Plus Other Spring Events and 9 UNIQUE At-Home Egg Hunt Themes
Easter is a BIG DEAL in our house. Resurrection Sunday brings so much joy to our family, and the promise of new life that the holiday represents puts it up there with Christmas in how we honor it. I highly encourage you to find a church service to go to on Easter Sunday. Most churches have multiple services available. I also encourage you to take advantage of the many fun events in the area to celebrate.
Check out this list of Easter and Spring season celebrations offered in Dripping Springs and nearby areas…
Now through Early May
- Pick Strawberries at Sweet Berry Farm
- Daily except Wednesdays
- Pick strawberries and flowers, make sand art, ride the ponies, wander through the mazes, and enjoy the large jumping pillow.
- Pick Strawberries at Jenschke Orchards
- Daily except Mondays and Fridays
March 29, 2025
- Dripping Springs Kite Festival
- Founders Memorial Park
- 10 am – 12 pm
- Bring your own kite
- Family Fun Day at Lucky Arrow Retreat
- FREE Pool Access 12 pm – 5 pm
- Register for FREE in advance
- Live music w/ George Devore 6-8 PM
- Lobster Dogs Food Truck 5-8pm
- Kids Menu w/ Grilled Cheese & PB&J’s
- Cash Bar with craft beer, wine, and delicious cocktails
- Bonfires for hanging and mingling
- Kids playground & swing set
- Crawfish Boil at the Silo
- Creekhouse Kitchen and Bar (Wimberley)
- Noon until sold out
- Drink specials and live music
April 5th, 2025
- City of Lakeway EGGstravaganza
- Lakeway City Park
- 12 pm – 2 pm
- Egg hunts and spring fun
April 11-13th, 2025
- Bluebonnet Festival in Burnet
- Downtown Burnet, TX
- All day, all weekend
- Live music, kids’ carnival, food trucks, races of all kinds, demolition derby, parade, worship, wildflowers, and shopping.
April 12th, 2025
- Eggstravaganza at the Greater Austin YMCA
- 12 pm – 3 pm
- RSVP for free online. Membership not required.
- Egg hunt in the pool and outdoors, balloon artist, face painting, games and more.
- Fish Fry and Egg Hunt
- Mt. Olive Lutheran Church
- 4 pm (Fish dinner, then egg hunts)
- Butterfly Festival
- Emily Ann Gardens (Wimberley)
- 9 am – 3 pm
- FREE event
- Butterfly releases, mini donkeys and horses, llamas, crafts, face painting, games, music, and so much more
- Egg-stravaganza in Buda
- Buda Sportsplex Softball Fields
- 9 am – 11:30 am
- Egg hunts, face painting, fire truck, food vendors, and bounce house
April 13th, 2025
- Easter Scavenger Hunt
- Woodlawn Baptist Church Austin
- 5 pm
- Register online in advance. FREE event.
- All families are invited to a fun time of hunting for eggs by solving clues.
April 16th – 18th, 2025
- Stations of the Cross
- Canyon Baptist Church
- Check times online
- Journey through the last week of Jesus’s life, leading to the Cross.
April 18th – 20th, 2025
- Hot Air Balloon Festival in Horseshoe Bay
- Horseshoe Bay Resort
- All day festival
- Hot air balloons, skydivers, pony rides, petting zoo, rock climbing wall, bungee trampoline, face painters, henna artists, food trucks, live music, and more
April 19th, 2025
- Eggstravaganza in Dripping Springs
- Dripping Springs Ranch Park
- 10 am – 6 pm
- Two helicopter egg drops, games, petting zoo, and more.
- $10 tickets
April 20th, 2025
- Easter at Canyon Church
- Egg Hunts following service
- 9 am & 11 am
- Sunrise Easter Service
- Pioneer Farms, Sprinkle Corner Village
- 7 am – 9 am
- Holy Word Lutheran Church
- Easter with Baby Goats
- Vista Brewing
- 10 am – 3:30 pm (3 brunch services)
- Buy tickets in advance
- Egg Hunts and Easter Menu at 12 Fox Beer (1 pm)
If all of the events listed above still don’t give you your Easter fill, below is a list of my favorite at-home egg hunt themes. You can make a whole weekend out of egg hunting with these options and keep those kiddos happy for hours on end.
1. Trick or Treat (or April Fools) Egg Hunt
Fill most of your eggs with goodies and trinkets, but reserve about 25% of them for tricks instead of treats. They can be filled with rocks, fake money, dried up flowers, or pieces of paper with chores and dares written on them. The only caveat to participate is that you have to agree to take the bad with the good.
2. Tickets and Prizes Egg Hunt
Instead of filling eggs with tiny toys and candy that you may not want your children to have, put 1-5 tickets in each egg instead. Then, once all the eggs have been found, let kids redeem their tickets for bigger gifts, prizes, and coveted snacks.
3. Glow in the Dark Hunt
Hide tiny trinkets and mini glow sticks in eggs, or just purchase glow eggs. Challenge your kids to an after-dark egg hunt in your home or backyard.
4. Mission Impossible Egg Hunt
Section off your house or yard to hide eggs at varying levels of difficulty. Let hunters begin in an area where the eggs are easy to spot and collect. Then move on to an area where they’re harder to spot. Finally move to an area where egg-collection requires climbing, crawling, digging, and uncovering.
5. Party-Themed Egg Hunt
If you were to throw a birthday party for your child(ren) this month, what would the theme be? Superheroes? Mickey Mouse? Sports? Whatever that theme would be, fill the eggs with party favors, balloons, tattoos, stickers, and treats related to it. Add a few confetti eggs to the mix as well.
6. Snack Frenzy Egg Hunt
Buy up all of your kids favorite snacks in individual bags. Then print thumbnail size pictures of the logos of each type of snack (adding up to the total number of bags you have). Hide the logo pieces inside eggs. When the kids collect eggs and open them, they can exchange their logo picture for the real thing.
7. Good Deeds Egg Hunt
In the spirit of the season, we can all do a bit more for our friends, family, and community. Spread joy with an egg hunt that has ideas for random acts of kindness that can be performed on the days following Easter. Fill several eggs with candy and treats and many others with ideas, including:
- Draw a picture and send to a grandparent.
- Drop off coloring pages and crayons in the mailbox of a young family in the neighborhood.
- Call a friend you haven’t seen in a long time.
- Paint rocks with words of encouragement and drop them along a walking trail.
- Create a list of feel-good songs and mail them to a friend, along with an invitation for a face time dance party.
- Drop encouraging bits of scripture in all the neighbors’ mailboxes.
- Write a thank you note to doctors, coaches, teachers, babysitters…
8. Game Night Egg Hunt
Buy, borrow, or search your closet for a few board games, lego sets, or jigsaw puzzles. Hide pieces in plastic eggs, and when all are collected and opened, have a family game night. (If you have time to plan ahead, have a puzzle made with your family picture on it.)
9. Arts and Crafts Egg Hunt
Fill eggs with kids’ favorite crafts items, such as googly eyes, pipe cleaners, glue sticks, chalk, play doh or clay, string, poms, mini-paints, beads, erasers, ribbons, stickers, etc. Then, provide empty mason jars to categorize and store all of their new crafting supplies, and let them be creative the rest of the day. This variety pack on Amazon has it all!
Finally, I’d like to add that resurrection eggs are a fantastic way to incorporate worship into your secular celebrations. There are many resources online to make them yourself or you can have them shipped.
However you choose to celebrate this very special holiday, I hope it’s an Easter to remember and that it brings the promise of new life and redeeming love to your family. Happy hunting!
