Last year a family in our neighborhood organized a neighborhood egg hunt. But they have moved since then. They didn’t move far, just to the next ward over which is only a few streets away, but they were no longer a part of our neighborhood. I really liked the neighborhood egg hunt, so I did my best to recreate what they did, for this year. Basically I asked anyone that wanted to participate to bring over a dozen eggs per kid in their family. Kyle and I were up late last night counting the eggs and splitting them into two groups based on the ages of the kids to participate. We needed to put enough eggs for the big kids on one side of the street, and enough for the little kids on the other side.
This morning, I marked all the mailboxes of the houses where people said we could use their yards to hide eggs, and Kyle and some of the neighbors hid the eggs. Debby came over and we headed down to the corner of the street to start the hunt.
Chloe came to me at one point crying because she hadn’t found any eggs, but I told her to just keep going down the street looking. She eventually found some though.Somehow at the end there were some kids that didn’t have a dozen eggs, but there were no more to be found. So there must have been some unsupervised children that ended up with more than twelve. I think it turned out well and in general the neighborhood was appreciative of it.
