School Egg Hunts

The kids are getting lots of egg hunts this year. Ben has been counting the weeks and days for a while now ready to participate in them all. He started with the first hunt of the season at school on the Wednesday before Easter. His class had an egg hunt and then a family picnic. Ben was so excited that both Mom and Dad were able to attend. The class lined up and Miss Anita counted down to the mad dash for eggs. The kids had so much fun and did really well. There was no fighting over eggs and they cleared the place out within just a few minutes. The big talk was about all of the different egg designs and who brought which eggs. We all sat down for picnic lunch afterward and it was also fun to see the kids interact and visit with the other families during that time. Ben was so pleased to open his eggs when we got home that night. He relished each new candy and carefully moved them from the eggs to a plastic bag. He even laid out a bag of fruit snacks he received in a special place so he could have them the next day.

Elizabeth’s school hunt and party was the following day. Mom was able to go and help hide eggs and watch the kids. It had to be inside because of rain, so the motor room at school was used and the eggs were hid around all of the big inside toys. An egg hunt with two year olds is quite different from an egg hunt with four year olds. The two year olds likely didn’t remember doing this before and there was a definite learning curve. Some had no idea what was going on, some got the idea quickly and wanted every last egg in the room and then there was Elizabeth. She got one, showed Mom, then put it in her basket. Then she went for another and was pretty satisfied with completing her task. Mom talked her into a few more and then she was done with the experience. There were too many extra adults and lots of other kids to watch so E was content hanging out with Mom until it was done. She had a class party following and spent the party in Mom's lap eating a little of the party snacks, but mostly ready to go home and open her eggs. She was not understanding why we would stop to eat and play when there were surprises waiting to be discovered in those eggs!