60+ Easter Egg Stuffers and Fillers Ideas (not just candy)
In this post are a butt load of ideas for Easter egg stuffers and fillers for your Easter egg hunt for kids. If you would like this list in a handy dandy printable format click here: Easter Egg Fillers Cheat Sheet.
Easter Egg Candy
There are two holidays out of the year that accumulates tons and tons of candy in our house: Halloween and Easter.
I mean, the kids get plenty of candy for their birthdays, Christmas, and Valentine’s day, but for some reason, there are buckets and buckets at Halloween and Easter. It takes us months to get rid of it.
I am all for candy! I am definitely not a withhold-sugar-from-my-kids type of mom. If I did that, I would have to stop eating as much sugar, and I can’t have that.
But after a couple of weeks, my kids (and my husband…let’s be honest) expect to have candy after every meal, or a couple of pieces of sugar a day. I’m paranoid about childhood diabetes, so I do try to have a sugar balance. AND, I start to go to that bucket when I’m having any type of emotion to justify shoving chocolate down my gullet.
Then, my husband and I just start eating it so it will disappear! #justified!
Last year, my son would just point to the bucket (we keep it on top of the fridge) and say “I’m hungry up there!”
You see, I just can’t have buckets of candy in my house, and I’m sure you feel the same.
So, last Easter we decided to look at alternatives to Easter Egg fillers other than loads of candy.
I mean, there is still candy on this list, but there are tons of other things you can use that kids love and are practical.
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60+ Easter Egg Stuffers Ideas (or Fillers)
If you’d like this list as a printable download it here: Easter Egg Filler Ideas Cheat Sheet.
Candy for Easter Eggs
Let’s start with candy because it’s the obvious one. Certain candies are better than others. There are good candies that fit well into Easter eggs and won’t add up to a ton of candy. If you’re feeling risky, you could just do 1 piece per egg. You could also combine 1 piece of candy with something else.
M&Ms
Milk Duds
Bubble Gum or Gum
Whoppers
Unwrapped candies(and wrapped)
Robin eggs or Cadbury eggs (staying in the Easter spirit)
Food for Easter Egg Fillers
Other food that is not candy. These foods fit well into Easter Eggs and they can eat all they can eat (to a point).
Pretzels
Goldfish
Trail mix
Grapes
Fruit snacks
Teddy Grahams
Cereal (my kids love fruit loops or cocoa puffs, and they don’t get them that often, so they would love this!)
Animal Crackers
Nuts
Cheez-Its
Raisins
Popcorn
Ritz Sandwiches
The list could go on. These are just a few things my kids LOVE.
Cheap Easter Egg Stuffers – Knick-Knacks
These stuffers are just cheap. Almost too cheap, but if you’re just looking for the wow factor and you can throw it away (casually) later, then these are good. They’re also good if you’re doing a big hunt with lots of people. These are like toys from Mcdonald’s: forgettable and short-lived.
Dollar Store party bags
If you go to the dollar store party section they have tons of Knick-knacks you can choose from especially in the party favors. They’re usually cheap plastic things like yo-yos, whistles, tops, boxes of stickers, hand slappers, beads, pencils, party blowers, etc… Here is an example from Amazon.
I don’t know why but kids love pom poms. They are fun to find inside an egg.
Confetti
Again, fun, more for a WOW factor.
You can buy fillers online in large quantities that are full of knick-knacks.
Kids love erasers with characters or cool shapes on them.
My kids love these for about 10 minutes until they get all dirty and no longer stick, but they’re fun!
Whistle
I don’t know, I was hesitant to put this one on here. I can’t listen to a whistle all day, so…yeah.
Toys
Stickers– There are all kinds of stickers:
Glow in the dark stickers or stars
Stickers are also a great thing to combine with another toy or candy. You could also buy a big sheet of them and cut the sheet up into about 2 stickers each.
Bouncy balls
Squishies (Did you know you can make your own squishies, but they aren’t for Easter egg stuffers, that’s for another day)
Tiny toys, like those mystery ones. Or Hatchimals.
Balloons
Legos
Practical Easter Egg Stuffers
There are more practical stuffers that kids can actually use or keep for longer than 5 minutes.
Coins/Money
Where can you go wrong?
Hair ties or hair clips (if the boys get them, you can always do a switcheroo)
Bracelets or Jewelry
Band-Aids
An opportunity to buy the “cool” Band-Aids
Beads and string
Enough to make a bracelet or necklace.
Special note
Just to say I Love You!
Tickets for activities
Put tickets in your eggs for the kids to use at another time like going to the zoo, having a picnic, or sleeping in moms bed. I have a FREE Kids Prize Tickets digital download with 24 different ticket prizes.
Turn your eggs into a lip balm.
This tape is popular among kids these days
Scavenger hunt/clues
Turn your egg hunt into a scavenger hunt by hiding clues in eggs. Here is a free scavenger hunt printable.
Resurrection Eggs
Create an Easter egg hunt that tells the story of Jesus. You can download my printable to make your own. My kids love these, and if they see them out, they want to do the whole story.
Big Egg Easter Stuffers
These are practical items, but will probably require a bigger egg for them to fit.
Cars– My son would love it if all the Easter eggs had cars.
The scented kinds are the best.
Mystery/surprise toys
i.e. hatchimals, LOLs, surprise eggs.
Ring Pops
Small Figurines
Their favorite character, superhero, or animal.
There you have it, the never-ending list of Easter Egg Stuffers. I hope this helps make your Easter a little bit easier! Don’t forget to download the cheat sheet here: Easter Egg Stuffers Cheat Sheet
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