By Chad Koenen

Publisher

Everyone knows the Easter Bunny is nothing more than a ham. Always looking for another great photo opportunity to steal the show and shake its little fluffy tail.

On Saturday, the Easter Bunny will get its chance to strike a pose with a wide smile and big eyes at the annual Ottertail Easter Egg Hunt. The egg hunt will get underway at 12 p.m. as hundreds of children from across the region will converge on the Ottertail Community Center for one of the largest egg hunts in the area. 

Ottertail Chamber of Commerce President Ron Grobeck said this year’s egg hunt will feature over 6,000 plastic Easter eggs, which will be filled with everything from candy to a special basket/prize. 

“We are going to do over 6,000 eggs again this year,” he said. “It should be a lot of fun.”

Typically the Ottertail Easter Egg hunt is over in a matter of minutes as children race through the community park for creatively hidden eggs, but Grobeck said the large amount of snow that still fills the park will result in a slight change to the egg hunt this year. The egg hunt will take place on the street near the community center this year to avoid the large snow drifts in the park.

Grobeck said volunteers will dump eggs on the road for each age group individually and when all of the eggs are found the next group will step up to the line. 

“It will be a condensed area so everybody should get a lot of eggs,” he said.

There will be four age groups, including 0-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12. Each age group will also have several specially marked eggs that can be turned in for one of 150 age appropriate prize baskets. 

In addition to the egg hunt, the Easter Bunny will be inside the community center and will take pictures with all of the children and families that would like to strike up a pose before and after the egg hunt.

“We are looking forward to it. We always seem to expand it every year. It should be a lot of fun,” said Grobeck.