Eight thousand eggs. Four minutes.

That’s about how long it takes hundreds of local children — with a little help from parents — to clear the field at Irwin Park in Homewood of treat-filled plastic eggs.

The occasional parental help was useful this year because the temperature was still a few degrees shy of freezing Saturday morning, March 28, and more than one youngster learned that it is difficult to pick up plastic eggs with mittens on.

Following the egg hunt for young humans, the field was turned over to local canines, who got their turn to find and claim treat-filled eggs.

In both egg hunts, a few special eggs were marked with stickers that earned the finder a gift basket prize.