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Easter is nearly here! Hopefully, it will bring gorgeous weather to host an annual tradition, the classic Easter Egg Hunt! Every year kids love to hunt for the eggs that the Easter Bunny has hidden. Given it’s a bunny doing the hiding, it’s logical to hide the eggs outdoors in your garden and yard. If more than one family is participating, the hunt can span across several yards and gardens too. Plan to hide between 5-10 eggs per child participating to make sure everyone gets their fair share of goodies.
Using plastic Easter eggs, fill the eggs with all sorts of goodies, i.e temporary tattoos, chocolates, jelly beans, small chicks, coins, and whatever else is festive and will fit inside your eggs. Fill the eggs well in advance of Easter! Tweens and teens may enjoy doing this task and also overseeing the hunt in case the adults are mingling with one another.
Make sure the kids have a basket to use when finding their eggs. You can use a traditional Easter basket and/or brightly colored plastic bowls. Whichever is convenient for you will work well. (If using inexpensive plastic bowls, have the kids decorate them with paint pens before finding their eggs!)
Think about the age range that will be looking for the Easter eggs, and hide them in different spots that make it challenging and fun for the different age groups. For the littlest ones, simply blanket the lawn for easy finding. For older kids, i.e. 4-6-years-old, place them in slightly more challenging areas, i.e. on a windowsill, and in potted plants. For older kids, place them in even more obscure places, atop car tires and in mailboxes. If you want to make sure everyone sticks with their level of hunting, color code the eggs to match the level and have the kids hunt that color of egg.
Although it may take you awhile to hide the eggs, looking for those perfect spots, expect the kids to find the eggs in a minute! Always the way!
Make sure to recollect the plastic Easter eggs and put them away for next year’s annual hunt!
What about those real eggs that you spent time coloring? As a child, we always hid those eggs too, but indoors. This can add some additional fun. Spend an afternoon over Easter weekend coloring the real eggs, and leave them out on Easter eve for the Easter Bunny to hide as well. When the kids awake, they can enjoy two different hunts. They will be thrilled to see that the eggs they colored with you were hidden by the Easter Bunny!
For some cool coloring tips, check out Williams Sonoma Kids video on how to! The site has lots of other ideas for recipes, decorations, games, and goodies. A great resource!
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Growing up in Australia egg hunts were not common and so on coming to the U.S. my first impressions were not positive. What I saw were older children rushing to gather as many eggs as they could and younger children crying because they didn’t get many eggs.
That was when I decided I would make our family egg hunts “fair”. Each child has their own color egg and that is what they look for. Once the older ones have found all of their eggs I noticed they would take the younger ones and help them to find their eggs. This family tradition has made our Easter egg hunts easy and fun for all. On those occasions when we have visitors over we just assign them their own color.
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