An Easter Hunt

As I was flipping through Family Fun magazine at my chiropractor's office, I discovered an awesome alternative to the Easter Egg Hunt. This year we have been to 2 Easter Egg Hunts, where the kids have received tons of candy, plus we are still making our way through the Valentine's candy, so I loved the idea of having kids search for puzzle pieces in eggs. This way, the kids still have the hunt minus all of the sugar and candy! And lo and behold, I had already bought a puzzle on clearance from Target that I was going to include with Charlotte's Easter basket. However, the puzzle I bought was a floor size puzzle with giant pieces, that would not fit in plastic eggs, so I found some colorful ribbon in my scrapbooking supplies, tied a ribbon around each puzzle piece, "hid" the pieces, and gave Charlotte a basket to let her at 'em.

The result: a big hit! ((At least for Charlotte. Elijah was too busy running around the backyard and tumbling down the hill to participate!) And this hunt came in two parts, because after finding all of the pieces, Charlotte then had a puzzle to put together!