Would the Easter bunny be unreasonable to call off the egg search..

[MrsHookey]

And maybe just leave eggs at the front or back door? It's going to be impossible to set this up.

Last year there was a garden search and the six year old has not forgotten. Last year there were EB helpers

What? Didn't you know the Easter Bunny has been declared an essential worker (by the New Zealand PM)? If you don't have a garden can you hide them around the house?
My kids are teens and they are still expecting a hunt!

Rather than hide eggs, I write 10-15 clues, 1 upstairs leads to number 2 downstairs, 2 leads to 3 upstairs (I.e. more challenging). Mainly simple things like where would you sleep if you were the youngest in the house, and what goes round and round and cleans?

Mine get their eggs at the end. I add a few harder clues for my eldest.

They look forward to it, so I've already done it!

Sorry just saw second part. Get up earlier is all I can recommend.

Eh? Do you not have a garden this year?

Not unreasonable for not wanting to set one up though.

Hmm not sure why you'd need helpers except someone/something to distract the kids while you do it. Tbh I was always pretty crap at distracting them - sticking them in front of a video with the curtains to the garden shut because "sun" or "some other crap excuse". I knew I was unsubtle but they never complained (they just wanted the chocolate).

Can't you do the hunt in your garden?

I don't have a garden, but we are doing ours indoors. It isn't difficult to set up surely?

Treasure hunt all round the house - while they hunt round for the clues (& maybe small sweets) you hide eggs in garden - final clue leads to garden

It's okay for our kids to be disappointed sometimes. These are exceptional times and I think you need to do what you can to be kind to yourself. Your dc is getting the eggs and whilst they would have really enjoyed the Easter egg hunt I'm sure they'll get over bit having one fairly quickly.

Not sure what exactly the obstacle to the hunt is this year OP. Is it that you have no one to hide them while you look after DC? If so, hide them in the house tonight.

One year, I was too tired and just stood on the back step and flung the eggs randomly into the darkness of the garden. Seemed to work well!

I just sprinkle them around the house! Thought I was thwarted this year - youngest just woke up with a wet bed and wasn't too sleepy to spot the ones down the stairs, but thankfully she bought that he'd somehow snuck past me. Mini eggs everywhere!

One year, I was too tired and just stood on the back step and flung the eggs randomly into the darkness of the garden.

Brilliant!

We did ours today, I hid the plastic eggs in the garden last night....

You can still go in your garden...

One year, I was too tired and just stood on the back step and flung the eggs randomly into the darkness of the garden. Seemed to work well!
Exactly! Sometimes we overthink things and actually the simplest solution works best.

One year, I was too tired and just stood on the back step and flung the eggs randomly into the darkness of the garden. Seemed to work well!

Did the eggs not break?

Thanks everyone. I'm a single mum and the 6 year old wakes before the crack of dawn in these occasions and is sharp as a tack. I wasn't sure how I could pull it off by myself!

Love the idea of flinging it into the garden. :-) and also the clues throughout the house.

It's been a hard year for Easter bunnies. I've seen them disemboweled all over the local nature reserve. The crows are happy, though.

Can you hide the eggs just before your child finds them ?So point to one on the wall while you put one at the bottom of the hedge and so forth .

Hide them round the house. You can always rehide them in the garden later just for a game, if he wants.

I think I will hide them at home. If the older child ever goes to sleep.

I did ours for Dd today as she's with her dad tomorrow.
We normally go to my parents and they set them out in the garden, I couldn't manage that on my own this year so we did the hunt indoors

We had 4 medium size eggs, 40 small easter egg hunt ones and some tiny ones. I
i let her watch TV in my room and put my dressing gown on hid the 4 biggest ones in the living room and filled the pockets with the tiny ones. Dusting needed doing so as I put the duster round the book shelves etc I popped the tiny eggs out. When my pockets were empty I filled them with the small ones and hid those too. DD spotted some on the way to the loo so started the hunt, as she found the tiny ones I put a small one in its place, she was so confused because she'd already looked there.

As a note before anyone moans about the amount of chocolate, Dds egg hunt is always for the extended family of maternal GPs and uncle, once she finds them she shares them out and today walked to their house and left them on the doorstep.