kids will be kids and this would be disheartening for them but everybody paid and was entitled to reap their bounty. The organisers could have done a better job

Sounds like a very badly organised egg hunt to me.

We were at a venue recently and the Easter Egg hunt was earlier than the time adviertised and at the opposite end to what it was originally advertised. It meant they were holding two events at the same time and a lot of children missed out completely. Some of those who missed out completely only found empty wrapper where people had dropped it then pushed it under chairs out of the way. It witnessed that hppen twice. On the Sunday morning these was some but some people including parents grabbed handfuls or more than one large one. Children who arrived a few minutes later got nothing at all.

It is always a shame when some people take more than needed – if everyone has a mindset of sharing and community this should not happen. We always take extra chocolate just in case there is never enough (pays to plan ahead)

Didn’t seem very well organised at all

We have experienced Easter egg hunts that can become very rough and nasty (even with separate ‘big kids and ‘little kids’ areas!) . What about an Easter scavenger/treasure hunt where the children have to collect things (stamps at stations or physical objects) then the staff hands over the bag of eggs/treasure in exchange for the completed list?
We just do our own Easter egg hunt at home…much happier all round!

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  • • mom93821 replied
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  We do both – community and home.

It seemed like it wasn’t a pleasant day for yther kids!

I don’t feel the desire to go to an organized egg hunt either ! Not bad parenting at all when you don’t take your kids to an egg hunt if you ask me, maybe it’s even good parenting not to take your kids to an organized egg hunt there when it’s going like this.

I’ve never taken my kids to an organised Easter egg hunt. One of the reasons is because I wondered if the younger children or the ‘nicer’ children would be disadvantaged against older, greedier children

hopefully if they organise one for next year they will do a better job, like smaller bags or a piece of paper and a pencil they can tick off when they find one, I don’t know but it does seem cruel to me

Sounds like they planned this very poorly. The Bunnings night was not very good this year either. Companies make millions but are becoming stingy.