Starting our Easter with a colourful Easter egg hunt at Rupert Museum
We hopped into a colourful world of magic yesterday at the Rupert museum in Stellenbosch when we joined their annual Easter egg hunt.
This is by far, my favourite Easter egg hunt and we have taken Hamish a few times over the years.
I think I enjoy the beautiful balance of Easter magic, outdoor activities and art all entwined into a core memory for your kids.
About the Easter egg hunt
On arrival your kids are given a map with cute clues to look for along the hunt and before you can say Easter bunny they are on the hunt to follow the Bunny paw prints and find their eggs.
We started at the yellow statue and followed the clues to the first station where Hamish had solved a few colour sums to show that he knew how to mix primary colours to make a secondary colour. Once the clue was solved he recieved a paint brush and a white chocolate Easter egg.
Then it was off to the next activity. I absolutely fell in love with the creative handmade Carrot tops on the ground. Hamish had to throw a hoop to lift a Carrot top and collect his prize.
From here, we headed to the quiet garden where little nests had been made, and kids were encouraged to look between the elegant deer statue and the plants to collect another Easter egg.
Once he had collected his egg, it was back to the other side of the museum to find the blue statue and look for the next clue.
The last clue led to a ribbon maze, which was Hamish’s absolutely Favourite activity. Here, he needed to navigate the ribbons ( and not touch them) to enter the maze and find his egg-stra special surprise. Without a thought he quickly found the largest side and leopard crawled under to collect his egg stash.
Lastly, it was off to the creative station to paint his eggs.
The station had been set up in the garden, under the shade and the kids were given egg boxes to house their painted eggs after they were done, as well as these cute rolling egg stations to use. ( I’m definitely making one at home for us to use this Easter)
Kids placed their eggs on the stick, attatched it back into the box, and rotated the egg whilst holding their paint brushes still to create the most interesting patterns using the food colouring provided as paint.
This kept their hands ( and bodies) clean and added to the fun and Magic of the hunt. You can almost imagine a full production line like this in the Easter bunny’s workshop.
By the smile on that face, you can see just how much he absolutely loved this.
The best part was that the fun didn’t stop there ….. at home, he nibbled on his eggs and completed the cute Easter activities in his hunt sheet.
I can’t think of a better way for us to have started our Easter holidays.
