For the second year in a row, we were a bit disappointed with the community egg hunt in our area. Last year, we went to a hunt with no eggs, so we tried a different hunt this year. Again--it was an eggless egg hunt! Each age group had a roped off area strewn with candy and only two or three eggs (containing a prize).
Thank goodness, this year we were prepared. When we saw the candy, we told the kids that this must be how they do the hunts around here, and that they shouldn't be disappointed if they didn't find an egg. The result? A much happier egg hunt than last year. The kids took it in stride, and Melissa actually got an egg (she and about twenty other kids went for the same egg, and she got it)!
Lacie (who spent last year's hunt examining each piece of candy for a good sixty seconds before putting it into her basket) dove right in and grabbed all she could find--saving the examining for later.
Megan (who spent last year's hunt admiring the candy from afar and forgetting to actually put any in her basket) painstakingly selected only tootsie rolls. (I had no idea she was a fan.)
Melissa (who spent last year sobbing because she didn't get an egg) miraculously came out the winner in the battle for the single egg. (She tossed aside her fears and went for it with all she could give.)
Yeah for a fun hunt! (After last year's fiasco, things could only get better this year!)
*We're grateful to the organizers of the hunt and happy that the girls had a good time, but I'm still perplexed why the candy isn't in eggs. If you ask me, a field of candy with only a few eggs is asking for lots of tears from disappointed kids. We'll keep looking for a hunt with eggs for next year.
3 comments:
We've had the same problem with hunts around here... the solution? Invite a bunch of friends and organize your own. Everyone just fill 20 or so eggs per kid, show up to a park, have one mom read the kids a story while the other moms hurry and hide the eggs. It works like a charm!
Thomas said they shouldn't call it an Egg hunt they should call it a candy hunt. I agree.
Maybe your community hunts don't do eggs because it's a lot of work and money that they don't have.
Our 4H group volunteered to fill and hide 2,500 eggs with candy for our egg hunt, and like all community egg hunts, all of the eggs were gone in 20 seconds. My girls got about 1 egg each after all of that.
I like Jennifer's suggestion, just get some neighbors together and do your own. Glad to see that with different expectations your girls had a funner time than last year. My Emma (6) still hates egg hunts because it's so stressfull trying to beat out all those kids for an egg or two.
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