9 Ways to Put a Unique Twist on the Traditional Easter Egg Hunt

The Easter holiday is widely known for a fun Easter egg hunt. Kids of all ages love to join in on the fun, but if you are looking to change things up a bit this year, you will want to read this post. There are so many fun twists you can put on the traditional egg hunt and this post gives you 9 ideas.

1- Glow Stick Egg Hunt from One Hundred Dollars a Month

2- Toddler Egg Hunt from Celebrations at Home

3- Color Coded Hunt from Sew Many Ways

4- Sight Word Egg Hunt from Hands On As We Grown

5- Motor Skills Egg Hunt from Starfish Therapies

6- Egg Hunt with Prizes from Life as Mom

7- Puzzle Easter Egg Hunt from Make the Best of Everything

8- Easter Egg Treasure Hunt from Super Healthy Kids

9- Flashlight Egg Hunt from The Frugal Girls

With little kids especially, linking learning to physical activity really does help them learn. Movement can help kids focus, and it just keeps them from sitting still all day, which isn’t good for anyone.

The good news is lots of different learning activities can be adopted to get kids moving while they learn, so let’s look at some math and number activities that use gross motor skills.

Probably the most obvious thing would be hopscotch, which helps kids count while they hop. You can also mix up the numbers, do skip counting with the numbers, give kids a simple math problem and have them hop to the correct answer, and on and on.

This number hop game from Gift of Curiosity is a more chaotic version, with number flash cards on the floor that kids can hop, skip or jump to as you call them out (this one is more for individual number identification than counting). It’s a great indoor option if it’s too hot, cold or rainy out to do traditional hopscotch, too.

This painter’s tape number line idea from Days with Grey doesn’t involve quite as much movement, but kids can move around while they place things on the number line and work on learning about one to one correspondence. In the blog post they use shoes, but you can count anything you’ve got handy. (Be warned when I visited this website had an ad that continually took up the whole page, but you can get the idea pretty quickly.)

One of the important tasks of learning numbers is learning a parent’s phone number just in case it’s ever needed, or how to dial 911 in case on an emergency. Teaching Mama has a great way to practice telephone numbers and get some movement in with a giant telephone keypad made out of paper plates. You can also use this for counting practice, but it’s a great idea for learning phone numbers, too.

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