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?

It starts with Easter bunnies and Santa and ends up with fake fucking news. There is magic in the world for kids without having to make shit up.

At least Santa is a human
Whaaaaaaaaat????

Oh and Easter egg battles (I have no idea how to translate that!)

Easter lunch is a big meal. Evening meal is always salad, bread, cheese and a huge basket of decorated (hold e.g.leaf on egg, tie tightly in cloth or tights, boil in onion peel) hard boiled eggs. Everyone takes one and bashes their neighbour's egg. The one with the unbroken egg at the end is the winner!

Christmas - ninja elves come Xmas eve leave a box of vegetables and pyjamas, Xmas day...presents, Xmas lunch
Easter - put eggs in garden, leave letter and cotton wool. Kids make Easter biscuits. Spend day eating chocolate and biscuits
Halloween - decorate 'fireplace', kids make cake, make costumes, trick or treat
Birthdays - presents and cake

It's not insane is it? That's just what we've always done, kids enjoy it, we enjoy it. We don't buy tonnes of shit, we like making stuff. My letter to the Easter bunny was not exactly the letters of Oscar Wilde, and I'm not spending the whole day shlepping about being a martyr...I spent most of yesterday in the garden drinking Pimms. I couldn't give a toss whether any of the things we enjoy are American, naff or twee.

What????no! Sounds bloody ridiculous. Why does everything have to be 'magical'?

....but obviously, yes I am leading my children into the abyss that is Fake News.

I actually prefer that the “Easter bunny” leaves ONE Easter egg for DD rather than relatives all buying an inappropriately huge chocolate egg for her.

Friends have posted photos of their kid’s haul - like 4x adult-sized eggs with multiple chocolate bars inside, 4x medium and multiple small kid ones plus an egg hunt in the garden plus mini eggs and cakes. For one child!!

And it’s not just the odd person, i had hundreds of them. It’s weird.

No kid needs that amount of chocolate, surely!

But no notes or carrot, no. He just brings an egg.

Would you get away with your letters and carrots! More more more.

Easter biscuits, you know spice biscuits with currants...my nan used to make them and tie them up with ribbon....you make them at Easter, we made them at school....the dds made them at school....they're definitely a thing!

Halloween cake, thats just because dd1 loves making cakes, and takes any opportunity to do so ...eyeball cakes, spider cakes, skeleton cake....last year dd1 and 2 made a graveyard cake.

Easter biscuits are traditionally spiced biscuits with currants. We often make them too, or hot cross buns.

I must admit yesterday I did have a bit of a wobble because pretty much 90% of the parents on my social media had done Easter egg hunts, gifts left from Easter bunny, dressing up, Easter parades, the whole hog.
My daughter was given one egg from me and her dad.
I panicked that she would go back to nursery tomorrow and the teacher would ask what did you do on Easter and the day pretty much past my dd without any celebration.
But I refuse to buckle and spend loads of money on something just for the sake of it. She is 4, she doesn’t need countless chocolate.

I've never got my head around the Easter Bunny.

A rabbit. Bringing eggs. I could kind of understand an Easter Chicken. Or lizard. Or any egg laying creature. But a rabbit??

And those costumes are freaky as fuck!

So, in answer to your original questions. No and no.

No and no to the original question.

We used to have chicken hunts when the SmallDragons were actually small. I hid those small fluffy yellow chick round the garden and they exchanged them for eggs at the end.

Easter bunny always came to our house as kids, no letters or leaving snacks though.

I hid eggs around the house yesterday for my kids (2.5) which they thoroughly enjoyed.

Oh and when I was wee we'd paint boiled eggs and roll them down a hill! Didn't do that yesterday though, just the egg hunt.

Best bit about all the chocolate is breaking it up, sticking it in tupperware and storing in the fridge!

Easter bunny left a note here mainly to explain whose main egg was whose and then that any eggs found on the hunt were for the family to share. So basically just setting out the rules 🤣

Easter bunny left a note here mainly to explain whose main egg was whose and then that any eggs found on the hunt were for the family to share. So basically just setting out the rules.

Impertinent Authoritarian Lagomorph wants putting in a pie.

My ds (12) told me yesterday that a lot of his friends got stuff like: £200, iPhone, river island handbag, Xbox games and loads of massive Easter eggs. It was all posted on Instagram for our delectation.
Ds got two big eggs and two small ones from me and family, which he was more than happy with. He thinks his friends and their parents are bonkers, thank god.

It more worrying that these kids are getting so much stuff so it can be posted on social media than the Easter bunny.

I did the Easter bunny, it'd leave badly rhyming clues for an egg hunt. Stopped when they were about 18.
(I think they suspected it was me)

No, rabbits can't write 😂

We do an egg hunt but it's following clues that we write, they know it's us (they're 9+11)

I'll add to the weight of opinion and say :

No! And No!

I've never even heard of this. Boiled Egg painting and rolling, egg hunt is all I've ever known.

No, DD is 22 months so did a little egg hunt with some small eggs with a trail leading to a normal size egg and a couple of new puzzles.
I have daydreamed before about it being fun to get a mate to dress up in an Easter bunny outfit and be “caught” hopping around the garden leaving eggs on the lawn when she’s older, but letters to the bunny/carrots etc all sounds very over the top