Egg a Friend’s House with Your Kids {Easter Fun with a Faith Lesson}

This week I helped my boys egg our good friends’ back yard.  🥚 😳 

Fortunately it was not the kind of “egging” I remember (hearing about 🙈🤫) in high school, but it was super fun.  And I thought I’d tell you about it… 

But first, this is important to know:  I am teaming up this Thursday through Saturday (3/25-27) with an amazing group of women doing a round up of great Easter ideas on Instagram…which includes a $400 — (yes, FOUR HUNDRED DOLLAR!) Target Giveaway.  

Woohoo!!!

I pondered what to share for my part of the roundup, and started working on a recipe for orange cranberry scones.  (stay tuned, I’m very close to a masterpiece! 😉) But then, when I saw this fun little egging idea on my friend’s Instagram story last week, I just had to do it with my boys, and share it with all of you.

But before I tell you about the egging, let me first tell you why I love the idea:

Easter is, without a doubt, the best holiday ever. I mean, I get the Christmas warm-fuzzies like everyone else,  and there are plenty of other holidays with great meaning, traditions, and food (🦃 🇺🇸 🥧 🍀 ❤️…)  But Easter — it’s the good news. The really, really good news.  Easter is Jesus finishing what He started on Christmas.  Easter is what we Christians bank our faith on.  Easter is everything to me. 

Yet. Just like Christmas and every other holiday, Easter has become super commercialized. And, while we try our best to get our kids focused on the true meaning of Easter, it can easily become another holiday that feeds their sinful. selfish souls. (right?!)

There is no-doubt…My boys love allofthecandy (as do I.)  They want to hunt for candy-filled eggs and because that’s not enough, they make it their goal to get more eggs/candy than their siblings. Then they lay it all out, with pride, before gathering it up and hiding it in the dark recesses of their secret stash-places.  Then, they look forward to waking up on Easter morning to an Easter-basket full of silly toys and copious amounts of…more candy.

And there is a lot to love about all of that. I am big on celebrations and this is a good one. So, without being total kill-joys, Dave and I let them enjoy the fun (and more candy than we like) and then do what we can to keep redirecting our kids to the true meaning of Easter. (see Matthew 28) —> We do a Lent study.  We read the Bible.  We do church stuff (when available) And I think our boys get it.  The older they get, the more meaningful Easter has become to each of them. (Thank you, God.)

But in the early years it can be very frustrating to see how easily Easter can morph into another self-focused holiday. (Am I alone here?  Someone tell me share in the struggle.)

So, when I heard this idea of egging a friend for Easter, I got really excited.  I love it because it is one little way kids can get their eyes off of themselves for a minute or two, and think of blessing someone else.  It gives them the joy of planning, preparing, then going on mission to bless someone else with the very goodies they love to hoard.

HOW TO EGG YOUR FRIENDS FOR EASTER

Here are the basic steps we took to egg our friends for Easter.
(There are plenty of variations of this, (see Pinterest for more) but we keep things really simple ’round here. 😉)

• I picked up a fresh package of 12 plastic eggs, and a variety mix of Easter candies.
• We downloaded and printed out little Easter notes. There are a lot to choose from online, but I loved these.
• I asked my friend Cathy Lee at Picket Fence Design Co. for her cute printable and printed it out.  (there are lots of these on Pinterest too, it turns out, but I like hers the best.)  {CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT}
• We filled 11 of the 12 eggs with a combo of Easter notes and candy.
• We left the 12th one empty. 
• I called my friend Emily to ask if we could swing by and if she might be able to keep her kids from looking out the window for a few minutes.  (haha, that’ll make kids curious.)
• We headed over, left the note on their front door, then went to work, hiding the eggs.  
  (Side note: It’s always a great idea to egg the home of a photographer. 😉  Thank you, Emily, for capturing the egging-action photos for us!)
• We left their house ten minutes later, laughing at what the kids must have been thinking and wondering when they would find the sign and hunt for the eggs.  We talked about the whole “it’s better to give than to receive” thing…(Acts 20:35) 
• In total, my boys spent at least two hours focused on surprising and blessing our friends, and reminded in a creative way that the 12th egg is empty just like Jesus’ tomb was empty.  
• Which is, the REAL MEANING OF EASTER. 💥
  
  

It wasn’t difficult or time consuming, but it did require a little bit of thought and energy.

It wasn’t the deepest spiritual lesson ever, but it moved us in the right direction. 

No doubt: it was fun!  

And Emily’s kids had fun finding out they’d been egged!  😉 

I hope this inspires someone out there to bless some friends with some good, clean egging fun. 

Now be sure to visit my Instagram post as well as the other incredible women’s posts in the round-up (I’ve linked to them there), and enter to win the $400 Target Gift card!!  

With Aloha, 
Monica

PS  Thanks to Picket Fence Design Co. for sharing this fun ideas.  *I recommend following her blog and IG because she’s got a lot of great ideas, and, -she’s also a (superhero) homeschool mom to 6 kids!