your kids lunch into an Easter Egg Lunch Hunt! They'll have a blast opening each egg to see what surprise awaits them! Lunchtime has never been so fun!
After the Easter eggs were found, the sorting began.
Make your kids lunch into an Easter Egg Lunch Hunt! They'll have a blast opening each egg to see what surprise awaits them! Lunchtime has never been so fun!

Here’s another fun Easter egg lunch idea!

I filled Dallin’s lunch box with Easter eggs as a fun “last day before Spring Break” lunch. He loved it and was very surprised when he opened his lunch box. He said that when he saw them he said, “What the heck?!?!?!?” and all of the kids in his 2nd-grade class came over to see. They thought it was “SO FUNNY!!” and liked watching him open each and every egg to see what lunch item was inside. Score! It’s been 7 years since we started this tradition and the kids think it is hilarious—my boys not as much now that they are in middle and high school, but they are good sports, haha!

Here are a couple more Easter ideas for kids!

Easter Bunny Donut Cups

Easter Bunny Luncheon for Kids.

We’ve also got a great Make an Easter Bunny Cake you can make as well!

Try some of these spring activities for even more fun!

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About Brandy

My name is Brandy and I'm mom of 5 darling kiddos, and one cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

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  9. Word Nerd says

    March 22, 2012 at 1:50 am

    Very creative! I think this would also be a fun treat for a child that takes a lunch or treat to school…so much more fun to find a bunch of brightly colored eggs than a couple of plastic baggies.

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  10. Sam&Gail says

    March 22, 2012 at 3:40 am

    Two things: I’m a grown up (last kid soon to leave the teen years) and *I* want a lunch in eggs! How fun! Second, I’m repinning this to my Bento board, because it is cute, clever, nutritious, and let’s add another clever in there 🙂

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  16. Stef says

    March 25, 2012 at 4:42 pm

    This is the BEST idea!!! My girls are going to be all over this one. Thank you so much! Sometimes, the meal preparation is such a drag over and over and over again. I’m sure the kids feel the same – this ought to liven things up.

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  28. Brian, Michelle, Teagan and Isla says

    April 3, 2012 at 4:39 pm

    Oh wow! What an awesome memory for your little ones! I am SO excited and am going to try this with my three year and 11 month olds! My toddler doesn’t want to eat anythinnnnnnng at the moment so maybe this will do the trick and be fun at the same time? Pinning this idea.

    Would love if you would link it up too on my party going on now at Teagan’s Travels!

    http://teaganstravels.blogspot.com/2012/04/destination-inspiration-linky-party-9.html

    Happy Easter,
    Michelle

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  31. kDodson says

    April 5, 2012 at 11:22 pm

    Thanks so much for the idea!! Did this for my 1st grader and Kindergardener’s lunches today and sent them to school with the egg carton as their lunch box. they LOVED it!! So much that I had to do a half-carton for my preschooler to take for her snack. Yay!! Super-mom!!

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  34. ~~Evelyn~~ says

    April 6, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    We usually have lunch/dinner around 3 with the in-laws on Easter Sunday. That’s tough for a 7 year old. If I feed him lunch, he isn’t hungry at 3. But it is too long for him to wait to eat.

    I am going to use this idea (found you on Pinterest, btw) and put mostly fruits with a couple of small protein items so that it will tide him over until we have our main meal.

    EXCELLENT idea.

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  36. kirsty says

    April 8, 2012 at 5:16 am

    So I did end up doing this, and my kids had a blast! They thought it was so much fun and enjoyed all the surprises in the eggs (we had cheese sandwiches, grapes, banana, tiny teddies, savoury crackers and ham).

    Thanks for the inspiration!

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  38. Cheryl says

    April 11, 2012 at 12:22 pm

    Just a thought. You might want to check and see if the plastic eggs are food safe. Sometimes you never really know what is being put in the plastics that might leach into food.

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  40. Emilee says

    October 13, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    Thanks for the fun idea! My daughter’s birthday is in April so last spring I filled up the eggs for their lunch. It was fun to see how they all ate them differently. Some ate one egg at a time, some emptied them all out at once.
    I didn’t hide them, but maybe next time I will…

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  43. Carrie at Rhubarbsky says

    March 27, 2013 at 6:53 pm

    Love this idea. . . . i clicked through a pin on pinterest, but it came up as a suspicious link and I had to bypass that to get here. Just FYI.
    Can’t wait to surprise my girl with this in her lunchbox on Friday!

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