So the Easter Egg Hunt was actually a moderate success!
On Saturday, Diana took Allison over to her parents house, where her dad had made up a similar Easter Egg treasure hunt. I wasn't there, but understand that he had a word in each egg. So Allison would find an egg, and someone would tell her the word that would lead her to the next egg. Sounds good in theory, but apparently didn't go to well in practice. I set my expectations suitably low.
My egg hunt was slightly different. I was using pictures of hiding places instead of words, and I put a jelly bean in each egg (let's face it, she's not in it for the intellectual pursuit). There were ten total eggs hidden. I don't think she ever really fully grasped the concept, but she would open an egg, gobble down the jelly bean, and with some prompting look at the picture. I'd hold up the picture and say "go here" and she'd sprint off and find the next egg. It took a little bit of prodding, but she found all the eggs, and finally a big basket packed with goodies (Lightning McQueen and Mater socks!) and was happy with that.
We later randomly hid some eggs for her to find, some empty and some with little toys inside. She'd pick an empty one up, shake it and discover it was empty, and chuck it back down on the ground again, like "this is useless to me." Awesome. +1 to materialism!
On Saturday, Diana took Allison over to her parents house, where her dad had made up a similar Easter Egg treasure hunt. I wasn't there, but understand that he had a word in each egg. So Allison would find an egg, and someone would tell her the word that would lead her to the next egg. Sounds good in theory, but apparently didn't go to well in practice. I set my expectations suitably low.
My egg hunt was slightly different. I was using pictures of hiding places instead of words, and I put a jelly bean in each egg (let's face it, she's not in it for the intellectual pursuit). There were ten total eggs hidden. I don't think she ever really fully grasped the concept, but she would open an egg, gobble down the jelly bean, and with some prompting look at the picture. I'd hold up the picture and say "go here" and she'd sprint off and find the next egg. It took a little bit of prodding, but she found all the eggs, and finally a big basket packed with goodies (Lightning McQueen and Mater socks!) and was happy with that.
We later randomly hid some eggs for her to find, some empty and some with little toys inside. She'd pick an empty one up, shake it and discover it was empty, and chuck it back down on the ground again, like "this is useless to me." Awesome. +1 to materialism!
3 comments:
Thanks for the update! I was intrigued to hear how it went.
You're welcome. It was a really interesting exercise.
She was about as close as she could get without actually "getting it".
She'd open the egg, unfold and look at the picture, but didn't QUITE make the connection herself that that was where she needed to go next. Almost, but not quite.
Cool idea Adman. We may have to try something similar for the Buhr boys next year.
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