Easter Monday, the extra day off at Easter. Also a day for which you sometimes have to figure out how to fill it.
In Grolloo they spend Easter Monday with an egg hunt. Well, that happens more often this weekend, but here they do it a little differently. “This time we went egg hunting in the dark for the first time,” says Inge Matthezing. “That’s because yesterday we had laser tag as an Easter activity. So we already had the arena ready and thought ‘how fun would it be to also look for the eggs in the dark?’.”
The younger children get a little more light to search, the children from group 3 worked in pitch darkness. Rosalie thought that was quite exciting. “I also found it difficult to look for eggs in the dark.”
Rosalie comes out of the darkened gymnasium with two eggs. Friend Jasmijn had the basket almost full. “It’s just an Easter egg hunt, so there’s nothing scary about that. But I did find it exciting.”
Anyone who doesn’t care for eggs can also join the Holtingerveld sheep herd. It was already busy there with 336 lambs born this year, but according to the shepherd there will be between 3,000 and 5,000 visitors. “You see a lot of parents or grandparents who come with the children on such a day. And that makes it fun, because normally they can’t feed them and today that is allowed.”
Admission is free at the sheepfold just outside Havelte. Still, the voluntary contributions help with the budget. “Every little bit helps here. We do receive subsidies from the province, municipality and all land owners, but that is not enough. We receive a small contribution from the people and we are very happy with that.”
