Use baskets or bags to collect the eggs.
Easter in Pittsburgh is always a crap shoot.
Sometimes the weather is glorious, and you can outfit your children in their Easter best, looking darling as ever as the traipse around the yard looking for colorful eggs. However, as most Pittsburgh moms know, most of the time you better have a great plan B for those Easter outfits-one which accommodates the winter coats.
Likewise, if you are planning an egg hunt for your family or neighborhood, you'll want to keep serious tabs on the 5-day weather forecast, and you better have an inside venue option to go with your outside egg hunt in Pittsburgh---just in case!
eHow.com offers up these great suggestions for throwing a festive egg hunt no matter what the climate. Who knows? With any luck, the sun just may shine on your egg hunt!
2. Fill colorful plastic eggs with coins, jellybeans, small toys, stickers, candies, beads, stamps, and the like. You'll want to figure on about one dozen eggs per guest.
3. Set up nearby tables with pastel-colored tablecloths, streamers, and Easter decorations.
4. Load up the tables with snacks and beverages, such as punch, cookies, and chips and dip for the hungry hunters.
5. Be aware of the age ranges that will be participating so that you can color-code the eggs by age. For example, red, green and blue are for older children while yellow, pink, and orange are for the younger ones.
6. Based on these age designations, be sure to hide some eggs in plain sight for the young ones (think low branches and open spaces) while the older crowd will appreciate more of a challenge (think bushes, gutters, under porches, etc). My father-in-law, the designated egg hunt organizer of our family, has been known to BURY some eggs.
7. Be sure there are plenty of adults to supervise the hunt and assist if need be.
8. Have enough Easter baskets or bags for each participates to collect their eggs. (Decide early on whether the children will keep their baskets or bags. If you choose to reuse them, you'll need to set up a decorating station (table) with additional pastel-colored lunch-style bags so the hunters can make their own Easter bags to carry home their loot! Put out markers, stickers, glitter and the like for them to personalize their Easter bag.
9. Give the cue, and let the egg hunt begin!!
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