Families spread love during COVID-19 pandemic with window Easter egg hunts
Despite social distancing practices during the novel coronavirus pandemic, one neighborhood has come up with a creative way to keep its annual Easter egg hunt alive.
Brooke Peck, a mom of one from Atlanta, Georgia, launched a Facebook event for a spring egg hunt -- encouraging other parents and their children to decorate and hang paper eggs in their windows.
The scavenger hunt has now taken off, and 400 families have since taken part.
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"We knew it'd be a loss," Peck told "Good Morning America," of the canceled egg hunts. "So doing the egg hunts on windows and doors helps us stay connected as a community even though we are all not together."
![PHOTO: With social distancing being encouraged during the novel coronavirus pandemic, one neighborhood has come up with a creative way to keep its annual Easter egg hunt alive.](https://s.abcnews.com/images/GMA/pandemic-window-easter-egg-hunts-ht-02-np-200410_hpEmbed_6x7_992.jpg?w=992)
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The idea is to have kids walk around and count how many Easter eggs they're able to spot in town.
Peck said schools have been closed as a result of stay-at-home orders, and the egg hunts have been a fun activity since online learning was dismissed this week for spring recess.
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"[One mom]and her kids did 3 1/2 miles around the neighborhood and they counted 329 eggs," Peck said. "Those were eggs put up in windows and plastic eggs on lawns. It brings them joy."
![PHOTO: Brooke Peck a mom of one from Atlanta, Georgia, launched the Facebook event for the Spring egg hunt, encouraging other parents and their children to decorate and hang paper eggs in their windows.](https://s.abcnews.com/images/GMA/pandemic-window-easter-egg-hunts-ht-MAIN-np-200410_hpMain.jpg?w=992)
"It's nice to have something happy going on right now."