Egg-citing Easter Egg Hunt

The first time you set up an Easter Egg Hunt for your child is exciting.

While an Easter Egg Hunt is exciting for the children, it can become a burden for the parent.
It did for me. It always rained or the eggs got smashed into the carpet. But, I couldn't stop having them.
I had to find ways to make them fun again.

The Hunt is On!

The first thing I did was to stop using real eggs. No more finding an egg three weeks after the egg hunt and holding my nose while I disposed of it praying the whole time that the shell stays in one piece until it reaches its final resting place.

Plastic Easter eggs are the way to go. They are inexpensive, colorful, fillable, waterproof and can be used year after year. Plastic eggs also come in a variety of sizes and can be used for crafts.

The Simple Hunt:
For ages 2-3
Hide the eggs in easy to find places. Keep them out in the open and at your childs eye level. If your child is close to three, you can hide a few eggs behind or in things, but still keep the majority of them out in the open.

Money Hunt:
Fill all the plastic eggs with pennies, nickels and dimes. Each child gets to keep the money they find.

Special Money Hunt:
Fill the eggs with coins. Set up a table with a few small toys like coloring books, water balloons, or candy. Price these items from five cents up to a dollar (make your own price tags using tape and a marker). After the egg hunt the children can buy an item off the table using the coins they collected in the egg hunt.

Prize Inside Hunt:
Fill all the eggs with little toys, candy or coins.
Make one or two of the eggs special by filling them with:
A movie ticket or rental voucher
Favorite restaurant coupon
Coupon for a night out with you
A Dollar Bill

Color Hunt:
Make sure you have an even number of each color of egg you are going to hide. Assign each child one color of egg. If you have only two children, you can assign them two colors. Each child while hunting for the eggs can only gather the color assigned to them. So if you assigned Jon red eggs, Julie blue eggs and Jessica green eggs. Jon cannot gather the green eggs only the red. This was my childrens favorite Easter Egg Hunt.