Easter egg hunt, real or plastic?

rosesandpetals

When you have Easter egg hunts, do you use plastic eggs filled with stuff or hard boiled eggs dyed different colors?

rosesandpetals

As a kid, we always used plastic eggs. DH's family always uses hard-boiled eggs. We will use plastic eggs for DD because I'm a little freaked out by using real eggs. What if you don't find them all and they rot? Gross.

hayleydeee

We use both, but always count how many real ones there are first. We also hide their baskets.

Chapter79

roses&65335678 said:

As a kid, we always used plastic eggs. DH's family always uses hard-boiled eggs. We will use plastic eggs for DD because I'm a little freaked out by using real eggs. What if you don't find them all and they rot? Gross.

We write down the places on paper and count eggs If I didn't write down where I hid them, I would never be able to find if DD didn't.  We use hard-boiled colored.

ariel06

We don't eat hard boiled eggs, so it would be a waste for us to use real.  

rosesandpetals

larkin220 said:

I think you are safe using real. I mean how many are you really hiding? Besides, critters will find one if you don't and they will be happy to eat it:-)

Well, I don't really want to use real ones anyway. I like filling the plastic ones. But I imagine it happening like that episode of the Gilmore Girls lol. I would forget to make a map.

hayleydeee

A question for those who only use plastic eggs... Do you still dye real ones?

rosesandpetals

LalaMama81 said:

Real and only real. Not Easter without it. You just count the eggs, not a big deal. We do it with my whole family and dye at least 3 dozen eggs. They never all get eaten, but it's one time wasting food doesn't bother me.

Do you have a big family? I wonder if that makes it different. DD is an only with no cousins so it would be easy to count them. When I was young, on one side of he family there were 15 cousins. That's a lot of eggs, I don't know if you could really write down the exact location of every single one, I'm sure some would be lost. DH has 1 brother and spent Easter with 2 cousins so real eggs were probably a lot easier for them.

rosesandpetals

hayleydeee said:

A question for those who only use plastic eggs... Do you still dye real ones?

Yes. Just a few, though, and we eat them.

Hollylb3

I've never in my life dyed a real egg. Always plastic.

rosesandpetals

LalaMama81 said:

Growing up there were only the 4 of is. Starting this Easter there are 6 cousins, but 2 will be newborns. We've dyed eggs (my siblings and I) even when we were adults with out kids. Dying the eggs is as important as tbd egg hunt. We don't write down locations, just keep a count. And really, what's the worst that happens? An egg rots? Who cares. Like I said we do about 3 dozen now but we will do more if needed. It's one of those family traditions none of us are going to give up.

I'm more worried about finding a rotten egg, or the smell. But that's my issue, I'm not hating on your tradition, just curious how/why people do things.

Cherryblossoms07

We dye eggs for decoration and hide plastic. I grew up using real, but I didn't like the idea of real eggs sitting outside in FL heat for that long so we used plastic eggs and have just continued using plastic eggs since then.

barnwife

roses&65335678 said:

As a kid, we always used plastic eggs. DH's family always uses hard-boiled eggs. We will use plastic eggs for DD because I'm a little freaked out by using real eggs. What if you don't find them all and they rot? Gross.

This is why you know how many are hidden. For example,  dozen get hidden per child. You don't need to know where they all are. You just keep looking until all XXX dozen are found. 

When we hosted both sides of our family, there were about 10 kids. Now there's 13. I'd still do a mix of both. And yes, that'd be dozens of eggs. More fun for dyeing!

We (as per my family's tradition) will use a mixture of both. Also, a hardboiled egg will last...forever...if it doesn't crack.

Chapter79

Hollylb3 said:

I've never in my life dyed a real egg. Always plastic.

You never colored eggs as a child? Wow! I guess I thought that was something the majority of kids/people did.

We also don't really eat hard-boiled eggs here.  We just ditch them.  I don't care about wasting this particular thing... I've GOTTA color eggs with DD, she loves it.

Also no big family here.  We only hide with DD. We do 1 dozen.

juliane2004

SS: Chocolate eggs. Not in plastic, just the chocolate wrapped eggs.

Disneygeek77

We do both.  DD will dye about a dozen eggs the night before and I either hide them outside or in really easy spots.    I also count them just in case we missed one, but that hasn't happened yet.

SallyAnneS

juliane2004 said:

SS: Chocolate eggs. Not in plastic, just the chocolate wrapped eggs.

This is us as well.

zbeesma86

dye all the eggs!

such a mess but so fun!

jf198400

We dye real eggs and Easter bunny hides them inside. But we also do an egg hunt outside at grandparents house and use plastic eggs.

kcisthebombdotcom

We dye eggs and decorate them but those aren't the eggs we hide in the Easter egg hunt. The eggs they find are plastic ones filled with goodies.

jenniann87

We dye real eggs, but they are for Easter baskets and to eat with breakfast after Church. We do our egg hunts at home inside so I hide plastic ones at home for both our boys and fill then with a few chocolates, grahams, goldfish and jelly beans. At BILs we hide real dyed eggs but the egg hunts are outside, each kid gets a dozen to find.  

Hollylb3

Chapter79 said:

Hollylb3 said:

I've never in my life dyed a real egg. Always plastic.

You never colored eggs as a child? Wow! I guess I thought that was something the majority of kids/people did.

We also don't really eat hard-boiled eggs here.  We just ditch them.  I don't care about wasting this particular thing... I've GOTTA color eggs with DD, she loves it.

Also no big family here.  We only hide with DD. We do 1 dozen.


I know, I feel kinda deprived actually. We weren't a crafts type family. I've also never carved a pumpkin. Guess I'll do it at least once with ds just for the experience. Definitely not this year though.

LoriLee14

We dye eggs and use those to decorate the mantle. but we his plastic eggs. IL's family hides candy in theirs but my side quit and hides coins in there. It is always a bonus to find one later in the year and it isn't melted rotten candy but loose change.

kalette

We will dye real eggs for the decorative basket in the house. Plastic filled with candies for the outdoor hunt and a hidden Easter basket inside.

Hollylb3

kklamb10 said:

Hollylb3 said:

I've never in my life dyed a real egg. Always plastic.

What????? How have you never dyed eggs? My family always did. I think I was in college the last time I went home for Easter and even then I dyed eggs with my cousins kids. This thread has me considering dying eggs with DS even though he'll only be 6 months at Easter.

I know, I know. My mom was a lot like me - she hated crafts and stuff like that, and my dad worked all the time when we were little.

Arnegard

DH's family used to hide real eggs the night before Easter (inside), find them in the morning and eat them.   :-&

penguingrrl

We dye real eggs to eat and to decorate the table with that morning, but use plastic eggs filled with candy/chocolate in the hunt. 

SallyAnneS

LalaMama81 said:

SallyAnneS said:

juliane2004 said:

SS: Chocolate eggs. Not in plastic, just the chocolate wrapped eggs.

This is us as well.

Wait, like the little candy chocolate eggs? Or you get bigger egg sized ones?
@LalaMama81‌ the small kind for us. Even the city egg hunt used the little chocolate ones when i was a kid.

LoveBeingMama

We dye eggs, but I have used plastic for the hunt. When they are older I will probably use the dyed eggs, but last year DS2 had a great time smashing the eggs while we dyed them. I don't need that all over my house.

AimeeL85

The majority of our Easter egg hunts (my mom still does a hunt for the 'big kids' after she does the grandkids) have consisted of a couple hundred eggs every year in the backyard, so they've always been plastic. We always dyed eggs every year and then they were eaten, and I do the same with my kids.

LinnyAnne10

hayleydeee said:

A question for those who only use plastic eggs... Do you still dye real ones?

Plastic, cause then we can put little treats inside, or coins..

And yes! I plan on either eating them, or using them to make devil eggs then

rockyrollgirl

We did a mixture of both growing up. Money was usually in the plastic ones. I always got a kick out of the bunny hiding the egg I dyed. I have no idea why.

I plan on doing the same with C.

raraavis28

If the egg rots, then at least that will help you find it..... jk!

My family always dyed hard-boiled eggs, and DH's family hides plastic ones, so LOs will have both kinds of hunts this year. I haven't decided yet if I want to do my own egg hunt on top of that....when I do, I definitely want to dye real eggs.