[Sidenote: Check out my latest guest post, Sports for Good: Photography Can Change the Way We Play, at Collective Lens. Collective Lens is an organization dedicated to promoting social change through photography. You can also use photography to affect social change by entering Play City's Brickfish photo competition. Answer the question, "What do you play for?"  and you could win $500 for your sports-for-good photo.]

Tomorrow is the magical day when bunnies lay eggs and salivating kids search frantically for misplaced chocolate and jelly beans. Parents perform some quick calculations to determine how many deviled eggs they must consume in the next seven days or so, before an overwhelming sulfuric stench begins to rise from the depths of the pink and blue dyed eggshells lining the fridge.

Tonight is both my room mate's birthday party and the night before Easter. As the DJs hooked up the sound system and got their vinyl in order for the night, I ran around our apartment candifying. I hid plastic eggs on window sills, chocolates in flower pots, and a grand-prize giant chocolate bunny in a very special top-secret location.  I can't think of many activities more fun than running around finding candy and dancing like a fool.

Then there are projects to transform the Big Candy Hunt into a force for social good. For the past several years in Nova Scotia, Cadbury teamed up with KidSport to offer an annual Easter egg hunt charity event to fund sports programs for low-income children. Though the hunt will not be offered this year (boo!), KidSport will continue to provide sports activities for less-fortunate kids in Nova Scotia.

A London group known as Solidarity Sports offers an Easter Sports Club in April to give at-risk and disadvantaged children athletic training as well as information about healthy eating habits. [Um, chocolate bunnies are healthy, right?]

Watch footage from last year's Easter Sports Club created by Solidarity Sports:



Thanks to those transforming active easter-egg hunts into charity events!