The annual Easter egg hunt is a big deal in our family and something I really look forward to each year! I have so many fun memories of my brother and our cousins running all around our grandparents’ house looking for all of the eggs that were hidden for us. I loved the Easter egg hunt so much as a child but it’s even more fun now as a mom. Now that the responsibility of filling the eggs lands on me, and because I don’t want to load my kids up with tons of sugar, I had to do a little research to find the best things to fill the eggs with. Today I am sharing the best, non-candy Easter egg fillers.
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EASTER EGG FILLERS
Mini Pull Back Cars: This specific item is on my list every year because it is a crowd favorite. The younger kids like them but even the older boys like playing with them, too.
Mini Play Packs: I love these so much! They’re just like the bigger packs except these are much smaller. They come with 2 crayons, an 8-page coloring book, and a sticker. They are so great the keep in your bag and pull out at restaurants or waiting at the doctor’s office. You’ll need to be put them in larger eggs. Here’s a Disney Princess option.
Mini Whoopee Cushion: These were a big hit at our Easter Egg hunt last year! My cousin’s son traded all of his money for one whoopee cousin!
Mini Play-Doh: This is another crowd favorite. You will need to use larger eggs for these, too.
Play Money for the toddlers and real money for the bigger kids. Our parents used to put some coins in just some of the eggs. And if you were lucky and found the golden egg, that one had a couple of dollar bills! Now we put coins or a dollar bill in most of the eggs and maybe $5 in a few of them.
Another fun idea is to have a few bigger items (small lego set, doll, puzzle) for the Easter egg hunt. Since these obviously won’t fit into the eggs, use a piece of paper with a heart or bunny stamped on it and put that inside the egg instead. When the hunt is over, whoever got the piece of paper with the stamp can trade the paper in for one of the bigger items.
Of course, you can absolutely put candy in the eggs, too. We usually have some with candy and some with the items mentioned above to accommodate the younger kids as well as some of the kids who have food allergies and can’t eat the candy.
If you have a lot of kids and a wide age range of kids participating in the Easter egg hunt, it might be worth it to have 2 separate hunts. For example, last year we had the toddlers do an egg hunt in the grass first. Their eggs were filled with mostly toys. And instead of candy, I put goldfish crackers and mandarin oranges in their eggs. After the toddlers finished their hunt, it was time for the older kids. For them, we were able to get more sneaky and creative with where we hid the eggs in the backyard. They had to look high and low for all of their eggs!
One more tip- if you’re hosting the Easter egg hunt, ask each family to bring a dozen filled Easter eggs to hide. This way you won’t have to provide all of the eggs for the hunt. It also gives the kids a fun variety to the eggs as each family usually fills them with different things.
I hope this was helpful! Are you hosting or attending an Easter egg hunt? If so, what do you use for Easter egg fillers?
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I don’t celebrate Easter commercially but I love the idea of non-candy fillers! Great fun choices!