Monday, April 1, 2013

Easter Egg Hunt - unsuccessful

After the cute Egg Hunt in our building I found another one nearby - at The Osborn in Rye, a prestine senior living community in Westchester. It sounded great and the kids were excited about picking up some more eggs.

It said it would start at 11.15 and we got there about 25 minutes early. Unfortunately this was not so good for us as the kids lost interest in waiting. We had more fun running around and playing. That was fine, but it backfired as they started the hunt and we were about 40 feet away. That was far enough away to not get any eggs. Yes, you heard correctly. Our children did not get any eggs at the hunt.
Lilly (who is 2 years old) got run over by overeager grandmothers and fathers and Ben just picked her up and got her out of the chaos. Finn was just not fast enough in getting in there (20 second delay) and was too late for everything.

One of the mothers of a kid with about 30 eggs in the basket felt bad for Finn made her son gave Finn 2 eggs. Which was nice but also made me mad. This was one of the worst organized events ever and here are some tips I would give them to make it better next year:

- Put a rope around the whole egg hunt to indicate the boundary (easier for kids to understand)
- Have the kids line up all around the field, not just at one end (give more kids the same chance)
- Have separate egg hunts for young kids 2-4 years and older kids 5-9 years (the little ones just got overrun by the older kids)
- Have the kids do the hunting alone, no adults allowed on the field (there were more adults than kids doing the hunt)
- And maybe even limit the number of kids participating

Oh well, I am glad we had a good hunt at our building and maybe next year I will be as prepared as one of the moms next to us: she had brought her own eggs and laid them out in front of her daughter to pick them up  :-) Smart mama!

Lilly sick of waiting

Finn decided to eat an apple while waiting

Brotherly love - he likes to squeeze her

Finn:"Can we start now?"

Lots and lots of kids

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