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AngelieMumsnet · 15/02/2016 14:34

With Easter falling early this year, we're already planning ahead, and Cadbury are looking to hear Mumsnetters’ experiences of Easter egg hunts.

What do you think makes a great Easter egg hunt? Does your family have any traditions - perhaps you base the event on memories from your own childhood Easters? Do you (or the Easter bunny) put together a treasure map or cryptic clues to help find the hidden eggs - and to make the hunt last more than five minutes! Will there be a star prize - or specific eggs to find, so everyone gets a fair share? How do you add to the eggsitement Grin - and more importantly, how can you prevent any arguments or jealousy between the children?!

Whether you’re a fan of traditions or planning an all day eggstravaganza (sorry!), share your egg hunt tips - and your family's favourite Easter experiences - and you will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £200 Love2Shop voucher.

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purplepandas · 15/02/2016 17:46

Proper s orbs to the egg hunt. Baskets and eggs hidden all around the garden.

purplepandas · 15/02/2016 17:46

Bloody autocorrect. Proper signs.

wonkylegs · 15/02/2016 17:50

We do a mass Easter egg hunt every year for all our friends children - we have a Easter themed treasure hunt (harder for each age group, searching for rabbits, chicks, butterflies etc) , a word search (around the garden) and an egg hunt followed by egg & spoon races for adults and children. The main theme is chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate and cake. It's great fun and it's a great day to get all our friends together.
To make sure every kid gets something we set the little kids off first and then the older ones and everybody gets a little goody bag when they go home. We also encourage the bigger ones to help the little ones out. So far the kids have always been really good (although I did have to have words with one rather competitive dad Hmm )

FeelingSmurfy · 15/02/2016 18:06

Give everyone a different coloured egg so that you can hide according to age and the older ones don't find the easy ones

AddictedtoGreys · 15/02/2016 18:09

A treasure hunt map is always fun with clues along the way to the next clue, ending with an egg!

Gazelda · 15/02/2016 18:22

My DD is having a sleepover at my sister's the night before (complete co-incidence). I've told her that Uncle Simon will do an Easter Egg hunt for her (he's a bit bah humbug). She's spent today designing a poster and instructions for the hunt, which will make things easier for him! Grin

CMOTDibbler · 15/02/2016 18:25

I bought a whole load of little plastic eggs in the US a few years ago, and they are great for hiding a mini egg and a slip of paper with a clue to find another

Elledouble · 15/02/2016 18:27

Low-level violence. My brother claims it's me who's the violent one, but he's lying. We're all grown up now but mum still has to do a hunt every year. My son will be not quite one come Easter, so he's got a while to learn about the family Easter Egg Hunt tradition Wink

lexy444 · 15/02/2016 18:28

Has to take place in a garden/outdoors. Mixture of choc and plastic coloured eggs to find...makes the choc discoveries more exciting. Basket or bucket to hold for each child. Let little ones go first to find the easier eggs....

M2676 · 15/02/2016 18:35

Treasure hunt with clues is always fun, everyone anticipates to get to the next clue,so much fun n brings the child in all of us...my brothers always cheat to get the biggest amount if eggs.... Miss those times

CopperPan · 15/02/2016 18:44

We take snaps of something near the hiding place, then print them off as a clue to lead to the next one.

SoupDragon · 15/02/2016 18:49

I've always hidden those little fluffy yellow chicks you can get in pound stores. The children then exchange them for a prize of chocolate eggs so that they all get the same regardless of how many chicks they've found.

SouthWestmom · 15/02/2016 19:21

Make it a scavenger hunt - first one to find everything on their list wins a prize. Otherwise one kid ends up with buckets of eggs and others find nothing.
Range of eggs - middle one, several fun sized ones, one large one so that they can eat a little bit of chocolate at a time.

CheeseAtFourpence · 15/02/2016 19:25

With a greedy dog if we a hunt in our garden we use something other than chocolate, be it little chicks or pictures that the kids can swap for eggs.

If we use my parents garden it's chocolate all the way, usually a chocolate rabbit or similar got each child then free for all for the smaller eggs. Adults help the smaller children.

StillNoFuckingEyeDeer · 15/02/2016 19:40

We have little eggs hidden around the garden by the Easter bunny. The children go off together with baskets to collect them and then they get shared out at the end. We just have to try to remember how many we put out in the first place.

I look forward to using some of the other posters ideas when the DC are older, but for now we just keep it simple.

Buttons23 · 15/02/2016 20:16

For little ones consider hiding other things other than chocolate eggs. Plastic eggs can be opened and hold stickers, small crayons etc. Or hide the chicks and they can be exchanged.

Last year my son dressed up in a bunny outfit (£4.99 Home Bargains) and handed out carrot shaped chocolates to family members. Everyone loved it and we got some really great photos.

Titsalinabumsquash · 15/02/2016 20:50

My kids like to find the plastic eggs you can fill, I put the clue for the next one inside with loads of those fluffy chicks.
I do picture clues and harder word ones and the child's name so they all go around together taking turns.

I do house and garden because we haven't a big one of either.

MagicAlwaysLeadsToTrouble · 15/02/2016 20:53

We scatter loads of little plastic eggs around the garden, enough for at least 12 per child. The kids have to run around and collect as many as possible and then they are exchanges for a winning egg.

We then rescatter the plastic eggs to keep going.

Ultimately everyone gets the same end result no matter how many of the plastic scattered eggs they actually collect!

allybird1 · 15/02/2016 21:58

This year I am going to do a peter rabbit themed easter egg hunt for my dd called Jemima. We are going to turn the back into Mr McGregors garden, with clues hidden in the pretend cabbages, carrots, and beetroots. I was going to put craft items in little watering cans and have wheelbarrow races and egg and spoon. Cant wait. Smile

mummylou1982 · 15/02/2016 22:26

A great easter Egg hunt to us means all our children get equal amounts to stop squabbling. We but the eggs and treats in sets of three and each child is only allowed one from each set!

Elliecherry · 15/02/2016 22:48

We have tones of small chocolate eggs hidden around the garden which anyone can collect. Then we have a couple of named larger ones to find.
It's great as you will get big ones chocolate eggs for sure but there is still competition for smaller ones making it fun. Luckily last year my youngest was too small to get jealous of the oldest so I haven't had to deal with the jealousy yet.

Bostin · 16/02/2016 06:50

We do a big hunt with friends and just throw loads of eggs at the situation. That way it doesn't seem to matter if not everyone gets the same. It is often the little ones who seem to get more, they are more single minded.

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MakeTeaNotWar · 16/02/2016 07:25

We never did this growing up - it just wasn't a thing - so now that I have DC, i am ready to embrace this and make it a new tradition in our house. As long as there is plenty of chocolate, that's a sign of success. If it's raining, we plan to do it round the house.

thisismypassword · 16/02/2016 07:47

Cadburys eggs of course. This year I'm going to hide some cadburys caramel and creme egg eggs around the house for my 3 year old to find and share with her family and friends.

PippaHotamus · 16/02/2016 08:15

Anything but Cadburys here

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