GENOA - While waiting to put their candy containers to use, boys improvised hats out of their Easter baskets or blue buckets ringed with rabbits hopping around them.
On a day that started below the freezing point, it turned sunny and cheery for the crowd of more than 50 parents and their children who came to the United Church of Genoa's Saturday afternoon Easter egg hunt.
Children hunted for pastel plastic eggs spread over the green lawn like the first fat raindrops splattering on pavement.
The littlest ones were guided by their parents. The older ones darted out the door and grasped their eggs within a minute. But they were fair in obeying the rule that they should take no more than 15 eggs, discarding extra eggs back to the ground.
Morgan Wilcox, 3, of Lansing, moved slower across the lawn in her hunt for the prizes left behind by the “Easter Bunny” because she wanted only pink eggs. Inside her eggs, she got stickers, four pencil sharpeners, a chick squeeze toy and Hershey Kisses.
“I told you I would get a kiss,” she told her mother, Beth.
Before the fast scramble for the eggs, the families watched a Christian video, “The Bed Bug Easter Party.” Annette Bell, the wife of the church's pastor, Larry, asked all the attendees to scooch their folding chairs up close to a table between two long trestle tables stretched out like wings from a head table. All three tables were set with wine glasses, candles and faux yellow, red and pink roses for a wedding later that afternoon.
In a cartoon version of two Biblical stories that are celebrated on the next two Sundays, a sibling pair of bed bugs watched Jesus' entry into Jerusalem in the days before his execution and later accompanied the mourning Mary to Jesus' grave where they learned he had risen from death. Children were also given an activity book echoing the themes of the video.
Last year, Annette wrote an Easter-themed puppet show that was performed at the 2005 Easter egg hunt.
Both the puppet show and this year's video were presented to keep in mind the purpose of the holiday beyond an abundance of sweets, “to help them to think about the meaning of Easter,” Larry said.
Staff writer Amaris Elliott-Engel can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 282 or at amaris.elliot-engel@lee.net
Children hunted for pastel plastic eggs spread over the green lawn like the first fat raindrops splattering on pavement.
The littlest ones were guided by their parents. The older ones darted out the door and grasped their eggs within a minute. But they were fair in obeying the rule that they should take no more than 15 eggs, discarding extra eggs back to the ground.
Morgan Wilcox, 3, of Lansing, moved slower across the lawn in her hunt for the prizes left behind by the “Easter Bunny” because she wanted only pink eggs. Inside her eggs, she got stickers, four pencil sharpeners, a chick squeeze toy and Hershey Kisses.
“I told you I would get a kiss,” she told her mother, Beth.
Before the fast scramble for the eggs, the families watched a Christian video, “The Bed Bug Easter Party.” Annette Bell, the wife of the church's pastor, Larry, asked all the attendees to scooch their folding chairs up close to a table between two long trestle tables stretched out like wings from a head table. All three tables were set with wine glasses, candles and faux yellow, red and pink roses for a wedding later that afternoon.
In a cartoon version of two Biblical stories that are celebrated on the next two Sundays, a sibling pair of bed bugs watched Jesus' entry into Jerusalem in the days before his execution and later accompanied the mourning Mary to Jesus' grave where they learned he had risen from death. Children were also given an activity book echoing the themes of the video.
Last year, Annette wrote an Easter-themed puppet show that was performed at the 2005 Easter egg hunt.
Both the puppet show and this year's video were presented to keep in mind the purpose of the holiday beyond an abundance of sweets, “to help them to think about the meaning of Easter,” Larry said.
Staff writer Amaris Elliott-Engel can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 282 or at amaris.elliot-engel@lee.net
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