Have you been nominated to plan this years Easter egg hunt? You may not be aware of everything that goes into planning an egg hunt if you’ve never done it before. When you plan an Easter egg hunt, there is more to it than just stuffing eggs with goodies and putting them out on the lawn, or hiding them for kids to search for them. You have to account for the number of kids, and the ages and hunting abilities. There are all kinds of things you have to know before you can plan a successful Easter egg hunt. Start by asking yourself and answering all of the following questions:

How many children will there be? The number of kids who are going to attend your Easter egg hunt will directly affect the location of where you hold the Easter egg hunt. It will affect how many eggs you put out in your hunt. It will play a big role in your overall Easter egg hunt plan. So, what you want to do is first figure out an exact number of kids who are going to be attending your Easter egg hunt. Once you know how many are coming, over plan. You want to be prepared in case somebody brings a friend. It is better to have too many eggs and too big of a space for your hunt then not enough and too small.

Next question: how many eggs will each child end up with when the hunt is over? You may feel like you have stuffed more eggs than can ever be found and goodies eaten, but the fact is, if you don’t do the simple math to find out how many eggs each kid should get, you won’t know if you are amply prepared for the egg hunt or not. Decide how many eggs you want each child to end up with. If you want each kid to get at least ten eggs, and you have 20 kids, make sure you have at least 200 eggs in the hunt. Do the numbers and make sure you have ample eggs available for hunting. After all, what is a good Easter egg hunt if you do not have a lot of eggs to hunt?

Finally, you need to determine how you want the hunt to take place. Will you just let the kids go willy nilly and pick up as many eggs as they can gather? Or will you tell each child to take one of each color? Will you divide the kids up by age? Will you tell the older kids to leave the easy eggs for the younger kids? These are all important questions. If you have two year olds hunting with six year olds, these are questions you really need to ask yourself. What tends to be the best method is to either dictate in some way how many eggs or what kind of eggs each person can get so that no one child ends up with far more or far less than anyone else; or, split the children into age groups so that they are hunting in their skill set and ability range so that no one has an advantage or disadvantage.