Eggstravaganza

Fun light-​hearted activity for the holiday weekend. It’s nice that it’s on Saturday so it doesn’t conflict with the family Easter Brunch. They have live music, low budget kiddy activities (e.g. decorating strawberry pint baskets as Easter baskets), a mini community parade and, of course, Easter Egg hunts. I like that they not only have (6) Easter Egg Hunts scheduled throughout the afternoon to avoid one huge stampede — but they also have a separate bunny patch for babies 2 & under (open throughout the event). The kids gather empty plastic eggs and turn them in at the end for a *little* prize. It’s FREE, so don’t exspect much. If it was a cool prize — you’d be paying for it.
So, if you want a low-​key holiday activity, pack up your patience (there will lines) and kids to head down to San Mateo Central Park. Go earlier to score close parking.

This IS a great event (free), and SURPRISE… it was likely organized specifically for younger KIDS (not their parents)!
The egg hunt, as clearly stated by organisers, is NOT about collecting as many eggs as possible. Each kid needs only ONE egg to claim their treat at the end. (As usual, it is greedy, selfish parents who ruin it for the kids. It would be ideal if idiot parents could stay off the egg hunt field entirely …)
Fun activities and entertainment for little ones.

The Egg Hunt was a total disaster. They enforced the wrist bands to get into the egg hunt but did anyone think to enforce NOT having grown adults rush the field to get to the eggs? Why does one child need 6 adults grabbing eggs for them? The organizers clearly said one egg per child was enough as it was one prize per child. Why did parents feel the need to swarm the field like locusts to get eggs. My 2 year old did not get an egg but there was a nice woman who brought her own eggs and threw one in front of him so he could pick it up. I was heartbroken to see the 3 and 4 year olds crying because they did not get an egg.

It was better than expected, as I wasn’t expecting much when I went with my niece.
They have a little costumes parade which was nice. They have craft tables for kids to make the egg baskets.
The egg hunts were for age 2 to 11, and they have 4 time slot. It was a mad house when the egg hunt started. There were little kids who were upset due to not getting eggs. (minus a star for this) Afterward, the kids will exchange the eggs for a bag of crackers. The cracker was a big hit with my niece.
The event is not much for adults, but if you have little kids, I think they will enjoy it.

If anything, the San Mateo egg hunt has gone downhill from the last poster’s review. This time, the hunt was NOT age-​banded, but they expected all the kids to run out into a big flat field and pick up eggs together. Having big kids and little kids together in an egg hunt just does not work.
My 3 year old son got taken down by some other kid’s MOTHER, who didn’t even stop to help pick him up! When we did get him up, his basket had flown out of his hands and all the other kids had taken all his eggs. To top it off, when you leave the hunt, they make you give back all the eggs (which were empty to begin with), and each kid gets a «prize» — a snack size bag of bunny grahams! Come on, we waited in line for this???
My seven year old called it «The Suckiest Egg Hunt I’ve Ever Been To.» I totally agree.

We took the Kid to the annual San Mateo egg hunt. Egg hunt was arranged by kids’ ages. When we got there, we found out there were 100’s of people with kids from 3 or younger. No big deal. There were a lot of eggs on the field right?
Hunt starts and you see this weird stampede of damn adults streaking across the field and filling up eggs with their hats, shirt etc while their poor kid is held by someone else. WTH? I thought this was a friggin egg hunt for kids? What are hypercompetitive adults doing here? Because of the stampede, the Kid ended up with only 4 eggs. He did better than his cousins who ended up with nothing but some lady felt sorry for them so she shells out 2 eggs for the cousins (gee thanks lady).
Well all that fuss was for nothing because the eggs were empty??? I don’t know what the point of that was. Getting nearly trampled by an adult for a couple of empty eggs? Gee San Mateo, can’t ya get some cheap stickers from Oriental Trading? So not worth it!