The 2022 Easter Egg Hunt

There are two parking lots west of the Edina Historical Society building, right here. If no parking spots are available, try to park on the street at West Shore Drive to the east or Larkspur Lane to the southwest.

Yeah, we thought we’d be at Cornelia School Park as well. What we didn’t know when we originally planned to be there was that Soccer Shots would be at the park until 12:00 p.m and there may be baseball teams practicing at the other baseball fields.

Soccer Shots means a whole bunch of young kids running around the park before and after their training/game – potentially scooping up eggs that they shouldn’t touch. We don’t have an effective way to tell all the Soccer Shots parents:

“For the next three hours, keep your kids away from the playground and non-Soccer Shots fields (a.k.a. most of the park). Oh, and make sure they don’t touch any of the three thousand eggs tantalizingly sitting on the ground where they might be.”

You’ll need to check your kids in by 10:00 a.m. in order for them to not miss out on any fun. To check-in:

1. Meet at the patio area outside the Edina Historical Society building by 10:00 am.
2. Find a friendly check-in volunteer.
3. We’ll give your kid(s) their bag to collect eggs and point you to the right zone in the park based on their age.
4. Walk to that zone with your kids.
5. Wait for the check-in volunteer to do a ten second countdown right at 10:00 a.m.
6. Watch all those kids scatter like mad to find their eggs!

Stay directly with the kids you’re in charge of to:

• Ensure they take only the unique set of eggs assigned to them.
• Make sure they don’t eat anything from inside the eggs until they’re done gathering all the eggs. That way, we don’t lose eggs for future hunts and keep the park clean. 🙂

Anyone is welcome to contribute to our hunt! There are four main ways to do that:

1. Donate individually wrapped candy or small toys less than 2 inches in length by April 1. We’ll likely have around 80 kids, but we don’t need to have that many of the same thing. We’ll even out the goodies by age group. 🙂 Egg fillers can be dropped off at Marie Johnson’s house: 7137 Cornelia Drive, Edina, MN 55435. There’s a bin on the front bench of her house for easy drop off.
2. Donate financially to offset Marie’s out of pocket costs via Venmo, @Marie-Johnson168, or PayPal at saumson@gmail.com.
3. Donate financially via our partner, Edina Community Foundation. You can make a tax-deductible donation to the SCNA via ECF and add special instructions if you want your money to go to something specific like the Egg Hunt.
4. Volunteer your time between April 13-15 to prepare eggs, hide eggs the morning of the hunt, or coordinate during the hunt. Even if you don’t have any kids participating, you can volunteer in the sign up form.

We have hundreds of plastic eggs to stuff with goodies and the same number of eggs to clean and put back together for next year’s Easter Egg Hunt. A good 2023 hunt starts the moment the 2022 hunt ends, so contact Marie Johnson if you want to help in some way and didn’t already specify in the sign up form.

You sure do! We won’t know to hide eggs for your kid(s) unless you tell us you’re coming and some details about your family. The deadline to register is April 9 so we have time to put everything together.

It takes a lot of work to put this event together. And because we have limited labor and don’t have 1,000s of unique sets of eggs, we’re keeping the participant lists to those who live around South Cornelia, Lake Cornelia, Lake Edina, and a few hand-selected people or areas.

Just because kids have found their eggs doesn’t mean the fun has to end. Stick around the patio, building, and green space at Arneson Acres to socialize with some other neat adults. Or let the sugared-up kids run around while the adults find other ways to entertain themselves.