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Egg-cellent ideas for a happy hunt.


How do you run your Easter egg An undocumented function hidden in software that may or may not be sanctioned by management. Easter Eggs are secret "goodies" found by word of mouth or accident. They are also used in video games, movies, TV commercials, DVDs, CDs, CD-ROMs and every so often in hardware.  hunt to ensure each child receives an egg? This was a recent question posted from Canton Canton, cities, United States
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 of NRPA's Web site, www.nrpa.org. With Easter Day approaching this month, find out below that there is more to Easter egg hunting than a sweet tooth:

"We do a flash light egg but you could adapt to a daytime event. We give each child a number and they have to find the egg with their number on it. We have the eggs in rows across the field. Once you find the egg with your number, you turn it in and receive a goodie good·ie  
n.
Variant of goody1.
 bag. We keep the eggs for the next year. This way there is no mad dash to get all the eggs and everyone is a winner."--Shrewsbury, Mass.

"Here in Jupiter, Fla., I have three age groups. We put out wrapped candy (not in eggs) under hay along with marble eggs (the prized ones). I use larger eggs for the young group and smaller eggs for the older group. It takes the kids about 1 1/2 hours to find all the eggs (10 per age group), and they trade them in for a large prize. The size of each 'egg patch' is about 50 square feet. We also have them visiting with the Easter Bunny bunny

delivers chocolates, etc., to children. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 487]

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, offer holiday tattoos, have two bounce 1. bounce - (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification (a "bounce message") to the sender is said to "bounce".
2. bounce - To play volleyball. The now-demolished D. C.
 houses they can play in, and McDonald's comes out with free drinks for all."--Jupiter, Fla.

"At our annual Easter egg hunt, I have two volunteers with a bag of eggs ready to give to any kid that does not have any eggs. Since I run the hunts in four different age groups, I take the bags of extra eggs to the other age groups. By the last age group, we normally have kids from the first three and we make sure that they get some eggs. At our redemption area, we also have some of those extra eggs in case we get stopped by some parents. We normally have extra large prizes that we can give to these kids or coloring books from the Easter Bunny."--Caledonia, Wis adv. 1. Certainly; really; indeed.
v. t. 1. To think; to suppose; to imagine; - used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis.
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"We limit the number [of eggs] each child gets by announcing the number and enlisting the help of parents as well. We do the same thing ... keep extras on hand so no one is empty handed."--Brewer, Maine
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