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

[AngelieMumsnet]

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 - 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

I forgot to say, we pool the eggs at the end and share them equally. We also have names on the bigger eggs so it doesn't matter who finds them, the intended recipient gets their egg. No teen ends up with a Peppa Pig egg while the toddlers don't end up with DN's Snickers that way.

We always say it's not an easter egg hunt unless at least one or two of the eggs don't get found at the end - and later I find them in the flowerbed whilst gardening! I'm sure that's a tradition in a lot of families!

A sunny dry day.

When I'm the one who finds all the eggs :-D

leaving a series of clues.

Doing it somewhere else rather than your back garden! I'm all for the annual National Trust Easter Egg Hunts. Pay £2 and go explore and eat the winnings at the end of it! Gets you out and about in the fresh air, seeing new sights, spending time together as a family and exercise too. Take a picnic for lunch and the day out is complete!

clues to find where the chocolate treasure is hidden - the older the kids, the harder the clues

A range of sizes of egg.
Easter crafts to do en route.
Borrow toy rabbits and position around the garden with the eggs.
Add in some of those little chicks.
Weave little baskets to use for the hunt.

We go to an organised Easter Egg Hunt at local National Trust, Ashridge. It is great fun and a lovely way to spend a few hours.

The children have to choose a basket and then decorate their basket in one colour using different materials e.g if they pick a pink basket they have to decorate with pink hearts, stickers tissue paper etc. once they finished decorating, Each child then takes a treasure maps which is covered in coloured stickers showing where their coloured eggs are.they then take their basket,map and have to find and collect their colour eggs. This way no one has more eggs than the other and the older children always finish before the younger ones so they enjoy helping the littles ones.

A proper map and clues always adds to the excitement

Lots of easy clues, races and running around.

We have little clues etc. The main thing we do is tell the children they are working as a team to find the eggs, then share everything equally at the end. Then there is no winner etc and they all get the same at the end.

If it is raining, do it indoors, with clues from to lead you from one egg to another. Anagrams are good for clues.

Really simple clues that all the kids will get with a little treat with every envelope around the house and garden with the final clue leading to their eggs.

lots of small prizes and lots of cheating to ensure everyone gets a egg/prize and is happy

A treasure map

names on all the big easter eggs to make sure they all get one each! we also make up a list of little eggs for a scavenger hunt! whoever gets back to the house with everything from their list and their big egg wins

My advice is check the dog hasn't eaten the Easter Eggs before letting the kids hunt for them, or they will be there a while haha!

When me and my brother where kids our parents hid Easter eggs in the garden, but while our dog had been in the garden he had eaten them without my parents realising.

Take some of their pals and go to the local park/woods, get their wellies on and hide them in some fab places. Great fun and exercise for all! Cadbury's creme eggs are the best and their mini eggs too.

With my kids I colour code them with stickers so they each get a fair share

With all the cousins, what we do is prep the older kids to leave some for the younger ones! Tell them to only take one rather than handfuls!

The plastic eggs are much better for
Hiding.
We had some serious melting issues one warm Easter.
It also means they can be exchanged for the same amount of real eggs for everyone so the big and little ones are not competing.
We also decorate Easter bonnets to do the hunt and this never fails to involve the adults , teens as well as the littlest.
We usually have big prizes for the winners of this judged via Skype to our family in Oz.
I love Easter as much fun as Christmas without all the pressure.

I actually think indoor hunts are better than outdoors ones! No reliance on the weather. If you use little tiny foil wrapped eggs you can cover a room in them and there's plenty for all! If you count how many you hide you can count how many are found too and check they're all there! Then there is the bonus challenge to find any stragglers!

More of the little eggs make the hunt last longer.

It's best to have a selection of hidden eggs and clues so all the children aren't competing in finding the same prizes/in the same areas!