This year, over 100 specially created eggs will be hidden across the UK between Monday 11th February 2013 and Monday 1st April 2013 and YOU can join the hunt. Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Dora The Explorer" Easter eggs are interactive! When you spot Nickelodeon's specially designed and decorated SpongeBob & Dora eggs at a town near you, simply press their buttons and hear them say catchphrases from their shows! When you press the button Dora's egg, you'll get to hear her say "Excellente! We did it!"! and when you press SpongeBob's button, you'll be able to hear his trademark laugh!
Plus, after The Big Egg Hunt is finished, all the egg-cellent creations will be sold at auction to raise vital funds for Action For Children. www.thebigegghunt.co.uk/auction!
As part of the tour, the Nick's The Big Egg Hunt 2013 SpongeBob and Dora eggs will be visiting:
12/02/13 – 17/02/13 London, Covent Garden
19/02/13 – 25/02/13 Birmingham, Victoria Square
27/02/13 - 05/03/13 Liverpool, Paradise Street
07/03/13 – 13/03/13 Manchester, Exchange Square
15/03/13 – 20/03/13 Glasgow, St Enoch Square
22/03/13 – 01/04/13 London, Covent Garden
Action for Children is a charity that supports and speaks out for the UK's most vulnerable and neglected children and young people for as long as it takes to transform their lives. With more than 600 services they are at the heart of communities. You can find out more information about this great cause here on the official Action for Children website, actionforchildren.org.uk.
You can find out more information about the 2013 The Lindt Big Egg Hunt 2013, including an interactive tour map, here on the official Nick Jr. UK website at nickjr.co.uk and here on the Nicktoons UK's official Ultimate SpongeBob Egg Head / The Big SpongeBob Egg Hunt webpage on nicktoons.co.uk.
If you spot and take any photographs of Nick UK's giant eggs, NickALive! would like to see them! You can send NickALive! any pictures you've took of Nick's special SpongeBob SquarePants & Dora The Explorer eggs on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, and/or Facebook! The best photos will get a ReTweet/Reblog/Repost! Don't forget to tag your posts with the hashtag #LindtBigEggHunt ! Get eggsploring! And watch Nick Jr. everyday for more easter fun!
Also, Tweeted (posted) by Nick Jr. UK and Ireland on their official Twitter profile page (@NickJrUK):
Check out our specially created Dora Easter Egg, which is part of @BigEggHuntUK to raise money for @aslongasittakes pic.twitter.com/vXLmeVau.And:
@BigEggHuntUK @nickjruk we can't wait to unveil our Dora egg tomorrow! It's going to be egg-cellente! #doraegg #BigEggHunt.Also, from Manchester Confidential:
What Are Those Giant Eggs In The City Centre?
Alex Pike has been on the hunt...
CHRISTMAS crackers may have been relegated to the reduced aisle, but with chocolate eggs lining the walls of every shop in sight, sickly sweet over indulgence is just around the corner once again.There are 101 eggs in total, with 100 years of chocolate to be won each day by finding the elusive ‘Humpty Dumpty’ egg, with free Lindt goodies for unsuccessful egg hunters at Exchange Square.From Selfridges to Spinningfields, Manchester’s Easter celebrations have come early with an invasion of brightly coloured eggs scattered throughout the city centre and beyond, emblazoned with designs from Spongebob Squarepants to Skeletons.
The eggs are part of Lindt and Action for Children’s Big Egg Hunt - seeking to raise money to support the charity’s 600 services across the UK, helping more than 250,000 children, young people, parents and carers each year. After a six week run in London last year, the egg hunt has made its way up north, calling at Manchester and Glasgow before returning to London.
Each of the eggs features a one-off design; having been sculpted, drawn and modified by a number of contemporary artists, as well as more familiar faces. The ‘eggsibition’ features a number of designs to suit all ages from The Gruffallo creators Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffer and Penguin’s Peter Rabbit to The Beatles.
The trail also features a number of designs for those perhaps not quite as taken with Nickelodeon’s stars. There are designs from a number of current artists including; director Sam Taylor Johnson’s ‘Grimaldi’. As well as the illustrated eggs there are a number of modified eggs including Mark Hayward’s aptly named ‘Egg Tank’ plus Oliver Clegg and Natasha Chamber’s interactive, three dimensional design ‘Yoke 3D’. Each egg features a QR code enabling you to own an egg, with all of the designs currently up for auction at www.thebigegghunt.co.uk.
Last year the big egg hunt set a record, raising over £1m thanks to over a million people participating. There are 101 eggs in total, with 100 years of chocolate to be won each day by finding the elusive ‘Humpty Dumpty’ egg, with free Lindt goodies for unsuccessful egg hunters at Exchange Square.
The hunt features a number of landmarks on the way, starting at Exchange Square and leading down to Cathedral Street, before making its way down to Spinningfields, with eggs hidden along the way. Maps are available from only a £3 donation to Action for Children at the start point. The egg hunt will be in Manchester until 13 March, after which it will then move onto Glasgow.
To donate £3 to Action for Children’s Big Egg Hunt text EGG to 70123 or you can follow the hunt on Twitter at @BigEggHuntUK
[Click here to view Manchester Confidential's The Big Egg Hunt photo gallery, which also features a photograph of the charities giant Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends Easter egg]
