Egg Hunt

We went big on the egg hunts in our family!  We loved them! One of the best things we used to do is include instruction eggs.  These might have a silly thing the boys would need to do or they might say, ‘give 5 eggs to your brother.’ The eggs also had lots of instructions to do exercises (jumping jacks, run around the yard, roll down the hill). These have the added benefit of extending the outside time and getting the kids to do some exercise on a day that might be otherwise relatively sedentary. These ‘activity eggs’ added a festive element to opening the eggs and made it more like a game. Plus, they’re basically free!

What’s Inside?

So, aside from our silly instruction eggs, we put a variety of fun things inside. I couldn’t do only candy because Mikey often wanted to eat all the candy at once. We got some of the larger eggs for slightly bigger toys.

1. Coins (or a few one dollar bills if you’re a big spender).
2. Stickers (cut one or two off of the page for each egg)
3. Candy (jelly beans, m&ms, smarties, etc…), but just a few in each egg
4. Matchbox cars
5. Cartoons (googled easter cartoons and then printed and folded them)
6. Goldfish crackers
7. Eraser pencil toppers
8. Annie’s bunny-shaped graham crackers
9. Small gift-bag sized toys
10. Silly putty (comes in its own egg)
11. Wind-up toys
12. Animal mini-figures (usually sold in tubes). We had sea life, dinosaurs, etc…
13. Mini green soldiers or old-school army guys
14. Lego minifigures (a few…too pricey to have too many)
15. Fun flavors of lip balm
16. Finger puppets
17. Individual stamps
18. Friendship bracelets (made of embroidery floss or string) or rubber bracelets.
19. Barrel of monkeys (just put one or two monkeys in each egg)
20. Stretchy toys
21. Fruit loops or otherwise normally-outlawed sugary cereal
22. Keychains (some kids put them on their backpacks)
23. Enamel pins (also for the backpacks).

We saved the plastic eggs in a bin in the basement from year to year so the egg hunt grew over time. We really had fun with it!