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The five face-off circles on Litchfield Civic Arena’s hockey floor provided the perfect zones for five age groups of the Easter egg hunt Saturday morning.
Kaitlyn Strom of Litchfield points out eggs to her son, Zaphrey Jackson, 4, before the start of the Easter egg hunt Saturday at Litchfield Civic Arena.
Parker Piepenburg, 7, smiles after completing the decorating of an Easter-themed sugar cookie.
Families had the opportunity to pose for photos with the Easter Bunny during Saturday’s festivities at Litchfield Civic Arena.
Lauren Seiffert, 1 1/2, doesn't seem bothered that the multi-colored plastic eggs she found after the Easter egg hunt contained no prizes. She enjoyed playing with them anyway. Her brother, Matthew, 4, was less impressed.
Children and parents wait patiently around the outside of one of the face-off circles at Litchfield Civic Arena for the Easter egg hunt to begin.
Harley Street, 18 months, shows the candy treat she found inside an egg while her mother Alicia and brother Bradyn inspect other eggs.
Children swarm the hunt area to gather eggs.
Litchfield's Watercade royalty were among the volunteers who helped during Saturday's Easter egg hunt. The group includes princesses Britney Prahl and Kaylee Sundve, Miss Litchfield Raina Kaping, and princess Claire Loch.
Kids enjoyed having their picture taken with the Easter Bunny.
Children enthusiastically rush into the hockey face-off circle to gather eggs.
Winter’s remnants forced a change in location for Litchfield’s annual Easter egg hunt. But it did little to dampen anyone’s enthusiasm for the event.
Hundreds of children and their parents gathered Saturday morning at Litchfield Civic Arena for the hunt, which saw the youngsters scramble around the arena’s hockey surface to gather plastic, candy-filled eggs of multiple colors.
Some of the eggs also held prizes — 10 coupons for bicycles, in addition to other smaller prizes.
Litchfield Downtown Council organized the Easter egg hunt, as it has for the past few years. Usually the eggs are spread throughout Central Park, but winter’s refusal to let go of its snowy grip on the park prompted organizers to decide early in the week to move the hunt indoors to the Civic Arena.
Downtown Council member Darlene Kotelnicki admitted there was some initial uncertainty about the move as she and others wondered how they might pull off the event indoors. But a visit to the facility and a look at the hockey floor gave them a plan: the five face-off circles would serve as separate “hunt areas” for the five age groups to whom the hunt was open.
In addition to the Easter egg hunt, which was sponsored by the Litchfield Downtown Council, Litchfield Baseball Association and Songs of Summer Festival, the Greater Litchfield Opera House Association set up activity stations around the edges of the rink and in the Civic Arena dining area where kids could color, do crafts and even decorate their own Easter-themed sugar cookies.
