Sunday, May 3, 2008 at Magnolia Park in Apopka.
11:00 am - partcipants need to be on site and provide a dozen filled plastic eggs each for the hunt. There is a $3.00 site fee per person 3 and older. You would have already paid this, if you participated in the other events as part of the this weekend's Annual Drum Building Campout & Learning in the Park Engineering Workshops.
11:30 noon - egg hunt begins
Egg hunt guidelines:
1. Each participant brings a dozen (or more) filled plastic eggs.
2. Each kid is guaranteed a dozen filled plastic eggs back.
What to fill eggs with?
Ideas for filled eggs - small toys, craft supplies, stickers,
stencils, tattoos, hotwheels cars, candy, rulers, stencils, crafts,
markers, crayons, legos, craft items, books, happy meal toys, coins, etc.
We try and make sure there is something appropriate for babies
available also.
Ok, you've probably noticed that some of those items will NOT fit in
a normal plastic egg. What we do is write "see denny for pirate craft
kit" on a peice of paper and put that in the egg. Then the kid would
retrieve their prize from the person listed.
What NOT to put inside an egg:
We also don't put the candy in the egg and use the same slip of
paper idea. We tried candy in eggs one year - what a disaster
candy melts, or is inevitably found by either ants or the kid who
can't have that type.
We do not put religious items in the eggs, since the group is so
diverse, there is no way of assuring that a kid would get an
appropriate item for their families beliefs.
How the egg hunt works
At the hunt, each kid collects a dozen eggs and comes back to the
starting line with them. This way every kid is guaranteed a dozen
eggs back. Many families bring more than the dozen per kid, and
after the dozen is collected by all, all the kids in a free for all
style hunt can go pick up the remainder of the eggs. (Anyone bringing
extra eggs is not guaranteed to get the same number back and
obviously, you may not get back the exact plastic eggs you brought
with you - don't bring heirloom plastic eggs to egg hunt :). Each
year some people don't want their empty plastic eggs, so we collect
them for the group and various people offer to fill some of these
extra eggs, so each year we end up with a few more extra eggs for
the kids to find.