The Easter Bunny can be traced back to 17th-century German folklore, when the Easter Hare left brightly painted eggs in nests carefully laid out by children.
These days, there are many fun and simple tactics you can use to set up a delightful hunt, starting from decorating your garden or wearing bunny-eared headbands! Here’s a few tips to set up a successful Easter egg hunt for mixed ages!
1. Use different-coloured eggs
With more than one child, use different coloured eggs for each child to help prevent one eagle-eyed hunter from rooting out all the eggs. It also makes the game fairer!
2. Make it age-appropriate
Different ages can be quite tricky. Whilst some might find the hunt a little bit too childish, others could do with a little bit of help. Ask the elder siblings to help create maps showing your garden or, why not, basement. You can even go as far as asking them to make the paper look piraty old, using the good old used tea bag trick. For the very little ones, you can draw and cut out bunny footprints and place these close to the hidden eggs. This will give them a hint and a boost of confidence! You can also include clues, along with the eggs, such as ‘look at daddy’s favourite spot’ or ‘What about grandma’s chair?’
3. Keep your books
Make sure you keep track of all the hidden eggs so you don’t step in puddles of melting chocolate throughout summer term!
4. For a sugar-free hunt
For a sugar-free hunt or, if you want to ensure no one eats their eggs before they’ve all been gathered, use mini foil-wrapped eggs, or dyed, painted or plastic eggs that can then be exchanged for a chocolate prize at the end. You could also put little notes on the eggs such as “Stay Up half an hour later tonight” or “Pick what we are having for dinner tomorrow”. Another idea would be to fill in the eggs with cut-out words and then make an Easter DADA poem.
5. Two More Tips
Egg-and-Spoon-Race: traditionally a sporting event in which participants must balance an egg or similarly shaped item upon a spoon and race with it to the finishing line, why not turn it into a family Easter tradition in your backyard?
Easter bunny and the donut lollies: Ask your little ones to plant a handful of jelly beans in the garen… Whilst asleep replace ‘magical seeds’ with lollipops or these donut lollies!
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