I have been collecting some plastic easter egg ideas for the past month, and today I suddenly realised that I had forgotten one of the most obvious: a scavenger hunt!

Years ago, when I was in the Scouting organisation, we played a scavenger hunt game that was different to the usual games.  Most of the time you play a scavenger game by doing something like trying to find one thing starting with each letter of the alphabet.  So an apple, a banana and so on.

In Scouts, we played by saying that everything we found had to fit in a matchbox.  Seriously.  It was great fun.  Now admittedly it was only the meanest of group leaders that said not only did we have to find things small enough to fit in a matchbox, but that there had to be one for each letter of the alphabet.  Personally, I think that that is far too hard!

So instead, we played ‘how many things can you fit into the matchbox and still close the lid.’

Like I said in the introduction, even though I have been collecting ideas for sometime I couldn’t believe that I had forgotten this idea.  What brought it to mind was sitting on the floor a few minutes ago with my 4 year old filling up plastic Easter eggs ready for the Sunday morning service.  We are putting different small representations of the Easter story into the plastic craft eggs, and then putting a small chocolate egg in as well.  And my son was trying to fit as much as he could into the eggs!

So, with all the thoughts about having an Easter egg hunt, how about turning it around.  Instead of hunting for eggs themselves, how about hunting for things to put into the Easter egg, just like the old matchbox game that we used to play.

• You can score in various ways:
• How many items starting with a different letter of the alphabet there are
• How many items there are, full stop!
• How heavy the total weight of the eggs is (you will need a set of digital scales that are really accurate so that you can make decisions on players who are really close!)

Whatever you decide to do this Easter, be blessed!