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You know what insults my intelligence and the intelligence of all of our children? Easter egg hunts. From the majority of Easter egg hunts I've been involved in lately, there is no hunting involved. All you see are children being held behind a line like crazy Black Friday shoppers in front of an open field littered with pastel plastic ovals. Those Easter egg hunts should be renamed "The-pick-up-the-dang-Easter-egg-that's-sitting-in-plain-sight-to-everyone-for-miles-around-before-Jerry-Jr.-steps-on-your-dang-hand-game". Some area churches even stuff the Easter bunny into a helicopter so he can drop off a ton of egg grenades from way up in the air. The helicopter, although fascinating I suppose, does not provide any more of a "hunting" experience to the whole shindig as Eddie Sue can see just where the egg fell. Really, in the helicopter-assisted Easter egg hunts, the children ultimately look like they are racing each other because they are desperate for water and those Meals Ready To Eat packs (MREs) to drop out of the aircraft and into their skinny arms. It took me a minute to figure out that the children in the picture above were not in the middle of Afghanistan awaiting just that. Obviously, in modern-day Easter egg hunts eggs are sprinkled all over acreage of grass because if you let hundreds of candy-crazed kids loose in a forest where they could REALLY hunt for eggs under rocks, behind trees, underneath snakes, in the middle of a patch of poison ivy, at the brink of a waterfall or inside bears' mouths, you might lose an Easter egg or something.
Given that my sons have competed in many easy Easter egg hunts, we like to make things a little more difficult at our family Easter egg hunt at home. We don't let our children go to sleep at night until they have found them all. We start the hunt at 6 a.m. Easter morning. So that you will not join the hundreds in dumbing down our children, conduct YOUR own Easter egg hunt at home, peruse the list our 10 Hiding Spots For Easter Eggs That Improve Your Kid's IQ below and pick a few (or add your own!).
Right inside the exhaust pipe of your vehicle
Their toy box
Inside someone's pillow case
Underneath the patio deck
In the gutters
Anywhere in the attic
In someone else's shoes
In a real bird nest
Underneath the ashes in the fireplace
The egg carton inside your refrigerator
If you care about your kids' future, you'll take my advice! Don't do it for me. Do it for their IQ!!
HAPPY EASTER!
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27 comments:
I loved the one "under the ashes in the fire place". That is a PERFECT spot.
I think hiding in someone else's shoes is PERFECT!! Especially if you don't boil them before you dye.
Loved the hiding places - you are with my hubby who has used the dirty clothes basket and the air ducts in the house!
It really is hardly a hunt these days- it's more of a push and shove match than a hiding thing.
Though, I hide my kids' eggs.
In the hopes they won't find them all.
So I can have some treats.
We can't hide Easter Eggs in our house, because the dogs are super good Egg Hunters! :)
Haha! I love your rename name. Perfect.
I have never brought my kids to a big "hunt" before, and honestly, hope they never want to go!
We do the hunt around the house, and this year should be fun since we just moved into a new place and I guarantee my girls will be stumped on some!
Happy Birthday! Screw all this Easter Egg stuff. Birthdays are much more important.
Those are great hiding spots. The egg carton in the fridge is genius. LOL
OMG...I was attempting to enjoy a bowl of cereal when I made the mistake of stopping by the break room ~I should know better by now :-)...I just laughed out loud and cornflakes went flying. Thank gawd I was not eating my favorite - Captain Crunch.
Great hiding spots...my personal favorite is someone else' shoe. When I first read it I saw house instead of shoe - had to re-read.
in their toy box, genious
Definitely sounds better your way! I've always been kinda turned off by the Easter egg hunting thing: definitely too simplistic. You can't be serious about the Easter bunny in the helicopter thing, right??
We don't let our children go to sleep at night until they have found them all. We start the hunt at 6 a.m. Easter morning. So that you will not join the hundreds in dumbing down our children, conduct YOUR own Easter egg hunt at home, peruse the list our 10 Hiding Spots For Easter Eggs That Improve Your Kid's IQ
I just realised why I’m not a parent….I would only hide 9 eggs and not let the little buggers go to sleep until they had found all 10 …. It would certainly teach them the harsh realities of life….Possibly a bit harsh but having just returned home from a restaurant where kids spent the entire evening running around and disturbing the diners I’m not feeling very gracious towards the temporarily vertically challenged in the world….In fact I’m feeling so narked I would probably not hide any eggs and threaten to send them back to the stork (I might not be a parent but I’ve seen the manuals….) if they didn’t return with all 10….
In a tailpipe? Hmmmm. Never thought of that.
I was always in it for the candy, even as a little kid. I hated eggs anyway.
CUPCAKE BAR!!! Now you are talking my language! I think I want to hide eggs inside cupcakes - then only the sumo-sized kids like me will find the eggs. W.C.C.
Excuse me. I didn't see "in the garbage disposal" on your list. I do believe that would improve a child's agility, reflexes, response time, AND intelligence. BOOYAH!
Excellent ideas though I need to write the hiding spots down. With my early onset dementia I'd probably wonder what that funny smell coming from the car was before I remembered I hid the egg in the tailpipe.
Hmmm. The only bad thing about hiding the eggs in trixie spots like that? You can't remember where you hid them. Which means, eventually, the egg will be discovered. But it may be after the contents have molded beyond recognition.
Hypothetically speaking, that is. That's never really happened to me.
LOL too hard... I think I have used all of those indoor hiding places you mentioned! At this point, only one of the 4 kids likes eggs and I am tired of eating 2 dozen eggs every week-after-Easter so we are doing plastic eggs filled with CANDY!!!! I will see what new ingenious hiding places I can come up with and we can compare notes on Monday ;-) Have a super weekend!
I don't hide eggs. Never did. That's my MIL's job. She still does it, too, even though my kids are 16 and 19. She puts money in them, so of course, she works real hard on the hiding part, and the kids follow suit! :)
Loved the list KKelley, very creative spots! Re: Juice in the City - when I was in Houston last month, my friends took me to a place called Sprinkles (I think) a cupcake bar, wow was it good. I also loved "Swirl," the very unique frozen yogurt place. I'll have to put Juice in the City on the list for the next visit!
Love all your spots! And seriously, kids SHOULD have to HUNT for eggs. We make all kinds of things way too easy on our kids these days. We should make 'em work for their candy! Survival of the fittest, Easter Style!
Ha ha! I have to give you mad props. You're Easter Egg hunt post was way better than mine from last year. And I even reposted it this year. I should have just posted this.
Don't hide them too good. There is a danger that they might never be found . . . until then stink up the house!
Oddly, I've actually hidden eggs in some of these places. I believe in making the egg hunt difficult. :) This year we used camouflage eggs...not kidding.
They should definitely add guns to these organized hunts.
I would like to paint some impressionist still-lifes of eggs and then place a real egg right in front of it. That should throw someone.
Why do people use real eggs I use plastic ones so they wont brake or if the kids don't find them they wont start to smell
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