I've just been made to hide too many diabetes inducing snacks in the garden for a 14 and a 12 year old who clearly don't really care about 'the hunt' as much as their Mother seems to.
How do you broach the idea that your kids (who've just lazed in bed all morning) are a bit old for this sort of nonsense?
The fact that she's had to pester and bawl at them, and that photography has been vitoed by the eldest should be an indicator...
But this is why we have kids, to amuse us as we get older!
Basically, indulge your missus I say. 👍
Too old? The only time you are too old is when you are dead
I dunno, they sort of enjoyed it, but there's just not the child-like enthusiasm of years gone by. Instead it's already become a cheap chocolate based barter economy, and My youngest just said she doesn't want any more eggs, that there's actually "too many"...
TBH there's only one child in this household, She's approaching her 5th decade and over-compensating hard for something...
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Substitute Easter ages for weed and v-bucks. They'll soon be interested again.
My wife had laid a competition hunt for me and my daughter for 14 years… for the last 3 years they’ve been genuinely competitive!
So,> 49!
Surely you've eaten the actual chocolate eggs and wrapped proper eggs in the wrappers - that way makes sure everyone gets the message that an Easter egg hunt is done, dusted and not happening again? If not, why not???
18 and 20 enjoyed theirs earlier. Mother was enjoying it until we had a count and realised one was missing still..... at which point she had to retrace to try to remember where she'd put them all, before letting the hound join in.
This year was the first year we (I, me, always me, lets face it) didn't get up early to hide the damn things. Girls are 17 and 19...... Basically same as OP - last year was a bit of a 'oh we can't be bothered, just give us the chocolate' kind of vibe so we didn't bother....which meant they missed out on extra choccy basically.
However we still all decorated and scoffed hard boiled eggs with avocado toast so it wasn't all bad.
There’s an age limit?
You’ve got 2 teenagers, almost, whatever you’ll be doing for a few years will be boring.
The ultimate easter egg hunt...
My Mum did one for us a couple of years ago in the garden - myself, my brother and his girlfriend, everyone was older than 25 - we thoroughly enjoyed it
The older they get the more fun games like this are surely (this year was the first year I was able to hit the daughter in the face with a snowball (accident!) and not have the snowball fight end in tears and recriminations.
Some ideas for the eggs:
in the cat poo flowerbed.
behind the neighbours Rottweiler
buried really deep
Chucked on the roof
In a mini barbwire nest
In the cistern
Next to a lawnmower trap (try and get it before the lawnmower falls on your head!)
I'm clearly the odd one out, perhaps because I'm ancient, but I've never done an Easter egg hunt and I'm not entirely sure what one involves. Either as a kid myself or when ours (now in their 30s) were kids. I don't recall it being a thing back then. Is it a more recent thing or were we just bad parents? Easter eggs yes, but no hunting required.
Same here when I was a kid (80’s) no hunts. Just a single egg for each kid. Mrs F does hunts with our two and even buys gifts. Any excuse to celebrate with her though 😂 I find the whole thing a bit odd but I’m down for eating chocolate
I'm 40 and enjoyed hunting for eggs this morning.
Ok, if it wasn't for an almost 2 year old daughter, I'd probably not have bothered but I enjoyed myself almost as much as she did.
So how old is too old? At least 41.
I’ve never done an Easter egg hunt and I’m not entirely sure what one involves.
It was never really a thing for me as a child...although I was aware of such activities...maybe it has something to do with boosting the immune system, hide some chocolate under a damp rotten log or something, early exposure to things like Salmonella, E. coli, etc.
But I was brought up with the three second rule.... so easter egg hunts go against my upbringing.
When you struggle to get back up after bending down to grab them?
agree on never doing Easter egg hunts as a child. I didnt mind it when the kids were toddlers, but now they are half way through primary school, they know the Easter bunny doesn’t exist and it’s just a race to get as much chocolate as they can. Feels very much like the creeping American culture, see also Halloween
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Twin girls aged 14 (15 in June). They still enjoy the Easter egg hunt. My wife still got flowers and and an egg. Me? **** all.
I'm at my in-laws.
My 17 year old niece and 13 year old nephew helped my 4 year old and 3 year old niece do the hunting.
The 13 year old helped hide the eggs this year and last year
So 12 for hunting, 76 ( mother in law) for hiding :-)
We have a baby and a baby niece. Looks like egg hunts will be on until 2036 😃
Well my dad's 73.
So.... At least 73.
I was also hit in the back of the head when the egg rolling got a bit throwy.
Never done one personally, never seen why it would be interesting. Jnr FD did one when he was younger. He’s competitive so wanted to be the first kid to finish
He got bored of it when he was about 6 so fine with us
I’ve never done an Easter egg hunt
Same. Is it American?
I think if I were to do it for kids myself I'd leave clues and make it a treasure hunt, each gives a riddle to where the next one is. "Hidden somewhere in the house" seems like a risky gambit.
I love whenever the miserable sods turn up they blame any bit of fun as being an American invention.
Germany in this case. In the 1600s
It's just rooting about for a wee bit of chocolate.
I think if I were to do it for kids myself I’d leave clues and make it a treasure hunt, each gives a riddle to where the next one is. “Hidden somewhere in the house” seems like a risky gambit.
That's basically what we do. Watched six kids do it today (a day late just because) around a 14 acre property and I reckon their grandmother made them use more calories than they gained. Great fun
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Something from George Bernard Shaw for the miserable types. (It is fine for the neuro-spicy to want to sit organised fun out, but remeber to apply rule one in your response).
I love whenever the miserable sods turn up they blame any bit of fun as being an American invention.
Any suggestion of 'blame' (or indeed, 'miserable') is your own inference. I asked a question. It's not something I recall ever coming across first-hand but I think I've seen it in cartoon strips or similar.
Not an American thing, but definitely middle class, as they’re always outside so it assumes you have a reasonably sized garden (otherwise would take under a minute)
they’re always outside
Oh? I assumed the opposite. Not least because April in the UK isn't exactly known for its precipitable clemency.
I'm not slagging it, trying to spoil anyone's fun or questioning it's origins. It seems like a great thing for kids, maybe adults too. I'm just curious as to when/where it became common as in my 60 years it's not been on my radar, other than the odd mention on TV or whatever. I'm curious as to whether that is for age, social class or geographical/regional reasons.
Treasure Hunt type clues chez Pisco.
"The next is where you go for a tinkle, but is it the ivories or is it a winkle"
Hidden in the piano, but of course they (12 and 15) went straight for the toilet
^^random apostrophe and too late to edit. The shame! ☺️
I hadn’t done one either until we had kids of our own - my wife hides the eggs and the kids used to enjoy looking for them. Our 8yo still does, but our 11yo would rather we just gave it to him so he wouldn’t have to look. 😏 It turns out egg hunting goes back quite a long way according to the Wikipedia page (19th century in England) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_hunt.
Any suggestion of ‘blame’ (or indeed, ‘miserable’) is your own inference. I asked a question. It’s not something I recall ever coming across first-hand but I think I’ve seen it in cartoon strips or similar.
Sorry cougar was only meant in jest and wasn't really directed at you, more the whole concept of "must be American" see also trick or treat.
My 17 year old youth did one yesterday at the local National Trust establishment and thoroughly enjoyed it until she was asked if her kids had enjoyed themselves! She'd even done the colouring in bit too!!! To be fair she was trying to get some photos for her art assignment during it though.
Good point, I never got to hunt eggs as a child.
I think it probably is an adopted American thing, when they were very little we used to do it along with the NCT lot, and it just stuck.
ive just been hunting around the big Tesco's for the reduced Eggs to scoff at my desk, this afternoon, but nowhere to be found.
Looks like that wheeze is over. 🙁
My two, 16 & 14, did it yesterday and showed no sign of growing out of it. Then both disappeared back to their disgusting rooms only to re-appear when it was time to be fed
Not an American thing, but definitely middle class
I've no idea how you came to that conclusion?
Hidden in the piano
As the kids have aged, it's adapted into a long game. Nowadays I have to stash any chocolate anywhere in the house where they can't find it all year round.
It may not be originally American, but it's certainly been amplified by American marketing companies in the service of selling more crap that people really don't need.
Same as Trick or Treat, Father's day etc.
Same as Trick or Treat
Every single Scottish and Irish child for the last 500years wants a ****in' word.
Easter egg hunt is very traditional here in France...and not the sort of place to adopt American 'traditions' although Halloween is more and more poular. Sigh.
Here, it's not the Easter bunny though....it's 'les cloches' which are bells...
