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Two Great Ideas for an Easter Egg Hunt
by Taken from the Idea Swap
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 The past two years we did a "Rock N Roll" Easter Scavenger hunt. It took quite a bit of preparation, but I think it had meaning. We read Benjamin's Box, and then sent the kids out to find many of the items in his box. This was the hard part: We glued candy to about 15 items per child--similar to the items found in the Easter Resurrection Eggs. However, we actually took a rock and used it as the tomb. We used a real blown-out egg and grew grass inside of it to talk about the growth we experience in Christ. We used rope, paper palm branch, fabric to represent the cloths in the tomb, a "real" cross out of two 3-4" sticks glued together, cotton clouds for the ascension, rooster sugar cookies, plastic egg with tiny fake chicks to represent new life, and many other things. The time to get this all together was great, but it added a lot of meaning. We divided our 60 kids into three groups--preschool, grades1-3, and grades 4-6. Each level had their own paper and their own "site" where they found the "hidden items." It didn't take them long to find everything. Then they came back for a song or two. If you have a lot of help getting the items together, it's great. We had about 1000 items. Our High Schoolers hid them.
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We have found the Easter Egg Hunt to be a great outreach to the community around our church. We usually have the teens and children go door-to-door the week before and invite the children of the community to our egg hunt. (We have a handout we leave on the door.) On the day we have the egg hunt, we invite all the children into the fellowship hall, while some of our teens and adults hid the eggs. While the children are waiting we sing children's songs and do the story of Easter. We usually use the Easter Resurrection Eggs, but only about half of them, since it can take a long time to do them all. By this time all the eggs are hid and the children go outside for the egg hunt. The main thing we enjoy seeing is the faces of children who have never heard the real story of Easter and letting them know that Jesus loves them.
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