Egg hunting opinions 🐰🥚

I'm personally so sick of the annual influx of videos from sad or angry parents who are upset that their toddler or baby didn't get many eggs. I think egg hunting for big age groups should be expected to be fast paced, high energy events. If you know there will be older kids running around and trying to collect the most eggs why would you choose that event to take your very young child to and then even get upset when the older kids participate in the event as expected? They're kids too, they're there to have fun and they're playing the game, I don't think it's fair to expect them to slow down or to stop and help your own little ones- although that would be very nice and kind of them! I don't think it's fair to judge the parents of those kids either and say they were taught to be selfish or greedy- the whole point of egg hunting is to get as many as you can in the time allowed. I think if you're wanting to take your very young child to an egg hunt you need to look at the rules and regulations and be okay with them, and if you choose to go one of more chaotic events with multiple age groups then you need to expect that those kids will most likely be hunting for eggs, not helping you or your kids. That's my rant and reminder, what are your opinions on egg hunt events?

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TLDR: It's on the parents to find age appropriate events, not on the older kids to adjust how they're playing to include children much much younger than them.

We actually just took my daughters (2 and 3 weeks) with her cousins (2 months, 2, and 8) to one who did 2 egg hunts (one for 0-5 age group and then bigger kids) and parents were actually taking the eggs for their kids before it started and then let the big kids go with the littles which is crazy to me but honestly our little kids only got 2-4 eggs each and they were so happy with it. I did see parents actually starting to fight in front of kids over eggs too which is wrong especially for such a public event

I've never seen people complain about older kids taking the eggs. Most are separated by age group. I have seen countless people upset that the PARENTS are taking eggs from the younger children however.

@Katie I've never been to one, they seem like too much for me and not because of the kids but like you said, its parents that usually end up making these events very tense. I'm glad you and the kiddos had a good time with the eggs you got, last year we did an egg hunt at home and my toddler only cared about holding one egg lol so she was happy 😂

@Amber I've seen both online but I mostly see videos of parents filming older kids picking up eggs around their toddler or baby who is just sitting there or examining things and then their captions are typically things like "My mama heart broke today watching all the older kids ignore my baby" or "My poor baby, they won't let him have a chance". I've heard a lot about parents grabbing eggs too, it's crazy to me.

We do our own for the kids and their cousins and a couple family friends. This year we hid somewhere around 200 eggs in our yard. The big kids do get more because they're faster but the little kids still get some and they have fun.

@Incognito oh yeah, that's crazy to expect kids 6-10 to be aware of toddlers and helping them out. I'd just roll my eyes if I saw a video like that lol. It sounds so dramatic. We just don't do public egg hunts at all for exactly that reason. We do it at home and it's so much more fun. Plus we actually hide them now that our daughter's 4. The community ones seem to just dump them all in a field and that's not even fun past toddler age in my opinion.

I will say that I was happy the egg hunt was at my favorite winery so I could have some momma juice 😂 but we also gave the kids their own eggs at my mom’s house and each kid had their own eggs to find and my niece’s were actually hidden while the little kids’ eggs were more in the open

@Katie The perfect location! 🥂😂

We went to one that was split up by ages. 0-3 was at a certain time then they hid more eggs for the next age group, ect. There were several big kids at the 0-3 and I was so mad honestly. Like this 6-8 years old kept going for the same one as my 2 year old and getting them. My husband said I would be a “Karen” if I complained because it was a free thing so I didn’t say anything. But pissed me off

The last one I took my son to I loves how they handled it for the Littles. They counted how many were participating and said how many each kid can grab. It made it very fair but still fun

If the age range is 0-3 why are big kids even in that area? Where are the organizers of the event or the parents? I haven’t gone to those Easter egg hunts but I would be pissed if I went to one for 0-3 year olds and there were older kids in there.

Toddlers don’t need that much candy or sugar imo. I’d prefer my daughter didn’t get too many:

I definitely think egg hunts are more for older kids. You could always do your own thing at home with your littles. But big kids are just that, still kids, and their excited for easter so yeah they gonna be little buttholes but it's a holiday and they excited. I personally won't be taking my 1 yr old to any egg hunts bc he doesn't understand any of that yet. I prob won't do anything real about easter until he's probably 2ish, even then I'll do stuff like hide the easter basket in the house and he has to find easter basket first before looking for the eggs. (That's what my parents used to do and we absolutely loved it) my parents would hide real eggs and we would find them and then make deviled eggs out of them.

My toddler doesn’t need free reign of chocolate so never going to 1 of these events… plus he has dairy allergy so cant anyway… in london their are beautiful painted eggs we can hunt instead. And we do egg hunt with our 10 cousins in garden and the big kids take loads But agree- big kids cant be forced to limit the eggs they hunt. And ofc its difficult if u have 2 kids. But i think its ok if parents help out littlest children… also if ur kids get a long hopefully the older 1 would share??? Wishful thinking maybe 😂🫠 my 3 yo has good appetite regulation so packs up chocolate to eat later at home Also choc eggs are cheap, just let the little kids accidentally discover some on the way home/in their pocket/ in the car etc