Have you given any thought to traditional Easter egg hunts?
Here’s my perspective on how traditional Easter egg hunts often go.
Children, of differing ages and abilities, compete to be the child that captures the most Easter eggs and thus the grand prize.
At times, parents drag those children around and proceed to “help” them find the eggs thereby ensuring that their child is the one who is the grand winner.
The number of eggs collected is usually the determining factor in who is the grand prize winner.
And often, the Easter eggs are filled with candy. In addition to getting a nice prize, the child with the most eggs goes home with an abundance of candy.
My heart breaks for the child who lacks the ability to be compete and win.
Several years ago, I inherited the family Easter dinner and the accompanying Easter egg hunt.
My oldest grandson was born with Spina Bifida. Hunting Easter eggs is a challenge for him. Especially if it is a race to find the most.
My goal was to create an Easter egg hunt that would retain the fun factor and allow everyone to participate at their own pace.
From that desire the idea of an all-inclusive Easter egg hunt was born.
The foundation of an all-inclusive Easter egg hunt is that it is not a race for the most eggs.
Each child hunts for a predetermined number of Easter eggs.
They can find their eggs as fast or slow as their age or ability allows. Everyone hunts at their own pace.
Parents can help or not help. Parental help does not affect the outcome.
After finding their allotted number of eggs, the kids return to the house and turn in their eggs for their individual prize.
Our family pitches in and provides each child with an Easter basket full of fun stuff as their prize.
Each basket is age appropriate but created to be equal
The prize does not have to be large. The important part is that everyone walks away a winner.
In our family, the all-inclusive Easter egg hunt is a hit and has become part of our Easter tradition.
My mission is to spread the word that there is a way to have a fun, inclusive Easter egg hunt.
This method can easily be adapted for any size group.
With an all-inclusive Easter egg hunt, there are no tears. No feelings are hurt. Everyone walks away a winner.
If your family or group is looking for a way to ensure a fun, inclusive, Easter egg hunt, consider adapting the All-inclusive Easter egg hunt.
And watch the good times roll!
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I can not remember who told me this but they do a color system. They have the same amount of each egg color and the kids are only allowed to pick up their designated color.
My parents did a scavenger hunt with the Easter basket at the end for my nephew but he was the only kid. We usually have money (coins) in some of the eggs.
I have heard of the color idea. It is a wonderful idea for a small group of children.
Scavenger hunts are also great too.
I’m all for anything that allows everyone to participate!
Love the color system & the scavenger hunt for the basket ideas. I remember when I was little our baskets weren’t always just out on the table. It was like hide and seek, we had to find them!
I had forgotten about the hide and seek! Fun times!
A perfect post just in time for Easter! I was just telling me coworkers I never have done an Easter egg hunt before! They were all so shocked. I love the suggestions you have here and thank you for sharing! Hope you enjoy the Easter weekend ☺️
I hope you get to enjoy your first Easter egg hunt. Happy Easter!
Interesting read!! I love the idea of a scavenger hunt.
This is actually how my parents always did the easter egg hunt when we were growing up. I never even thought about it until now but I guess they were smart to do that because I can imagine the fights my brother and I would have gotten into! They used the plastic eggs and one of us would get solid colored eggs, and the other would be two-tone eggs that were two different colors of plastic halves put together.
That is great. I never really thought about it in terms of sibling rivalry. With 4 kids, I guess I should have 🙂
Great idea….that is how we do it at school. We count the number of eggs and divide by the number of children. That is how many eggs each child gets to find.
Doing it like that simply alleviates so many problems!
I love that over the years, you developed a method that works! I honestly think I did two Easter egg hunts TOTAL as a kid, so I don’t remember much aside from the fact that there were always jelly beans in the eggs haha.