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Easter Egg Alternatives

Twins Mom — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:54:58 GMT

With the price of eggs, I can't see preparing that many eggs foe the kids to decorate. Coloring goes pretty quickly and my Grands are young. Any ideas on what activities might be fun? In our home will use plastic eggs but looking for something for kids to do. Saw something about coloring large marshmallows. Any insight?

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LdyBugz — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:03:05 GMT

@Twins Mom Maybe decorate those plastic eggs with stickers and sharpie pens?

P.S., Decorate egg-shaped sugar cookies.

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Sooner — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:01:18 GMT

@Twins Mom wrote:
With the price of eggs, I can't see preparing that many eggs foe the kids to decorate. Coloring goes pretty quickly and my Grands are young. Any ideas on what activities might be fun? In our home will use plastic eggs but looking for something for kids to do. Saw something about coloring large marshmallows. Any insight?

@Twins Mom Don't color dozens of eggs, color a dozen o so. Use the eggs for egg salad after the hunt, let the kids help make it. Eggs are a good buy for a meal. Candy or plastic eggs are money spent but not maybe for the best use.

Use Easter eggs as a teaching mechanism about cooking and what eggs are and how they are protein for our bodies. Let the kids shell the eggs and stir up some fun! Eggs are a blessing, a food people have depended on for thousands of years.

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patbz — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:36:34 GMT

We use plastic eggs for our preteen grandsons. We bought 2 dozen this year plus 4 golden plastic eggs. We hide $/ candies in them ; 50 cents to one dollar per egg. The 4 golden eggs will have slightly nicer prizes. Last year it rained and the boys searched outside until they found every egg ( didn't even notice the rain).

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ThinkingOutLoud — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:40:13 GMT

hmmm...

- they can wrap cardboard eggs with yarn

- or make sugar/string eggs using a balloon you pop (starch might work instead of the sugar water?)

- or tissue paper eggs would be easy

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patbz — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:44:56 GMT

I saw a mime recently about the egg shortage and Easter: they were decorating potatoes with tempera paint! The more I think about it, that's a cute idea.

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Sakuya — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:25:43 GMT

Make egg-shaped cutout cookies the kids can decorate with sprinkles.

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LizzieInSRQ — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:12:59 GMT

Decorate cookies

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ValuSkr — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:41:07 GMT

I've gotten wooden eggs at craft stores, like Michael's and Joann's. They often come in a carton, like eggs, and are undecorated.

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cjm61 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:42:47 GMT

@Twins Mom I have to agree with @Sooner . Easter is one day a year. I will have eggs for my grandkids no matter what the cost. The time spent with them and making memories of our years coloring eggs is priceless.

Like @Sooner stated, just don't dye as many eggs as in the past, perhaps dye one dozen, saving the eggs to use to eat later. Maybe spend time coloring plaster eggs or wooden eggs if you want the activity to last longer.

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stevieb — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:03:17 GMT

No idea how many eggs you normally color, how many kids are involved, or what financial limitations might be in place, but I just ordered groceries and there was a wide range of pricing for various eggs. Some seemed very affordable to me, beginning at under $4 and going up from there.

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Alsace Gal — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:33:45 GMT

If you have a zoo or animal,park near you, why not go there? When return home you can set up Easter Baskets for them.

I don't have kids and if I did, zoo it would be.

They can use their energy there.

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wagirl — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:36:33 GMT

Decorating the cookies is a cute idea--and plastic eggs are what I did most times when my 2 were little--but I did do half a dozen of real eggs for them to trash--they got bored fast. I could never hide eggs outside as it was always wet and rainy 3/4 of the years anyway. I hid the plastic ones in the house.

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Sakuya — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:48:11 GMT

We always did 12 dozen eggs. It was fun!

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Twins Mom — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 02:06:41 GMT

@Sakuya My in-laws did at least that many. Brands could come over and decorate. It was very enjoyable. The hunt was memorable, too.

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Twins Mom — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 02:12:35 GMT

I love Easter egg hunts. I have had "pre-Easter " hunts for young ones to get the point, using empty plastic eggs. I habe used coins for young ones to learn money. I bought reduced Valentine candy for others. I like the wooden egg idea - must look for them.

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faeriemoon — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:08:49 GMT

I wouldn't substitute plastic eggs for real eggs, but that's a personal choice.