STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK

It’s safe to assume the Easter Bunny spent all night lovingly placing more than 8,000 Easter eggs filled with various candies around the Duck Pond in front of Sun Valley Resort’s Challenger Inn.

It took less than five minutes for a few hundred kids scrambling across the lawn to pocket them all.

Tiny tots wearing bunny ears and carrying all sizes and shapes of Easter baskets took part in Sun Valley’s annual Easter Egg Hunt.

Tim and Natalia Burke cut their 18-month-old daughter Isia Burke loose on her first Easter Egg Hunt.

This year’s hunt took place on grass, rather than snow as has happened some years. Sections were staked out so that children vied for eggs with children their own ages.

It was 18-month-old Isia Burke’s first Easter Egg Hunt, and she took part in it with her best friend.

“She filled up a basket all by herself,” said her proud father Tim Burke, the Friedman Memorial Airport director. “So exciting. As a new parent, this is a whole new world for me.”

Victoria Castro is a veteran egg hunter, having taken part in five Easter Egg hunts.

This little girl was careful that she didn’t drop her egg on others in her sack.

“It’s such a fun thing to do,” she said. “All you have to do is just run fast.”

Some children weren’t quite sure what they were supposed to do, some spent the hunt showing off a single egg to their parents and others seemed to embrace the capitalism of the hunt, gathering as many eggs as they could.

This little girl not only dressed up like a bunny but brought her stuffed bunny along for the occasion, as well.