If you are planning on hosting an Easter egg hunt this year, listen up. There is a perfect way to make eggs age appropriate, have every child leave with a basket full of treats and ensure that no one gets trampled in the process!
Simply color coordinate baskets to eggs. Each child gets a basket of a certain color and can only hunt for eggs of that color. Or you can just let the child use whatever basket and just assign them a specific color.
At the end of the hunt, each child should have only one egg color in their basket.
This way, you can stuff the younger kids’ baskets with toys and candy geared toward them, and then older kids get something age appropriate for them, too.
The little ones can take their sweet time and not worry about having all of the eggs gathered up by the big kids before they’ve even found their first one. Everyone wins and no one leaves in tears {maybe a sugar coma, but no tears!}.
Have you ever tired this? Do you have any other genius Easter hunt tips?
~Mavis
Julie says
This is genius.
Karen A. says
We did this for years! Also, the younger kids’ eggs can be hidden in slightly easier places, so there are fewer tears as well. The older kids’ eggs get hidden in trickier spots.
Susan says
Does anyone remember the L’Eggs hose eggs (back when the packaging had a whole egg)? My sister painted one gold and hid it very well. The person who found it was always quite popular because it meant the he/she had won a book for each child.
A collective search egg inspires children to not only search for themselves but for everyone.
Bec in the PNW says
Oh, this is genius Mavis! My niece and nephew usually end up “helping” my younger one find eggs. But this might allow him to take his sweet time. Especially because he’s very into practicing walking “backwuds” so we move at the speed of pond water right now.
Mel says
When I taught middle school, I did a “research egg hunt.” I filled each egg with candy but also a slip of paper with a fact about something they were learning about and the source it was from. I had one kid who was too cool for anything, so I knew he wouldn’t have fun actually hunting and sent him out to hide the eggs instead, and the rest of the kids had a blast hunting for them. When they got back, they pooled their facts with their group and used them to write essays while eating the candy.
Diana says
We always had an outdoor egg hunt for the extended family, so lots of kids. We have 1 1/2 acres so we had plenty of space for all of the kids. The little ones had colored balloons to guide them, a little older had flags in a color with the letters of their name they had to collect in order, and the older kids had written clues . At the end of the egg hunt they were led back to the house where there was a gift. Then we played games and had dinner together. The cousins still talk about the fun they had.
Ashley Bananas says
Great idea!
Lana says
My Mom’s m always hid one big egg for each child with their name on it. That was the one that had money inside. If another child saw it they were not to let on so that the one it was intended for could find it.
Julie says
A colleague reuses the same plastic eggs each year for her three kids. They have stickers indicating which child the egg is for. Regardless of age, one kid doesn’t like chocolate, the other doesn’t like jelly beans, etc. This eliminates the “bartering and exchange tears”.
Linda Sand says
My parents hid eggs in the house. Before I could read well, my Dad drew picture clues for us to follow.
SueD says
Years ago, I was in charge of the egg hunt at our church. We sectioned off areas for each age group, and in addition, gave the nursery (ages 3-5) a 5 minute head start.
At home, we had L’Eggs with our boys’s name on theirs, and if the other saw it, there were no hints given to the other.
Ashley says
This is how I do it for my kids, because it’s how my grandparents did it for us!
Each grandkid had a color and their parents hid their eggs so they were able to make them as hard/easy as the kiddo needed. Then, after you found all your color you could look for the two golden eggs.
Works every time!
Tanya says
I’ve done this in the past when my kids were small. Worked especially great the year my son was in preschool and his birthday fell on Easter. We had a few friends over for a Birthday egg hunt. Everybody had a color and no one left crying!
Anne Radesi says
I have 7 grandkids so I write their names on the eggs. Everyone gets the same amout of eggs. We hide them according to their age level. With everyone getting the same amount of eggs we know if they have found them all. Happy Easter!
Alicia Procell says
Although either syrups would be a gift from the gods, I would choose the Amber Syrup. Being a newbie to baking and canning, I’ve found several recipes that state using a lighter syrup would be the best choice. Reminds me of the mysterious lost Amber Room of the czar.