Easter is coming! I’ve made a list of of Easter egg filler ideas to help you plan a fun Easter egg hunt for your child or students with autism. Combine an Easter egg hunt for kids with autism with these Easter cut and paste activities for extra fun! Plan a fun autism Easter egg hunt!
What are your family traditions for celebrating Easter? We have quite a few in my family. One Easter when we were little, my mom hid my Easter basket in the oven and my sister’s Easter basket in the washing machine! We loved it so much that those funny hiding places stayed ours throughout our entire childhoods! This is one of our favorite, family Easter traditions. ♥
I also love Easter egg hunts. The kids at Le Chemin ABA love egg hunts so much that we continue doing them throughout the year, rather than just saving them for our Easter celebrations! The children love finding the eggs and opening them and we use the small items as therapy tools.
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Planning an Easter egg hunt for kids with autism is simple. You’ll just need some plastic eggs and cute fillers. (I’m more than a little obsessed with these crocheted eggs that open as well!)
Easter Egg Filler Ideas
1. Mini cars
2. Finger puppets
3. Mini alphabet magnets
4. Small figurines
6. Mr. Potato Head’s
body parts
7. Mini LED candles
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9. Stamps
10. Stickers
11. Mini bouncy balls
12. Small bottles of bubbles (one of my favorite Easter egg filler ideas!)
13. Small balls (like mini basketballs, handballs, etc.)
14. Mini erasers
15. Googly eyes for crafts
16. Homemade tickets that your child can exchange to ride the Merry-go-Round, to go for an ice cream or to buy a little toy
17. Seed packets to grow your own herb garden
19. Temporary tattoos
20. Small magnets
21. Gold coins
22. Ribbon
23. Light-up toys
24. Wind-up toys
25. Coins (real money)
26. Jelly beans
28. Rubber wrist bracelets
29. Pieces to a puzzle
30. Fun band aids
31. Cute mask
32. Mini pack of chips
33. Hair bows
34. Seashells
35. Cute painted rocks
36. Mini markers
37. Jewelry
38. Pocket hugs
39. Chopped veggies
40. Ear buds
41. Mini shampoo
42. Washi tape
43. Post-it notes
44. Beautifu watercolor stickers
45. Makeup
46. Mini body wash
47. Mini hand cream
48. Nail tattoos
49. Mini hair conditioner
50. Cool paperclips
51. Keychain
53. Mask lanyard
Autism-Friendly Easter Egg Hunt (5 tips)
- Follow your child or students interests when choosing Easter eggs fillers. Autistic individuals often have specific interests and following their interests when choosing the items to put in the plastic eggs will make this activity way more fun for them!
- Use your creativity. Have fun with this activity as well, use this list as a starting off point but feel free to add any other cool items you come up with!
- Give appropriate physical prompts. If your little one needs help going to find eggs, or opening them, give them the help they need.
- An Easter egg hunt can be a fine motor building activity! Picking up eggs builds and opening them, uses pincer grasp and builds fine motor skills. (If you need more fine motor building activities for kids with autism, get the fine motor autism activities bundle here!)
- Plan the Easter egg hunt for one child or a small group. It will be easier to organize an autism-friendly Easter egg hunt for just one child you can help along the way or a very small group so you can give prompts and support as needed.
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More Autism Learning Resources
- Autism Activities Workbook Bundle – build communication skills, fine motor skills, sensory play skills and daily living skills, while helping your child or students to successfully manage any difficult behaviors, with these fun, educational, printable activities.
- The Successful Interaction with a Child with Autism Course – learn to better understand your autistic child or students with this complete course.
- Autism Activities Vault – your collection of 420+ autism activities for the entire school year.
- Sensory Communication Workbook – Build communication skills with simple sensory activities.
- How to Make a Communication Binder Guide & Workbook – Learn how to create a Communication Binder for your child or student with autism using real photos. Follow my expert guide to learn how to use it to increase communication skills.
- Autism Adapted Books Bundle – a collection of 10 adapted books that will help you build communication skills while teaching more than 120 vocabulary words.
- Autism Social Stories Bundle – a collection of printable social stories to help your little learners work on their social skills.
- Zoo Animals Play Dough Mats Bundle – use these printable play dough mat to work on the names of the animals, build language skills, and increase fine motor strength and precision in a fun, sensory way!
Easter Egg Filler Ideas
What are your family’s Easter traditions? Do you have other egg filling ideas? I’d love to hear from you! ♥
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First published March 14, 2016. Last updated March 3, 2025 with more information, additional tips, and better readability.
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