I have been going to the woodland classroom at Peatlands Park with my nursery class for the past 4 years and we have enjoyed an egg hunt onthe day nearest to our Easter break every year. The basic idea is that we discover a letter from the Easter Bunny after eating our snack & it tells the children that they have to find 10 paper eggs that are hidden around the forest, 5 stripy & 5 spotty.
As they find each egg they have to bring them back to me & I keep count until 9 have been found.
Then we count them all together & discover 1 is missing, they run off to search a little more before we decide to look around where I have been sitting - and guess what it is stuck to my bottom!
I think this is their favourite part. The last egg leads us to a map that tells them where the eggs are hidden - on top of Teletubbie Hill.
They all run to it to find a basket full of chocolate eggs, (or if the bunny has forgotten the basket, he puts them in some wellie boots!) they all get 3 eggs each to eat before we then roll our painted boiled eggs down the hill.
I think it may be the simpliest yet most effective egg hunt ever.
My favourite post from last weeks link up was Rainy Day Mum's on the frog hunt in her pond in the back garden.
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Oh wow - thank you so much for featuring our post this time :D - we're linking back with another froggy post today as well.
ReplyDeleteNo probs - loved it, looking forward to the next one too!
DeleteWhat a fun day for your students! The kids must have gotten a big kick out of the Easter egg on your rear. My daughter is always coming home from preschool telling me about the kids laughing about bottoms and various other potty jokes. =) And what a great idea to roll Easter eggs down a hill. I need to figure out how to make that happen for us.
ReplyDeleteoh yes, they love anything to do with bottoms! Even better I made sure they saw it a few times without an egg so then it was a 'magic'!! Hope you find a way - I know you will. K
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