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What makes a great Easter egg hunt? Share your tips and experiences with Cadbury and you could win a £200 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED

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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.

Please note your comments may be included on Cadbury's pages on MN, their social media channels, and possibly elsewhere, so please only post if you're comfortable with this.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

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HelenRemi411 · 26/02/2016 12:55

my top tip for a treasure hunt is use hiding places that are really obvious to the kids and yourself the last thing you want to do is open a draw or basket and find a melted mess weeks later!
always make the clues age appropriate as well and have as much fun as possible we love the egg hunt in our house its a family tradition!

el2606 · 26/02/2016 18:33

Baskets for everyone, and a variety of lots of different eggs!

yasmin0147 · 26/02/2016 19:37

An out door easter egg hunt if the weather allows it, with plastic eggs with surprises inside as the prize with a treasure map to show where they are

marshgirl · 26/02/2016 20:24

Good quality chocolate that when you find one you can't help but start eating them. Not to worry if the weather is bad, just do it inside. Always plenty of hiding places inside and sharing them evenly to avoid problems.

annarack99 · 26/02/2016 21:19

Lots of small eggs and just one big one!

DiscoGlitter · 26/02/2016 22:13

We love a good egg hunt, it isn't Easter without an egg hunt! Smile
You don't need a big garden to have one either. We always have a great one and we only have a small outdoor space (like a back yard/patio.)
What I do is buy a bag of those little Easter eggs you can buy especially for hunts, and dot them around the house and outside.
Each egg has it's own clue as to where they find them, or a little riddle the children can solve.
We also have just random eggs around as well so it's a free for all as to who finds them first! Grin

thefourgp · 26/02/2016 22:14

My children live for dinosaurs so I hide them all over the house and garden on Easter morning and buy lots of little chocolate eggs to put under them all. I tell my kids we're going on a dinosaur egg adventure and they absolutely love it. We collect golden T-rex eggs, pink triceratops eggs etc.

smithsurvey14 · 26/02/2016 22:15

I never had a hunt when I was younger, but I arrange one for my children. The Easter Bunny leaves their main eggs hidden indoors, sometimes with clues if he is not too busy. Then if the weather permits I hide Lindt bunnies and bears in the garden hiding the bears down low for my youngest and the bunnies harder to find for my eldest that way they both get an equal amount and no arguing.

melmoo · 26/02/2016 22:27

Sequentail clues to make it take a good amount of time. Lots of small eggs so they don't end up with too much actual chocolate. If there are a few kids then have different colours for each that follow the same trail. Then the ones that are finished help the ones that are stuck rather than scooping up all the chocolate.

janemphoto · 26/02/2016 23:58

leave clues in the garden and hide eggs. It's nice to watch them trying to solve the puzzles

Schnarff · 27/02/2016 13:02

I think including all family members and neighbours (if you are friends with them!) of all ages. Then hiding different size eggs in both easy and hard locations, some at low level and some higher up. I think its much better if you can do it in the garden/outside. Have as many eggs as possible and if there a lot of people then put them into teams and make a larger egg a prize for the team that find the most. At the end of the hunt we all put it back in a big pile and share it out equally.

Ferryfairy · 27/02/2016 15:05

Our school used to have a photo orienteering Easter hunt, with a clue to collect at each photo, then every child who found them all was rewarded with a creme egg. They set off at timed intervals on small groups, lots of running, screaming, grazed knees and fun!
The Easter bunny used to leave trails of glitter to give my girls clues where to look in our garden

lphillips25 · 27/02/2016 15:16

i like to make our hunts a bit manic...we go to the stables where i have made lots of clues up and scattered loads of plastic eggs which can be swapped for an easter mix up bag at the end :)

emily13 · 27/02/2016 15:57

I like to write clues so it's more of a treasure hunt.

CointreauVersial · 27/02/2016 16:01

DDad and DSM put on an Easter Egg hunt every year for their six grandchildren. What makes it good is they have a great garden; really rambling, with lots of pots, nooks and crannies. They tuck eggs into trees, on top of walls etc. and it always takes a good while to find everything.

Less good is DDad's ability to remember where he hid everything! We are always one or two eggs short by the end, and he often finds them months later while he's weeding the borders.

vikaroo · 27/02/2016 16:25

lots of chocolate and really good hising places!

Kelloges0811 · 27/02/2016 22:15

As a family we love any kind of celebration. We make handmade crafts and decorations for the garden and a treasure map and signs. We have a few chocolate eggs and mostly plastic eggs to find, kids love the excitement of seek and find.

jewels1984 · 27/02/2016 22:48

with lots of younger kids in my family who might not understand the idea of a hunt, we tend to do a scavenger hunt aimed more at the adults where the 'treasure' found is more aimed at the kids. it tends to get everyone involved and make everyone happy; the competitive adults and the excitable kids

emmafifema78 · 27/02/2016 23:30

Lots and lots of eggs, lots of fun props, lots of clues and of course...lots of children!

LizB62A · 28/02/2016 00:11

To prevent arguments, we always had a rule that whoever found what, at the end the children shared the eggs out equally, and could swap between themselves if they didn't like something they had. They all were perfectly happy to do this and the youngest (my nephew) occasionally went back to hide his again as he was having so much fun !!

lolamia91 · 28/02/2016 03:52

Nice little decorative things through the house, and handwritten clues

Spencer1234 · 28/02/2016 07:55

Hide the eggs in lots of places & leave little clues to help your child find them

lianebelfast · 28/02/2016 08:17

We always have a large extended family hunt, we colour code the eggs so each age group is looking for a certain colour of egg...it just means everyone gets an equal chance of finding them :-)

emmav6 · 28/02/2016 13:59

we love a hunt with litle chocolate surprises along the way, the prize is alway something non chocolatey they have asked the easter bunny x

suzyq50 · 28/02/2016 14:24

Kids just love finding things so it doesn't have to be in some big garden. I do mine indoors.

The older ones love written clues so I start them off first. I then do a simpler one for the smaller ones & they have a little basket to put the eggs in.

I quite enjoy it myself.