This year my friend Tanya organized the friends Easter egg hunt. She invited several of her local friends, and did it in her local park. It is a gorgeous setting, with lots of room to hide treats. And the playground is sort of screened off with trees, so it’s easy to trap the kids in there while the other moms do the hiding. I forgot my camera, grrr, but my friend, Rochelle took some photos for me. Hurray!
This is always such a fun event because there are tons of kids to interact with, and LOTS of candy and treats to find. As well as homemade goodies to snack on for the moms. 🙂 Sadly, this year Alexandra was sick with a fever and had to stay home under Nick’s care. But Sarah offered to carry her basket around and filled it with plenty of goodies. In fact, she kept almost nothing for herself, but kept putting all the good treats in Alexandra’s basket. Such a good big sister.
The only problem with holding a giant egg hunt in a public park, is that occasionally you will get children who aren’t part of the group watching from the sidelines with sad little faces. There was so much candy we were hiding, that I went over to the two kids I saw and handed them some treats right out of my bag. I think a couple of the other moms did as well. It’s not like our kids need ALL the sugar for themselves, right?
See, seriously huge park. And this was only one section of it. Even so, towards the end, some of us moms were just dropping the candy directly on the grass, not even trying to hide it. There was just so much, and apparently we aren’t that creative. 🙂
All the kids ended up happy with their haul, I think.
Once again, Tanya made some special eggs for the kids to find. She cleaned out real egg shells, filled them with confetti, and then closed the holes up with tissue paper. In a few special eggs there was also glitter. Here she is explaining the rules of the eggs.
First, if some kids found a bunch of confetti eggs, and others had none, we asked them to share the wealth. Second everyone chose an egg and held it in their hand at the same time. Then they broke it open by smashing it on someone’s head, or their own. Depending on what color glitter the lucky few found inside their egg, they received a prize; chocolate bunnies of varying sizes! My kids didn’t win one, but that’s okay. Because in just a few short days we would have our family egg hunt where they would get even more treats. Not to mention a certain bunny. Yikes.
Thank you, Tanya for organizing such a great hunt, and for all the moms and their kids who participated so nicely. It’s always fun to hang out with such great people.
