Easter is Coming! Why Not Hold an Easter Egg Hunt for Your Children?

Easter is coming and this is a joyous holiday. It is also a fun holiday for children. A great idea to celebrate Easter in your home is to hold a Easter egg hunt.

An Easter egg hunt is not hard to plan, but there are several challenges to avoid. We've all heard stories about an awful rotten egg that no child was able to find that rears its ugly head sometime in May - and this urban tale has turned many an adult's head away from doing an Easter egg hunt with their children. This challenge, alike several others, can be easily avoided with some simple planning.

Tip #1 Put Easter eggs where children are likely to find them. An Easter egg hunt is meant to be fun, this is not a reality television show, not some grand puzzle for anyone to solve. Just some gentle fun for the children to have. Make Easter eggs fairly simple to find, and the chances of having leftover May eggs in your lawn will be minimal. Look at your lawn and think like a child. Look at the ground and the flowerbeds. What is at their eye level? Where would they hide if they were playing hide and go seek?

Tip #2: Make a cheat list of where you actually put the Easter eggs. This is easy to do. Take the Easter eggs and a piece of notebook paper and a pen. As you hide the eggs, write down the location in your lawn. This piece of paper will help you if your children are unable to find any of the eggs, you can give them tips to help find the eggs. Again, this will also help avoid the all-so dreaded May smelly egg situation.

Tip #3: Consider hiding Easter eggs ahead of time. If you are rushed, you won't remember where you hid them, and you won't be putting much thought into where you are hiding them. Many families that do an Easter egg hunt like to do this right after church on Easter Sunday and then have Easter lunch. So consider hiding the Easter eggs Saturday night, or early Sunday morning.

Tip #4: Limit the number of Easter eggs you hide. Children will be excited about the idea of looking for eggs, but they may tire of looking for Easter eggs after a certain amount of time. A great number of eggs per child is about five, maybe six eggs. It will probably take your child twenty minutes to find five to six eggs and a twenty minute hunt is more than enough to have enjoyed the fun of an Easter egg hunt.

Tip #5: Remember to take pictures! This sounds really basic, but running around the lawn for eggs can get a little hectic. Make sure to get the camera before you start the hunt. You'll want to get lots of pictures to send to grandparents. Alternate between one parent holding the camera and the other helping the children hunt for eggs.

Happy Easter!