Easter Basket Hunting : A Family Tradition

Here's a little back-story and a how-to for Easter Basket Hunting passed down from my Dad and Step-mom to us kids:

When I was growing up we didn't just get Easter baskets. My parents didn't like it to be that easy. So what they did is made us find them. The older we got, the harder the hunt was. The more we had to use our brains to put together the pieces to find our baskets.

The How To:

There is always a starting location for each kid. Let's use Tyler's for example. Tyler's first label started in his room. So you take a sticky note and write a (go here message). His first message was stuck to the mirror on his dresser:

Not my images - I totally forgot to take photos of the easter basket hunt. I found this on creative ramblings and along with it - a christ centered easter basket hunt that I will start implementing when the kids get to a certain age to be able to follow it. Next year - Colten will end up following this one. Find link to Creative Ramblings at bottom :)

This is where you get nice and clean. ---> next label would be stuck inside the shower.

The next label will say:

This is where you say 3 prayers each day ---> next label would be stuck to the dining room table.

The next label will say:

This is where mom washes all your stinky socks ---> next label will be inside the washing machine lid.

And we would do about 20 labels per child. The goal is to tire them. Wear them out. So we would put label upstairs that would be connected to a basement label that would be connected to second story then upstairs again and so forth. They ran around like crazy kids for around 5 minutes each to find their baskets!!

It's always so fun to keep a family tradition alive :)

We love this tradition and hope one day our kids will continue to pass it along :)

Here is the link to "Creative Ramblings" the "Christ" centered way for an Easter Basket Hunt.

~ Our Shank Family