DAPHNE, Ala. — Fun-lovers and entertainers filled W.O. Lott Park for Saturday’s Easter egg hunt. Even four-legged and two-legged Easter bunnies joined in the fun.

A petting zoo held rabbits, ponies, goats and ducks for children to feed and caress, and white, pink, yellow and green Easter bunnies posed for pictures.

Beth and Joseph Nadar have come to the hunt for the past six years. They watched as their daughter Zoey, 1, hugged the Easter Bunny.

“The bunny is her favorite,” Beth Nadar said.

Another little one couldn’t decide about the large mammals.

Lauren Edgar, 2, would get close to the costume-clad characters, then run away.

“She’s scared of the yellow, green and white bunnies, but the pink one is OK,” Lauren’s mother, Stacy, said.

The family, formerly of Pensacola, Fla., moved to Daphne three years ago and have come to hunt Easter eggs for the past two years.

“We’re from Pensacola and they don’t do this stuff there,” she said.

Nearly 1,000 people enjoyed live music by Roman Street and the Eastern Shore Christian Center worship band, face painting and balloon animals from Weavo the Clown.

Stacy’s son Justin, 4, swash-buckled with a blue-balloon sword as Zoey avoided the rabbits.

“He likes the egg hunt and the balloons,” she said.

Justin liked the concessions too; he held a blue Sno Cone in his unarmed hand and sported blue juice on his lips.

Blow-up toys also entertained children. Some jumped in the space-walk and others barreled down the slide.

“Lauren was too little to slide last year so she loved it this year,” Stacy Edgar said.

Size didn’t stop Molly Frances Stevens, 1, from enjoying the beautiful day.

She held tightly to her mother’s fingers and sauntered through the grass.

“This is Molly’s second year (at the festival). She came last year as a little baby,” Aleisha, her mother, said.

Other children embellished their imaginations at the arts and crafts area. Ingredients for clothes-pin bunnies and woven Easter eggs lined the tables, waiting for that special child’s artistic flair.

Jaylon Manuel, 11, and his sister Madison, 4, adorned their clothes pins with pom-poms.

Egg hunters were divided into age groups to keep activities fair. Dozens of volunteers hid nearly 10,000 eggs on the baseball diamond’s red dirt and grass during the multiple egg hunts.

Katrina Benning brought her 9-month-old niece, Chloe, to join the fun.

“It was her first Easter egg hunt … she got three eggs,” Benning said. “The strollers were out; it was stroller time,” she said of the Easter-fun frenzy for the youngest group.

Virginia Lutz has come every year since she moved from New Orleans seven years ago and had nothing but compliments for the event. She smiled as her daughter Isabella, 6, had a pink butterfly mask painted on her face.

“It’s a really great thing they do for the community. The Eastern Shore is a special place,” she said.