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What does your Easter bunny leave ?

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Littlegemby · 07/04/2019 06:32

I’m sure this is different for everyone and as I walked around the supermarket yesterday with 2 FULL isles of Easter decorations I wondered if just an egg is sufficient. Would the children in my DS class be getting more from their Easter bunny’s this year ? We normally just have a few small hidden eggs and a biggger egg but in the shops there are huge egg baskets and jelly’s and chocolate carrots ?? What does your Easter bunny do and leave ?

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Bankofenglandfiver · 07/04/2019 06:33

Never done it. It’s commercialised rubbish. They get (got) an egg and painted hard boiled eggs for rolling.

EleanorLavish · 07/04/2019 06:37

He never did anything until my eldest were about 6 and 8, and that saw that film Hop. Suddenly youngest was going on about the “candy” the Easter Bunny would leave.
Anyway I played along and got up at 5am for a few years and left an egg and a chocolate bunny for each in the garden.
Youngest enjoys it now too.
But middle DC discovered two years ago that the bunny was me and howled. Sobbed.
He genuinely thought a massive bunny came and left chocolate in the garden. He was 10yo!!!

Breathingfire · 07/04/2019 06:46

Nothing, I've told my dd(4) the easter bunny isn't real. While I love christmas and all the magic of santa I couldn't be bothered wth the pretending at easter. I do her an easter egg hunt in the garden and get her one big easter egg.

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happypotamus · 07/04/2019 06:53

The Easter bunny comes while DC and I are at church (DH doesn't go to church ever) and leaves a map with a treasure hunt round the house and garden that leads to a few small eggs. I buy them a small not-chocolate Easter present that is from DH and I, not the Easter bunny, e.g a t-shirt from H&M or a book or something related to the religious meaning of Easter. They will get large chocolate eggs from the in-laws (I recently threw one away and donated one that was still in date to a raffle at the school as they hadn't been eaten)

Sirzy · 07/04/2019 06:54

I have never bothered with the Easter bunny.

Ds doesn’t like chocolate so this year I am giving him a bird bath for the garden because he loves watching the birds.

Bobbybobbins · 07/04/2019 06:57

A chocolate egg each and we'll have a hunt with some smaller eggs.

aprilshowers12 · 07/04/2019 07:02

When my children were young it was one egg that the Easter Bummy hid somewhere in the (tiny) garden. With my GS I hide numerous small eggs all over the large garden and he goes around collecting them in his little basket when he visits. His DM buys him one larger egg which the Easter Bunny hides in their garden

HogMother · 07/04/2019 07:04

They get an egg. I’m not starting with all this Easter bunny shit. Wasn’t a thing in my day blah blah blah. Kids get too much sugar these days anyway

daisypond · 07/04/2019 07:07

Easter bunny doesn’t exist in my world. We don’t do Easter presents either. They get a chocolate egg each.

Eateneasterchocsalready · 07/04/2019 09:38

Usually clues, little trail, some egg's and small gift. This year be Lazer tag things and then they will have fun presents for over summer.
Or and... nice colouring pens for youngest and book or sketches pencils for oldest

ThunderStorms · 07/04/2019 09:40

Nothing . We 'do' Santa, but have always said outright the Easter bunny isn’t real. The dcs just choose their own egg.

ThunderStorms · 07/04/2019 09:41

And we don’t do Easter decorations, nor presents!!!

Jackshouse · 07/04/2019 09:43

DD will be nearly 3. Last year we did an egg hunt in the garden, I bought those plastic refillable eggs and put two chocolate buttons in each and I got her a Peter rabbit sticker book. This year we will do the same eggs, with with instructions on eg hop like a bunny and we will do some Easter crafts.

wheresmyhairytoe · 07/04/2019 09:44

I don't get the Easter Bunny. Why does a rabbit bring eggs?
Easter chicken would make more sense.

So here they get an egg, that's it.

dementedpixie · 07/04/2019 09:45

We've never done the Easter bunny so for us it was just the chocolate eggs. When they were younger we did a hunt round the house, now they just get the egg. We don't do decorations or presents either

IggyAce · 07/04/2019 09:45

Don’t do Easter Bunny I buy my DCs an egg each. Previous years I’ve hidden a few mini eggs and Easter themed sweets round our garden, but we are away this year so not planning on doing it this year.

Moonflower12 · 07/04/2019 09:48

We just have an egg hunt in the garden using the tiny eggs and bunnies from Aldi etc. I think the 20-something 'children' enjoy are more competitive than the 6 year old!

ShowOfHands · 07/04/2019 09:51

I don't know anybody who does this. Friends just give their children an egg, some go to church, others eat a roast dinner and enjoy an extra long weekend. No bunnies and treasure maps.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/04/2019 10:05

We did Easter Egg hunts in the garden when they were little .
Egg^Spoon Races
The one where you run, put on trousers/top/shoes

Now they are teens , they have a bag with chocolate eggs (I ask them what type they want) and maybe a nice bath /showergel.

I decorate with a door wreath, I have glass globes that I fill with tiny chicks and I usually do an Easter Tree .

I bought some napkins and tiny gift boxes from Paperchase ( on sale in December !) and put a green patterned tablecover on .

Maybe some daffodils

KeptTheBeachesShipwreckFree · 07/04/2019 10:17

We never talk about the Easter bunny but eldest does mention it.
We get a couple of big eggs and an egg hunt pack full of smaller ones. Then we hide them around the house with a load of clues that they have to solve to find the next hiding places. When that's finished they start eating them (because they end up with 10 or so each it takes 2 weeks to finish them all).

greathat · 07/04/2019 10:18

I told my kids there's no such thing as the Easter bunny and let them choose a small gift, might be an egg, book or toy

babysharkah · 07/04/2019 10:19

It's nit a thing for us. I don't know anyone who does it. We have an egg hunt after church but nothing to do with a bunny.

ExpletiveDelighted · 07/04/2019 10:27

No Easter bunny here, but we do have a set of plastic eggs which get hidden in the garden mid morning for the DCs and their cousins (all teenagers) to find. Repeat several times with us all taking turns to hide and find them. We also have an Easter tree and some homemade Easter egg bunting for the house.

Stompythedinosaur · 07/04/2019 11:49

I possibly go over the top, but I enjoy it and so do the dc.

I organise a village Easter party with crafts and games and then there is a large scale egg hunt. Normally we do this on Easter Sat.

On Easter Sunday the kids get up to a treasure hunt leading to a few small items. Some will be items that are reused multiple years (such as bunny ears) but I do normally get them a choc bunny, choc egg and small toy (little cuddly rabbit or something). Then we have family for a roast dinner and another egg hunt in the garden.

I suspect I will get ridiculed but it doesn't hurt anyone and brings pleasure to our family.

unicornstore · 07/04/2019 11:52

When I was younger the Easter bunny left my sibling and I just 1 Easter egg each & usually a soft toy.

When I have kids I'll probably do the same and also a chocolate egg hunt in the garden/house

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