Chocolate eggs are sweet to eat. Look where you brush to keep teeth neat.Answer: the toothbrush cup. Stand the egg beside the cup, within reach from the step stool.
Splash in puddles, stomp about. Tip your rain boots, an egg falls out.Answer: the rain boots by the back door. With two hunters, put one egg in each boot.
Helmet on and off you ride. Check your bike, where eggs can hide.Answer: the hunter's bike. In the basket, or resting on the pedal.
Spring flowers grow in me, red and gold. Look behind the pot for an egg to hold.Answer: a flowerpot. Behind the pot, not in the soil, so the flowers stay put.
Pull one out and another appears. I'm there for sneezes and happy tears.Answer: the tissue box. Under the box, or tucked into the opening with one tissue over it.
Cards from Grandma land in here. Open the mailbox, an egg is near.Answer: the mailbox. Only if it stands on your side of the street, and with an adult walking along.
I get thinner every time we meet, yet I leave your hands clean and sweet.Answer: the bar of soap. Set the egg by the soap dish. A pump bottle counts if that is what you have.
Thirsty flowers wait for me. Look in the watering can and see.Answer: the watering can. Empty and dry inside.
Inside me, players take their turn, with dice to roll and points to earn.Answer: a board game box. Pick the game the hunter likes most and lay the egg on the folded board.
Friends come in and out through me. Check the front door handle and see.Answer: the front door. Hang the egg in a small bag on the inside handle. The door stays shut.
These Easter scavenger hunt clues are 80 original rhymes, each leading to a different hiding place at home: 48 indoors and 32 in the garden. Half say where to look, for ages 4 to 7. Half are riddles for ages 8 to 12. Ten are dealt when the page opens, with the answer under every rhyme for the adult.
From ten rhymes to ten eggs
Press a chip such as 4 to 7, indoors, then New clues. Lock each rhyme whose answer your home has and Swap the rest. Print keeps the answers and hiding notes, so that sheet is yours. Copy all takes the rhymes alone, to paste, print and cut into strips. Fold one strip into each plastic egg. Work back from the baskets: every egg sits at the answer to the rhyme before it.
Two ages, one morning
Rhymes for ages 4 to 7 name the spot: the sock drawer, the swing, the rain boots. The 40 for ages 8 to 12 never do. One describes a globe as holding every ocean without spilling a drop, and 13 are marked hard. With both ages hunting, deal a trail from each set, give each its own egg color and end both at the same baskets.
Tips
Easter scavenger hunt ideas for a wet morning: the 4 to 7, indoors and 8 to 12, indoors chips hold 24 rhymes each.
Garden rhymes go inside plastic eggs to stay dry. Chocolate waits in the baskets, out of the sun and away from the dog.
Number the back of each strip before cutting, so a dropped pile goes back in order.
Questions and answers
What are some Easter scavenger hunt ideas for teens?
Take the order away. Lock six Ages 8 to 12 riddles and hand over all six at once. Put one letter in each egg, so the six spell where the baskets are, such as GARAGE. Teens split up, solve in any order and unscramble the word. The 13 hard rhymes suit them.
Do these work as Easter scavenger hunt ideas for adults?
Yes, with harder hiding. Deal the 8 to 12 riddles and put each egg out of sight at its answer. Swap the candy for a prize adults want: a plant, a paperback, the good chocolate. For scored photo and find-it tasks, the adults list fits better.
How is a clue hunt different from an egg hunt?
In an egg hunt, eggs are hidden all over and everyone gathers as many as they can, a custom that may have begun in Germany. A clue hunt is a trail: each egg holds the rhyme that leads to the next, so a small child is never outrun by an older cousin.
Fall Scavenger Hunt Ideas142 autumn finds sorted by leaf color, leaf shape, seeds, fungi, animals and signs of the season, each with a fact underneath.
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Blocks and cars and dolls and more. Lift the lid of the toy box and explore.Answer: the toy box. On top of the toys, so nothing gets tipped out.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner too. Under the table is your next clue.Answer: under the kitchen table. On the floor by the hunter's own chair.
Bunnies go barefoot, but not you. Your next egg hides inside a shoe.Answer: the hunter's shoes by the door. Push the egg into the toe.
Bunny feet are furry and bare. Yours need socks, so look in there.Answer: the sock drawer. Nest the egg among the rolled pairs, where it looks like one of them.
The bunny tiptoed past your bed. Look under the pillow where you rest your head.Answer: the hunter's own pillow. Set it after they are up and dressed.
Chocolate eggs are sweet to eat. Look where you brush to keep teeth neat.Answer: the toothbrush cup. Stand the egg beside the cup, within reach from the step stool.
Dirty socks and shirts go in. Lift the lid of the laundry bin.Answer: the laundry hamper. Best when the hamper is nearly empty.
Do not climb up, stay right down there. Your egg sits on the bottom stair.Answer: the bottom stair. Against the wall, so nobody steps on it.
Flat on the floor where your toes feel snug. Lift up a corner of the rug.Answer: the rug. A flat paper clue works better than an egg here. Leave one corner turned up.
Friends come in and out through me. Check the front door handle and see.Answer: the front door. Hang the egg in a small bag on the inside handle. The door stays shut.
Green leaves growing in a pot indoors. Look underneath and the egg is yours.Answer: a houseplant. One on the floor or a low table. Rest the egg on the soil, and skip anything prickly.
Hop to the place where the milk stays cold. Open the door for an egg of gold.Answer: the refrigerator. Stand the egg in the door shelf, low enough for the hunter to see.
It rides on your back to school each day. Unzip it now for an egg, hooray.Answer: the school backpack. Front pocket, with the zipper left a little open.
Look at me and you see you. Beside the mirror waits a clue.Answer: a mirror the hunter can reach. Stand the egg on the floor or the shelf below it.
Red and yellow, pink and blue. The crayon box has an egg for you.Answer: the crayon box or art shelf. A yellow egg among the crayons takes a minute to spot.
Round and round the dirty clothes spin. Open the washer and look in.Answer: the washing machine. Empty drum, and nobody starts a load until the hunt is over.
Sandwich, apple, juice to munch. Look in the box that holds your lunch.Answer: the lunch box. Leave it on a chair or the counter edge, not up in a cupboard.
Shake, shake, shake at breakfast time. Look by the cereal for the next rhyme.Answer: the cereal box. Put the box on the table first, so nobody climbs to a cupboard.
Someone soft has an egg to share. Go and ask your teddy bear.Answer: a favorite stuffed animal. Tuck the egg under its arm or in its lap.
Splish, splash, scrub a dub dub. Hop along to the empty tub.Answer: the bathtub. Bone dry, with the egg by the drain.
Stories stand here side by side. Behind a book is where eggs hide.Answer: the bookshelf. Behind the picture books on the lowest shelf.
This egg is not a fruit at all. Find it in the fruit bowl, round and small.Answer: the fruit bowl. A plastic egg among the oranges hides well in plain sight.
Where do we sit for a story or show? Lift a sofa cushion and look below.Answer: the sofa. Under the middle cushion, with a bump left showing.
Zip it up when the wind is blowing. Check your coat pocket before going.Answer: the hunter's coat pocket. Hang the coat on its usual low hook.
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Birds sing up in my branches high. Look at my roots, do not look at the sky.Answer: the biggest tree. At the foot of the trunk. Nobody needs to climb.
Cards from Grandma land in here. Open the mailbox, an egg is near.Answer: the mailbox. Only if it stands on your side of the street, and with an adult walking along.
Click, I close and creak, I swing. Look at the gate for the next thing.Answer: the garden gate. Tie the egg in a bag on the inside latch. The gate stays shut.
Climb up the ladder, then down you glide. An egg waits at the end of the slide.Answer: the slide. At the bottom end, wedged with a little grass.
Dig with a shovel, build with a pail. The sandbox is next on the bunny trail.Answer: the sandbox. Half bury the egg with its top showing.
Fill me with water, fill me with sand. Look in the bucket and reach in a hand.Answer: a bucket. Dry, upright and out in the open.
Grown-ups sit here in the sun. Look under the chair, then off you run.Answer: a garden chair. On the ground under the seat.
Helmet on and off you ride. Check your bike, where eggs can hide.Answer: the hunter's bike. In the basket, or resting on the pedal.
I am long and green and I squirt, not bite. Look in my coils, curled up tight.Answer: the garden hose. In the middle of the coil.
Round like an egg, but it bounces high. Look under the ball as you hop by.Answer: a ball left on the lawn. Put the egg right under it, in plain sight.
Sit on me to tie your lace. The porch step is the hiding place.Answer: the porch step. At one end of the lowest step, out of the walking line.
Splash in puddles, stomp about. Tip your rain boots, an egg falls out.Answer: the rain boots by the back door. With two hunters, put one egg in each boot.
Spring flowers grow in me, red and gold. Look behind the pot for an egg to hold.Answer: a flowerpot. Behind the pot, not in the soil, so the flowers stay put.
Thirsty flowers wait for me. Look in the watering can and see.Answer: the watering can. Empty and dry inside.
Up to the sky and back you go. Look on the swing seat, nice and slow.Answer: the swing. Tape the egg under the seat so the wind cannot roll it off.
Wipe your feet before you come in. Lift the mat with a great big grin.Answer: the back doormat. A flat paper clue under the mat, or the egg beside it.
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A loaf sleeps here with the lid shut tight. Look beside the slices, out of sight.Answer: the bread box or bread drawer. Beside the loaf, not inside the bag.
Bread goes down pale and jumps up tan. Look beside me, not in me, if you can.Answer: the toaster. Beside it, cold and unplugged. Never in the slots.
I am a pig that never eats hay. I swallow your coins and save them away.Answer: the piggy bank. Beside it, since no egg fits through the slot.
I am one foot long and have no toes. Look in the drawer where the homework goes.Answer: a ruler. In the desk drawer or pencil case where the ruler lives.
I eat dust bunnies, not the Easter kind. Check my handle and see what you find.Answer: the vacuum cleaner. Tie the egg to the handle in a small bag.
I get thinner every time we meet, yet I leave your hands clean and sweet.Answer: the bar of soap. Set the egg by the soap dish. A pump bottle counts if that is what you have.
I have two hands but cannot hold an egg. I have a face and not one leg.Answer: a clock. Pick one on a shelf or a low wall, and stand the egg beneath it.
I hide in the cushions better than eggs do. Point me and click. Look under me too.Answer: the TV remote. Leave the remote where it lives, with a flat clue under it.
I hold every ocean and spill not a drop. Spin me to find where the bunny might stop.Answer: a globe, atlas or wall map. Under the globe's base, or inside the front cover of the atlas.
I hold every word from A to Z. Turn to EGG and you will see.Answer: the dictionary. Slip a paper clue in at the word egg and let a corner show.
I hug you dry when you step out dripping. Check my folds for what I'm gripping.Answer: the hunter's bath towel. Folded into the towel on its rail.
I know each day of the whole year through. Lift the month of June for your next clue.Answer: the wall calendar. Tape a flat clue behind the June page. No wall calendar? Press Swap.
I take a shower every night, but it's the plates that come out bright.Answer: the dishwasher. Empty and cool, with the egg in the cutlery basket.
Inside me, players take their turn, with dice to roll and points to earn.Answer: a board game box. Pick the game the hunter likes most and lay the egg on the folded board.
My top row starts Q, W, E, R, T. Lift my edge, there's more to see.Answer: the computer keyboard. A flat paper clue under the front edge. Eggs roll off desks.
Pull me apart to let in the day. Behind my folds, a clue's tucked away.Answer: the curtains. Clip the clue to the back of the hem with a clothespin.
Pull one out and another appears. I'm there for sneezes and happy tears.Answer: the tissue box. Under the box, or tucked into the opening with one tissue over it.
Tiny jars in a row, we season the stew. Behind the pepper is a clue for you.Answer: the spice rack. Behind the pepper, which nearly every kitchen has.
Twelve small seats and a lid on top. Where real eggs ride home from the shop.Answer: the egg carton. Swap one real egg for the plastic one. Hunters open the carton gently.
We have handles but we are not doors. We hold hot cocoa, perhaps it's yours.Answer: the mug cupboard. Inside the hunter's own mug, on a shelf they can reach.
We have shoulders but no head, and we hold your shirts while you're in bed.Answer: the hangers in the hunter's closet. Hang the egg in a bag from an empty hanger.
We jingle together and open the door. Look where we hang when we're home once more.Answer: the key hooks or key bowl. Hang the egg in a bag from a spare hook.
We smile all day and never blink. Look behind us, what do you think?Answer: the framed family photos. Behind the frame the hunter is in.
Winter lives in me all year. Behind the peas, your clue is near.Answer: the freezer. A plastic egg keeps frost off the paper. Any bag of frozen vegetables can stand in for peas.
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A free cafe where the diners have wings. Look at the pole where the seed tray swings.Answer: the bird feeder. At the foot of the pole. Leave the feeder itself to the birds.
A tiny house where nobody sleeps, where the rake and the mower are what it keeps.Answer: the garden shed. Hang the egg on the door handle. The shed stays shut, tools and all.
I get a trim but I have no hair, and birds rent rooms inside me. Look there.Answer: the hedge. At the outer edge, low down. Birds may be nesting deeper in, so nobody reaches inside.
I have a net but catch no fish. Score a point and get your wish.Answer: the soccer goal or basketball hoop. In the corner of the net, or at the foot of the pole.
I have four legs and I never run. I wear an umbrella out in the sun.Answer: the patio table. On a chair pushed under it, out of sight from the door.
I roll to the curb once every week. Behind me, not in me, is where to seek.Answer: the wheeled trash bin. Behind it, on the ground. Nothing goes inside.
I stand where two fences meet and turn. Look at my foot for the clue you earn.Answer: the corner fence post. At its foot, on your side of the fence.
I'm a garden that never touches the ground. Under a window is where I'm found.Answer: a window box. On the sill or the ground beneath it if the box is above the hunter's reach.
I'm the number the pizza driver needs. Look just below me, where the clue leads.Answer: the house number. On the step or ledge below it, with an adult at the front door.
I'm the oldest thing in the yard by far. Heavy and gray. Look where my edges are.Answer: the biggest stone in the garden. Beside it, on the side away from the house.
One wheel in front, two handles behind. I carry the soil. See what you find.Answer: the wheelbarrow. In the dry tray, under an upturned flowerpot.
Press my nose and the whole house knows. Look below me, where the door frame goes.Answer: the doorbell. On the door frame below the button, with an adult at the open door.
Rain runs down my long thin throat. Look where I spill it, and take note.Answer: the downspout. Beside the splash block at the bottom. Choose a dry morning.
Twist my handle and out water pours. I'm on the wall, but I'm outdoors.Answer: the outdoor faucet. On the ground beneath it, in a plastic egg in case it drips.
We pinch the shirts so they don't fly away. Look in our bag on a sunny day.Answer: the clothespins. In the pin bag on the line or the drying rack.
Yellow trumpets that make no sound. We come up each spring from under the ground.Answer: the daffodils or other spring bulbs. On the soil beside them, not among the stems.
How this list was compiled: Written for this site by its editors in September 2026: 80 original rhyming clues, each leading to a different hiding place at an ordinary home, 48 indoors and 32 in the garden. 40 are written for ages 4 to 7 and name the place or come close to it; 40 are riddles for ages 8 to 12 that never name it. Nothing was copied from another clue list. Every hiding place was screened against the family's rules: nothing hot, sharp, locked or plugged in, nothing above a child's reach, no medicine or cleaning cupboards, no climbing, and garden places stay on your own property with an adult in sight. Age sets and difficulty levels are the editors' judgment, not a standard. The description of an egg hunt on the page (decorated, plastic or chocolate eggs hidden for children, outdoors or indoors, hidden harder or easier to suit the child's age, and a custom that may have begun in Germany) follows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_hunt, checked 2026-09-18. No Easter date is printed, because the date moves every year. Licence: own work