OMC is EGGcellent!

One of our camp friends, Jared, shared recently that his church is taking OMC on an Egg Hunt!  That's right... they are kicking of the Easter Season with an Egg Hunt version of the camp favorite, Organized Mass Chaos.  Jared Norris, Minister to Children at Simpsonville Baptist Church says,

  "We are going to use the game as part of our Easter Egg Hunt. We place [the tasks] inside eggs and have teams work together to complete as many tasks as possible just like the game. When they complete the task they take their egg to their station. Everything is basically the same [as the real OMC] except the tasks are placed within the easter eggs. We are going to do the clean version inside our gym because of the weather and the community not realizing it would be messy. I'd hate to disappoint parents because we got nice clothes dirty. For us this serves 2 purposes: 1) attract more older elementary kids to the egg hunt 2) promote for camp by using the game.

By the way, because you have to READ tasks in the game, we are doing it for 2nd-5th grade and the birth-1st graders are doing a traditional egg hunt. Anyway, its just an idea. I hope it helps other churches."

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Comments

[Henry]

What a great idea!!!!

[C smith]

We are doing this! thanks!!!

[Josh H]

I know this post is older so this has probably been said already and I just missed it, but I think it would be cool for families to do Easter OMC together! The benefit of involving parents is that kids who are too young to read (but old enough to participate) can still play. Plus if parents play and see how much fun it is, then it might encourage them or help them feel comfortable sending their kids to OMC. Not to mention that it is always a good idea to get families doing fun stuff TOGETHER as much as possible. Great idea Jared! Love it and we're going to try it this year.

[Meredith @ CentriKid]

Josh, what a great idea! Thanks for jumping in on the conversation. It's always good for parents, or even older kids, to help the younger kids both with reading and with completing their tasks. Hope you guys are able to use and enjoy OMC Easter Edition.