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Here are 8 Connecticut Easter egg hunts to bring the kids to this year
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The arrival of spring means Easter is almost here – it falls on Sunday, April 5, this year.
With the holiday only two weeks away, Christians all over New England are preparing to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus. However, for children, the holiday is significant for another reason: candy.
All across the country on Easter Sunday, children will hunt for hidden Easter eggs in hopes of finding a sweet treasure inside. Wondering where they can do so in Connecticut?
Here are eight Easter celebrations and egg hunts in Connecticut to bring the kids to this year.
Easter Egg Hunt at Olde Mistick Village
Head to Olde Mistick Village for its annual Easter egg hunt full of springtime fun. After hunting for eggs in the orchard, children can enjoy face painting at the duck pond, a petting zoo at Center Island and a meet-and-greet with the Easter Bunny in the Gazebo. Olde Mistick Village will also host a sensory easter egg handout in the Meeting House.
The entire free event will last from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 4, with designated egg hunt time slots for each age group. Be sure to check the times on Olde Mistick Village’s website. The outdoor shopping mall is located at 27 Coogan Blvd. in Mystic.
Easter Bunny Express
Looking for a unique way to celebrate Easter? Hop on the Railroad Museum of New England’s Easter Bunny Express for a fun celebration on wheels. Passengers will take a scenic train ride through the Litchfield Hills, stopping at the Bunny Patch for children to meet the Easter Bunny, hunt for rubber ducks and receive a chocolate-filled egg.
The 80-minute excursion aboard the Easter Bunny Express costs $25 for coach seats, $30 for premium coach seats or $39 for Governor’s Lounge seats, which include complementary snacks. Be sure to make reservations online in advance, as tickets usually sell out.
Trains will depart from 242 E Main St. in Thomaston at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on March 28-29 and April 3-4.
Dino Easter Egg Hunt
Nature’s Art Village is back with its 15th annual Dino Easter Egg Hunt at The Dinosaur Place. Children can explore the dinosaur trails as they hunt for colorful dinosaur eggs, which can be exchanged for a special goodie bag. Food trucks and the Easter Bunny will also be onsite.
Tickets, which include all-day access to the Dinosaur Park after the hunt, cost $28 for adults, $36 for children ages 2-12 or $20 for children under 2. The event will start at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 4, but be sure to check the website for the time slot for your child’s hunt.
Nature’s Art Village is located at 1650 Hartford-New London Tpke. in Montville.
Forest Egg Hunt Adventure
Adventurous children can gather eggs in the woods at Stamford Museum & Nature Center’s Forest Egg Hunt Adventure. Afterwards, kids can exchange their eggs for prizes, meet live animals and make crafts.
Member-only admission costs $22 per child, with free admission for two non-member adults included with the purchase of each ticket. The Forest Egg Hunt Adventure has 19 different sessions across March 27-29 and April 3-4, with a special glow in the dark egg hunt at night on Friday, April 3.
Stamford Museum & Nature Center is located at 39 Scofieldtown Road in Stamford.
Easter Egg-Roll at Roller Magic
Need to get the kids’ energy out? Take them to Roller Magic in Waterbury for a special Easter skate, complete with an Easter egg-roll and pictures with the Easter Bunny. Admission costs $13 per person, with skate rentals available for an additional $5.50.
Roller Magic’s Easter Egg-Roll Skate will take place from 12:30-6 p.m. on Sunday, March 29, and the skating rink will also host a Good Friday skate from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 3. Roller Magic is located at 60 Harvester Road in Waterbury.
Easter Egg Festival at Westbrook Outlets
Westbrook Outlets’ 28th annual Easter Egg Festival will not only include an egg hunt, but also a scavenger hunt, a bounce house, face painting, cake decorating and a wide selection of food and craft vendors. The free event will last from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, with egg hunts at noon for ages 1-3, 1 p.m. for ages 4-6 and 2 p.m. for ages 7-10.
The Easter Egg Festival will happen inside Suite D130 at Westbrook Outlets, located at 314 Flat Rock Place in Westbrook.
Goat Egg Hunt at March Farm
You’ve heard of goat yoga, but what about goat egg hunts? Got Your Goat is hosting its fourth annual “Got Your Goat?” Egg Hunt, this year at Bethlehem’s March Farm. Guests can arrive at any time during the egg hunt window to hunt for eggs alongside goats frolicking through the field. Once the children have collected up to 12 eggs, they can exchange them for prizes and spend quality time with baby goats.
Got Your Goat will host three specialty egg hunts this year: Saturday, March 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Sunday, March 29 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; and Friday, April 3 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The goat egg hunt costs $42 per person, though adults and non-hunting babies enter for free.
March Farm can be found at 160 Munger Lane in Bethlehem.
EverWonder Egg Scramble
Join EverWonder Children’s Museum for a re-imagined egg hunt full of golden eggs, an optional live animal experience, museum play and sensory-friendly options. EverWonder will host three different egg hunts: an Easter Egg Hunt for $10-20 at 9 a.m, 10:30 a.m. and noon on April 4; a flashlight egg hunt for $30 at 6:30 p.m. on March 27; and a sensory egg hunt for $13-15 at 9 a.m. on March 28.
All tickets for the 2026 Egg Scramble can be purchased online. EverWonder Children’s Museum is located at 11 Mile Hill Road Suite 1 in Newtown.
LYME — A body was recovered from the Connecticut River on Saturday, according to officials from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
At about 1 p.m., a vessel on the river reported seeing a body in the area of the Chester-Lyme Ferry, DEEP said.
The Environmental Conservation Police, along with the Connecticut State Police Major Crimes Unit and Lyme and Cheshire fire departments, responded to the area and recovered the body, DEEP said. The body has been sent to the state chief medical examiner, DEEP said.
Bill Flood, a media relations manager for DEEP, said the body was identified as a male and appeared to have been in the water for an extended period of time.
The medical examiner will determine the manner of death and EnCon is investigating, Flood said, noting there is no believed threat to the public.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Even as a born-and-raised New Yorker, I have a relatively open mind when it comes to pizza. When I’m out on the road, I’ll eat at any pizzeria as long as I can see the oven from the counter and buy pizza by the slice. However, the idea of any place outside the Big Apple proclaiming itself “the Pizza Capital of the United States” is just sacrilege. Connecticut doubled down on its ludicrous claim last weekend by approving the rollout of a special “Pizza State” license plate. This is the worst affront to the craft since Chicagoans started shilling their crust-bowl casserole as pizza.
Connecticut Foodshare
Let’s actually take a look at this license plate. One peek, we all know the rules. “The Pizza State” plate features a similar blue-to-white gradient as on the standard Connecticut license plate. The aforementioned self-proclaimed moniker replaces the state’s official nickname, “The Constitution State,” beneath the plate number. To the right of the number is an image of a pizza slice ripped straight from Microsoft’s ClipArt library. It’s a flat image that looks nothing like what’s served in New Haven. Connecticut drivers will be able to pick up a “Pizza State” plate for $65.
This is a pizza war for good
The only undisputedly good aspect of the “Pizza State” license plate is that its introduction will help feed Connecticut’s hungry. According to CT Insider, the $28.6 billion budget bill approved by the Connecticut General Assembly last weekend, which authorized the plate, also directly appropriated funding to Connecticut Foodshare. The sitewide food bank will also receive $50 from each $65 license plate fee, as it continues to provide millions of free meals to food-insecure people.
Back to the pizza debate at the heart of the matter. Governor Ned Lamont declared Connecticut the country’s pizza capital back in 2024 as part of a marketing campaign to promote the state. That declaration could have grounds for war in a different century, but individual states apparently don’t fight wars against each other anymore. Connecticut had better go back to being a UConn Husky-obsessed suburb before New York makes Greenwich the next Toledo.
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