Every year for the past five years my family has hosted an Easter Egg Hunt for either my daughter's class or the neighbors. There's usually around 30 people.  When the crowd was younger (under 5) in order to keep things fair, I would decide on a number of eggs per child (usually 15) and write the kids' names on the eggs and put them all around in my backyard. Instead of having a ton of kids bowling over the little/slower kids, the hunt was always equal.  So even though the kids saw tons of eggs all over, they had to go up to the eggs and check for their names. They knew in advance how many they had to find and everyone was happy. I would buy the plastic egg "shells" and write their names on with perm. marker.  Inside the eggs would be everything from jellybeans, to gumballs, m & M's and any other candy I found on sale- especially after Valentine's Day...the last "candy-filled" holiday before Easter...I bought a lot of the candy on sale 50-75 per cent off.  Anyway...this worked for a few years ...now this year- the kids are mostly 8 & 9 years old..Way too "old"  to hunt for a few eggs in the backyard...So I scoured websites, quizzed friends etc. and still came up with nothing. My main goal was for a fun hunt...more challenging than previous years but where everything was still equal.  I didn't want the quicker more competitive kids to get all the eggs...not to mention when kids are "racing", eggs get stepped on and broken in the mad dash.  So this is what I came up with. I sent out invitations a good three weeks before. With my computer Word art I made up a little bunny with an egg strapped to his back...it said "Hop on over to an Easter Egg Hunt... We had it Good Friday at 9am (!).  The reason for this was that we didn't have the hunt at home we had it at the local school/playground. We did it early in the morning so we probably wouldn't run into a bunch of kids already playing there.  The playground has a "forest" behind...where the kids always love to play. The trees are pretty dense though so very few adults let their kids play back there alone. Anyway I went early to the park the morning of the hunt. I had bought caution tape from Home Depot and given them a portion of the forest to hunt in as well as the playground. We hid all the eggs and treats in this huge area.  Each child was given a sheet of clues and a bag to put their loot in. The kids were instructed to find ONLY what was on the sheet and no more otherwise someone else would be without enough.  They were to find 2 each of plastic blue, pink, yellow, orange purple and green eggs.  So the first part of their clue sheet was wimple math problems that equaled 2. And they were to find that many blue eggs etc...For example. What's 98-96:  Find that many blue eggs...What's 10-8: Find that many purple eggs. Then they were asked questions like: An Easter Cream Bunny would lay an _____ (Easter cream egg)....Find an egg named after a planet (mars).  Etc. etc. etc.  Anyway it worked great!  The kids had a whole bunch of loot- no one had more than anyone else and the kids were reminded at the beginning that this was not a race. A good part too was that most of the Easter cream eggs, chocolate bunnies, mini eggs etc were found at a candy factory outlet for 4/$1 (cndn!)  Anyway- everyone stuck around after to play in the park for about an hour- it was great! The funny part was- a mom said to me:  I know your parties are good but how on earth did you arrange for a real bunny to be here?  I was shocked to see a wild rabbit hopping through the forest as the kids were hunting.  The kids were excited.  Anyhow, another idea I almost did if anyone is ever looking for Easter hunt ideas is either an egg hunt in the dark- and give every kid a cheap flashlight to look for their eggs- or a glow in the dark hunt and paint every egg with glow in the dark paint. (that one was a little too much work even for me- but cool none the less.) Anyway, hope you can use some of these ideas.