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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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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! 😀