{"id":1107,"date":"2021-03-28T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T13:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2021-04-06T06:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T06:28:53","slug":"easter-egg-hunt-with-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2021\/03\/28\/easter-egg-hunt-with-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Egg Hunt with a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Easter is just around the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adults associate Easter with different things like religion, long weekends and stuff like that. Many kids see it as a time to have a chocolate bunny or egg. In some households, there is a tradition of hiding goodies for children to find \u2013 usually outdoors. Brightly coloured bunnies poke their heads out of bushes and eggs nestle in odd places where no self-respecting chicken<\/a> would ever dream of laying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This year we decided to do something fun \u2013 an Easter egg hunt with a difference!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve painted lots of pebbles and rocks and we\u2019re going to hide them around the neighbourhood for other people to find. They can either keep them\u2026 or hide them again in another place for somebody else to come across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYeah, yeah, Sibo,\u201d I hear you saying, \u201cwhat\u2019s this got to do with me? I just can\u2019t wait to get my teeth into a yummy choccy egg \u2013 not a painted stone.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Well\u2026 I was hoping that you’d join us, and paint a pebble or two and hide them in your neighbourhood, where ever you are in the whole wide world.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You could team up with a friend or two, share paint and have some fun in the process. Your stones can be as fancy or as simple as you please. If you don\u2019t have paint, you could draw on them with felt-tip pens, chalk, nail varnish or anything else. You could even stick a pretty picture on a stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t have to go far to hide them either \u2013 you could simply put one in your neighbour\u2019s post box. They wouldn\u2019t know it was from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole point of this is to give something pretty<\/strong> to somebody else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ginny gets her paint from PNA in Silverwater Crossing \u2013 it is acrylic (waterproof) and costs around R20 for a little pot. You only use a teensy bit of paint on these stones. She uses a stick and the back of an old ballpoint pen (she uses the tip, too) to decorate the stones. They\u2019re mainly a series of dots, all joined together to make flowers. Sometimes she goes overboard and they look a bit crazy, but they\u2019re still pretty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you don\u2019t have any stones, you could always use bottle tops \u2013 those work nicely too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you decide to join in the fun, why not post a photo of your creation on Sibo\u2019s Facebook <\/a>page\u2014we\u2019d love to see your ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a pebble painted by Isabella – Ginny’s granddaughter.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So\u2026 if you live in the Meyerspark area in Pretoria East, keep an eye out next weekend\u2014over 150 painted pebbles and stones are going to be hidden over Easter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n