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The Easter Egg hunt is a traditional game that many households enjoy.

This can take the form of just hiding the eggs in various places and setting your children free to demolish your house or garden in the pursuit of chocolate or in a more ordered fashion with clues.

When I say ordered fashion, I also have to point out that there is never a quiet egg hunt. If, as an adult you happen to be standing between your children and your next clue, then it is your own look out if you end up trampled in the ensuing melee.

Don't forget the point of this - it is to make it as fun as possible for the children, so get them moving and guessing. Done well, you will have made a memory for the children that will stay with them - just see next year!

How to plan the hunt
I always start from a first clue, handed to the children.

When planning the layout, it is more fun if clues are widely dispersed and kept down to under eight stages.

You might, for instance start in the kitchen and then send them upstairs to the furthest room away with the first clue and when they find that it send them to the back of the garden and from there back to a bathroom, etc..

It is often hilarious watching them run off in the wrong direction before they have properly read the rhyme, as they are too eager to get there before their siblings.

Rhyming clues.
These are fun and easy to do. I plan these by first thinking where I want to hide the next clue. Then I think, what rhymes with that hiding place or something that is there? So, if the first is in Grandma's pocket, it might go:

Well done, you found the first clue
Is the next one far?
Perhaps you might try looking on
the one you call Grandma?

Or if the clue is in the shower cubicle, it might go :

The Easter Eggs are near now,
On this I'd like to bet
The next place that they're hiding in
They're bound to get quite wet.

It is fun to see how quickly the children get the clue and slightly cryptic ones are better because children tend to disperse, rather than bundling along together. This one had the children all over the house looking in sinks and baths before they located the next clue.

Hide the clues at the desired location - but don't make them too obvious... If you are going to use Grandma, please make sure she is not too elderly or likely to get knocked over or hurt - and do tell her first!

Don't forget to video the mayhem - it is bound to be memorable....

Another idea is to add a pirate theme:
create a map that represents the floor plan of the house (if it's indoors) but modified to look like an island. Then you mark the positions of the eggs on the map. Stairs can be represented by a cliff.