To get into the Easter and Spring Break frame of mind, Michelle Baggett put together an Easter egg hunt for the Engineering Library patrons.
The event took place the Wednesday before Spring Break. It went well and wasn’t hard to plan. Michelle found pre-packaged plastic Easter eggs with candy inside and hid 55 eggs. She hid half of the eggs in the book stacks and half on the journal/circulation side of the library. Michelle put up signs letting the students know that there were eggs hidden in the library and if they found one, they would get a “sweet” surprise.
Quite a few of the students were nice enough to bring the empty eggs back and said they really enjoyed the treat. One student commented that it was the highlight of his day.
If we were to do something like this again, we would probably save half of the eggs and put those out towards the end of the day so that the evening students would have a chance to find an egg and also have the eggs brought back to us, because several students were upset when they found empty eggs.
All in all, the event went very well, and the students seemed to appreciate the little distraction from their class work.
What a cool idea!!
Michelle, this was such a nice thing to do…very thoughtful and fun!