When do you put out the egg hunt?

[Newsenmum]

Our kids are early risers and their bedrooms overlook the garden. Could do it now but worried it’llrain and they’ll get eaten.

Whats the norm?

It depends on what else we're doing on the day. Ie last year we went to a farm Easter trail event in the morning so did it in the afternoon.

Tomorrow it will be in the morning, however it's very laid back, not at all like Christmas. I usually get the DC to wait in the hallway downstairs whilst I distribute the eggs around the house (have a small garden so more space to do it inside).

But ours is more like a scavenger hunt, I do large plastic eggs with either a small Easter egg/chocolate bunny or a blind bag type toy inside with a written clue to the next one. Usually do about six or seven.

The reason I don't go heavy on the chocolate Easter eggs is because they get far too many at their grandparents (and other Easter events!) 🤣

And the Easter scavenger hunt is DC1's third favourite time of year (after Christmas and her birthday! And just in front of Halloween 😅).

The DC's rooms overlook the garden, so we developed an extremely OTT and ridiculous but also very fun ritual. DH puts on a pair of bunny ears and goes into the garden to "help guide the bunny" and welcome them to our garden. While this is going on, we retire to DD's room and draw the curtains. We then get out the box of toddler musical instruments and make a cacophonous din in order to summon the Easter bunny. We also improvise words, eg "Easter Bunny do do do dodo do bring us eggs" to the tune of Baby Shark. Sometimes the children also play actual musical instruments that they can play well. It is very silly. After a while DH comes up to let us know that he has had a nice chat with the Easter bunny, who unfortunately couldn't stay, but who has left some eggs.

🤣🤣 brilliant

Originally German I believe, from several centuries ago, as is the Easter bunny.

The Vicar of Dibley Easter Bunny episode where the bunnies hide eggs was from 1996 so it's been happening in the UK for a fair while!

TV absolutely presents the Easter bunny as equivalent to Santa. I never bothered to hide that eggs came from me, and eventually faced some hard questioning re if bunny isn't real then is Santa? I wasn't ready for Christmas to be up so I spun a line about how maybe the bunny doesn't come if the kids already have enough chocolate because it's not great for kids teeth 🤦‍♀️
This year the kids are trying hanging up Easter bags like stockings. Honestly I'd be happy to give it all up with the eldest, but she's such a lousy secret keeper she would 100% spoil it for her sister. I do feel caught in an escalating Web of lies though....

The Vicar of Dibley Easter Bunny episode where the bunnies hide eggs was from 1996 so it's been happening in the UK for a fair while!

Queen Victoria's German mother did them for her as a child, and her and Prince Albert did them for their children. It's not remotely new.

We give DS a book every Easter Sunday morning, and encourage him to sit in our bed with one of us and read it (our room is at the front of the house), while the other frantically dashes around hiding things in the garden. Clues etc all done tonight. This year is my turn to be story reader/distractor, while DH goes and 'starts breakfast'

We do it around the house, simply because that's what my mum did when we were small! But it means you can put them out the night before, and the weather doesn't matter - nobody gets wet and the chocolate doesn't melt. I still remember the excitement of waking up and seeing mini eggs all down the stairs, and I love seeing my kids do the same!