Easter Egg Question

I don't know the ages of your children, but my parents used to put change. A few pennies or nickel / Dimes. We were super competive for the money eggs!

I have (I mean our Easter Bunny) has always shopped at a dollar store. You can pick up all sorts of cheap fun toys that if thye are lost or broken, you can replace, or it's not that big of deal. I have in the past also put in a tooth brush and some cool toothpaste.

I love stuffed plastic eggs, they are so much fun to find and the insides are added bonuses.

Money is always good,stickers,sometimes you can find little stamps set at target that should fit..hair bows for your daugter,cars for your son!!! Just a few ideas

I agree with Dusty. We put change and bills in some of the eggs. We (Easter Bunny) hides them in the house though.

I like to do egg hunts, too, but I try very hard to not resort to candy for the eggs.

Here's things I do:

Bouncy balls
Change (a few pennies, some dimes and nickles, maybe a quarter or two).
Stickers
Bubbles (wedding bubbles fit into bigger eggs easily)
Erasures for school
Rubber bracelets
Dressup necklaces
Little dinosaurs (Walmart sells them in the toy department- $.88 a bag for about 12)

One good section to look is at the dollar store's birthday section. They have lots of odds and ends in packs of 4-12 for $1.

You could also do the egg hunt first, and use it as a scavenger hunt- put clues to finding the next egg/prize AND clues to finding their baskets.

Hmmm. I was trying to think what we used to put in them when we did a huge Easter egg hunt in Seminole, FL (the chamber of commerce did it). Pondering...

If you had lots of time beforehand, Oriental Trading catalog has some great things - cheap.

go to a Dollar store, you can find stuff there!

Sounds like some good ideas here. I love egg hunts.

you really don't have to do too much. Less is better. Silly putty is an old favorite.

At home we do eggs with change in them. At my grandmas she does a different color for each kid and some of their eggs have money in them, some have a note to send them on a hunt for a prize. It is loads of fun!

someone on here wrote an article about this. Wish I could find it.

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clues to where the next egg is to make it a treasure hunt

We always used the dyed eggs for our egg hunts until i got into late elementary/jr high, then my parents put change in it. we had enough candy in our baskets.

Great article!

Thank you everyone for the wonderful suggestions so far -- this really helps!!

stickers and maybe a coupon or a paper money that will correspond to something. like the one who gets the most wins something.

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Stickers are always popular at our place. :) And I second checking out the Dollar Store - lots of possibilities there.

My kids love change so I fill a few eggs with different amounts of change

I've got hotwheels, for the big eggs, barretts, stickers,erasers,cute little socks.

My kids are old now - it's been too long ago... Happy Easter.

I guess by now it's too late for ideas, but I agree that less is more. I usually get some chocolate, and then hide it with the hard boiled eggs, but I guess last year was my last year to do that. Last night my baby (12) and I went out to a bonfire for the equinox and someone had brought a beautiful basket of colored eggs (with a little sign urging us to eat them: "Real Hard Boiled Eggs!" it said.) My son and I looked at each other and realized we had forgotten to dye any eggs. Do you want to stop at the store on the way home and get some eggs? I asked (our chickens are being pretty stingy these days) He shrugged. In the end... it was late, I was tired, and I just drove home. We'll go to my sister's for brunch, and I'm sure someone will bring a little chocolate. Me? I'm bringing pickled pheasant eggs with beets in honor of my Nanny (who always had a bowl of purple eggs on the table for Easter).

Btw, I love the toothbrush idea! I always put toothbrushes and toothpaste in my kids' stockings at Christmas, but never thought about it for Easter baskets.