Easter Egg hunt ideas needed please

[Visitor7]

We're having an Easter morning tea on Easter Sunday, and will have approx 8 kids (2 that are 2 year olds, 6 that are 4 year olds) here. And I'd love to organise an Easter Egg hunt for them.
So any suggestions? We'll be doing it outside in our backyard.

[alioops]

Do up little cardboard eggs for the hiding and finding bit. Keep the choccie ones in the fridge, keeps the ants out and stops them from melting. For older kids tell them that if the 'eggs' are too easy to find to leave them and try to find harder ones so the little ones have a chance of finding them.

[Mother Goose]

keep a list of how many you've put out and WHERE you hid them

When I was younger and my parents did them with my cousins (some of who were VERY greedy!), they would give everyone a basket to collect the eggs in and then at the end, they would all go in a pile and then be evenly distributed.

You could do one for the younger kids inside and one for the older kids outside. The one inside can be contained to one room.

You could make paper mache eggs to hide...

[~Kim~]

Or allocate each child a colour, so they only can claim those coloured eggs. Makes it even. You can also make the littler kids ones easier.

[Cupcake]

For my niece last year i did up a little 'scavenger hunt' type thing with a clue or riddle to find the next clue leading to a stash of eggs, depending on the age of the kids really determins if that would work tho? Good luck!! Have funnn

[grub17]

when we were little my parents used easter bunny footprint cut outs and flour to leave 'evidence' of the easter bunny's presence.

He hopped all about the house, leading us to stashes of eggs. I still remember what great fun it was!

perhaps you can do bunny foot prints with paint on the grass to help the kids to various 'stash areas'.

gotta love a treasure hunt where chocolate is involved!

[Visitor7]

Some great ideas there guys, thanks so much!
I especially love the scavenger hunt idea. hmmmm, I'll have to start thinking about that one.