To risk putting eggs out in storm??

You don't need a huge house - we've done hunts in our touring caravan before now! It doesn't need to be tricky, just fun. Behind cushions and picture frames, in drawers. We live in an incredibly rainy part of the UK so i guess it would never occur to us to leave outside for any length of time.

We have little tin rabbits we fill with mini eggs and hide, they are actually my grandmother’s and from the 1920s if not before. I only ever put them in the living room, same as my parents did for us in the 70s.

Sorry. No Easter Bunny for you! 😁

Definitely don't put them out overnight apart from the rain, wind there are foxes slugs , snails sand other creatures of the night.
Can't you have an indoor egg hunt. Leave little clues for them to solve, tell them they have to solve them in order to get the eggs.

I’ve probably made this sound more extravagant than it was 😂 I cut paw shapes out of printer paper and coloured the paw pads pink with a crayola marker 😂

they were very small at the time and thankfully didn’t question it. DP tried making Santa foot prints at Christmas years later and when they got up eldest asked why there was coconut on the floor

I’d be too worried about wildlife eating the eggs to leave them out overnight.

Aside from insects and birds I’ve seen evidence of mice, rats, cats, hedgehogs, squirrels and rabbits within a few hundred metres of my house before. The mice, rats and rabbits I saw were all dead but I’m pretty sure that where there’s one there’ll be more.

We’ve always put the egg hunt eggs out on the day, and told the DC that the Easter bunny won’t come if they keep watching the garden. The eggs aren’t there first thing because the Easter bunny’s got a busy schedule and works through the day, he doesn’t deliver overnight like Santa 😉

Putting them out in the garden is gross. You all take your shoes off in the house because of germs and dirt but happily let’s your kids eat eggs that have been lying in the garden all night to be walked over, nibbled and urinated in by who know how many animals! Would you eat a pack of biscuits that have been lying in the garden all night!

I’ve put mine around the house and a note has been pushed through the cat flap from
EB saying it was simply too stormy to leave eggs in the garden.

I'm in my 40s. My grandparents occasionally did it if we were there. Don't remember my parents ever doing it. Never heard of the Easter Bunny till I was older and watched more American TV.

We had the concept of a hunt but just as a game people set up. There was never any suggestion they had been hidden by a magical being.

Surely this isn’t a Santa situation where you need to keep up the illusion? Do they think the EB is real? Why is Easter turning into a second Christmas?

Just tell them tomorrow morning that they need to watch TV for 10 mins whilst you hide eggs for an egg hunt.

How patronising!

Of course it's fine, they're wrapped, aren't they?!

When they were small, DH used to take DC to the park for 30 mins whilst I hid eggs. At 14 & 16 they’re not interested anymore but at 10 & 12 can’t you just plug them into their PlayStation for a bit whilst you hide them?

“Go and watch the telly whilst I check if the Easter bunny has been”

works every year here….

When you wake up in the morning just throw them from the bedroom window into the garden.

(DON'T DO THIS if your bedroom is at the front of the house and you live on a busy road.)

Making easter bunny paper foot prints, that's what I call dedication!😀

I’m agog at an 18 and 22 year old bouncing out of bed at first light on a Sunday morning to search the undergrowth for chocolate eggs.

Yes but I hope they know it’s you and
not the Easter Bunny that did it..

I’m going to hide eggs for my Dc aged 18 and 22… 🤔☺️

Another one here who had no idea people put the eggs out the night before. It's vile. 🤢

Eww i didn’t realise people put them out the night before

I am in my 60s . My parents used to do an egg hunt for us back in the 1960s. Highlight of the year. And yes, I thought it was the Easter Bunny. ( who lived with Santa Claus, Rudolph , and the Tooth Fairy)

Don’t imagine the eggs were out all night though.

Since when are eater egg hunts and the Easter bunny bringing eggs American?

The Easter bunny (my gran) hid eggs for us back in the 80’s. It’s not a new thing in the UK

OP, mine are too old for an Easter egg hunt now (😭) but on nights like tonite I used to hide them around the house after they’d gone to bed. I remember once making paper bunny foot prints leading from the door to their Easter baskets and a letter saying the eggs were inside this year because it was raining and the Easter bunny didn’t like getting his hair wet 😂😂😂😂

I’m older than you! When I was a child in the 60s, the family whose garden backed onto ours used to do this every Easter. My mother said a firm “no” ☹️