Easter Egg Hunt Planning Tips
Are you planning 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. You have to account for the number of kids, and the ages and hunting abilities. Planning a successful Easter egg hunt will be easier if you keep these things in mind. Here are some questions you should ask and answer when planning your event:
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. So, what you want to do is first figure out an exact number of kids who are going to be attending your Easter egg hunt. Whatever number you come up with, plan for extra. If anyone brings a friend you may not have enough eggs. It is better to have too many eggs and too big of a space for your hunt then not enough and too small.
Next, ask yourself: About how many eggs is each child going to end up with? 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. Choose the number of eggs you would like each child to get. 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 calculations 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 will you tell each child to take one of each color? Will you separate the children in groups based on their age? Are you going to let them hunt at will, then split the eggs evenly at the end? These are all important questions. It is especially important to answer these questions if you will be inviting lots of children who aren’t the same age. 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.
