Bad Easter Weather? These Indoor Egg Hunt Ideas Are a Total Win

If you have been watching the weather this week, you already know that Easter Sunday is not looking particularly cooperative across much of the country. Severe storms, heavy rain, and strong winds are in the forecast from the Plains through the Mississippi Valley and into parts of the Southeast and Great Lakes. For families counting on an outdoor egg hunt, it is time to build a backup plan. The good news is that an indoor egg hunt done well is not a consolation prize. It can be genuinely more exciting than what you had planned outside.

Here is how to make it work.

Use the Whole House

The biggest mistake in indoor hunts is confining them to a single room. Spread eggs throughout every area of the house where kids are allowed: behind couch cushions, inside shoes by the door, tucked into bookshelves between books, balanced on top of door frames, hidden inside throw blankets, and sitting at the back of low cabinet shelves. The more territory covered, the longer the hunt lasts, and the more genuinely stumped kids get.

For younger children, keep eggs at or below eye level and in obvious locations. For older kids, go higher and use trickier spots: inside the pocket of a hanging jacket, underneath a pet's food bowl, inside a cereal box in the pantry.