How old is too old for an Easter egg hunt?

[Anonymous]

My older 2 kids just turned 12 and 14. My youngest is 6.

When did you stop doing Easter egg hunts with the kids?

[Anonymous]

14

[Anonymous]

There are usually age limits for organized ones, though they do have them for older kids too which is great. With family and friends never too opd.

[Anonymous]

Never if with your own family. Why not have fun if they are willing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My older 2 kids just turned 12 and 14. My youngest is 6.

When did you stop doing Easter egg hunts with the kids?

12.

[Anonymous]

never

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:never

+1

We just make it harder.

My teens like my dust egg gmhunts which require flashlights sometimes or I'll put a glow bracelet inside the plastic egg to make it glow.

I've also done it scavenger hunt style with clues.

[Anonymous]

We’ve done a lot of Easter hunts with a range of ages… from 2 - 18. Some where the younger kids go first and find the easy ones and tge older kids go later; the night time flashlight hunts; where we pair an older kid with a younger kid, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:never

+1

We just make it harder.

My teens like my dust egg gmhunts which require flashlights sometimes or I'll put a glow bracelet inside the plastic egg to make it glow.

I've also done it scavenger hunt style with clues.

+1
I've painted myself into a corner because I usually do an elaborate (in terms of how the eggs are found) Easter egg hunt. Some years involved Morse code, some French when they started, and a smaller version of geocaching. I feel that I always have to go tougher the following year, but I'll do them as long as they want. I have teens too.

[Anonymous]

My neighborhood one goes up to 12, but I always figured that was mostly just so the older siblings of the little ones weren't left out.

My kids "aged out" around 8 or so.

[Anonymous]

We switched from Easter eggs to an Easter basket full of goodies (one each kid) at about 14. We had a great time hiding those baskets, too, in some really hard to find places and did the "You're getting warmer" and "Oh, no, you're getting colder" game if it got too hard for them. They absolutely loved it! The best places were: One sealed in a plastic bag and weighted down in the pond; one about 40 feet off the ground on top of a large oak branch, easily visible but no one saw it; and the best one was hidden "in plain sight" nestled in the top of a huge area of blackberry bushes for our oldest, who is much shorter than the rest of the kids. Everyone could see it but her!

[Anonymous]

Add to above post: We kept this up until they left home. And we all still make an Easter basket for each other - we just changed the ingredients to more "adult" goodies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never if with your own family. Why not have fun if they are willing.

Agree. They’re fun. Though they’re more fun with little kids who haven’t lost their sense of wonder, but never.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We switched from Easter eggs to an Easter basket full of goodies (one each kid) at about 14. We had a great time hiding those baskets, too, in some really hard to find places and did the "You're getting warmer" and "Oh, no, you're getting colder" game if it got too hard for them. They absolutely loved it! The best places were: One sealed in a plastic bag and weighted down in the pond; one about 40 feet off the ground on top of a large oak branch, easily visible but no one saw it; and the best one was hidden "in plain sight" nestled in the top of a huge area of blackberry bushes for our oldest, who is much shorter than the rest of the kids. Everyone could see it but her!

Hey, creative!
I just may have to steal this idea

[Anonymous]

35, maybe older.