Filling plastic Easter eggs--for teens

[Danemom]

A couple of years ago my dad decided he was going to have an egg hunt for everyone. We don't have any kids in the family right now, so we have ages 18 -50 hunting! I'm sure his neighbors get a big kick out of watching our egg hunt!

Dad puts raffle tickets in the eggs. Once all the eggs are found (there are only about 3-4 per person) he reads off the numbers and matches the prize. We get anything from chocolate bunnies to $20 bills. We love our new tradition and the prizes aren't limited to fit in the eggs. It's a ton of fun and surprisingly exciting to have your number read!

 

[Egdisney]

A couple of years ago my dad decided he was going to have an egg hunt for everyone. We don't have any kids in the family right now, so we have ages 18 -50 hunting! I'm sure his neighbors get a big kick out of watching our egg hunt! Dad puts raffle tickets in the eggs. Once all the eggs are found (there are only about 3-4 per person) he reads off the numbers and matches the prize. We get anything from chocolate bunnies to $20 bills. We love our new tradition and the prizes aren't limited to fit in the eggs. It's a ton of fun and surprisingly exciting to have your number read!

That sounds so fun! I love it!!

 

[elphaba91]

I've never done this but last year we started doing wooden advent calendars at Christmas and had to fill little drawers. Some of the stuff we put in was chocolate, cheap earrings, highlighters, mini nail polishes, erasers and cute shaped paper clips.

 

[tarheel618]

We are doing money this year. We have decided to get Universal Passes, we've never been, so I want the kids to have spending money for souveniors, so I am assigning each child a certain color of Easter Egg to find. You can only pick up your color of egg-this is to ensure they each get the same amount of money.

Easter basket- a choc. bunny, favorite candy, gift card to the movies and starbucks. I've noticed the last few years that I spend a lot of money on candy and I just don't want to waste money on junk food.

 

[canadianjovigirl]

no more egg hunts for my 13, 15 and 19 year old, but they do still get baskets filled with candy, ear buds and a few gift cards

 

[2TxAgs]

For years we have gone to my parents house at Easter to eat and do an egg hunt. Coming up with different ideas and hiding locations seemed to be a highlight for my dad. Typically each kid had a 'color', and they could only take the eggs they found of that color. If you found someone else's color, you had to leave the egg and the kids were always saying to each other "oh, I found one of yours, it's easy". This year my oldest two are 19, and my son just said to me "tell grandpa we're running out of egg hiding places." I think he was truly disappointed when I said grandpa wouldn't be doing an egg hunt.

I would say when they're older, it's definitely about tradition and their memories and letting go.

I'm doing baskets with cookies, jelly beans, and a gift card or two per kid.

My mom wonders about the fairness of the 16 yr old missing out on two hunts that her older siblings got when they were 16 and 17.

Oh, and for the last several years, most of the eggs have been filled with $2 bills, $1 coins and an occasional $5. Probably in the range of $15 - $20 each kid, which is nice for a teenager.

 

[Suzanne74]

A budget way to do an easter egg hunt is to get a puzzle and put puzzle pieces in each egg. Don't tell them how many eggs there are. Once they think they are done, they start putting the puzzle together and there are always a few puzzle piece missing which means they need to go back and hunt for the rest of the eggs.

 

[mrudman]

Looking for ideas on things to put in my daugher's eggs that could be good for a Disney trip/NCL Cruise.

My older daughter is taking a Disney trip from March 17th-21st (playing in her marching band at MK on the 19th). Younger daughter and I are going down on the 18th to watch her play at MK, then we all continue on for a 4-night cruise afterward.
Older dd is taking a charter bus down, and younger dd and I are flying.

Hoping I can give them their baskets sometime this weekend, so that I can give them stuff they can use on the trip... but doesn't leave me a lot of time to shop,

So far I've come up with for older daughter:
Snacks for the bus trip
Ear buds for her phone
Itunes card so she can load up some music beforehand
M&M Tube with quarter/pennies for the pressed penny machines
Puzzle book
Lotto tickets (I know they're underage but it's tradition, lol)
Big chocolate bunny
Peeps
Cash

For younger dd, I have:
Gum for the plane trip
Ear buds for phone
Itunes card to load up music
Possibly M&M tube/quarters/pennies also, but not sure about this cause we're only going to MK, where older dd is going to all 4 parks.
Puzzle book
Lotto tickets
Big chocolate bunny
Peeps
Cash

Anyone have any other ideas on things I could get them that they might be able to use on the trip?

 

[TwoMisfits]

Looking for ideas on things to put in my daugher's eggs that could be good for a Disney trip/NCL Cruise.

My older daughter is taking a Disney trip from March 17th-21st (playing in her marching band at MK on the 19th). Younger daughter and I are going down on the 18th to watch her play at MK, then we all continue on for a 4-night cruise afterward.
Older dd is taking a charter bus down, and younger dd and I are flying.

Hoping I can give them their baskets sometime this weekend, so that I can give them stuff they can use on the trip... but doesn't leave me a lot of time to shop,

So far I've come up with for older daughter:
Snacks for the bus trip
Ear buds for her phone
Itunes card so she can load up some music beforehand
M&M Tube with quarter/pennies for the pressed penny machines
Puzzle book
Lotto tickets (I know they're underage but it's tradition, lol)
Big chocolate bunny
Peeps
Cash

For younger dd, I have:
Gum for the plane trip
Ear buds for phone
Itunes card to load up music
Possibly M&M tube/quarters/pennies also, but not sure about this cause we're only going to MK, where older dd is going to all 4 parks.
Puzzle book
Lotto tickets
Big chocolate bunny
Peeps
Cash

Anyone have any other ideas on things I could get them that they might be able to use on the trip?

Pretty swim suits
50+ SPF swim shirts or coverups
Sunglasses
"Sneaker" Sandals
Magic Bands with Personalization Pieces
Lanyards (for the cruise ship card)
Sunscreen wipes

 

[Moomduck1]

I bought plain white eggs at Walmart. They look like real eggs and come in an egg crate. They don't open. I painted numbers on each egg, and then a pretty design. I'm not an artist by any means, but they're cute. I'm hiding 24 of those and a bunch of plastic ones. Plastic will have candy. Each kid can find 6 numbered ones. At the end, I'll read a number and the prize that goes with it. Still deciding what...lottery tickets, dollar bills, gift cards. My kids are mid twenties and married. They just love the hunt. The prizes are just extra. When they were little, they'd have me hide their beanie babies and they'd hunt for them.

 

[mrudman]

Pretty swim suits
50+ SPF swim shirts or coverups
Sunglasses
"Sneaker" Sandals
Magic Bands with Personalization Pieces
Lanyards (for the cruise ship card)
Sunscreen wipes

Thanks for the ideas!

They already have swimsuits, but the coverups could work.
We also have the magic bands from a previous trip, but I like the idea of getting a piece to put on them.
Didn't think about a lanyard.. great idea, thanks!
And yep, will definitely need sunscreen, but I'll probably just be packing her a small bottle of the hundreds I already have, lol!

Keep the ideas coming please,

 

[5 Disney Fans]

I do a mix of money and coupons that I make on the computer with cute Easter clip art. I make the coupons for things like a pass on cleaning the cat litter (VERY POPULAR!) a trip for ice cream, movie night where they get to pick the movie, family game night of their choosing, donuts for breakfast, "you get to pick dinner". We have 3 teens so having a coupon where they get to be in charge of something like picking the movie or dinner (and not have to compromise!) is a treat. when they were younger I would put "one night with an hour later bedtime" and "one on one time w/ mom or dad". They tend the trade the coupons with one another too. Or even trade money for that litter box one LOL.

 

[niffer5150]

i went with candy, breath mints, hair ties, and cash but after reading this post tho, i may go back and do the coupon idea too. thank goodness there's still time.

 

[ajwolfe]

My DD still likes to do EE hunts and she's almost 15. Of course, she gets candy, $20 bills and a couple $50 bills in her eggs. If I had that kind of EE hunt, I'd still want one, too.

Wowsers! Can I come hunt eggs at your house?

 

[scrapquitler]

I've been filling and hiding plastic Easter eggs for my kids for years. It used to be easy (and cheap) to fill them with coins, candy, barrettes and tiny toys (Polly Pocket outfits, etc). My girls are teens now, but they still want to have an Easter egg hunt. I don't know what to fill them with now. My kids don't wear barrettes or play with little toys anymore. Candy still works, but coins don't mean much to them. I've put jewelry in the eggs at times, but I don't want to spend that much money, so I can only put jewelry in one or two eggs. Do you have any other ideas for inexpensive fillers that will interest teens?

Nail polish, lip gloss, dollars,

 

[SunnieRN]

I roll $1 and tie them with various colors of ribbon. Also I make gift notes to fold up and place in the eggs. 1 extra hour of playstation, skip doing the dishes, double allowance the week of your choice, have a friend spend the night, with movie tickets, rent a red box movie of your choice, etc, based on what you kids enjoy. With candy my monetary output for two teenagers was between $75 - 100. My daughter is 31 and when I do the boys egg hunt, she asks me how many eggs I hid for her lol.

 

[tracyz]

Believe it or not, at our house we still do an egg hunt with EGGS! We hide the hard boiled eggs we colored, and the kids (even the older ones) still get a kick out of finding them. I've never wanted Easter to turn into a holiday where I thought I should go out and spend a bunch of money on gifts for my kids. They do get a small basket with a little candy, but it's nothing over the top. I'm kind of surprised to discover that I'm the only one...