Easter Egg hunts- real eggs or plastic eggs?

[marcyinPA]

My neighbors hide real eggs, and every year, they lose one . I have always done the plastic eggs, with a little candy or coins inside.

Also, do you still hide eggs for your older kids? Just curious! No right or wrong answer here!

 

[my3sonsagn]

We have a big family gathering at my grandmom's each year and we hide a mix of real and plastic. They count before hiding them, subtract the ones my uncle eats while he's hiding and the hunt doesn't end until they're all found.

The older kids can hunt if they wish (we always have enough for everyone to get a basketful) but around 12-13 they start preferring to either help hide or help the littlest kids hunt.

 

[npmommie]

My neighbors hide real eggs, and every year, they lose one . I have always done the plastic eggs, with a little candy or coins inside.

Also, do you still hide eggs for your older kids? Just curious! No right or wrong answer here!

we do a mix of real and plastic with a treat inside. i always count them before and after so i know.
we live in the country and i don't want to attract more critters than we already get

 

[CdnCarrie]

I just hide the little chocolate eggs.

 

[Janepod]

Plastic eggs filled with Lego Minifigs.

 

[fortwildernessishome]

My neighbors hide real eggs, and every year, they lose one . I have always done the plastic eggs, with a little candy or coins inside.

Also, do you still hide eggs for your older kids? Just curious! No right or wrong answer here!

We hide plastic eggs. I hide 100 eggs in the house for my boys, age 16 and 18 that are filled with candy.

I then hide around 200 eggs outside filled with coins for my boys and their two cousins. I have done this, since before my boys were born. My nephew and niece are now 24 and 25 and we still do the big outside egg hunt. Every year, I wonder if it will be the last, but its still going strong!!! Even my nephew's wife and my niece's boyfriend join in.

In addition to that I have filled some larger eggs with k-cups for the older family members to find.

Our family LOVES games and we have a variety we do at the different holidays and everyone loves the egg hunts at Easter. (You should see us at the 4th of July party!!!)

Honestly, I had never heard of hiding real eggs before, until a few years ago, when a girlfriend mentioned doing that.

I love to hear everyones different traditions.

 

[MomofKatie]

We don't do an egg hunt- never have. I never did one as a kid, nor did DH.

At our house, the Easter Bunny hides the whole Easter basket. The decorated eggs stay in the fridge and we enjoy deviled eggs and egg salad over Easter weekend.

 

[4nana]

We mostly use plastic, but also the ones they've colored. I have 150 plastic eggs ready to go for our grands egg hunt - this year egg designs incl. camo, sports, dino, butterflies, cupcakes, bunnies and asst animals, sparkly, shiney, character and hot wheel design, etc. - their parents will bring their collections also.

For filling we use all sorts of things. Asst. candies, gummies & gold fish, hot wheels, stretchy lizards and dinos, bouncy balls, stickers, easter erasers, asst kiddies jewelry, barrettes and hair acc., lil lgt up animals/wind up toys/plastic toys, get gold $ coins from bank, and of course $'s...the larger prizes we tape to eggs . Pop & SonIL's hide them - all grands 4-24yo all love to hunt for their treasures

Among the things I bought the grands this year are boxes of 'Bean Boozled' jelly beans...I think they'll get a kick out of all the scents: pencil shavings, toothpaste, barf, centipede, booger, skunk, rotten eggs, dog food, etc. I love this time of year and so enjoy being a kid at heart with grands.

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter counting their blessings.

 

[bettymae1121]

My mother used to just hide the Easter baskets around the house (eggs, candy and all!). We got the "hunt" without worrying about lost eggs. Also didn't have to worry about the weather!

I'll do the same once my daughter is old enough.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

Plastic eggs with candy inside. The past 2 years I also put dollar bills in some of the eggs.

I decided not to do that this year in the hopes that my kids would finally not to do an Easter egg hunt next year since I'm tired of doing it and would love a break.

If you check out my kids ages they are 16 and 12. LOL

 

[kisaacs]

There are 4 hunts at our house:

1. Candy eggs or plastic eggs filled with candy for my kids (my mom does the hiding).
2. Plastic eggs filled with money for the adults (again, my mom does the hiding). Participants are me (34), my brother (30), both our spouses, and my dad (62).

Those two hunts are done either outside or inside, depending on the weather. The second one is very competitive and involves a fair bit of pushing and locking of doors

At my aunt's house, we do the next two hunts:
1. Plastic eggs filled with money for the "kids". Kids are defined as anyone in school full time. Grad school counts.
2. The same plastic eggs hidden by the kids for the adults (usually 15-25 of us). This time, they have slips of paper in them with numbers. At the end, some of the numbers are for prizes.

It's great fun!
Kristen

 

[luvflorida]

Plastic eggs! We had "Easter Fun Day" at our house for our two grandchildren yesterday. We baked Easter cupcakes, colored real eggs, had a pizza picnic, then an egg hunt in the afternoon. Here's a pic from the end of the egg hunt.

The little one lost a shoe during the hunt.

When our own kids were growing up, we always hid real eggs. With the grandkids, we have been hiding a mix of big and small plastic eggs, several see-through, and several in shapes of animals- rabbits, frogs and chicks. Not much fits in the smaller eggs, and it can be difficult to find things that are safe for toddlers.

Some things that we put in the eggs: foil-wrapped chocolate coins, Disney figures (really cute from the dollar store) wind-up cars and butterflies, mini M&Ms, Angry Bird fruit snacks and Ring Pops for the oldest, toddler snacks for the youngest, cheddar bunny and graham cracker bunny crackers, colorful socks, and dollar bills.

I didn't want to put too much chocolate in any of the eggs due to it melting before the kids found the eggs. It's hot out here! I also put Snoopy/Charlie Brown stickers on our grandson's eggs, so he knew which eggs were his to pick up, and actually hid his eggs, whereas most of his little sister's eggs were pretty much out in the open. There were also five adults helping with all the activities!

 

[Skip2MyLou]

When we were kids, the Easter bunny hid our real eggs (that we had decorated). He also hid our easter baskets.

After 10 years, I happen to mention this yesterday with the inlaws. My DH & SIL only found plastic eggs (filled with candy & coins). MIL said she did real eggs as a child but when they came out with plastic eggs she decided she would rather do that with her kids.

A few years ago, my MIL decided to hide eggs for SIL, DH & I. (We were all well into our 20's). She assigned us each a color & led us on a scavenger hunt. No prizes in the eggs, just clues for the next egg, until the last one. It was actually pretty fun. Even more fun, when we realized she had messed up on some of the clues

This year, DD is old enough to understand. I think we may combine the traditions & do both real & plastic eggs. I also have 3 larger plastic eggs that I got at Hobby Lobby last year... I will put some bigger prizes in those & hide them.

 

[NAB]

Plastic eggs with candy inside. The past 2 years I also put dollar bills in some of the eggs.

I decided not to do that this year in the hopes that my kids would finally not to do an Easter egg hunt next year since I'm tired of doing it and would love a break.

If you check out my kids ages they are 16 and 12. LOL

I say the same thing, wonder why I started this ...mine are almost 12 and 15.I just said tho my husband only a few more years right I am not hiding eggs when they are old enough to go off to college.

My mom always hide the basket too, should have stuck to that. We use thes plastic ones and started to hide them better because they are pretty good at finding them but we do find an odd one here and there that we missed.

 

[marcyinPA]

We hide plastic eggs. I hide 100 eggs in the house for my boys, age 16 and 18 that are filled with candy.

I then hide around 200 eggs outside filled with coins for my boys and their two cousins. I have done this, since before my boys were born. My nephew and niece are now 24 and 25 and we still do the big outside egg hunt. Every year, I wonder if it will be the last, but its still going strong!!! Even my nephew's wife and my niece's boyfriend join in.

In addition to that I have filled some larger eggs with k-cups for the older family members to find.

Our family LOVES games and we have a variety we do at the different holidays and everyone loves the egg hunts at Easter. (You should see us at the 4th of July party!!!)

Honestly, I had never heard of hiding real eggs before, until a few years ago, when a girlfriend mentioned doing that.

I love to hear everyones different traditions.

I love that you have eggs with k-cups for the adults! That is great!

 

[indimom]

We used to do a mix of plastic and real eggs, but my kids (12 and almost 15) aren't interested anymore so they'll just get a package of peeps each, a stylus for DS's kindle, and a new cover for DD's Ipod. They've been needing these for a while and I don't like to go overboard on the candy because I usually end up eating it.

 

[aunt kelly]

When my kids and my nieces and nephews were all little, I'd have a big Easter Egg hunt on the Saturday before Easter. I'd put money and small pieces of candy in plastic eggs. It never occurred to me to use real eggs, although I remember looking for real eggs when I was a kid.

Sadly, when the kids all turned about 12 years' old, they lost interest in the egg hunts.

 

[fortwildernessishome]

There are 4 hunts at our house:

1. Candy eggs or plastic eggs filled with candy for my kids (my mom does the hiding).
2. Plastic eggs filled with money for the adults (again, my mom does the hiding). Participants are me (34), my brother (30), both our spouses, and my dad (62).

Those two hunts are done either outside or inside, depending on the weather. The second one is very competitive and involves a fair bit of pushing and locking of doors

At my aunt's house, we do the next two hunts:
1. Plastic eggs filled with money for the "kids". Kids are defined as anyone in school full time. Grad school counts.
2. The same plastic eggs hidden by the kids for the adults (usually 15-25 of us). This time, they have slips of paper in them with numbers. At the end, some of the numbers are for prizes.

It's great fun!
Kristen

Your family sounds like ours!!! Good times!!!

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

DS is 10 and I'm still going to do an egg hunt for him this year. He loves it and I'll be disappointed when he gets too old for this. I just hide chocolate eggs inside the house and give him a little basket to collect with.

 

[Stitchfans]

Plastic eggs with candies in them. Depending on the weather, either they are hidden inside our home or out in our back yard.