Monday, April 13, 2009
Easter
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Super egg hunt yesterday! When she arrived, the hunter waited calmly while the adults greeted and chattered. Even though she could see some of the brightly colored ovoids, she just smiled and waited patiently. Once she started, at first she methodically put them, unopened, in her basket. Her plan was to collect them all and then concentrate on opening them, but curiosity got to her after a while and she started opening them as she found them. It was so much fun to see how delighted she was by glittery hair clips and egg-shaped erasers, among other things! One thing I especially like is finding all sorts of little things other than candy - although candy is definitely part of it too, being *the* tradition, after all. Shoe clip-on flowers, a tiny purple bendable magnet-man, a stack-of-crayons, stickers, pipe cleaners. . . . I saw one or two too-perfect-for-Easter things that were irresistible and too big to fit into eggs - the small boxed set of fourteen miniature Peter Rabbit books being a case in point - so this year I added a scavenger-hunt element to a few of the eggs and put written notes with directions about where to look in a few eggs. It was so much fun to watch her read a hand-printed note and then go off to follow the directions. Next year there'll be a one-year-old, too, which will add an interesting twist to the excitement.
I heard about a neat way for when children are older and maybe don't get much of a kick out of magnets and bouncy balls. The Easter Bunny hides five or ten eggs per child and the eggs have candy and/or money in them. The children scurry around to find the eggs and the person who gets the most eggs has the satisfaction of finding the most eggs, and then the money and candy are distributed equally among the kids. Inventive, don't you think.
Happy spring and Easter to all!
I heard about a neat way for when children are older and maybe don't get much of a kick out of magnets and bouncy balls. The Easter Bunny hides five or ten eggs per child and the eggs have candy and/or money in them. The children scurry around to find the eggs and the person who gets the most eggs has the satisfaction of finding the most eggs, and then the money and candy are distributed equally among the kids. Inventive, don't you think.
Happy spring and Easter to all!
Labels: anniversaries, children, games
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