Easter Egg Buried Treasure Hunt

Since I LOVED Easter Egg hunts as a kid I wanted to share the same fun with my kids.  Though my children are still young enough that a simple classic hunt is still a challenge, for most of our friend's kids this is not the case.  So I hunted the web and came across this idea: hiding puzzle pieces that, when put together, form a buried treasure map.
I have to be honest, making the puzzle map was a headache but I am sure with better tools out there it can probably be done much easier.  For me I just used the below materials:

• 24 piece puzzle from Target, $1 in the discount section (get a puzzle with small pieces so the pieces will fit inside the eggs, or you can use large eggs)
• Mod Podge
• A drawn map of the hunt site with the 'buried' treasured site marked (the treasure site is not yet marked on my maps below).  When making the map make sure you include plenty of landmarks, making it easy to navigate and also easier for putting the puzzle together.
• Xacto knife for cutting pieces apart

Here is what it all looked like.

1.  Mod Podge your map on top of a completed puzzle and let dry.  

Note:  I recommend NOT slathering the puzzle with Mod Podge since it will glue the pieces together making it difficult to separate.  A light even layer is fine.  I went back and brushed a little extra on the individual pieces that were coming apart.

2.  Cut the pieces apart.
This was somewhat time consuming, a sharp xacto knife is key.  After it is dry, wiggling the puzzle a bit will help expose the pieces through the paper better.  I got an extra puzzle and practiced on one first since I usually mess things up.  Just being honest.

3.  Stuff eggs with pieces.
I did the hunt in teams so I had a yellow team and a pink team.  Some pieces were still too large for the regular sized eggs so I did use some large eggs.

This is how my hunt worked-
The yellow team only hunted for yellow eggs while the pink team only hunted for pink eggs.  Each team had about 30 eggs to find (only 24 of those eggs had puzzle pieces though).  There were 3-4 kids per team, so 7-10 eggs per kid I thought was a rewarding enough number.  I also hid other color eggs to help in 'breaking up the landscape'.... so the pink and yellow eggs didn't stick out so much in the grass all by themselves.  Each team had a different buried treasure site.  The buried treasure was a large egg filled goodie bags for each person.

It seemed to be a success.  The junior high and high school age kids even enjoyed it.