Easter egg hunt for 2.5 year old, what to use? Can’t use mini eggs

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interested what people use, can’t have mini eggs due to choking risk!

You could get a big pack of plastic (or wooden) eggs that split in half and then you could put appropriate things inside them, or they could collect them to swap for a bigger treat.

Supermarkets do bags of hollow chocolate eggs for Easter egg hunts, slightly larger than creme egg size.

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The plastic fillable eggs. Then you don't have to put chocolate in all of them. You can do easter stickers or similar easter themed bits. Maybe with a chocolate bunny at the end.

At that age we used refillable plastic eggs, told the kids to find them and then they could trade in the eggs for one big chocolate egg.

As they got older we put puzzles or tasks inside the eggs, they had to complete them to find their chocolate.

Supermarkets do all sorts of alternatives. They all sell big bags of hollow chocolate eggs, plastic eggs to fill yourself etc..

I've got a bag of malteser bunnies to use for a hunt. Loads of choice in supermarkets at the moment.

I just always got an Easter egg hunt pack from the shops. Cadburys do them, as do M&S, Lindt etc. dc3 is 9 but is dairy intolerant, so for him I’ve got little craft kits or accessories from Asda or home bargains.
I usually do clues with pictures which lead to the next treat, but we went to haven for Easter a couple of years ago and for ease I got a set of clues off Amazon. They worked really well too! There’s a set for indoors and outdoors so you’re covered if it’s raining 😍

You can usually buy packs of small chocolate eggs (about medium hen’s egg size). I seem to remember buying plenty of these when Gdcs were very little.

As others have said, hollow chocolate eggs (larger than mini eggs) or bunnies are readily available in the supermarket. Love the idea pps have mentioned with filling plastic eggs yourself too!

I would use hollow chocolate eggs. You can get big packs of them for Easter egg hunts. I've seen them in Asda, Aldi and Lidl.

There are also Easter-themed chocolate lollies.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/cadbury-dairy-milk-easter-egg-hunt-317g

We use plastic refillable eggs for our hunt and put chocolate buttons, jelly sweets, etc

I bought a bag of plastic fillable eggs when DC was 18 months and have used them every year with paper clues leading to a final choccy treat. We gave them to a charity shop once DC started being too cool and sophisticated (ha!) to enjoy a hunt.

In lockdown I made laminated egg pictures that we hid and then they crossed them off a bingo chart - good for colour / pattern matching.

Then got a big egg when all found / when a row done however you want to do it.

Used them for a few years now!

We used to hide whose fluffy little chicks you get in Poundland at Easter. The kids then swapped them for eggs (the same amount of eggs regardless of how many chickens they found!). I still have boxes of them and my youngest is 18 😂

Plastic eggs that snap apart filled with stickers or actually nothing at all - it's possible to avoid candy and make the eggs themselves the star of the show.

Lidl have hollow eggs the size of creme eggs and also small chocolate eggs without a shell.

Oh gosh aren't we away from plastic eggs yet?! Climate crises and all that!

I made these two years ago and they're still going strong https://www.redtedart.com/quick-toilet-paper-roll-bunnies-east-crafts-kids/ For the older kids we did clues inside each one. When they'd collected all the clues it spelt out the location of the big egg and they got one each. The younger ones couldn't read the clues but they ran around with everyone else and their bunnies still had clues in which the team needed to find the bigger eggs. Worked really well.

Also like the idea of finding things which you then swap for chocolate.

loving these ideas thanks everyone! Can’t wait to see her face!

Do you mean like a little trail to follow? We use the foil wrapped Aldi/Lidl bunny/chick things that come in mesh bags like chocolate coins do.

Or, I've just been reliably informed by my seven year old that the Easter bunny poops jelly beans, so you could also use those 😂

For a low effort option hide any child safe object in garden (could be plastic cups, duplo, small plant pots, whatever you have lying around).

Then they get a prize for finding them all and the prize is whatever you want eg can be chocolate eggs. I used that to keep chocolate quantities a bit more manageable when they were younger, also more hygienic than having poorly wrapped chocolate in the garden.

Brilliant thank you, is there any ideas on what I could actually do clue wise? I’m not sure her understanding is particularly great so don’t want to confuse and frustrate her!

For mine (last year aged 3 and 5) I just hide them and they go find them.

Sometimes I give verbal clues if they’re struggling ‘have you checked where we grow tomatoes?’ Etc.