Have Fun with your Easter Egg Hunt
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The tradition of Easter egg hunts goes back centuries in one form or another. As a symbol of fertility and new birth, eggs planted around the home bring to mind the rebirth of Spring. Incorporate that same feeling of joy into your hunt to make it fun for the whole family.
To generate the most fun, decorate the house in a festive style. Finding eggs is great, but sprucing up the home inside and out can really create a festive feeling. Place a few colorful bouquets of flowers in nice vases and planters on the tables. Hang an Easter wreath on the door or a bunny door wrap. Put some tall stalks hung with Easter bunnies in the yard.
Before hiding any eggs or baskets, you’ll have to decide which kind of eggs to use and what should be in the baskets.
Eggs can be either real or artificial, or both. Real eggs provide all the fun of decorating. Parent and child can spend a great time together making up and all sorts of interesting designs for pennies. Save time by using artificial eggs and fill them with delightful surprises. Eggs can contain chocolates, jelly beans, jewlery and other stuff.
Similarly, baskets can be a variety of different things. Everything from miniature flashlights to puppies or kittens have made their way into the baskets for kids to find. Stuffed or chocolate bunnies, magic tricks or games, or a thousand other little items bring joy to young hearts.
You can enhance the fun by making the basket the first thing to find. There are so many creative ways to do that. Drawing a little maze for them to navigate is a fun idea. You can also make it like a treasure hunt. But don’t draw out this first phase too long. You want to move on to the egg hunt fairly soon or frustration may set in.
Once your little “hunter” has the basket in hand, the real fun begins. A mixture of easy-to-find eggs with those that present a challenge provides a good balance. Easy to find items give the young ones incentive to continue, since they see rewards right away. But those that take a little more time and effort help draw out the game like an interesting movie in which they’re eager to discover what comes next.
If you’re planning a hunt for multiple children your skills as an Easter egg hunt planner will be tested. That’s part of the fun for you! There are several ways to carry that task out successfully.
You can give different kids different sets of clues that only they follow. With guides known only to them, the odds of another finding treats intended for them are low. You can also provide for a little friendly competition in one phase by bringing the two paths together. Knowing which method to follow, and to what degree, just depends on the individual personality, age and skills of the children in the hunt.
Plan your Easter egg hunt well rather than just have a free for all where everyone searches randomly. The kids will have much more fun, and so will you as you watch their path to success.
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