How to Plan an Easter Egg Hunt

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Have you ever planned an Easter egg hunt? If you’ve never planned one before, you may not be aware of the intricacies of making it successful. When you plan an Easter egg hunt, there is more to it than just stuffing eggs with goodies and putting them out on the lawn, or hiding them for kids to search for them. The number of kids that will be there as well as their ages and hunting abilities are important pieces of information. There are all kinds of things you have to know before you can plan a successful Easter egg hunt. Start by asking yourself and answering all of the following questions:

How many children will there be? The number of kids who are going to attend your Easter egg hunt will directly affect the location of where you hold the Easter egg hunt. It will affect how many eggs you put out in your hunt. It will play a big role in your overall Easter egg hunt plan. The first thing you want to do is figure out how many kids will be attending the egg hunt. Whatever number you come up with, plan for extra. You want to be prepared in case somebody brings a friend. It would be really bad if you didn’t have enough eggs or your venue was too small.

Next question: how many eggs will each child end up with when the hunt is over? You may feel like you have stuffed more eggs than can ever be found and goodies eaten, but the fact is, if you don’t do the simple math to find out how many eggs each kid should get, you won’t know if you are amply prepared for the egg hunt or not. Decide how many eggs you want each child to end up with. If you want each kid to get at least ten eggs, and you have 20 kids, make sure you have at least 200 eggs in the hunt. Do the numbers and make sure you have ample eggs available for hunting. After all, what is a good Easter egg hunt if you do not have a lot of eggs to hunt?

Next you want to determine how the hunt will proceed. Will you just let the kids go willy nilly and pick up as many eggs as they can gather? Or, are you going to tell each kid they get one of each color? Will you separate the children in groups based on their age? Will you tell the older kids to leave the easy eggs for the younger kids? These are all important questions. When you have many different ages participating these questions are important to answer. What tends to be the best method is to either dictate in some way how many eggs or what kind of eggs each person can get so that no one child ends up with far more or far less than anyone else; or, split the children into age groups so that they are hunting in their skill set and ability range so that no one has an advantage or disadvantage.

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