hello friends in today's video i have some easter egg hunting alternatives if you are
concerned and social distancing is a priority for you how do you do an easter egg hunt social
distancing well i have about 10 alternative ideas for you that are just as fun as the traditional
egg hunt so if that sounds interesting to you keep watching if we are meeting for the first
time hi my name is shawn welcome on this channel i'm bringing back family fun one game at a time
so say you are putting together a church-wide easter egg hunt or a neighborhood easter egg hunt
you can pre-stuff eggs put them in cute little easter baskets or fun decorative
bags and drop them off at every individual's family's home come easter morning the families
can hide their own eggs in their yard and you'll see all of your neighbors searching for their eggs
or you can have pictures if you're doing this for a church have families take pictures together
and post them on your church social media
but say you're not part of a church or a neighborhood easter egg hunt but you want to
have some fun with your friends and their family you can create your own little you've been egged
cards or little flyers and attach it to an easter basket with the pre-filled eggs all in the basket
i would at least do 12 per child tape that sign on your friend's door hide the easter eggs for them
around in the yard with a little sign you can even get those little yard signs
that say and put you've been egged on it kind of like remember the flamingos where you've been
flamingoed you've been flocked i think they're called and it's a surprise except this is more fun
this is more fun than being flocked by flamingos in your yard this is easter eggs filled easter
eggs i would suggest that you get permission from parents first before you just randomly
hide eggs in your friends or in your friends or family's yard just in case kids have allergies
the next idea is an easter egg escape room the basic premise is that you have to solve riddles
and clues to find either individual easter eggs or a goodie basket and it usually takes
some prep ahead of time to plan all this out now there are websites such as teachers pay teachers
and etsy shops and if you just do a basic google search you'll find lots of people who have created
escape rooms for you that require minimal prep but it's a lot of fun and great for individual
families to work together to find the basket of easter goodies or the hidden easter eggs
the next idea is something called an egg dunk this would be great for if you have a large group i'm
talking hundreds of people and you want to hold an easter egg event then you could do easter egg
dyeing this is great where you could just buy the simple kits from walmart or
amazon for minimal cost set up families or if you're just having students or children over
then you can definitely space them six feet apart at their own individual space to do
this egg dyeing event and dunk their eggs and fill up a good dozen depending on the
number of people you have attending the event you could have people send in hard-boiled
eggs ahead of time i actually did this at a church one time and we had tons of donations
of dozens of hard-boiled eggs and the kids had a blast dyeing their own set of 12 eggs
another idea is a trunk or treat style easter event now this sounds like a lot of fun but i
haven't actually seen this one pulled off yet but i thought i would mention it here because
it's an interesting idea so you know how we do halloween trunk or treats where people decorate
their individual trunks of their vehicles and then you have a long line of people come by walk by and
fill their bags with candy now that tends to lend itself to people being in close contact with one
another but this past halloween i noticed that a lot of churches were doing trunks but they
had individual pre-bagged gifts for families and families drove around in their car and picked up
free gifts i also saw like pvc pipe and people were putting candy down in one end to get it
into the car to the children but wouldn't this be cool with eggs you could pre-stuff eggs have every
trunk give out a different kind of candy within an egg or a different color or a different part
of the easter story do you remember the uh telling the easter story in the egg cartons where every
12 egg would have like a cross in it or a piece of burlap or it would have like different things that
told the easter story in it you could do that for an easter trunk or treat get some pvc pipe that's
that is large enough to roll an egg down and roll eggs straight into people's cars i think this is a
brilliant idea it's not my own i've seen it floating around on a couple of children's
ministry facebook groups and i'm excited to see if any church does this to see pictures of it
now let's talk scavenger hunts because scavenger hunts are an excellent idea that you can keep
people safely social distance but still have fun finding eggs so i'm going to give you quite a few
options here there are several apps that i've come across that will help you organize your scavenger
hunt with clues and pictures and help you really customize a large scale scavenger hunt so i wanted
to mention those here there's one called x note app there's another called goose chase and there's
one called metaverse i will link all three of those down in the comment section below so if
you're looking at doing a huge scavenger hunt with hundreds of people then i would suggest those apps
now on a smaller scale if you're doing one for your neighborhood
you could have kids color easter eggs on a simple easter egg printable and then you
hide them around your neighborhood on trees on mailboxes people's windows get your whole
neighborhood involved as kids go around the neighborhood and walk they can take account and
find say you hid 12 paper easter eggs around your neighborhood they can find all of those it's just
a cute way especially for younger kids younger kids love hunting for easter eggs in this manner
now if you want to take that kind of paper easter egg hunt to the next level and you live
in a small town then you can get local businesses involved i have heard of churches
who ask local businesses to post the easter eggs into their shop windows and have a clue
as to where the knit the next easter egg hunt is you would give your players your families
the first clue that would send them to one local business they have to go into the store and to get
the next clue to find the next egg this is a great way to encourage shopping at local
businesses introduce your neighborhood to local stores that they may not be aware of
and just have fun in your own local town you can even have your families take pictures take selfies
of themselves by the egg in front of the local business post on instagram which
would also be cool marketing to draw awareness to small businesses in your town love this idea
now what if you are looking to do your egg hunt virtually over zoom or another video
conferencing app here's how you can do that draw easter eggs on the backs of paper plates
color them make them all pretty and hide them in your space then take your zoom call
around the space and see if your participants can find all of the eggs just visually as you scan
the room players write down what they see you could do different colors you could do different
patterns of eggs or you could say there are 12 and have them find all 12 and note where they are
in the space you could limit it to one room where you're filming but i suggest having your phone as
set it up as a second camera as a second person on your zoom easter egg hut that way you can
take your phone and have them hid around your house if you liked any of these of these ideas
and thought they sounded awesome please let me know in the comments section down below
if you have another alternative egg hunt that you are doing i would love to hear
about it in the comment section i will see you in my next video thanks for watching bye