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

[Tiredforfive45]

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?

My DC are in their forties now, but when they were little it was one Easter egg from us, and any others from relatives, at their place at the breakfast table.

I still get them an Easter egg each, and one for each of my grandchildren. Interestingly enough.... I have never had an Easter egg from any of them, ever!

Egg on the kitchen table when coming down on Easter Sunday. A couple of years DS asked for fertile eggs to hatch for easter, so those arrived beforehand to get chicks out of the incubator around easter weekend.

The Easter egg gets put on the breakfast table.

Generally left on the kitchen table in the morning.
We’re away this weekend, so will do a little hunt around the house we’re staying in.

We do similar to you.

The dc have trails with clues around the house, the final one being their egg.
I started it when dd1 was 2yo with pictures, (so I picture of a window, then she goes to the window and finds a picture of a door etc) then as they got older went through single words, through longer clues and sometimes I've done it in code or puzzles to work out.
Usually they have separate ones, but sometimes they have to join together - for example each initial clue gave them a letter then they had to put the letters together to spell the final clue. Or we've had code using maths etc.
My favourite was the year when they were aged abut 12, 9 and 6. I did a set of clues all round the estate (something like "go down Pearson's Avenue. On the third house on the right, there's a name. Take the second letter") and they had to solve the clues to get the final clue where it was at home. They set out on their scooters and we had 2 hours of peace 😁.

Be warned though. They're now 23 down to 17yo and still want clues...

Never really “done” easter. At various times in March/April chocolate eggs will be purchased and eaten. Not saved for any particular day, just a general springtime treat. Easter itself is a bonus couple of days off work. No bunnies or egg hunts or any religious celebrations here.

Egg hunt with the egg from us, eggs from family and few small eggs.

Easter morning they have an Easter basket from Easter bunny with a large chocolate bunny in and a few sweets.

The main Easter eggs they have after the main lunch.

Then we’d gave an Easter egg hunt, with cryptic clues around the house and garden. When younger, it could be a picture of a tap. When older, it could be ‘drip drip, drip’ with a new clue at each site.

I do a trail of little eggs that lead to the bigger one and I also add the ones that they got off grandparents around the house. We also decorate the house for Easter and do some Easter craft. I really like Easter - the non Christian stuff is so positive and exciting and fun 😊

Egg hunt with seriously difficult clues here. No one is getting any eggs without working for them in this house.

DS is 4. The last couple of years I’ve set up a little egg hunt in either the house or garden ready for him waking up. We use the small plastic eggs - some open and some don’t. The ones that open usually have either a mini oaty bar or box of raisins or stickers or something in. There’s usually one bigger chocolate egg at the end. He’s not a huge chocolate fan so that’ll last him weeks 🤣

I don’t do an Easter basket but usually buy a small craft kit and a couple of new books. I work Sundays unfortunately so it means he has something new to do and read while I’m at work and he’s with another family member,

We always do an Easter egg hunt. Just put them around the house and garden and the youngest sets off to look for them. (Rinse and repeat til they are bored)
Easter eggs handed out after.
Never been bunnies or owt.

I have adult kids. We started out with a simple hunt when they were little and then simple clues once they could read. It's grown since then .
Our hunt this year involved about 20 clues, a photo puzzle, a code and a final rearrange the letters on the back of all the clues to make a cipher that broke the code to where the big eggs were hidden. Not sure we'll top it next year!

It's got to the point that I now feel the need to make it bigger and better every year so they will keep coming to our house for Easter!

This is what we do for DC. This year, there were a couple of logic puzzles, an anagram, a rhyming clue and lots of riddles. We'll have to step it up for next year - I'm thinking a colour by number picture clue and invisible ink.

My parents did a hunt for us until I was late teens. It only stopped when my father went into hospital one Easter. The final hunt had a sudoku, a coordinates clue that had us digging up one of the flower beds and some mini creme eggs hidden in the metal post of a bed.

I'm bemused that some people are willing to hand over the eggs to their kids without them doing some actual hard graft to get them 😂.

I'm in the US. Back when my DCs were all young, I (aka the Easter Bunny) used to provide Easter baskets lined with colourful shredded paper. In the baskets would be some small and inexpensive items - sidewalk chalk, bubbles, small stuffed animal, armbands for swimming. As they grew older, I might gave them a new, cheap beach towel each, or a pair of goggles for the pool in summer or a bottle of nail polish. Mixed in in the baskets would be a few jelly beans and maybe some Cadbury's mini eggs or a Creme Egg each. There would be a family bowl of mini eggs and jelly beans too. We usually went to Mass on Easter Sunday morning, so getting everyone overexcited with an egg hunt or overfilled with sugar wasn't a good idea.

Some families did egg hunts, some more elaborate than others, with clues involved. Parents scattered or hid openable plastic eggs (same size as hens' eggs) with a candy or two inside. There were no big Easter eggs.