Now that pancake day is behind us, the next celebration that involves sweet treats is, of course, Easter. This month, the Big Egg Hunt is coming to London, bringing more than 100 beautifully decorated eggs to the city to bask in the spring colour.
If you cast your minds back to last year, you may remember the Little Egg Hunt taking place, and that was essentially a smaller event to get us ready for the larger-scaled version to come in 2025! Now, the time is here for Londoners to look out for the trail of giant, colourful eggs around the city’s landmarks, as they pop up around the capital between March 24 – April 27.
The Big Egg Hunt
Brought to us again by the Royal Charity Elephant Family, which works towards protecting Asian Wildlife, the eggs will be scattered around for more than a month between in March and April. You’ll be able to catch designs from the likes of Anya Hindmarch, Fortnum & Mason, Jimmy Choo, and Mr Doodle scattered around the whole city as it turns the capital into a six-week hunting ground for the expertly crafted eggs.
The Big Egg Hunt started life in 2012 when more than 200 eggs were scattered around the city, but the fundraiser took a long hiatus before the Little Egg Hunt reignited the event last year around the streets of Chelsea. Come the end of this month, it’ll be a more wide-reaching affair and a brilliant way to spend a day out in the city hunting for over 100 different eggs, and you can look out for designs at the Barbican, Battersea Power Station, the Saatchi Gallery, Buckingham Palace and many more spots in the capital.
Each egg will be six feet tall, and anyone hunting them will be able to tick off each find on a free app once they’ve tracked it down. Once the trail comes to a close on April 27, the designs will be auctioned to raise money for the charity Elephant Family.
The Big Egg Hunt will be decorating the streets of London from March 24 – April 27 and it’s all completely free to view. It’s brought to us by Elephant Family, alongside Clarence Court eggs, which you can read more about here.