This year for Easter I am going to have 7 of our neices and nephews. I usually make each of them a basket (usually around $10) but this year, I was thinking of doing something different for them and having an egg hunt. i was going to use plastic eggs and give each of them a certain color, and instead of putting $10 of stuff in a basket, give them the money in eggs, as well as candy. What do you think the kids would like better? The kids are 14, 13, 12,11, 8. TIA

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If I were the kid I'd prefer the egg hunt. Baskets usually get tossed aside and what a waste! Maybe since you're using separate colors so everyone gets their prizes you can do a scavenger hunt where you write up age appropriate clues. That way it's fun, it takes time, and each one gets their prizes.

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My MIL has done an egg hunt for her 6 grandkids since they were born. They love it! Even as teenagers, they love the cash for gas money or whatever. She fills the eggs with change and does tons of eggs - each kid ends up with around 30-35 eggs. She has Easter dinner and they get to do the hunt after dinner and the kids are hilarious as they anticipate the hunt afterwards!

Lisa

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Not just an egg hunt hunt, but a scavenger hunt with clues! Kids love it, and you can add some quarters in the plastic eggs instead of candy. They like that too!

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My son is 2.5, and we'll be doing a hunt for big plastic eggs with a few chocolate coins and banana chips in them, and umm, Hot Wheels cars taped to some, since it turned out those were too big to fit in the eggs. My family used to hide little foil covered chocolate eggs, but stopped after a cat slept on one, and melted it into the upholstery.

We got a basket and an egg hunt when I was a kid - but they were pretty modest compared to what kids get today. The basket usually had a chocolate bunny, some chocolate eggs and a little stuffed animal. We reused the same basket every year, so it wasn't a waste. We loved our baskets. It would have ruined the tradition to get a new one every year. We always left them out on the night before Easter, so the bunny would refill it. I still have mine! The bunny hasn't been filling it for me though. Slacker.

My Mom put jelly beans inside the plastic eggs and we'd hunt for those. I really didn't like jelly beans much, but I loved the hunt!

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Although modest, we had both. Mom would color eggs with us (great times!) and at my grandparents, the eggs would already be hidden when we got there. It was tough having dinner and watiing to hunt, we'd be trying to look out the windows and see if we could glimpse any for a head start. While I don't eat hardboiled eggs, it's a tradition I like better than putting candy in plastic eggs.

dl

Go for the egg hunt. All kids love the challenge of finding the eggs.
Judy

Egg hunt for sure. We only have the one grandson and we do the hunt in the morning and then I take the eggs and set up a scavenger hunt with them. Each egg has a clue to the next, ( I do rhyming clues, just because I get a kick out of doing it), and some little trinket or money. He looks forward to that more than the egg hunt now that he's getting older.

Thank you everyone I am going to do the egg hunt. Now i just hope the weather is nice.

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