We love a free public sculpture trail and there seem to be more each year. Have you heard of The Big Egg Hunt sculpture trail? Building on the success of The Little Egg Hunt which took place last year (and which we wrote about here). this year is bigger and better with over 100 eggs beautifully designed by high-profile artists to raise awareness for wildlife conservation charity, The Elephant Family.

The Big Egg Hunt London sculpture trail

This year is bigger and better because, not even are there more 2ft eggs to discover, there is also an easy to use free app! The Big Egg Hunt app lets you collect the unique codes on each egg, shows you a map of where to find each egg, lets you discover more about each egg, and stores yours stats. We used a special app when discovering the Stampede by the Sea trail which was easy to use and fun for the teen to add the codes.

The eggs can be found all over London which is handy if you are visiting a specific area from historic neighbourhoods like Chelsea, Canary Wharf, Covent Garden and Marble Arch, to famous cornerstones in London’s rich tapestry, such as Battersea Power Station, The Barbican, The British Museum and The Royal Albert Hall. We found all the eggs around Fleet Street on our trip to The Globe last weekend.

Over the weekend we were around Battersea Power Station so tried to find all 21 eggs around there. Each egg is 2ft and sitting on a pedestal so they are not difficult to spot. Some eggs seemed eggstra-special and had huge boards next to them – not really sure what was different about these though.

We enjoyed looking out for them and our favourites were all outside Battersea Power Station by the Thames. As you can see, the weather was amazing, and it was lovely to be outside. My favourite egg was definitely Cat Among the Pigeons – can you see why it is called that?

Unfortunately this sculpture trail is ending soon with all the eggs being auctioned off for charity. I wish it had been around longer as we’ve been too busy to hop into London to do more of them. However we’re looking forward to the next sculpture trail already!