How old is too old for an Easter egg hunt?

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Anonymous wrote:We switched from Easter eggs to an Easter basket full of goodies (one each kid) at about 14. We had a great time hiding those baskets, too, in some really hard to find places and did the "You're getting warmer" and "Oh, no, you're getting colder" game if it got too hard for them. They absolutely loved it! The best places were: One sealed in a plastic bag and weighted down in the pond; one about 40 feet off the ground on top of a large oak branch, easily visible but no one saw it; and the best one was hidden "in plain sight" nestled in the top of a huge area of blackberry bushes for our oldest, who is much shorter than the rest of the kids. Everyone could see it but her!

As the shortest in my family, by far, this seems kind of mean. Sorry to be a Debbie Downer on an otherwise upbeat thread.

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100 years young.

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Anonymous wrote:never

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We just make it harder.

My teens like my dust egg gmhunts which require flashlights sometimes or I'll put a glow bracelet inside the plastic egg to make it glow.

I've also done it scavenger hunt style with clues.

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I've painted myself into a corner because I usually do an elaborate (in terms of how the eggs are found) Easter egg hunt. Some years involved Morse code, some French when they started, and a smaller version of geocaching. I feel that I always have to go tougher the following year, but I'll do them as long as they want. I have teens too.

That's an awesome idea. my DD loves different languages and complains that my scavenger hunt clues are too easy

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Anonymous wrote:We switched from Easter eggs to an Easter basket full of goodies (one each kid) at about 14. We had a great time hiding those baskets, too, in some really hard to find places and did the "You're getting warmer" and "Oh, no, you're getting colder" game if it got too hard for them. They absolutely loved it! The best places were: One sealed in a plastic bag and weighted down in the pond; one about 40 feet off the ground on top of a large oak branch, easily visible but no one saw it; and the best one was hidden "in plain sight" nestled in the top of a huge area of blackberry bushes for our oldest, who is much shorter than the rest of the kids. Everyone could see it but her!

As the shortest in my family, by far, this seems kind of mean. Sorry to be a Debbie Downer on an otherwise upbeat thread.

Perfectly ok to me that you feel that way.

She didn't and doesn't - it's a fact, not a choice, and she has always had a good sense of humor about it, as have we all in our family about our personal characteristics such as my overly frizzy hair and my husband being overly tall (like bending down through doorways kind of tall.)

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Being a parent, but then you still participate with your kids

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I still have to hunt for my eggs and basket when we go to my mom's and I'm 36.

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My 10yo 5th grader still wants to do one. We’re going to do one with some friends with weekend. Same age kids as her plus younger siblings. Will give the younger siblings a head start. I did tell her this year may be the last year..

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We switched from Easter eggs to an Easter basket full of goodies (one each kid) at about 14. We had a great time hiding those baskets, too, in some really hard to find places and did the "You're getting warmer" and "Oh, no, you're getting colder" game if it got too hard for them. They absolutely loved it! The best places were: One sealed in a plastic bag and weighted down in the pond; one about 40 feet off the ground on top of a large oak branch, easily visible but no one saw it; and the best one was hidden "in plain sight" nestled in the top of a huge area of blackberry bushes for our oldest, who is much shorter than the rest of the kids. Everyone could see it but her!

As the shortest in my family, by far, this seems kind of mean. Sorry to be a Debbie Downer on an otherwise upbeat thread.

I'm sure PP has a 42 foot child and one who is a fish living in their pond. Sounds like everyone had a challenging egg hunt appropriate for teens and doubt the oldest is a small person and the PP is making fun of a disability.

Talk about too sensitive

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Anonymous wrote:My 10yo 5th grader still wants to do one. We’re going to do one with some friends with weekend. Same age kids as her plus younger siblings. Will give the younger siblings a head start. I did tell her this year may be the last year..

My 10yo 5th grader is more excited for egg hunts than her younger siblings. I'm glad she is still embracing some of the wonders of childhood before full-fledged tween/teendom takes hold.

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Our neighbor holds an egg hunt every year. She is in her 80's and loves this so much. She does 4 different age brackets: 5 and under, 6-11, teens and adults. The adults hunt for the big eggs like the ones Leggs pantyhose used to come in. Those eggs have Godiva chocolates and mini booze bottles. Our 13 and 15 year olds were reluctant to join in on the hunt until Grams told them she had worked hard to hide those eggs so they better have fun finding them.

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My cousins and I did them until we left for college. There were prize eggs that were better than the rest and they were hidden much, much better.

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All mine participate still, Elementary, high school and college.

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We still do them with high school and college aged students

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My MIL still did Easter Egg hunts with us when we were in our 20's. The eggs were mostly full of cash.

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We still do them with our high school and college aged kids. So fun we hide the eggs they color.