This weekend my family and I enjoyed our traditional Easter festivities. We attended my son’s church for a traditional Easter egg hunt. Since the eggs were filled with candy and my kids had a bag filled with eggs, I knew they had more than enough to make themselves sick.
So for our own hunt, I didn’t want more candy considering they already will be getting their chocolate bunnies and peeps. I could have filled the eggs with money but I had limited time to fill tons of eggs and had a small budget. However, I was determined to do something fun despite it all. I decided instead filled eggs, we would have our own scavenger egg hunt!
How you do it:
1. Pick a starter egg. Write a clue or direction and place it inside the egg.
2. In the next egg, place another clue or direction to a different place around the house.
3. Keep repeating until you get to the end prize. Their basket filled with goodies!
Optional: For older kids you could make it more challenging. Instead of giving them exact clues, you could give them a riddle or tell them to find a certain color egg in a particular part of the house.
At first my kids saw the eggs around the yard and was jumping up and down wanting to pick them up. When I told them it was a “different type of hunt” they were a bit confused. Once I explained the rules, they got it immediately. They were excited about the hunt and just wanted to start!
Although we didn’t have as many eggs as you would with a regular egg hunt, once they found their big prize at the end, they didn’t even care. All they cared about was the fact they went hunting. What I realized this Easter is sometime less really is more!
Good read! Holidays at it’s best. Cheers!