Some families don’t want to do Easter baskets on Easter to make sure that they don’t take away from the true meaning of Easter. Personally, my family’s Easter tradition ensured I never had a problem with understanding what Easter was all about as a kid, while still enjoying my Easter basket on Easter morning.
Today, I was Very excited to pass down my family’s tradition to my sons.
Easter Basket Scavenger Hunts!
Our kids hunt for their Easter baskets by having a scavenger hunt with Bible story clues!
My eldest isn’t quite old enough to read the clues yet, but he knows enough Bible stories that we were able to read the clues to him, and he figured out where he was suppose to go next on his own.
The first clue led him to our fruit stash. (You could include any of the verses about fruit for this one. We told him about John 15:4, “No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.”
My eldest knew what Pilate did at Jesus’s trial, because we had just talked about that earlier in the week in his Holy Week coloring book.
Jesus washing his disciples’ feet was another story we had discussed in his coloring book earlier in the week.
For his last clue, I made him hunt a little bit. We wash his feet in the bathtub, but his basket wasn’t hidden in the bathtub right next to that sink.
We put his basket in his bathroom upstairs. So, it was fun watching him running around the house, smiling and excited to find his prize.
We put little brother’s basket with it, because we knew he would want to follow along wherever big brother went!
As I grew up, the clues became harder and eventually I started receiving Bible verses I had to go look up myself instead of the fill in the blank verses.
You can make it as hard or as easy as you want to!
I hope you will consider adding this to your Easter morning tradition, and Stop feeling guilty about doing Easter baskets on Easter morning. There’s no reason it has to detract from the true Easter Story.
HAPPY EASTER!
Update from 5 years later…..
Pretty much as soon as Christmas was done this year, our kids were telling us how they couldn’t wait for Easter Basket Scavenger Hunt time! (From what they’ve said- I think they might like the hunt even more than their baskets.)
We are currently very grateful for the Easter Basket Scavenger Hunt clues you can purchase from various Etsy stores to print, cut out, and hide in appropriate places, such as this one.
(My dad would would’ve saved so much time if he had this!)
