Easter Egg Hunt Saved by Packing Peanuts

April 9, 2008 | 8 comments | Children's Ministry, Church, Ministry

When it started raining, it did not look good for the 2008 Easter Egg Hunt at The Rock Church (Lynnwood, WA). Fortunately, the children’s ministry director had the innovative idea to move the Easter egg hunt indoors and bury them underneath thousands of packing peanuts. For an extra measure of fun, they added a blower.

Lead Pastor Scott Harris offers this warning to churches who want to host their own packing peanut Easter egg hunts - “The packing peanuts go everywhere, including the HVAC system!” Often the best ideas require more effort.

Tagged as: easter egg hunt, packing peanuts, the rock church

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Gia on April 9, 2008 12:53 pm

Wait a minute didn’t The Rock Church Monroe do this first?
Using packing peanuts for kids? See video below

http://knightrous.blogspot.com/2007/05/knightrousvlog_31.html

Great job of improvising to save what could have been a bad day for the kids and turning into something really fun.
Kent Shaffer on April 9, 2008 1:02 pm

@Gia

Thanks for the heads up! I had not heard of any church doing this previously.
Brian Jones on April 9, 2008 1:48 pm

Man do I love creative church leaders! What a great idea.

Brian Jones
http://www.brianjones.com
Scott Harris on April 9, 2008 5:14 pm

@Gia

the packing peanuts is not a new idea. But I’m pretty sure the blower during the actually egg hunt is original.
Kyle Daniels on April 10, 2008 10:17 am

@ Scott

I found these on their Graphic Designers blog:

http://kristiangorman.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cd9719e25c4cd500f48ced381b0002.html

http://kristiangorman.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cd9719e25c4cd500f48ced468c0003.html

http://kristiangorman.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cd9719e25c4cd500f48ced46860003.html

http://kristiangorman.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cd9719e25c4cd500e398eed9b50005.html
scott on April 10, 2008 1:04 pm

Maybe a more relevant approach would be to use a biodegradable option?
Kyle Daniels on April 10, 2008 6:12 pm

Yeah, I think they make them out of a more dense rubberesque foam.
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