Easter Egg Hunts

[WolfpackWife]

What do easter egg hunts mean to you:

a) Hard boiled and dyed eggs that are hidden?

b) plastic eggs with candy in the middle

c) something else?

DH and I disagree on what a true "easter egg hunt" is. Truthfully I'd never heard of anyone hiding and hunting for hardboiled, dyed eggs until he said that's what he did growing up. For us it was always plastic colored eggs with candies, jelly beans, or sometimes a few pennies in them. The dyed eggs were used as easter table decor or something else decorative. Never hidden.

What say you?

[scrub-jay]

Growing up, Easter egg hunts had both candy & hard boiled dyed eggs.

[WolfpackWife]

Growing up, Easter egg hunts had both candy & hard boiled dyed eggs.

Interesting! I wonder if it's totally random or if there is any geographic location - DH said friends and family in both TX and FL hid the hard boiled eggs. Being born and raised in NC, I'd never heard of such a thing. But perhaps it' just my family.

It's like the whole "does Santa wrap his presents or leave them unwrapped?" thing.

[Deebs]

Plastic eggs (grew up in Chicago suburbs, FYI)

[SoonerTexan]

Plastic eggs

[GreyhoundsRUs]

Plastic eggs (grew up in Chicago suburbs, FYI)

+1

[SuzySunshine]

We also had both, this year we'll just do plastic bc I don't want to transport real ones to my moms.

[Pollyanna]

We do both. The bunny hides plastic eggs all over the house and then later in the day we hide the eggs we decorated outside. It's super fun to do both!

The bunny hides the plastic eggs in such crazy places that they find eggs for weeks after Easter

[Vanquisher]

We usually do both, but lately haven't hid the real ones. We like to eat them, and I don't want them sitting out in the sun. Weather and geography has always dictated outside or in. We do a hunt for baskets too. Sometimes with scavenger hunt clues.

For plastic eggs, we make an inventory so we make sure we get them all. We also do a one gold egg that has $10 in it.

For baskets, I put together my own with what the kids like in them as opposed top prefilled crap.

[spotty_dog]

I grew up in Alaska with Southern, crunchy-granola parents. We dyed hardboiled eggs and the EB hid them indoors, then we kids re-hid them and re-hid them until I'm sure they were gross, and finally counted to make sure we had them all! I never actually heard of anyone hiding plastic eggs, or hiding them outdoors, until pretty recently. It was always slushy breakup time at Easter, so "hide the egg in the half-melted pile of snow, dirt, grass, and possibly dog droppings" never sounded appealing.

I am not sure if we have ever dyed eggs with my kids, and the Easter bunny has never brought them a basket. They've been to the town egg hunt (plastic, candy) twice. I'm thinking of changing that tradition; or maybe we'll just give them bunny-shaped candy and call that good.

[alison]

My parents hid hard-boiled eggs. And there was no Easter Bunny. I grew up in the PNW.

Easter in Germany is a 4-day weekend! Dh's family dyed eggs, no hiding, no baskets, just some small gifts.

So, we just do it the German way and put some chocolates and small toys in dd's Easter basket.

[KlynK]

My parents hid plastic eggs outside when we lived in WA and inside when we lived in PA. We almost never dyed eggs for Easter.


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[Mrs. MD, Esq.]

Plastic eggs with clues in them to lead you to the next egg/clue (and ultimately your Easter basket).

[Ladybug]

Plastic eggs/candy go into easter baskets by the bed in the morning. The Easter Bunny hides the dyed eggs.

I still remember the Easter that somebody accidently let the dog out in the morning and all the easter eggs were chewed up in the grass. That was in Texas.

It's too cold here to hunt outside so it's not as challenging as outside, but the kids still enjoy.

We've gotten the most mileage out them practicing hiding and hunting with the plastic eggs. This keeps them busy for long period of time.

[houseelf]

We do a massive Easter egg hunt with plastic chocolate filled eggs. Inevitably, some eggs are overlooked and the already-out-of-control deer population haunts our house like a bunch of junkies. Between this and birthday pinatas, we are like a wildlife crack house.