Glow in the Dark Hunting

(March 30th, 2024)

The trick for our family is finding a time that works for everyone. We discussed our options and finally decided that a Saturday night would be ideal. And then someone mentioned hunting in the dark and glow in the dark paint and the idea stuck. What a fun idea! So I purchased some eggs with mini glow sticks. The kids were super excited to have new eggs. But we couldn't hunt by color, since the numbers weren't exact, so instead we put initials on them. I like this more because that means you need to check every egg. (Makes the hunt last longer.)

We waited until the last minute to crack the glow sticks and put them in. We obviously wanted them to be as bright as possible. It takes a few minutes to crack over 100 glow sticks, so I got everyone to help.

Then I made everyone go downstairs and Tyler and I hid the eggs. Don't they look cool?

After we hid them and turned off the lights, it looked so cool in the house. There were little eggs glowing all over the place.

I don't really have pictures of the kids hunting. It was dark after all. Everyone helped and gave hints when they found someone else's eggs. I also hid some other items like hats and tattoo pens. The girls seemed to find everything fairly quickly. And they all loved it. I imagine we'll have another glow-in-the-dark hunt in the future.

One of the bonus item was a ring. I had a whole tray and everyone got to choose.

But by far, the favorite item was the temporary tattoo pens. The girls went to town and had so much fun. Here are some of the designs.

They were so distracted by the pens that they forgot to open the camo eggs. (Camo eggs are REALLY hard to find in the dark by the way. We finally had to turn the lights on.) There was only one egg missing and it turned out to be the fiver. It took me a while to find it, but Pearl claimed it since she was the only one missing an egg. That makes three years in a row. That is some extreme luck!

It's fun to find new traditions and this glow-in-the-dark egg hunt was a winner.