I need to know stats on how many people tell their kids the easter bunny is a real thing like Santa

I definitely believed that a giant bunny was jumping over fences with a basket of eggs - still have a 50+ year old memory of trying to catch a glimpse of his tail disappearing into the neighbours garden. Simpler times !

I haven’t done any convincing - I’m sure if probed my 6 year old could work out it’s unlikely but there’s nothing wrong with being imaginative.

DD has decided herself this morning that there must be many Easter Bunnies as they don’t have a sleigh and wouldn’t be able to get all around the world. I’m sure if she thought really hard she’d also work out that when I went out to feed the hens with a large bag it probably contained the eggs she saw in Tesco. But she suspends belief because it’s enjoyable to do
so.

I don’t typically but Dd’s school showed them a video about the Easter bunny so she does believe it’s real and I don’t have the heart to let her down 🤦🏻‍♀️. Just sitting on the sofa summoning up the effort to sneak into the garden and hide the eggs.

And at least Santa is actually human... are people genuinely convincing their kids that an actual rabbit is snuffling around doing this? Do kids know what actual rabbits look like and move like and still think their parents aren't lying?!

Heehee! I mean the story of Father Christmas has lots to it... we know where he lives, how the presents are made, how he gets to everyone in the world in one night.

With the EB it's more.... yeah a bunny just turns up and lays out all those eggs you've seen in Tescos in a box saying "perfect for egg hunts"....!

I fling some eggs around the garden and orchard for DD to find and she says it’s the Easter Bunny. I haven’t said it is real or not (she’s 6). If she asks I will tell her the truth, like I would with Santa. But it’s nice to have a bit of magic in your life.

No and never even knew it was a thing until one of the kids mentioned it totally perplexed. I thought it was mad they said ‘it’s mad they believe in that’ and didn’t draw a correlation!!!

We've never done Easter bunny.

I also used to be a TA and have seen kids teased more for believing in the bunny than Father Christmas / Santa. Usually girls calling other girls "babyish" from about Year 4 onwards. And it lasting the remainder of primary school

Happy Easter everyone 💐

Never ever even thought of doing the Easter bunny thing. Never heard of it in my childhood and only heard of it fairly recently in my area. Definitely not a common thing even today.

We’ve never done the bunny.

Easter Bunny as real as Santa and the Toothfairy in our house. Just as it was for me nearly 60 years ago. Lots of fun and my DC have very happy memories of their egg hunts on various Easter holidays

The only time DD got a note from the tooth fairy was to explain she was a bit pushed for £1 coins right now so hope she doesn't mind all the change.

“Deny the Easter bunny once, your first child shall henceforth be a dunce.”

(Alice, in the vicar of Dibley)

When I was a child, the Easter bunny used to talk to me while he hid the eggs in the garden. I was blindfolded so I couldn’t see that it was one of my parents speaking in an Easter bunny voice. I loved it!

Plastic tat - tick.
What fresh hell is this - tick.
Mumsnet bingo.
”very weak myth” is a new one.

See I’m the opposite, I don’t mind the Easter Bunny but we’ll never have elf on the bastard shelf!

We talk about ‘the elves’ though - they leave a chocolate coin in DD’s fabric advent calendar each night or sometimes a little extra nice thing like some baking ingredients will appear, but there’s no physical elf that I have to move and it’s more an imaginary game like the fairies in the garden.

The Easter bunny wasn’t a thing when I was growing up (I’m 34), not with anyone I knew anyway. My 6yo asked me on Friday if the Easter bunny was going to bring her eggs and I just said no, she’s been given eggs from us and grandparents and she accepted that fine. Apparently she heard of the Easter bunny through Bluey.

Easter treasure hunt for fun? Yes.
Lying about a magical rabbit? No.

ETA - just seen PP’s accidental reference to the “waster bunny”. Would definitely have taken that myth on!

I saw an advert for this today! They said to leave a carrot out on "Easter eve"

My parents did Easter egg hunts for us as kids in the 90s, which we believed were from the waster bunny. My 6yo daughter fiercely believes in the Easter bunny as she has seen him - my aunt dressed up as the Easter bunny and we watched the bunny hiding eggs in my grandmother's garden. This has happened two years in a row and there may be another sighting later!

Not for social media, just for family fun and very excited child 🐰

My children had father christmas, easter bunny and tooth fairy, as i did as a child. Very early they dismissed FC and the EB as being impossible. The tooth fairy, well i am sure they stil believe as late teens, ha ha, one asked the dentist when he was 10 about her! All very strange. It could be the £1 she left though.

As a child, I had never heard of the Easter Bunny. We were given boxed Easter eggs by our parents, grandparents and other relatives. I did the same with my children. A few times, we did an Easter Egg hunt in the garden, but we just got them to wait whilst we hid the eggs.

The Easter Bunny was never a thing when I was a child, so we never did it with dds, and AFAIK dd doesn’t do it with the Gdcs, but they always seem to have an Easter Egg hunt in the garden, with other children invited.

I’ve never made out the Easter bunny is real. My eldest has asked me and I just asked him what does he think? The only reason I’ve not denied it outright is because he’s already suspicious Santa isn’t real and he’s only 5, I’d like another year of the Christmas magic! Anyway he came downstairs today saw his Easter egg and straight away said ‘he must be real’ so I’m just letting him go with it.