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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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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!