Editing Easter egg (section)

=== Egg hunts ===
An [[egg hunt]] is a game in which [[decorated egg]]s, which may be hard-boiled chicken eggs, [[chocolate]] eggs, or artificial eggs containing [[candy|candies]], are hidden for children to find. The eggs often vary in size, and may be hidden both indoors and outdoors.<ref name="puritan">{{cite book| author= A. Munsey Pu Frank a. Munsey Publishers| title= The Puritan April to September 1900| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yWRr8MnGI7EC&pg=PA119| date= March 2005| publisher= Kessinger Publishing| isbn= 978-1-4191-7421-6| page= 119}}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> When the hunt is over, prizes may be given for the largest number of eggs collected, or for the largest or the smallest egg.<ref name=puritan/>

Some Central European nations ([[Czechs]], [[Slovaks]], etc.) have a tradition of men gathering eggs from women in return for whipping them with an [[easter whip]] and [[Śmigus-dyngus|splashing them with water]]. The ritual is traditionally believed to preserve the women's health and beauty.

[[Cascarón|Cascarones]], a Latin American tradition now shared by many US States with high Hispanic demographics, are emptied and dried chicken eggs stuffed with confetti and sealed with a piece of tissue paper. The eggs are hidden in a similar tradition to the American Easter egg hunt and when found the children (and adults) break them over each other's heads.

In order to enable children to take part in egg hunts despite visual impairment, eggs have been created that emit various clicks, beeps, noises, or music so that visually impaired children can easily hunt for Easter eggs.<ref>{{cite news |last= Tillery |first= Carolyn |title= Annual Dallas Easter egg hunt for blind children scheduled for Thursday |work= [[The Dallas Morning News]] |date= 2008-03-15 |url= http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/DN-elfocus_15met.ART.North.Edition1.462ecab.html |access-date= 2008-03-27 |archive-date= 2008-03-19 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080319015005/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/DN-elfocus_15met.ART.North.Edition1.462ecab.html |url-status= dead }}</ref>