Everyday is Easter

I'm not sure what's gotten in to the girls these days.  Maybe they are rebelling, but they are NOT laying their eggs in their nesting box.  They will lay an egg next to it, but not IN the box.  This makes it very difficult to gather eggs.  Production has already gone down due to the shorter days and now we have to hunt all over their yard to find the few eggs we do get.  How do you turn this into a positive??  Mom has decided it's like an Easter Egg hunt everyday...without the giant rabbits and Peeps.