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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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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! 🙂