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Make a Glow in the Dark Easter Egg hunt your new Easter tradition. Just add glow sticks and candy to your plastic eggs and hide them at night for a fun family activity!
Create a fun activity for both kids and adults to enjoy after Easter Dinner! Everyone will love it so much, you’ll have to make it a yearly Easter tradition.
The Kids’ Favorite Easter Tradition
It’s already almost Easter! Can you believe it?
Today, we wanted to share with you one of our favorite family Easter traditions.
Every year on Easter, we always do an Easter brunch or Easter dinner with extended family, but something we started doing with our kids is a glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt!
The kids LOVE it! Not only is it easy to do, but it’s so fun as well! All you do is grab some plastic eggs, fill them with glow sticks and candy, and hide them in the yard (or the house!) at night when it’s dark. The kids (& tweens and teens) go nuts!!
what you need
- Plastic Easter Eggs (medium – large size work best)
- Glow Sticks – glow bracelet size (found in the dollar section at Target, Michael’s, Dollar Store) – or Mini Glow Sticks
- Another favorite is ballon lights. They are even brighter and easier to use!
- Tape
- Candy
How to Make Glow in the Dark Easter Eggs
- Snap glow sticks so they are glowing and insert into eggs along with some candy.
- TIP: The regular sized glow sticks can be a little tricky to fit in and close easily. The easiest thing we’ve found that helps is tying them in a knot and then putting it inside the egg OR use mini glow sticks or the balloon lights.
- Tape shut, if needed, and HIDE while glow sticks are glowing.
That’s it – Told you it was EASY!
What’s great about these eggs is that are FUN! Even the hubby was temped to go out and find them during the hunt since he thought they looked so cool.
I promise this will become your kids’ new favorite Easter tradition.
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Glow in the Dark Easter Eggs
Ingredients
- Plastic Easter Eggs medium or large size work best
- Glow Sticks found in the dollar section at Target, Michael’s, Dollar Store, or Mini Glow Sticks
- Tape
- Candy
Instructions
- Snap glow sticks so they are glowing and insert into eggs along with some candy. TIP: The regular sized glow sticks can be a little tricky to fit in and close easily. The easiest thing we’ve found that helps is tying them in a knot and then putting it inside the egg.
- Tape shut, if needed, and HIDE while glow sticks are glowing.
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Soooooo much fun! I’ve never seen mini glow in the dark glow sticks and those are way easier to use than the bracelet size.
Note- I don’t know if it was my phone being weird, but I got an Amazon error when I clicked on your mini glow stick link so I did a keyword search on amazon and you can get 200 mini sticks for $11. Great deal.
Such a cute idea for an Easter egg hunt! The grandkids love it.
Egg hunt at night means fun for the whole family. The bigger kids love it just as much as the younger ones. It’s such a fun idea!
Hi! Stumbled upon your link + wanted to share something thAt has worked well for Us over the years. I purchase The tea lights from the Dollar Tree. They come in packs of four + fit perfectly inside a plastic egg. Some are white light, some change colors. It is super easy to just turn theM on. We store and reuse them.
Good idea! Thank you for sharing that!
ohh woww they are looking cool , this is such a great idea , glow eggs or balloons
The kids love these things!! Glow sticks come in handy in so many ways! I’m glad you like this idea!!
and I m happy that a blogger herself answering me 😀 you have a lot of followers on facebook , you have a big amount of fan of your party ideas 🙂
Oh, thank you so much!!! We love to throw parties and it is so much more fun when you can share what you did and your ideas! So many fun ideas out there!
We did the Easter egg glow in dark. With glow Sticks in colored eggs with candy didn’t work well. The kids couldn’t hardly tell what color the eggs were. Since they had a certain color to hunt. Can someone tell us what we did wrong.
Hmmm, we have done it several times each year for the past few years and it’s always worked. Were your glow sticks new and bright?
We loved this activity. But we used it for FHE and my husband used the story in Enos of the Brother of Jared- where the Lord lights the stones. I’m sure my kids will never forget this scripture story, because of the glow-in-the- dark eggs! 🙂
LOVE THE IDEA!!! I’m so glad they liked it. 😀
Ok, this may sound like a really dumb question but I want to do a night egg hunt w/ the glow stick but I have a couple of questions: first–the glow sticks–the stuff in them to make them glow, is it liquid, gel, ???. The reason I’m asking that is, here comes the dumb part, I have glow “sticks” and was wondering if I could cut them to go in the eggs. (They are too long as the “sticks”.), second–what “glow” thing did you use in them??? Thanks for your help. Marty
Hobby Lobby sells the little tiny sticks to put inside the eggs:)
How much are these glow sticks??? or do you remember??? We are on a tight budget so just wondering. THanks
Can’t wait to try these Glow in the Dark Eggs this Easter!
how long do the eggs glow? Or how long do the glow sticks last?
I did this yesterday and it was a hit!!! Thanks so much for the idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your right the glow sticks are a little hard to fit, but other thann that it was awesome even the big kids wanted to go egg hunting!:)
YAY!! So glad it was a hit. We’re doing ours tomorrow, and the kids are SOOO excited. 🙂
Genuinely when someone doesn’t know then its up to other viewers that they will assist, so here it occurs.
I absolutely love this!! I actually don’t have children myself, but enjoyed doing it for the kids in the family! I think the adults enjoyed it more than some of the kids!! It was a blast! We did a glow in the dark egg hunt both Saturday and Sunday nite! Thanks so much!
May I use your glow in the dark picture on my private blog to have a visual to link to your post on this? We did a glow in the dark hunt and it was a great success, but we didn’t get a photo of any glowing eggs.
Sure thing! As long as you link back you can always use a pic from my blog. Thanks for asking. 🙂
I adore this!! Thank you for the fun activity–I wanted to share our experience with you. I blogged about the fun we had and left linky love on my blog of fun kids activities. Thanks again!
Gianne at cowsgomooandducksgoquack.blogspot.com
I can not find the sticks anywhere! Where did you all find them?
I find mine at the local dollar store, or in the dollar sections at Target or Michael’s. There is like 15 in a tube, and they’re $1. 🙂
I absolutely love this idea! Thanks so much for sharing.
You’re welcome! It really is a great idea and the kids love it! 🙂
This is such a fun idea!!
The kids seriously LOVE it. We are doing it again Saturday. 🙂
LOVE this idea-so fun! We “egg” our neighbors every year & this year we added this & the kids went crazy for it! It was so successful we are making more for a party tomorrow night!
Yay!! I love to hear that! So fun!! Good luck with your party tomorrow night as well. I think we will be doing it again also. 🙂
These are so fun! I am going to do this for my boys tonight! Can’t wait, they are going to love it!
Thank you, Chrissy!! Curious how it went tonight with the boys. Hope they liked it. 🙂
Wow, now you can hunt eggs after dark…..an easy hunt too. I wouldn’t lose these either. love it…I’m glad I found your blog at the Creations by Kara party. II liked you on FB, but I didn’t see a follow button,, so I can keep in touch. I would love if you stopped by and followed back on LF and GFC. Nice to meet you, Lori
So cute! I wonder if those little light up votives would fit in there so at least you could have eggs that turn on and off.
Ooooh – great idea!! Let me know if you try it out. Would love to add that option to the post. Thanks for stopping by! XO
I love this idea. Definitely saving it to do with my kids. Thanks!
Your kids will love it. We already did it once but the kids had so much fun we may have to do it one more time before Easter is over. 🙂
Great idea! The last couple of years, because my kids are a little older, I’ve done a flashlight Easter egg hunt at night, where I’ve painted the eggs with glow in the dark paint, to make the hunt a little more challenging than a daytime hunt. But the glow sticks in the eggs will be perfect for the young guests.
Jennifer – painting the eggs in glow in the dark pant is awesome too!!! Great idea! Will have to try that out next year! Thanks for coming over to say hi. Hope you can come back again. 🙂
Oh my gosh! I just love this idea! My son and nephews will just have a blast hunting for these. Thanks for the awesome tip!
You’re welcome, Courtney! It’s so fun especially because with our family we are always rushing to get it done before it gets too dark but now we solved that problem! Hope your kiddos like it. Have a great Easter! 🙂
I love this idea. My 6 year old is obsessed with egg hunts and this would be a fun twist to that. Thanks for sharing. I would love it if you could link this up to our linky party going on right now.
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Thank you!! He will definitely love the glow in the dark eggs. They just look so cool when they are all lit up and spread out on the yard. Thanks for stopping by! 😀
Fun! Sounds like a great idea. Now I’ve just got to get my hands on some plastic eggs and I’m set!
Let me know how it goes. My kiddos LOVED it!! Have a great week and a Happy Easter. 🙂
These are SO fun Kristyn! 🙂
Thanks, friend!! Your kiddo would love them too – they are just so fun to look at. 🙂
Now this looks like a hunt that would be fun to do well past Easter, like on warm summer nights! I’m so excited to try this with my kids!
That’s a great idea, Janet!! I can’t get over how much fun it was. The kids loved it, and even my hubby couldn’t stop looking at the eggs. LOL – we’re nerds. Haha!
This is wonderful idea. I definitely will do it for my grandchildren. Thanks!
I guarantee your kids will love this – it was SO fun! 😀
I am in love with this idea. I had to share it on my facebook page.
Lisa @ creative raisins
Thanks for sharing, and for stopping by! Hope you have a great Easter! XO
doesn’t the stuff pour out of the glow stick when u cut it
You don’t cut them. You kind of twist (crack) them to make them glow.
glow stick necklaces or bracelets would be what you were looking for
Yes, you don’t cut it – you just snap the glow sticks so they are glowing and stuff in. 😉
LOVE this! Featuring it this Sunday on my Sunday Stalker!
Thank you so much!! I hope you have a great day, and I appreciate you stopping by. 🙂
Such a fun idea! I think even my older boys would like these!
They would totally love it, Kara. It’s so easy and fun and the eggs look so cool all lit up. 🙂
Genius! My 4 year old can’t stop asking me about these and what will happen if someone touches them. 😉
Oh yes, my 4 year old LOVED it. They were totally confused as to why it glowed but loved the hunt and opening it up to find the glow sticks AND candy. Bonus!!
What a fun idea! I’m going to try and find the short (2″) glow sticks today!