Free Easter egg hunt clues for older kids and adults

Happy 2025 Spring!

It feels like time has just flown by these past couple of years, and now the end of holiday magic came to my door on Christmas 2024. Making it the first official Christmas without believing in Santa Claus. Suspicions were had, but nothing confirmed until July 2024 while cleaning out the closet. In a few minutes, all the years of playing Santa, Minty, Easter Bunny, and the tooth fairy came to an end.
I am very grateful my children got to experience the joy and belief in magic that those traditions brought with them. Watching a child's face on Christmas morning is one of the best experiences in life. Pure joy and happiness times infinity.

I asked the girls what traditions they wanted me to keep doing, and they chose the decorated birthday chair and Easter basket hunt. So, in the same few minutes that ended it all, 2 new traditions were reborn and graduated into adulthood.

The decorated birthday chair is a tradition that was created by Minty, their Elf on the Shelf. Who would come from the North Pole for their birthdays to celebrate, spend the day wearing a cupcake costume, and decorate a chair for them. The Easter basket hunt was a tradition started by the Easter Bunny, who would hide their baskets and leave numbered eggs with riddle clues inside that guided them to their baskets.

This Christmas, Minty just sat on my daughter's shelf like another decoration. 

So begins a new era for holidays at Greenacre. An era of chilling like a villain, where you don't have to hide or lie about anything. You can fill the stockings without worrying about the noise the tissue paper makes. No more hoping they don't hear it and figure it out when they unwrap the tissue paper that made the same noise the night before. No more stressing about letters, arrivals, departures, or having to lie to maintain the fantasy. It makes me feel both sad and glad at the same time. So if you're worried about what happens when your child finds out about Santa, don’t be. It’s just the next chapter in your lives that comes with its own perks.

One being that you can decide what traditions you want to keep or create as a family. Why not start an Easter basket hunt for the older kids or adults? We are all kids at heart, and solving riddles to get a goodie basket will bring a smile to anyone's face.

First, start by making the baskets. Fill it with items you think that person would enjoy, or things you want to give them. Then scroll down to the clues and download the pages that have clues that are easily found in your home. Right-click on the picture to save it to your computer. Then print and cut the clues. You can either place the clues in numbered eggs or just place the clues in each location.

To plan the hunting route, you need to locate the items used in the clues and figure out the distances between them. I suggest that you make a map for yourself by writing down the locations of each clue in sequence.

Each set of clues has the answer key below to help you customize a hunt for your home by identifying the items you would need for the clues.

Here is another set of clues.

Enjoy all the moments that make up your life because they really do go by in the blink of an eye. 

“The Only Constant in Life Is Change.”- Heraclitus

Free printable Easter wall art

 

Art is a great way to update and change a room with the seasons. Not only is it budget-friendly but the art prints can be kept as mementos afterwards. It doesn't require much effort or involve a big clean-up afterwards. You just change the art print in the frame, and you're done. Sort of like a pillow cover case, but on the wall, and the picture frame is the pillow.  It makes more sense in my mind than how it came out but I think you get the picture, and no pun intended.

I made some colourful and happy Easter wall art prints that I wanted to share with y'all. So if you want to get your Easter decorating on, these will certainly do the trick. 

To save an Easter wall art printable, right -click on the picture to save it to your computer.

Hope you enjoy the wall art.

Free printable Easter egg hunt clues and a walnut kifle cookie recipe.

 

Easter is in 12 days and I have been busy baking and preparing for the Easter egg basket hunt. Time feels like it's going quicker these days. Can you believe that Christmas was 12 weeks ago, feels like it's only been a couple of weeks.

The Easter decorations came up right after Valentine's Day but I did not throw the casa out of the window with the decorations this year. Instead, I created simpler vignettes to add more of an Easter flavor. With the less is more being the theme for me these past few years because I don't want to have to spend days putting up decorations only to have to spend another couple of days taking it all down. I save that energy for Christmas and birthdays.

Greenacre's Easter egg hunt is a tad different as the kids hunt down their Easter baskets with clues hidden in plastic Easter eggs. Each clue is put inside a numbered egg that is left in the location of the clue in the riddle of the previous number. For example, clue #7 would be located at the washer and the answer to the riddle would be the dryer. Clue #8 would be located at the dryer with clue #9's location

To save the Easter egg hunt clues, right-click on the image and save it to your computer. Print the clues on an 8x10 sheet of paper

I made a few different Easter egg hunt clue themes this year. One for kids, teens, and adults. I tried to pick things a lot of people would commonly have in their homes. 

The first Easter egg hunt is for kids with a puppy theme.

The answer sheet

The next couple of Easter egg hunt clues are for older children and teens.

Answer sheet

Answer sheet

Last we have the adult Easter egg hunt clues.

Answer sheet

 

These cookies are my absolute favorite and I wanted to share them with y'all.

It took me a couple of years to create this recipe as the original baker did not want to share their recipe so this is a tweaked combination of alot of different recipes found online.

Here is a visual step-by-step on how to make them;

 Some people like to shape them into crescents but as you can see, I am not one of those people.

When they are cooled, sprinkle vanilla icing sugar or plain icing sugar but vanilla icing sugar adds more flavour. I keep half in the freezer and thaw them as needed because the recipes makes a lot of cookies.

Hope they become your favorite as well.