Do your kids get a letter from the Easter bunny and do they leave a carrot out?

[Shopperami]

Do your kids get a letter from the Easter bunny and do they leave a carrot out?

No way.

My children spent most of the day loudly pointing out to relatives that the easter bunny is actually daddy.

I notice mummy got jeff all credit, despite doing all the prep...

Of course not

No and No.
First time of heard of this.

Dear God no!!!

God, I thought the putting up decorations was sad enough, but this is another level

Nope and Noppity nope! It's not Christmas, stop over complicating things!!!

Definitely not! As a pp said it feels like Easter is being turned into Christmas. An aquaintance on social media posted this morning photos of what the Easter Bunny had left for the kids - a letter and all sorts. Mind you the tooth fairy leaves detailed thank you letters and gifts for each tooth as well so this wasn’t a surprise!

Also seen the pay £10 for a man in a scary looking bunny suit to turn up on your doorstep on social media here too.

Here we did a very simple egg hunt and a little bit of chocolate with relatives giving an egg too.

Bunny leaves a list of what to find for each kid. Hides the eggs and chocolate. Stops the oldest one finding everything. They liked it when little.

Easter bunny visits my house.
He leaves eggs and Easter related craft stuff / games etc around the garden. We don’t do letters or any of that, I’ve actually toned it down in recent years and do less chocolate more activities.

Dc prefer it to Christmas (I tend to agree, it symbolises the end of winter, new life etc), no pressure of what you “should” do at Christmas and just a chance to rest and be together.

They did leave a carrot out for the Easter bunny, but they thought of it themselves and had never done it before. It's not a tradition I started. (Actually the Easter bunny isn't anything to do with me, DH started doing an egg hunt and claiming the Easter bunny left the eggs).

Why would the Easter bunny write them a letter? What about? I have never heard of that.

No never, far to American for me.

Um...nope and nope!

Dd2 did ask at some point yesterday about leaving a carrot out & I made vague "erm...it doesn't work like Christmas..." noises but she forgot about it anyway.

Erm pretty sure bunnies can't read or write 🙄

Jesus no and no.

NOPE and NOPE.

No and no.

When my son woke up this morning he suddenly was excited to see what the Easter bunny had bought. I didn't think we did that or he believed.

I'd arranged the egg and book from us in the basket I use each year and placed the eggs sent by grandparents around it. DS said he wondered if the Easter bunny had written on any of them, but was perfectly happy when I explained who had sent him what.

No and the DCs come to the supermarket to help us choose eggs, there has never been any talk of the Easter bunny bringing them.

Well the 7 year old sat down last night and wrote the bunny a letter. Then got out a carrot and peeled it and put it in a basket on the table. I didn't stop him. I don't know what he expected the bunny to do, as he'd already seen the eggs I bought and helped me hide some small ones in the garden. But it made him happy so...

No! Easter eggs are from the family members, not a twatty bunny.

People saying "too American for me" imagine saying no to curry as it's "too
Indian for me" 🙄

My answer is still no to both though.

shit, wish I had seen this thread a couple of years ago. Never ever did I believe in the 'easter bunny' as a kid. But it seems to have gathered a following and for the last few years, because they all seem to believe (and are encouraged to at school and creche or nobody says otherwise) I have hidden their eggs around the house, and the easter bunny draws a map for them to find them. This morning I just couldn't do it anymore, I said to DP, I just can't believe this is a thing, it's a step too far; so more fool me, they weren't upset, so I guess they knew all along. Anyway at least I never have to do it again.

No and no and no we will never be doing it

Wtf?!? No!!!

No. DD is 5. She asked about the Easter bunny, but I haven't gone along with the pretence at all. She was super-excited for a moment this morning when she found eggs and Easter crafty things on the dining table and then paused thoughtfully and said, "did you get these things, Mummy?" And when I answered yes, said, "thank you Mummy" very sweetly, and carried on.

The Easter Bunny writes a letter here, I'm not sure where we got it from. I hide eggs in garden at stupid o clock, with bits of cotton wool, then at the end there is a big egg or Lindt bunny, with a book or a little Lego set and a letter. Then I put their wellies by the back door with a bowl. We've done the same for the last 10 years!