How to Organize a Community Easter Egg Hunt

Our local Children's Home holds a huge egg hunt for children on their lawn. The lawn is sectioned off in various age groups and prizes are awarded in a raffle drawing with a basket for girl names and a basket for boy names. Therefore, they receive gender related toys. It is a lot of fun and dedication by the community.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Plastic Eggs
• Door Prizes
• Treat Bags
• An Easter basket

1. Create flyers of the date, time, and place of the community Easter Egg Hunt. It should state the age groups and a contact number for any questions. Questions often benefit both parties. They may think of something to ask that you had not thought of.

2. Get area businesses to donate money for plastic eggs and prizes for children. A week before the event start creating brown paper bags with candy treats, curl the bag down, and staple. When a child turns in his or her plastic eggs to the egg box, they get a bag of candy.

3. Divide the lawn for age group hunting. Take all eggs and cover the 1-3 year old area. This will be the beginning area for the egg hunt, little kids first of walking age. Then section off areas for other age groups up to 10 years old. When kids have collected all ages in a section, they get in line, exchange eggs for a bag of goodies. The plastic eggs are then spread out in the next age group section. And so on.

4. When all the egg hunting is finished, everyone meets at the wagon set up as a stage with toys all around. A name is drawn out of the girls basket, the person has to be present to win. Then the boy's basket and continuing until all prizes are awarded.

5. In addition to the egg hunting and door prizes, a bunny is available in a costume to meet and greet the children.

6. Perhaps a local 4-H or Scout group would be interested in selling hot dogs, chips and drinks as a fundraiser.

7. Other games include an egg rolling contest, best homemade Easter basket contest, best decorated Easter egg, and free face painting for all kids.

Tips & Warnings

• Each child needs to bring their own basket or bag to collect eggs.
• Make sure you have a safe place for parking. Have local police on hand to assist with traffic and crowd control. Usually there are no problems, but it is best to have one or two officers on hand.
• Make sure photos are taken and a news article is written about the success of the event and thank area businesses and police for their help.

Resources

• Different Ways to Decorate Easter Eggs

[apalmer]

on 4/11/2009 Waters, I am sure the stores make huge profits on real eggs, however, at our egg hunts we have all plastic egg for food safety sake. And I know their are thousands and thousands of eggs.

[apalmer]

on 4/11/2009 Many community businesses give generously to the Community Easter Egg Hunt. We have a county commissioner on hand to announce the winners of the raffle drawing. And other business people are on hand to help with the duties of the egg hunt. All the staff where bright colored tee-shirts labeled staff. It is really a great program.

[westernmom]

on 4/6/2009 Great ideas! We have a neighbor that does this and many of us drop off a bag of Easter candy to her a week before so she can fill the eggs. The kids love it! Thanks for sharing! 5***

[makaksa]

on 4/6/2009 I would like to forward this to our borough. They certainly could use the advice.

[pondsrus]

on 4/5/2009 Great article. I just took my grand daughter to an Easter egg hunt yesterday. It was lots of fun. 5*