Cousin Egg Hunt

Monday, April 20, 2009

Cousin Egg Hunt

This year for Easter, my family decided to get together in a more casual atmosphere the day before. We had a great and easy dinner involving sandwiches and chips. Of course, what starts out as easy with my family tends to turn into overdone so we had WAY too many foods to choose from and way more than we could eat. We enjoyed it in the days afterwards though, so it worked out well.

After we ate, the kids were ready to participate in the Easter Egg Hunt my mom was putting on for them. Each child had there own color eggs to find so they had fun running around in the back yard crossing paths and helping point out each others eggs as they hunted for their own. It was a brilliant success.

My mom was also mindful that we didn't want to give our children too much candy. So, instead of hiding candy in the eggs, she hid pieces of papers with numbers on them. Then, she brought them into the living room where she had hidden several numbered prized. That way they were able to get things from their hunt that wouldn't have fit in the eggs themselves. They got a visor with things to decorate it, pencils, magnets, cars, and other things like that. She also ended up giving them a fair amount of donuts and other pastries, which I thought defeated the purpose. But - oh well, what can you do? It was a good idea...

After the egg hunt we had a fun time decorating the cookies Aunt Krista brought. This has become a favorite holiday tradition and the kids love getting together and working on their cookies. I just love eating them!

2 comments:

MichelleApril 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Looks like lots of fun!
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RaeApril 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM
I love that each child had an assigned color egg for the hunt- I might have to borrow that idea-
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