Friday, April 9, 2010

Easter with a Two-Year-Old

How do you hide Easter Eggs for an Easter Egg Hunt? Some people might tuck an egg under a low shrub or set one beside the leg of a picnic table. Others might place an egg in the coils of a garden hose or in the crook of a short tree. But just how hard to find do you need to make the Easter Eggs? Well, when the hunter is two years old, it really isn't a complicated proposition.Yup, the photo above shows an example of an excellent place to hide an egg when you're dealing with a toddler. See, the trick is to make the egg easy to find; you're not so much wanting to have the child search diligently to find it, you're trying to keep the young one running around the yard finding eggs as fast as possible in order to burn off all of the extra energy he has from eating a little too much candy (like chocolate bunnies and jelly beans and Peeps......)!

Hey look! - Another one! (I'm so good at this egg finding stuff....) Of course, it's important to use plastic eggs as shown, because at least one toddler has shown a remarkable ability to drop/crack/crush real eggs, whether they're raw or hardboiled ( I think it's an ongoing experiment that NorthernBabyDestructoLabs™ is conducting...).
Plastic eggs are also good for when Grandpa Peter steps on one and explodes it into tiny pieces (dude, you'd better hide those pieces before NorthernBaby realizes that you broke one of his eggs or he's gonna be reaallly mad....!!)


He who has the most eggs wins!