Easter Egg hunts- real eggs or plastic eggs?

[fortwildernessishome]

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

Thanks!

I am always trying to think of new things and that just popped into my head a few weeks ago!

 

[fortwildernessishome]

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.

When my guys were your sons age I used to think the same thing, "I'll be disappointed when he gets to old for this"

However, my boys, as well as my niece and nephew, are young at heart and just like to have fun. Now, if we had egg hunts every weekend, that would get old!! However, for once a year, everyone loves it and looks forward to it.

I hope your son continues to enjoy it for many years to come!

 

[marcyinPA]

To answer my own question- my boys and my niece told me not to bother with hiding the eggs- just to give them the cash... They were joking I think about the cash- since it's usually the jingly kind in the eggs- but I'm sad that they don't want to hunt for eggs!!

However, my neighbor's kids, who are 21 and 24, STILL hunt for those real eggs every year. They always invite my kids over too- which of course, my kids love. So they will hunt eggs at the neighbors, but not at home!

 

[BelleBriarRose]

In my family, my dad and uncles hide peanuts in the backyard. If we don't find all of them, it doesn't matter. My cousins, brothers, and I all collect the peanuts and until we can't find anymore, and then we count how many each of us found. There are prizes for the people who found the most, and the people who found the least, so it isn't a contest so much as it is just a funny family thing we do. It keeps everyone in my generation interested, from age 2 to age 24.

 

[Crystal824]

Plastic filled with candy. Although when I was a kid, my family did hide real ones.

 

[blana]

Growing up, all egg hunts used the marshmallow Easter eggs. http://www.candywarehouse.com/products/brachs-wrapped-marshmallow-easter-eggs-15-piece-bag/

Several years ago, at the family Easter egg hunt, the kids quit picking those up as good, so my aunts & mom started doing more & more filled plastic eggs. But we grown kids still get the yummy marshmallow ones.

Since we do the big family one (and since Easter is so jammed with sunrise service, regular service, then an hour+ drive to the family celebration), I don't hide for my kids. Generally about 12 the kids quit looking for themselves & start helping the younger kids. So, by the time the youngest in my generation started aging out, the oldest in the next generation was ready to take over.

 

[kimblebee]

The Easter Bunny leaves my 11 y.o. daughter a basket by her bed with chocolate eggs, Kisses, and other chocolates along with a small gift. This year it's a GC for ear piercing.

There are also chocolate eggs hidden around the house. A few turn up months later LOL

We go to my mom and dads for Easter dinner and there are chocolate eggs hidden there as well. I think my mom said there is a Cadburys egg that is going on its 3rd Easter without being found. EWWWWWW