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We've never done a big official one, but we did one last year with family. It was a disaster. Xander was only 1 and his two cousins were 2 and 8!! The 8 year old just ran around as fast as he could and grabbed EVERYTHING! I was like "What was the point of this?" Luckily the two little kids were too young to really care, but I was kind of annoyed.

@Mamaof2: That's a great idea! I'll have to suggest it this year so we don't have that issue again. Thanks!

I'm hosting a playdate/easter egg hunt this year. Our building has a courtyard with a grassy area, so I invited about 6 toddler/parent friends over for some Easter crafts and a toddler egg hunt.

There's really just grass, so they won't really be "hidden", but they are all 20 months or younger, so hopefully that won't matter. I'm just going to do 10 eggs per kid and tell the parents how many each kid gets. The colors are a good idea though--if the colors in the egg packages equal how many kids we have, I may try that instead!

@Mamaof2: Separate colors for each kid is such a great idea!

@mediagirl: hahaha! A-hole parents

We might try this year (uh!) just for her though, I'll push through to give her the experience! Not sure of the age ranges, they just say the littles go first. Yelp.

I think ours is 2 and under, 3-4, and then 5 and up. I am not worried about it. I think she will love it no matter what. She will love just putting any eggs in her basket.

We do one with family after church at my parents house. The big kids know that the ones that are easier to find are for the little kids and they leave them for them to find.

MIL does one in their yard/house every year on Easter. Used to be one for DH and I (no joke)! Now she does it for DS. We haven't taken him to a large one yet.

We did one last weekend and the age group we were in was 0-2, but there were families there that brought their older kid and let them hunt with the littles. At first I was annoyed, but LO only picked up one egg and was happy with just a few in her basket, so I was happy. And like @blackbird: said, the candy wasn't that good. Not a single piece of chocolate.

We went to one last year at my brother's house, my son was middle of the pack in terms of age and we steered him off to a corner and he picked up all the eggs in that area. He's really into surprise eggs and he loved opening up the eggs.

We do one at my parents' house with others age 5, 9, and 10. The kids are all old enough to leave the really obvious ones there for my guy. My parents always staggered the start times by age.