Hosting an Easter Egg Hunt

Ready for Easter? Get the children excited about the arrival of the Easter Bunny by hosting an Easter egg hunt. Have your Easter egg hunt be the kick-off for spring for your family, friends or neighborhood.


Setting Up an Easter Egg Hunt

Setting up an Easter egg hunt is easy. Buy enough plastic Easter eggs so that each child at your Easter egg hunt can have at least 10 eggs. Fill the eggs with a few pieces of Easter candy, jelly beans, Hershey kisses, little trinkets, a few dimes or quarters, or small toys, depending on the age of children you’ll be hosting.

If your Easter egg hunt is outdoors – and it should be if at all possible – hide the eggs throughout a set area, such as your back yard. Hide eggs behind bushes, in long grass, behind lawn furniture, making some hard to find and some easy to find.

Have your little guests bring an Easter basket with them. Send them out with their baskets and tell them once they find 10 eggs, they should stop looking or help a friend find eggs.

The hunt won’t last long. Have an Easter craft or two set up and ready to go, or play some Easter games after the eggs are all found and before you serve the food.


An Easter Egg Hunt Menu

Serve a light, springy menu that both kids and adults will enjoy.

Wrap Sandwiches
Tomato and spinach tortillas are pink and green, which make for a colorful platter of these sandwiches. Use regular and flavored tortillas for variety.

• 8 flour tortillas
• Ham, sliced thin
• Turkey, sliced thin
• Swiss or cheddar cheese, shredded
• Lettuce, shredded
• 8 ounces cream cheese

Lay each tortilla flat on a counter and spread with cream cheese. Cover with ham, turkey, shredded cheese and lettuce. Wrap tortilla, starting with one end and tucking in the sides as you roll. Use cream cheese to keep the ends secured. Cut in half at an angle. Makes 16 wraps.

Grape Salad
Adults and kids alike will love this salad. Be sure to use seedless grapes.

• 4 pounds grapes, red and white, seedless
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 8 ounces sour cream
• ½ cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Topping:

• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup white sugar
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Wash and dry grapes. Mix cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla. Coat grapes with this mixture. In a separate bowl, combine topping ingredients. Put half of the coated grapes in a 9-by-13-inch glass dish and sprinkle with half of the topping. Add another layer of coated grapes and the rest of the topping. Refrigerate until served.

Jelly Bean Bird’s Nests
These are adorable little desserts that are so simple to make.

• 2 cups mini marshmallows
• 1 ⁄4 cup butter
• 6 ounces chow mein noodles
• Jelly beans

In a large saucepan combine marshmallows and butter. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until melted, about 7 minutes. Stir in noodles until well coated. With buttered fingers, press mixture on bottom and up the sides of each cup of a buttered 12-cup muffin pan. Refrigerate for at lest 2 hours or until firm. Remove from cups. Fill with jelly beans. Makes 12 nests.