Easter Egg hunts are fun, but can easily lead to... well... chaos. Especially with multiple children, who differ in egg hunting qualities.
My family have 4 kids, with 5 for a number of years when my cousin lived with us. There was over a ten year age range. And we FOUGHT over Easter Eggs. So and so STOLE my eggs! I can't FIND any! Whah whah whah!
Do you know what we did? Easter eggs in different colours.
Mum bought 5 sets of eggs, green, yellow, blue, red, and purple. Now you couldn't steal anyone else's without getting caught, which meant that there were no more accusations. The older kids got the harder colours to see (I was always green, and had to start a full minute after all the others - I was good) and the younger kids got colours that easily stood out.
It also meant that you didn't miss any eggs, only to find them in the garden three weeks later. (Although little brothers still are willing to eat them!)
Colour coded Easter Eggs. It Works for Me.
3 comments:
Great idea - love it!
Another great way to help the little ones get a head start--hide the baskets. Little kiddo baskets can be hidden in an obvious place, like in a flower bed or in the middle of the lawn. Older kiddo baskets are hidden in harder places, like under the deck, inside the closed sandbox, hanging from the corner of the roof, etc. No eggs or candy can be picked up until the child has found his/her basket. This worked for my family from the time I was 5, all the way until I ceased being a "kid" (for egg hunt purposes) when I added my first child into the Easter egg hunt.
I used to creat scanveger hunt for the easter goodies and each of the 6 would have a list to look oh it was so fun
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