{"id":10230,"date":"2015-04-01T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=10230"},"modified":"2015-04-09T00:09:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T04:09:17","slug":"fluffy-fun-ready-to-hatch-for-saturdays-easter-egg-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/fluffy-fun-ready-to-hatch-for-saturdays-easter-egg-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluffy fun ready to hatch for Saturday’s Easter Egg Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kids across Aurora are counting down the last few days before they can test out their sleuthing skills for chocolatey treats left for them by the Easter Bunny \u2013 but local youngsters can get a head start on Saturday as the friendly rabbit joins forces with the Town of Aurora for the annual Easter Egg Hunt.<\/p>\n

Starting Saturday at 9.30 a.m., young ticket-holders, accompanied by their parents, will be able to fan out behind the Aurora Seniors\u2019 Centre not only to meet the Easter Bunny \u2013 and the eggs he\u2019s cunningly hidden around the area \u2013 but also meet the MINIONS, a crew of baby chicks that just hatched this week, make cool crafts, and enjoy a pancake breakfast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are too many things I am looking forward to,\u201d says Shelley Ware, Special Events Coordinator for the Town of Aurora, who has been working closely with the Bunny to get everything ready for the big day. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have the baby chicks and a velveteen bunny, but I also love seeing the look in the kids\u2019 eyes when they finally figure out what an egg hunt is. For a lot of them, it is their first time. There is so much innocence in the event attendees and those moments are incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Ware is also looking forward to a number of firsts that will highlight this year\u2019s Egg Hunt, not only will the MINONS be on hand fresh from the film Despicable Me 2, along with hopping bunnies and newborn chicks, but this year Petch House will host a series of arts and crafts opportunities.
\nRestored by Council and reconstructed behind the Aurora Seniors\u2019 Centre, the historic log cabin will throw open its doors to crafts ranging from bunny ears to baskets.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Petch House being here, out of all our events, I think the Easter Egg Hunt has had the most changes and evolved the most from its original days being out by the Aurora Family Leisure Complex, Sheppard\u2019s Bush for one year, and then over at the Seniors\u2019 Centre,\u201d says Ms. Ware. \u201cBeing able to move the crafts out to Petch House, the entire event is going to be stretched out much further. It is always a very packed event because one Easter Egger always comes with two parents and four grandparents \u2013 or, as I like to call them, the paparazzi with the kids. I think the flow is going to be so much nicer.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Petch House hosting the crafts, the craft area inside the Seniors\u2019 Centre will be turned over to face painting, bunnies and the chicks. In the main hall, the Optimist Club of Aurora will be whipping up a pancake breakfast \u2013 an Easter tradition that remains open to the entire community \u2013 and outside there will be at least 11 Easter-themed activities for the whole family to enjoy, including A Minute to Win It, Bunny Bowling and a \u201cHopstacle\u201d course.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis really is a wide, broad community event,\u201d says Ms. Ware. \u201cIt is a pretty special event for families not to miss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for this year\u2019s Easter Egg Hunt are still available and are on sale for $5 per child at the Aurora Family Leisure Complex and the Stronach Aurora Recreation Complex. The \u201cpaparazzi\u201d are free. <\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir Kids across Aurora are counting down the last few days before they can test out their sleuthing skills for chocolatey treats left for them by the Easter Bunny \u2013 but local youngsters can get a head start on Saturday as the friendly rabbit joins forces with the Town of Aurora for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-2F0","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-14 20:53:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-02-04.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}