Easter questions

[mommyatty]

1. How many eggs do you hide per child?
2. Do you put anything other than candy in eggs? My kids don’t much like candy, and they will do other egg hunts where they get candy, so I’m thinking small toys instead. Thoughts? They will get some candy in their Easter baskets, so please don’t think I’m depriving them.

[k3am]

I am not allowed to plan Easter for my kids because... inlaws.

They do 20-40 eggs. No candy, all money. DD usually makes about $20 on Easter. I'm not sure what will happen this year when DS is more involved with the whole thing.

[katrine05]

I do about a dozen. This will be the first year DS will be a little involved. When DD was 2-3 I did goldfish, teddy grams, raisins in the eggs. Might do stickers, tattoos, and little toys this year. Really haven't planned out Easter at all yet.

[mae0111]

We do candy in the eggs, then small toys in the basket. But you could put small cars, stickers, tattoos, lego guys, Shopkins.

Another idea would be to hide the mini Hatchimal eggs. My kids looove hatching those stupid things, so I started getting bunches of the small ones so they could keep hatching, rather than one huge $70 one that they quickly ignore.

www.walmart.com/ip/Hatchimals-CollEGGtibles-12-Pack-Egg-Carton/641127471?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222228093130809&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=207469661744&wl4=pla-337522143791&wl5=9002019&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=641127471&wl13=&veh=sem

[186momx]

DD and I have been talking about this since she is so limited on what time of candy she can have to her dental limitations. She is opting out of a lot of hunts since she can't eat any of it anyways. She asked me to email the Easter bunny to ask for only straight chocolate or something else. We've done a few different things other than candy: hair bows, hair clips/ties, stickers, etc. I've also done just real eggs.

6 real eggs & 6 plastic eggs

[2chatter]

We do about 30 eggs per child and hide them all over the yard. When I’m organized each kid gets half personalized eggs and half generic. Most eggs contain money, stickers, little things.
Some personalized eggs contain things each kid loves - Perfume samples, lego Minifigs, soccer keychain, are examples. Oldest gets $1 -$10 bills in a couple eggs for playing along. And hiding them. We used to host a
big party but aren’t this year so the bunny will be sober - ha - so DD will have help and may get a pay cut.

Idk wtf I did with all the eggs last year. Must figure that out....

Baskets contain a swimsuit and toy; this year they are each getting a wet bag too.

[waverly]

Mar 19, 2018 15:28:25 GMT -5 k3am said:

I am not allowed to plan Easter for my kids because... inlaws.

They do 20-40 eggs. No candy, all money. DD usually makes about $20 on Easter. I'm not sure what will happen this year when DS is more involved with the whole thing.

You're the mom, do what you want.  IL's can't possibly be there that early like 9 am or something like that, so do what you want in the morning and they can do their thing in the afternoon or some version of this.  They can have multiple baskets or egg hunts of whatever.  I also vote if you are hosting to serve whatever food you want and make them deal with it. 

[waverly]

mommyatty, I just make it all up as I go along. Usually its eggs hidden no number just whatever, and nothing in them. Some years they had candy. Small toys seem hard to do and not necessary if you already have a basket with some toys. We get home from vacation the day before so Easter this year will be super thrown together. It will be like Happy Easter your vacation was your present.

[k3am]

Mar 19, 2018 16:48:25 GMT -5 waverly said:

Mar 19, 2018 15:28:25 GMT -5 k3am said:

I am not allowed to plan Easter for my kids because... inlaws.

They do 20-40 eggs. No candy, all money. DD usually makes about $20 on Easter. I'm not sure what will happen this year when DS is more involved with the whole thing.

You're the mom, do what you want.  IL's can't possibly be there that early like 9 am or something like that, so do what you want in the morning and they can do their thing in the afternoon or some version of this.  They can have multiple baskets or egg hunts of whatever.  I also vote if you are hosting to serve whatever food you want and make them deal with it.  

I don't care enough to organize two hunts. 

I am putting up a fight over spending the night there on Saturday. 

[waverly]

I don't understand the spend the night thing. Ugh sorry k3am

[twinmomma]

A bunch of eggs? I don't really count it out. We just have a huge bin of them in the attic because MIL went nuts one year and I saved them. I usually put jelly beans, pistachios, temporary tattoos, and stickers.

[twinmomma]

Mar 19, 2018 16:48:25 GMT -5 waverly said:

Mar 19, 2018 15:28:25 GMT -5 k3am said:

I am not allowed to plan Easter for my kids because... inlaws.

They do 20-40 eggs. No candy, all money. DD usually makes about $20 on Easter. I'm not sure what will happen this year when DS is more involved with the whole thing.

You're the mom, do what you want.  IL's can't possibly be there that early like 9 am or something like that, so do what you want in the morning and they can do their thing in the afternoon or some version of this.  They can have multiple baskets or egg hunts of whatever.  I also vote if you are hosting to serve whatever food you want and make them deal with it. 

Or so you think.... Last Easter in laws came here for 9 AM breakfast and our egg hunt. Then MIL felt the need to plan an entire second egg hunt at her house for when we went there in the afternoon for dinner...

[greenmonkey1]

Our boys are little (5, 3, and not yet 1) so we only do 4-eggs per kid and a basket. Last year I think I just did stickers in the eggs. This year I might do matchbox cars and legos if the eggs are big enough (need to dig those out). The basket is mostly non-candy: bubbles, jump rope, new rain boots if they need them, swim goggles, kite, etc. Mostly outside stuff since they are itching to get outside post winter. MIL gives them way too much candy in their baskets so I avoid adding to the pile and just give them a chocolate bunny and some other fun candy/food item.

[2chatter]

I’m the egg hunt junkie I guess - the bunny comes, my parents (now just my mom) do a hunt, and ILs/SIL does a hunt - so that’s three in one day. It’s super fun, and the kids hide eggs for each other all day long.

[erinshelley21]

I'll fill however many full eggs I can find throughout the house. We've been playing Easter egg hunt at least once a month since Easter 2016 lol. We are also still decorating for Christmas and we play trick or treat too. DS loves celebrations of all kinds.

Stickers, tattoos, maybe fold up some coloring pages. Jewelry for your DD, and your DS if he's into it. Blind bags would fit into eggs. My kid would lose his mind if he had blind bags/mashems/etc in his eggs.

[k3am]

Mar 19, 2018 17:52:51 GMT -5 waverly said:

I don't understand the spend the night thing. Ugh sorry k3am

Nothing makes sense when it comes to my IL's. I've accepted it for the most part. 

[sandandsea]

I have a large ziploc bag full of eggs to hide so maybe 20 total. I also have a bag full that we use to make an Easter egg tree in the front yard. Some are empty, some have junior mints, and some have a quarter (to use at the amusement park or pizza place games).

[akafred]

I...don't really do a lot of eggs or hunts. Normally I toss a handful of candy in the playroom floor and hide a few Cadbury type eggs and a bunny and she has to find them there, plus a few gifts in the basket. This is how it was growing up. I have memories of going in the basement and there were just loads upon loads of wrapped candies in the floor. There were 4 kids so it was more impressive than our one.

[polecat8]

We hide 5 eggs for each kid. We put some candy in each egg. They also have to hunt for their baskets. We don't put too much in their baskets - maybe a book and a shirt and a little bit of candy that didn't fit in the eggs.
I'm not sure what we will put in DS2's eggs since he can't really eat candy yet.

My dad does a massive egg hunt for all of the grandkids on Easter. There are 10 grandkids (ranging from 20 years old to 1) and I think each one gets 10 eggs. My dad has color coded eggs that he puts a little candy or toy and some money. Each grandkid has their own color. On top of that, there is a set of uncoded eggs that each grandkid can find just 1. They all have money in them and one of them has a $20 in it. It is the one thing that my dad gets really in to. The only problem is that he is not allowed to hide them because he forgets where he puts some of them.

[ilovelucyvv]

This part of Easter my MIL controls. Maybe 100 eggs for 6 “hunters” but usually only candy or stickers in a few.

[mustardseed2007]

I'm not sure how much for each kid. Maybe 2 dozen? Normally it's little toys instead of candy. Oriental trading sells them pre-stuffed with toys, so I already got a couple dozen from them.

[mellym]

Mar 20, 2018 7:57:28 GMT -5 polecat8 said:

I'm in charge of the egg hunt this year at my parents' house and I'm stealing this idea. We have four kids, 5 and under so the oldest end up with all the eggs and then they fight about who got more candy vs. money, etc. This would end all the fights if they each got the same thing and we could hide the younger kids' eggs in easier spots without the older kids taking them. I'm doing candy, money and stickers. Maybe 6 eggs each??

Both sets of grandparents hide baskets for the kids. We go to my parents on Saturday and my in laws on Sunday. They also get a basket and egg hunt from the Easter Bunny when they wake up Sunday morning at our house. This reminds me that last year my in laws hid two baskets for each kid, one from the Easter bunny. My kids are spoiled.

ETA: I have no idea what happened to polecat8's quote. It was color coded eggs

[mommyatty]

Mar 20, 2018 12:25:08 GMT -5 mustardseed2007 said:

I'm not sure how much for each kid. Maybe 2 dozen? Normally it's little toys instead of candy. Oriental trading sells them pre-stuffed with toys, so I already got a couple dozen from them.

I just ordered like 4 dozen prefilled toy eggs from them! Thank you!

[mustardseed2007]

Mar 22, 2018 14:54:05 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

Mar 20, 2018 12:25:08 GMT -5 mustardseed2007 said:

I'm not sure how much for each kid. Maybe 2 dozen? Normally it's little toys instead of candy. Oriental trading sells them pre-stuffed with toys, so I already got a couple dozen from them.

I just ordered like 4 dozen prefilled toy eggs from them! Thank you!

Sure! Oriental trading handles all of my birthday party and holiday needs!