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Last year, we took our then-3-year-old to the neighborhood park for an Easter Egg Hunt. Watching little kids engage in primal (yet adorable) hunting-and-gathering behavior was fascinating. Volumes of books could be written about the complex behavioral patterns displayed at an average egg hunt. I began to wonder what would happen if you injected an element of (mostly) harmless futility into this precious celebratory tradition. So, I made this tantalizing, yet Irretrievable Easter Egg. Hopefully the results would be both amusing an non-psyche-scaring.
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Here's what you need:
1 - Spiral tie out stake - $1.99 at Harbor Freight
1 - Large easter egg - $0.30
1 cup - Concrete mix - $0.50
And, if you want to be fancy, you could also use:
1 can - Spray paint
1 - 8" Gutter nail or similarly long bolt, or piece of rebar
Some hot glue or epoxy
Some bits of steel wire
To do all this, you'll need the following tools:
A vise, hacksaw or reciprocating saw, a pair of vise-grip pliers, a hammer, a mixing container, and some masking tape
1 - Spiral tie out stake - $1.99 at Harbor Freight
1 - Large easter egg - $0.30
1 cup - Concrete mix - $0.50
And, if you want to be fancy, you could also use:
1 can - Spray paint
1 - 8" Gutter nail or similarly long bolt, or piece of rebar
Some hot glue or epoxy
Some bits of steel wire
To do all this, you'll need the following tools:
A vise, hacksaw or reciprocating saw, a pair of vise-grip pliers, a hammer, a mixing container, and some masking tape
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Although, I admit, if I'd painted it gold, the deception would have been complete. But alas, I only had silver and was too cheap to go by more.
Maybe in the middle of the summer, stage an easter egg hunt.
Have a kid (who knows your plan) find a few preplaced eggs in the park, then have him keep looking (while you and the kid both know, there are none left). Then once you have a few people looking for the remaining eggs, your work is done.
So everybody thinks that there are hidden eggs everywhere, but there aren't.
That would be omnilently funny/cruel...
I live in a more rural area, so when our rival school's students spray painted our stadium, we came up with the idea that we would take 9 chickens and paint a 1-8 and a 10, and release those chickens insde the highschool. This would have always left them asking where is number 9?
But sadly no one was willing to give up nine chickens =P
I don't think I would be able to do that.
My wife and I plan on pranking a friend by randomly "hiding" hundreds of plastic Easter eggs in their yard some night. Adding a few staked eggs will just be all the better! Thanks for the great idea.