Easter Egg Hunt

Every year, shortly before Easter, we host a "White Elephant Easter Egg Hunt"

For 2024, this is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, March 14 

(we are merging our Pi Day celebration and East Egg Hunt because Easter is so early this year.)

What's a white elephant egg hunt?

Basically, a fun excuse to run around hiding and looking for eggs or other small objects.

- Bring a "white elephant" item to trade; this could be anything, but please don't bring a live elephant! If you want a guideline, think $5-$10 but there is no requirement other than please keep it legal and family-friendly. Toys, games, snacks and candies are often the most in demand.

- Secretly decide on the "key" to win the white elephant item you brought.  This is a set of objects (usually plastic eggs) that must be found in order to win the item you brought.  Difficulty varies, e.g. "1 yellow egg" is easy; "6 blue eggs and 6 green eggs" is more difficult; "18 non-matching eggs" is a challenge.  We have plenty of colorful plastic eggs for you to hide.

- The white elephant prizes are laid out so everybody knows what could be won, and can start identifying the items they would really like to win.

- We then all go out into the woodland and hide the eggs/objects that make up your key. Yes, I said woodland. We run this outdoors in a couple of acres of woodland / wildlife preserve. There is plenty of space to hide hundreds of eggs.

- We congregate back together and reveal all of the secret keys simultaneously. Now everybody knows what they need to find, and the hunt starts.

- The first person (or team, collaboration is allowed) to return a set of objects that accurately matches the key wins that item.

- Note that it is (usually) not necessary to find the exact items that were hidden for that prize, a blue plastic egg is a blue plastic egg, it doesn't matter who hid it.  Some objects are more unique.

- trading, bartering, and gifting found objects are all part of the fun.