Egg-Stuffing Parties

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I had been talking to Gary every night on the phone about going to Egg Stuffing Parties. After a couple of weeks he finally asked,  "What is an egg-stuffing party?"

My Florida church, (First United Methodist of Port St. Lucie, FL), hosts an Eggstravaganza every spring for the community.   This has been going on more than 10 years.  

Children come for egg hunting and many activities, from face-painting to jump houses to photos with the Easter bunny to crafts and to free food. 
Everyone is given snow-cones, popcorn, hamburgers, hotdogs and drinks.  

OK, back to the Egg-Stuffing Parties. 

Our congregation contributes plastic eggs and candies.  The whole month before the Eggstraganza, volunteers volunteer to "stuff" the eggs with candies.

These egg-stuffing parties take place during the month of April every Wednesday for an hour in the morning and every Wednesday evening for an hour.

We can't use chocolate candies because they melt in the Florida sun.  If people forget and donate chocolate candy, the volunteers help out by eating the chocolates..... it's the least we can do!

 This year, we had a few youngsters to help collect the eggs as they're being filled.  They're home-schooled so it works well.

Young Hudson took filled eggs over to the counting station and brought us empty eggs and candy as needed.  What a trooper he was!

Hudson's older brother, Carter, helped wherever needed, which included counting the eggs.

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  Each bag holds 100 (or was it 200?) eggs. In any event, they fill the church van when we take them over to the park across the street.  
 
With this system, they can keep count.  I thought it was VERY well organized and I thoroughly enjoyed the egg-stuffing days!

Before we knew it, we received this little announcement in our e-blast and on our Facebook page.  We filled over 44,000 eggs!