This year the younger kids got a nice long weekend off of school to celebrate Easter. So Wednesday at noon, school was officially out until next Tuesday. Woohoo! Sounds like a perfect time to have an Easter Egg hunt with friends before everyone takes off for various destinations.
Tanya’s husband had just been in the States for work, and brought back tons of plastic eggs. So while the kids played, we filled them up with all the candy we had brought.
Yes, that is a child in a bunny costume. Her big brother wore it for the last two years, and now it is Chloe’s turn. Better picture of her later…
My friend also brought something new and special this year, blown-out eggs that had been filled with confetti and then decorated. One special egg also had blue glitter mixed in with the confetti. So before the hunt could begin we needed to explain the rules.
The children were free to find as many of the plastic eggs as they wanted. There were also treats just hidden about in the grass, they could also take as many of those as they wanted. But they were all only allowed to find and keep 2 of the real eggs. They should save them and not break them until the end of the hunt, where we would break them all together to see who had found the one with the glitter inside. That person would win a prize of a chocolate bunny that I had purchased earlier.
And here come the hordes of sugar-crazed children in search of booty.
We tried to have the little kids go first, but it wasn’t super organized. Still, there was just so much candy available that everyone went home pretty happy. 🙂
We love this hunt with our friends, and the kids look forward to it every year. This could be one reason why.
Look at those full baskets! And they all shared a bit with Nick, who came to the hunt and helped hide treats, but didn’t gather any himself. So nice.
Oh, who found the blue glitter egg? That would be this guy, Jasper.
Is that not the best “I won” expression ever? Love it!
And thankfully the rain that had been threatening to fall all afternoon held off until we were all headed to our cars anyway. Perfect!