what actually happens on an Easter egg hunt?

[smellyfeet]

I have heard of them so have thrown my garden open to one on Easter Sunday. But I don't actually know what I am supposed to do?

Do I buy loads of choc eggs and hide them everywhere? Or is it a treasure hunt?

How/what do you do?

Buy lots of choc

Hide around garden

Kids run round shrieking; find eggs; eat choc; feel sick

You can either hide little eggs all over your garden and send the kids out to find them or you can set a trail of clues which lead to the Easter Bunnies hoard. The trail works best with older ones as they have to work in a team to figure out clues, make sure they work together and no one moving to the next clue without the rest of the gang.

The hunt is simpler just open the door and send them out to collect. Again you might need some rules like no eating eggs you find, all eggs get brought back to share.

Or you could hide plastic eggs and they have to bring back x amount of the colour you allocate them at the start, once they have the eggs they can swap them for a chocolate egg.

We go for a walk, one adult walks well ahead of the group and drops/deposits little eggs in semi hidden places then as the kids get close we lead them into the right sort of direction towards the eggs and let them hunt. I don't think we've ever lost an egg to another family yet. Mind you, my kids are 15 and almost 13 now so there's not much pretence that the easter bunny just hopped around the corner dropping eggs as it went anymore.

At dc school they collect one cardboard egg at a time which they then swop with teacher for mini egg.

Another game which we did which was fun was a mini egg and spoon relay. Have a big bowl of mini eggs - ideally wrapped if outside (or as 2+3yr olds we did separate bowl for each team so was fair). Then divide into teams, each team has a spoon and members take it in turns to run to bowl, pick up mini egg and take back egg balanced on spoon to give spoon to next team member. Was fun, could get parents in teams too.

well in a nutshell you hunt for eggs.

the clue, is in the name

You can also buy an Easter Egg Hunt kit. There is a very cute Peter Rabbit one on www.littlebird.co.uk/easteregghunt it is great value for only £7.50. Hope that helps :)

I've thrown my garden open but everyone is going away. Will do one next year instead or get more friends!