Whether you celebrate Easter for religious or secular reasons, there are dozens of ways to have fun with eggs this holiday season! From egg hunts to science experiments to decorations, colorful eggs say springtime like nothing else! We have you covered if you’re looking for some egg-cellent Easter egg ideas for indoors and out! Keep reading to discover fun and unique ways to play with eggs and celebrate Easter this spring!
Decorating Ideas
For the crafty kid, consider one of these fun decorating ideas to spruce up your Easter Eggs. Whether you want something traditional-looking or fun and funky, we have a handful of unique ideas to try!
Sprinkle Eggs
This unique egg idea comes from Baking Bites. All you need to make these colorful decorations are hard-boiled eggs, Modge Podge, and sprinkles. Any color or design will do, but from reading various opinions, the small, non-peril style works best.
Kids can help coat eggs in Modge Podge and roll them in the sprinkles. Sure, it’s messy, but it’s also a lot of fun!
Minon Eggs
If your kids love the Minions like mine, create these adorable eggs together! Numerous Minion Easter Egg tutorials are online, but this handy video from Open More Toys is easy to follow and kid-friendly.
These eggs are simple to make, using a standard egg-dying kit, permanent marker, glue, and Google eyes. They require patience because kids have to wait for them to dry before adding the details, but we think they’re worth the wait! Plus, your kids can be creative as they make various Minion faces.
Natural Dyes
Natural dyes started trending a few years back, and we love the science behind making them! Creating and using natural dyes is STEAM at its best, utilizing science, technology, art, and math skills! The supplies needed to make naturally dyed Easter eggs will vary depending on the colors you want to create. Otherwise, you’ll need standard kitchen supplies like a 3-quart pot, tongs, paper towels, white vinegar, a whisk, and small bowls.
We found an excellent tutorial on Martha Stewart’s page outlining which dying agents you’ll need for various colors, how much, and how long to boil them. Natural dyes may take longer, but the benefits of engaging in science and art with your kids make this project worth trying.
If you want some genuinely original ideas on decorating and dying Easter eggs, check out House Beautiful’s 45 unique ways to dye Easter Eggs! My personal favorite is the gold leaf eggs!
Egg Science Experiments
Eggs make excellent science experiment subjects. They’re readily available nd expose kids to natural elements. There are so many fun and inventive egg experiments online that we can’t feature them all, but here are a handful we thought were perfect for younger kids!
The Humpty Dumpty Experiment
Supplies needed include eggs, Ziploc bags, and various cushioning materials, such as cotton, bubble wrap, and paper towels. The plastic bags are to contain the mess when the egg drops break, but you can do this experiment without bags if you choose or have a place outside that doesn’t require cleanup.
Start by discussing with your child why an eggshell cracks when it falls. What materials might soften the blow so the shell doesn’t crack? Will dropping the egg from different heights affect whether the egg breaks or how much it breaks? What other factors might change how or if the egg breaks?
Then, let your kids choose which buffering agents to wrap their egg in, how much to use, and how to wrap it. Place the egg in the Ziploc (if using them) and drop it. Did it break? Repeat as often as you want using different cushioning materials and dropping eggs from different heights.
Bouncing Egg
Perhaps the most popular egg experiment involves soaking an egg in vinegar to soften and make its shell bouncy; you may remember conducting this experiment when you were a kid! To add depth to this experiment, multiple eggs can be soaked in different solutions to see their effect on the egg’s characteristics. Have your child predict what they think will happen with each egg. Write down their predictions so you can reference them later.
Supplies you’ll need include glass mason jars (or glasses or cups), eggs, labels to mark each solution, a permanent marker, white vinegar, and other liquids such as oil, water, soda, milk, etc.
Egg Geodes
Eggshells make the perfect home to grow geodes. You’ll need specific supplies to grow crystals in your eggshells, so we recommend reading the whole experiment at www.steampoweredfamily.com. Their page provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to grow egg geodes and some problem-solving tips if your crystals aren’t growing.
We love this experiment becuase it uses one natural material to create another one! Science experiments promote critical thinking and understanding of cause and effect, and teach children to make predictions or hypotheses based on their current knowledge.
Easter Egg Games
Egg hunts are a tried and true tradition at Easter, but there are more ways to play with eggs than the traditional seek and find! Here are a handful of games you can try this spring break to keep your little ones entertained!
Egg Matching
Colorful plastic eggs work well to create a unique matching game. Using small objects that fit inside the eggs (being mindful of choking hazards), create a matching game where your child has to find two like objects. This game promotes memory and recognition of shared traits in objects and develops fine motor skills as your kid opens and closes each egg.
You can use objects of the same kind, for example, large plastic shape buttons, small animal figures, colored pom-poms, etc., or mix and match all types of objects as long as you have two of each item you’re placing inside the eggs. For younger children, use a 12 or 18 egg carton to place the eggs in; using a carton will help them remember where each item was. Try spreading them over the floor or table to increase the difficulty with older kids.
Color Sorting
Use colorful past egg shells to sort objects by color! You only need a 12 or 18-egg carton, different-colored egg halves, and colorful objects like pom-poms, buttons, erasers, etc. Kids naturally love to sort objects, so present them with the above items and see what happens!
Your child may use the items differently, and that’s okay, too! But you can gently show them how to match colors and sort while playing with them, and see if they catch on! Have your tot practice their colors with our Color Me game or Colorific. You can also use the colorful objects to create and extend patterns and practice basic addition and subtraction.
Numeral Matching
Using plastic Easter eggs and a permanent marker, write a numeral on the bottom half of the egg, for example, “6,” and draw six dots on the top. Create eggs for 1-10, 1-15, or 1-20 depending on your child’s numeral recognition skills.
Separate the halves and see if your child can match the written numerals to the same number of dots. To make it more challenging, use different colors for the top and bottom of each number pair. Not only will your kids get practice with understanding quantity and numeral recognition, but they’ll develop fine motor skills too!
What other egg-cellent ideas can you think of to do with Easter eggs this spring break? Indoor egg hunts are as fun as outdoor if the weather makes outdoors tricky and may even provide more nooks and crannies to hide eggs! For bigger kids who can read, place clues inside eggs that lead them to the next one, culminating in a big prize. There’s no limit to the fun and games you can play using these versatile spring objects!
April 14, 2025, by L. Elizabeth Forry
