Hiding Real Eggs for Easter

The plastic eggs we hide at night after they go to bed.
Husb insists on dying & hiding real eggs. We used to get up early before the kids but it's not possible now so one of us will keep the kids inside while the other sneaks out to hide them.
Oh...count them before you hide them.

You can always use the plastic eggs & include:
*change
*folded up dollar bill
*plastic jewelry
*stickers

In the morning before the kids wake up.. Or one of you, keeps the kids busy and the other goes out and hides them.

If you want to hide real eggs, you'll have to hide them at the last minute, just before your children hunt for them. Real eggs are only safe for a little while. I wouldn't let them go more than four hours, if that.

So you want to hide them at the last minute, and you make a note of where they are because you want to find them ALL. (If you don't, you'll be sorry!) Once they're collected, put them right back in the fridge and start dining on hard-boiled eggs right away!

If you use real eggs and hide outside, be careful of critters!
(that's how we'd find the 'lost' egg - use the dog!)

We hide them, while telling the kids to stay in certain room with the door closed.
And then, my kids like to do the egg hunt, SEVERAL times. So that is what we do.

I boil the eggs that morning.
The kids dye them.
Then we hide them.
They stay in a certain room with the door closed. And Grandma makes sure they don't peek.
That works for us.
We have done it that way since they were Toddlers.

Just remember, how MANY eggs you are hiding, and where. So that, you don't end up having rotten eggs somewhere in the house or outside. That the child did not find. So always... do a count of how many eggs you are hiding. Then you know or not, if your kid found them all.

If you boil the eggs the day or night before, just let it cool then put it in the fridge. But keep in mind that to dye them the next day, do it when the eggs are not "sweating" or are wet from getting to room temperature after being taken out of the fridge. Or the dye may not take well. The eggs should be dry, when dyed. Just wipe them down with a cloth.

so, i've always hidden real eggs in the house, at night after my daughter goes to sleep .......... lol - and we eat them the next day! and no one has ever gotten sick from the eggs being out for several hours.

Ewww. Flashbacks to the year I got the double-whammy. I was about 8, and my grandmother hid the eggs around her yard AND inside her house for my cousins and I. I was the lucky kid to find a real Robin's egg in the grass below a tree, that must have fallen from a nest. It was tiny, and that should have been a clue. But I was a city slicker without a clue and it was such a pretty blue color! So, I grabbed it too hard when I picked it up, it broke in my hand and out came this smelly, brown, awful stuff! So bad, none of my cousins wanted to be near me for the rest of Easter Day!

I even took a bath and still smelled funny.

If that wasn't bad enough, it was Spring Break...back when we got about a week or more off from school. So several days after Easter, we started smelling "sulphur" around the living room. I was traumatized because my cousins accused ME of making the smell...calling me literally "the rotten egg" because of the whole Robin's egg ordeal. Turns out we didn't find all of the eggs, and there was one behind grandma's couch that had started to go bad.

As an adult, I'm totally and exclusively for using plastic filled eggs for hunts.

For real eggs. I suggest count how many you hide.. Count how you find and make sure you find them all.. cause you don't wanna find one 6 months after its eww.. and get up early to hide them

I found this:
"Refrigeration is necessary for hard boiled eggs if the eggs are not to be consumed within a few hours. "

Good luck if you use real eggs. I did it once, didn't count and forgot O.. In the couch.

I'm sorry, I think hiding real eggs just has "Bad Idea" written all over it with a wax crayon!