Welcome back to Easter egg decorating ideas for anyone who wants something a little more elegant and moody than your traditional Easter decor!
If you missed my Gold Confetti Easter Eggs, and my Elegant Bow Easter Eggs from last week, you might love those Easter egg ideas as well!
Today we’re going to dive into these glam numbered Easter eggs I crafted using gold paint and black felt number stickers from The Dollar Tree! Then we’ll dig into how you can use them to run some really fun easter games for kids and adults alike!
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How I Made My Numbered Gold Easter Eggs
This is one of the easiest Easter crafts you’ll ever make. If you can paint a wall in your house, you can make these.
Step One: Empty & Dry Your Eggs
Feel free to prepare your eggs any way you like. I chose to use real eggs that I emptied out and dried. (I’m definitely picking up one of these to help me if I do this again next year though.)
Step Two: Paint Your Eggs Gold
Since I was challenging myself to use mainly dollar store supplies, I used metallic gold paint I picked up from the Dollar Tree. However, if were to do this again, I think I’d prefer to rub-n-buff the eggs with my go-to european gold shade. Mainly because I found the Dollar Tree paint to be VERY thin and need at least 4 coats of paint which, with dry time, made this step last longer than I would have liked.
Pro Tip: Use a hair dryer to up speed up the drying and re-coat process!
Step Three: Apply Your Numbered Stickers
This was the best part of this DIY, so fast, so easy. Just peel, stick and they looked so cute immediately.
Annoyingly, it appears that Dollar Tree has discontinued these cute little felt number stickers. I sourced an alternative option for you at the bottom of this post, but sadly I couldn’t find anyone else selling felt numbers like this. Hopefully Dollar Tree will bring these back!
How To Use Your Numbered Gold Eggs
There are so many different ways you could use these oh so cute and oh so simple numbered golden Easter eggs. Here are just a few ideas to get you started, but the possibilities are endless:
Numbered Easter Egg Hunt Ideas – For Kids
Whether you have a preschooler who is working on number recognition and basic math skills, or older kids who need an extra challenge this Easter, these numbered egg hunt ideas are the perfect way to make your Easter egg more exciting than ever.
1. Mix Them Into Your Normal Egg Hunt To Represent Special Golden Egg Prizes
Want to raise the stakes on your normal easter egg hunt? Then try hide a few of these special golden eggs along with the rest of your normal eggs. Each hunter is only allowed to collect one numbered golden egg. When the hunt is over, it is revealed what special prize corresponds to each golden egg number.
2. Run A Numbered Egg Scavenger Hunt
For a new take on the traditional Easter egg hunt, hide your numbered gold eggs then create a list of clues for each egg’s location. At the start of the egg hunt, each hunter is give a checklist with clues that tells them where to find each of the golden Easter eggs. Once a child has found all the eggs (leaving them in place for the next person to find) and checked off all the boxes on their list, they can turn in their completed checklist for a small prize.
Egg Cache Variant: Another way to run this same hunt is to hide a cache of Easter eggs at each location, one for every child or team participating with the same number. (So if you had 5 children playing the game you’d hide five eggs with the #1 on them at the first cache point). At the start of the game you’d hand out the set of clues and the child/team would use them to find the hidden caches of Easter eggs. When they find the cache they would then collect an egg from that location. The first child/team to find all the numbers wins a large prize. Each person to turn in a full set of eggs afterward also receives a prize (but one slightly less awesome than 1st place winner).
3. Organize An Egg Matching Hunt
Another fresh take on the standard egg hunt is to hide two sets of eggs with matching numbers. One set is hidden in a very easy to find location. When a child picks up the egg they find a small clue written on the other side leading them to the second matching egg. The child can only place the egg in their basket when they have found both matching numbers. When all the matches have been found, the child with the most pairs of numbered eggs wins and a small prize can be given to everyone who found a pair of matching eggs.
4. Hold A “Highest Total Wins” Easter Egg Hunt
In this version of the egg hunt, all the eggs are numbered, hidden, and the children are told to find and gather as many eggs as possible. Just like a traditional egg hunt.
Here’s the twist. At the end of the hunt, every child empties their basket of eggs and writes down the number on each of the eggs they found. Then the child adds together all those numbers to get a total sum. The child with the highest sum wins a special prize.
Numbered Easter Egg Ideas – For Adults
Easter celebrations aren’t just for kids! So whether you’re hosting an elegant Easter brunch, or a full fledged adult egg hunt, here’s some creative ways you can use these numbered eggs during your celebrations.
1. Have Party Guests Draw One Numbered Egg Out Of A Bowl For A Corresponding Prize
How cute would a pile of these in a large glass vase be that your guests could reach into and grab one at random from!? After selecting their golden egg, it is revealed what prize they just won. You could even run a version of the give away like a white elephant, AKA dirty santa gift exchange… dare we call our version the “sneaky bunny”?
2. Use Numbered Easter Eggs To Run A Game Of Easter Bingo
Another creative use for these eggs would be to place them in a giant fish bowl and them draw them out at random for a game of Easter bingo! To make things super easy, you can even use this FREE BINGO CARD GENERATOR tool that I found online!
3. Host A Lottery-Style Drawing With Your Numbered Eggs
Want a fun adult egg hunt ideas? Give your guests 5 mins to find as many numbered eggs as possible. After the the 5mins are up, gather everyone together and hold a drawing where numbers are called. If a guest has a numbered egg that matches the number you called, they win a prize!
4. Run An Easter Egg Hunt For Adults Where You Could Win (Or Lose) Money
Another amazing use for these comes from a viral blog post I found the other day by Busy Toddler. Essentially you invite over a bunch of adult friends and have them hunt for numbered eggs. Each person is told to find a predetermined number of eggs (10-12 is the example she gives).
Once everyone has collected their eggs you gather everyone together, have them line up their eggs in sequential order and proceed to tell them what the numbers mean. Starting at egg #1 you’d read from a piece of paper that has a list of actions on it like 1. Add $1 2. Add 50¢. 3. Sub 75¢ 4. Person to your right gets $1 5. Take everything from the person to your left…. and so on.
Each guest then does a lot of math to find out if they made money or maybe owes you money! So fun right? Read the full details with all the rules and more examples here.
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For this project I used only supplies you can pick up at your local Dollar Tree. However, if you don’t have a Dollar Tree near you, or they are out of stock of one of the items I used, here are some alternative options I sourced for you (and a one thing I wish I had used).
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