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Are you planning an 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. Planning a successful Easter egg hunt will be easier if you keep these things in mind. Here are some questions you should ask and answer when planning your event:

How many kids will there be? The size of the venue you choose is directly related to how many people you are inviting. It will determine how many eggs you need to prepare. It will play a big role in your overall Easter egg hunt plan. The first thing you want to do is figure out how many kids will be attending the egg hunt. Then you want to over plan. You want to be prepared in case somebody brings a friend. It would be really bad if you didn’t have enough eggs or your venue was 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. Choose the number of eggs you would like each child to get. 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 math 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?

Next you want to determine how the hunt will proceed. Will you just let the kids go willy nilly and pick up as many eggs as they can gather? Or, are you going to tell each kid they get one of each color? Will you divide the kids up by age? Are you going to let them hunt at will, then split the eggs evenly at the end? These are all important questions. When you have many different ages participating these questions are important to answer. 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.