How to ratchet up the excitement on your local Easter Egg hunt...or the one in your backyard? We've found a fantastic bit of advice from Kathy Seale, of the Birmingham News, that brings fresh ideas (and loads of fun!) to this ageless tradition.
Make your egg hunt more fun than a typical run-of-the-bunny affair by tweaking the rules and themes. Here are some ideas:
• Follow the clues. Divide children into teams for an Easter egg treasure hunt. Assign a color to each team. After team members have found all the eggs that correspond to their color, they open the eggs to find clues that will lead them to their "treasure." (Each set of eggs holds a complete set of clues. Provide a gift for each child on the team at their treasure location.)
• Hunt by flashlight. Hide glow-in-the-dark or glitter eggs, or wrap eggs with reflective tape. Then give kids a flashlight and let them search for their eggs at twilight.
• Scramble the eggs. Separate the tops and bottoms of plastic eggs, then reconnect them so the colors don't match. Hide the eggs, then after the children have found them, ask them to take their eggs apart and put only the matching tops and bottoms together. The child who has the most matching eggs wins a special prize.
• Add a message. Place instructions inside plastic eggs, such as "Swap an egg with a friend" or "Jump up and down 10 times." After the hunt, ask the children to open their eggs and follow instructions.
• Practice verses. Write Easter-related Bible verses on construction paper and place in plastic eggs. Ask each child who got a verse to read it aloud.
• Go prehistoric. Host a dinosaur egg hunt, complete with dinosaur-shaped eggs, camouflage baskets and explorer hats.
• Add up the fun. Decorate Easter eggs with numbers, then add the numbers on the eggs that each child collects. Give a special prize to the child with the largest and the smallest totals.
• Follow the clues. Divide children into teams for an Easter egg treasure hunt. Assign a color to each team. After team members have found all the eggs that correspond to their color, they open the eggs to find clues that will lead them to their "treasure." (Each set of eggs holds a complete set of clues. Provide a gift for each child on the team at their treasure location.)
• Hunt by flashlight. Hide glow-in-the-dark or glitter eggs, or wrap eggs with reflective tape. Then give kids a flashlight and let them search for their eggs at twilight.
• Scramble the eggs. Separate the tops and bottoms of plastic eggs, then reconnect them so the colors don't match. Hide the eggs, then after the children have found them, ask them to take their eggs apart and put only the matching tops and bottoms together. The child who has the most matching eggs wins a special prize.
• Add a message. Place instructions inside plastic eggs, such as "Swap an egg with a friend" or "Jump up and down 10 times." After the hunt, ask the children to open their eggs and follow instructions.
• Practice verses. Write Easter-related Bible verses on construction paper and place in plastic eggs. Ask each child who got a verse to read it aloud.
• Go prehistoric. Host a dinosaur egg hunt, complete with dinosaur-shaped eggs, camouflage baskets and explorer hats.
• Add up the fun. Decorate Easter eggs with numbers, then add the numbers on the eggs that each child collects. Give a special prize to the child with the largest and the smallest totals.
Written byKathy Seale, from the Birmingham News. Sources: Emily Beaumont of Homewood, Ala.; Janet Nebrig, preschool and kindergarten director at St. Mark United Methodist Church in Vestavia Hills, Ala.; Wendy Hogan, founder of the children's participatory Web site http://www.kidsturncentral.com/; http://www.paaseastereggs.com/.
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