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How do you 'do' Easter eggs for your DC?

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Tiredforfive45 · 18/04/2025 22:00

I'm interested in other people's traditions/ ways of doing things! I've seen lots of videos of people (mostly in the USA, where I am lead to believe they don't really have Easter eggs) putting together Easter baskets, which mostly contain (non-chocolate!) gifts, and a thread I read earlier seemed to imply they just give one egg to their DC and it had me thinking about how differently people do things!

We have 10 clues which send the DC all around the house to find 9 small chocolate treats each and then the final clue leads them to their main, large egg.

How do you 'do' Easter eggs?

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DappledThings · 18/04/2025 22:02

I bring them down from the shelf where they have been since they were handed over by friends and family over the last few days. In plain sight but out of reach until Sunday.

LePetitMaman · 18/04/2025 22:06

We get two or three of the small Cadbury size eggs for each DC, then a basket of really small ones that we hide round the garden so they can do an egg hunt. All gifted on the Sunday, but we will ration the chocolate over several days.

TheCurious0range · 18/04/2025 22:08

Egg hunt in the garden

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welshweasel · 18/04/2025 22:08

We all get a large egg plus I get a bag of the smaller foil wrapped ones. The ‘Easter bunny’ hides them in the garden sometime mid to late morning for the kids to go and find and hand out.

GettingMySpringOn · 18/04/2025 22:09

Mine have an egg hunt we use the refillable plastic eggs with little treats in them hidden around the house and garden with clues to them. Usually around 20 each. Inside is just little foil eggs from the nets of eggs or cream eggs etc.
Then at the end their standard size eggs from us.
They get lots off of family but they've eaten some this week , we allowed it as they've received some and it spreads it out. Huge family both sides who give loads
We did get a couple of garden toys too .

Usually they have an Easter basket with crafts etc in which they do through the holidays but as they go back to school after and won't have a lot of time we didn't bother. We just gave a couple of crafts to do at beginning of holidays.

I've always done this in the 20 years of parenting and still have infant age dcs so have a few more years yet.

Neodymium · 18/04/2025 22:11

We have an egg hunt, each child has a room in the house that they can look for their eggs so there is no urgency to find them ‘first’. I just buy lots of the small hollow eggs

they are 16, 14 and 11 and was thinking this year I might just get blocks of chocolate at least for the 2 older ones and just do a hunt for the 11 year old. But when I suggested it 16 year old said no he wanted an egg hunt.

RomainingCalm · 18/04/2025 22:17

Erm.. DC came down to breakfast to find an Easter egg on the table next to their place. No hunts, no tales of the Easter Bunny, no Easter boxes or hampers. We tended to have family over for lunch/dinner and they might bring another egg for the DC.

We clearly missed the Easter Memo over the years.

BondStreet · 18/04/2025 22:19

We have a small Easter egg hunt for the DC, they’ll have a few Easter eggs from us and family. DC will also get a jelly cat each.

scalt · 18/04/2025 22:36

As kids, my brother and I were blindfolded just before the Easter Bunny’s visit, so we could sit in the garden and listen out for the eggs being hidden. We could hold out carrots for the Bunny to bite off, and the Bunny might talk to us in a squeaky voice, before hopping off. Then our eyes were uncovered, and we would each follow a trail leading us to our eggs.

SouthLondonMum22 · 18/04/2025 22:39

The easter bunny brings a basket filled with gifts and we/family buy some chocolate eggs followed by an egg hunt for smaller chocolate eggs.

Theunamedcat · 18/04/2025 22:42

Easter egg hunt for sweets eggs given from me and my dad no-one else bothers I do make sure they don't devour more than one large egg a day lamb dinner this year as a treat

LittleLabrador · 18/04/2025 22:43

Mine have Easter eggs from us and family that have been sitting on the side for the last week and they’ll get on Sunday

they also have an Easter egg hunt (which I thought they might have grown out of by now but apparently not) and get a few little bits like a crème egg, Maltese bunny etc and then finally a normal sized egg at the end.

they can eat chocolate for breakfast which they find exciting

tealandteal · 18/04/2025 22:48

Mine get 3 eggs - a smaller size egg each from the grandparents and I usually buy a locally made one each for them, not massive but really nice chocolate. They can have the grandparents one when they see them but chocolate is rationed. We do a little Easter egg hunt in the garden with plastic egg which have little clues or occasional small chocolates in as well as a clue which leads to the bigger egg.

PrincessOfPreschool · 18/04/2025 22:52

I hide their big egg in the house somewhere and they need to find it. I put their name on it. If they find someone else's they need to keep quiet. I don't put it in cupboards or drawers but it can be behind things, under stuff.

Then we have an egg hunt in the garden in the pm. Coloured plastic eggs filled with the tiny choc eggs like lindor, galaxy, mini eggs etc. Each 'child' (now aged 15-19) has a colour and needs to find all their colour eggs (blue, green, yellow, pink). Invariably one goes missing and no one can find it, even the person who hid them.

TianasBayou · 18/04/2025 22:56

We do an egg hunt. Then DC remove all the ugly cardboard packaging and pile their eggs and treats in a pretty basket each. Otherwise there would be so many piled up (from family and friends) the dresser looks like a supermarket display.

Summertimeblahness · 18/04/2025 22:58

When mine were little they had Easter egg hunts (little eggs) and a book. Now they are adults I give them one egg each and do an Easter egg hunt for the dgc and a book for older one and an outfit for the younger one.

We did/do lots of Easter themed crafts too. This weekend it’s making daffodils and sheep.

DirtyAnimal · 18/04/2025 23:00

Our children choose the egg they’d like from the supermarket from us.
DD said today she’d like a hunt like the Bunny has provided before so I think the Bunny will oblige. Maybe those teeny foil wrapped eggs but without clues this year as they’re older. The Bunny (so I’ve heard!) also has a few things lined up for the children to come down to on Easter morning like tableware and banners etc, and some silly glasses 😂

doodleschnoodle · 18/04/2025 23:02

We do an egg hunt around house and garden. They’re a bit little for clues yet as DD2 is only 2, but I am looking forward to that as my mum did amazing clues for egg hunts when I was a kid. Although the older I got, the more complicated they had to get, by my teens she was writing clues in different languages and in code Grin
The eggs are then kept in the baskets in the kitchen and rationed over the next month or so (they’re allowed to pig out on them on the day of the actual egg hunt!). They each get a big egg too which is at the end of the egg hunt.

My 6yo is craft mad so she does quite a lot of Easter craft stuff too.

mindingmyown37 · 18/04/2025 23:06

Mine are older so I just leave them outside in the kitchen, dd gets some added limited edition Easter ty beanies aswell as she is an avid collector. I used to leave an egg each outside thier rooms when they were younger

haggisaggis · 18/04/2025 23:11

My dc are 22 and 25. They still want an Easter egg hunt (and so do I)! DH always hides the eggs, usually cream eggs and a couple of wee bunnies and we have to find our quota. Invariably one or 2 are never found.

StarDolphins · 18/04/2025 23:16

I hide some mini bunny eggs and write clues to their whereabouts and when she’s found the all (I make it really hard so it takes hours🤣 kidding, takes 1 hour) she gets an Easter basket with a family size bag of mini eggs, some Easter fluffy socks, freeze dried sweets, snap band, small teddy & £10 (of which she has to save half). She doesn’t like Easter eggs so any she does get, I buy off her because I love them! Obviously at a reduced rate as they’re technically 2nd hand!

JazzTheDog · 18/04/2025 23:16

Never done an egg hunt but when I was a kid and when my children were wee we'd decorate a hard boiled egg and roll them down a hill with our pals in the hope of smashing someone else's 😂

Usually just one chocolate egg each too

PrincessOfPreschool · 19/04/2025 09:17

Neodymium · 18/04/2025 22:11

We have an egg hunt, each child has a room in the house that they can look for their eggs so there is no urgency to find them ‘first’. I just buy lots of the small hollow eggs

they are 16, 14 and 11 and was thinking this year I might just get blocks of chocolate at least for the 2 older ones and just do a hunt for the 11 year old. But when I suggested it 16 year old said no he wanted an egg hunt.

My 19yo son loves the egg hunt. We stopped Father Christmas the last couple of years but egg hunt is here to stay.

KezzaMucklowe · 19/04/2025 09:21

We used to do a really lovely long scavenger hunt style egg hunt.
Lots of clues and riddles which meant tge dts would be running around the house and garden to find their hawl.
They're teenagers now, and think it's all a bit cringe apparently.
So I just give them their easter eggs and they disappear with them.

Maddy70 · 19/04/2025 09:28

No fuss in our house. Just gave them an egg...no bunnies or silly stories

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