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The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt

Trish Burgess Posted on22/03/201228/12/2016 London, UK 17 Comments

The weather looks as if it’s going to stay warm this weekend in the South East so if you’re near the capital and looking for inspiration for something to do with the kids, then joining in with the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt is well worth considering.

I had heard a little bit about it before we went to London last week. In a nutshell (or should that be eggshell?) there are 200 beautiful, individually-designed egg sculptures hidden across London in 12 special egg zones. You can hunt for the eggs by downloading the zone maps, then just text the keyword on each plinth and you could win The Diamond Jubilee Egg worth £100,000. The more eggs you see, the better your chances of winning. The Egg hunt will raise money for Elephant Family and Action for Children. It continues until Easter weekend and there is also an online auction where you can bid for the eggs.

If we hadn’t already planned our days’ activities, this would have been a fantastic way to see the city. I know Rory would have loved this when he was younger: treasure hunts and ticking things off lists were always a great way to add excitement to an attraction.

I only thought to take two photos of the eggs, even though I saw plenty on our walks. Did I think to text the keywords for a chance of winning?….No. Might have to bid for one instead: would look good at the bottom of the garden.

The two large photos were eggs I spotted myself. The other little images are from the Big Egg Hunt’s website. 

 

 

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17 Comments

  1. Steve Reply
    22/03/2012 at 7:24 pm

    Find the egg?

    There's something very fundamental about that in a weird biological way.

    • Trish @ Mums Gone To... Reply
      22/03/2012 at 8:18 pm

      Hmmm…. that didn't even occur to me. I was thinking about searching for Easter eggs in a wood full of bluebells, carrying a little basket…

  2. Curry Queen Reply
    23/03/2012 at 4:38 am

    Although I live so close to the capital, I hardly ever get a chance to visit, but I will be up there a couple of times over the Easter hols, so will look out for these – they're quite beautiful!

    • Trish @ Mums Gone To... Reply
      23/03/2012 at 8:57 am

      It's quite egg-citing (!) when you spot one: they are over 2 ft high on top of the plinths and really make bold statements. I thought it was such a clever idea and a great way to showcase new artists/jewellers/designers.

  3. Sarah Reply
    23/03/2012 at 9:06 am

    Great idea. They did a similar thing in Bath when I was there a couple of years ago, with decorated lion statues and there were some amazingly original designs.

    • Trish @ Mums Gone To... Reply
      23/03/2012 at 9:10 am

      I wish I could go back and do the hunt properly now.

      I hadn't heard about the lion statues in Bath but again it's a novel way to bring people into the city.

  4. mumsdotravel Reply
    23/03/2012 at 9:25 am

    I saw one of these in Covent Garden last week, but hadn't realised what it was for. I'll be in London with the kids at some point in the Easter holidays so we'll look out for the eggs and get texting.

    • Trish @ Mums Gone To... Reply
      23/03/2012 at 1:08 pm

      Egg-cellent idea!

      sorry, can't stop myself 😉

  5. wellfedfred Reply
    23/03/2012 at 4:28 pm

    hi, Trish, I was in London a day or so ago, and stopped in to Liberty's where they had a giant fabric-covered egg on a plinth in the Liberty Art Fabric department. The egg-draper did not use a Liberty fabric.

    hm, we may have overlapped!

    • Trish @ Mums Gone To... Reply
      23/03/2012 at 5:03 pm

      Didn't use Liberty Fabric? I do hope it didn't have another supplier's tag hanging off it.

      I was there Thursday and Friday last week so maybe not but wouldn't that have been lovely to meet.

  6. BavarianSojourn Reply
    24/03/2012 at 9:34 am

    Great idea, they look brilliant! I think I would be slightly sad about searching for non-chocolate eggs though! (:

    • Trish @ Mums Gone To... Reply
      24/03/2012 at 11:10 am

      How about searching for them but munching on chocolate ones at the same time?

  7. Funky Wellies Reply
    24/03/2012 at 2:41 pm

    What a fab(ergé, ha, ha, ha) idea! I have a trip to London more or less planned, but later on in the year, so will miss this, a shame!
    PS: hope you did not get sick after all?

    • Trish @ Mums Gone To... Reply
      26/03/2012 at 10:16 am

      Love that you're joining in with the puns.

      No, not sick, i just looked at them instead if gobbling them up.

  8. MadameSmokinGun Reply
    29/03/2012 at 10:11 am

    Ooh I like this idea – we're just plotting an egg hunt of our own – boringly hiding real ones (blown and painted) – I now want to make lots of giant ones… Maybe next year eh? I might post this activity up on our list tho' – I'd not heard about it before – except I'm slightly worried that our lot WOULD try and eat them….

    • Trish @ Mums Gone To... Reply
      29/03/2012 at 2:03 pm

      I can see you making giant ones – mind you, they'd be hard to hide in the back garden.

    • MadameSmokinGun Reply
      01/04/2012 at 9:50 am

      You haven't seem my back garden!! We could hide another house in our grass!!!

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