How to do Easter chocolate?

[Innittowinnit]

I‘ve suggested leaving a few mini eggs outside the kid‘s rooms to placate them, and we‘ll do the bigger easter egg hunt after lunch.

DH thinks this isn’t right, they should learn how to wait. Kids are 8 and 5.

I don’t think every single thing need to be a lesson, and they can eat chocolate before breakfast once a year.

What do you do in your house?

I never grew up with the Easter bunny and was never intending on doing with my child because of that. Didn't feel I missed out.

But then you go to these events when your child is a toddler/pre-schooler with the Easter bunny and also some grown ups eg nursery workers or such like talk about the Easter bunny coming and I got carried along with the magic and ended up doing the Easter bunny 😂
I admit it was because I kind of liked the magic!

We are at extended families house who make all the kids wait until after 11am to get their chocolate. My kids will get an Easter bag when they wake up in their room containing a medium size hollow egg, a Lindt bunny, and a gift (my daughter has a a jellycat set of chicks in a nest, son has a new water bottle for school that he wanted after losing his other one, and other son has a new summer trucker hat). I expect all the chocolate in these bags will be inhaled by the boys before they leave the room. They won’t be allowed to eat the choc downstairs as the other kids won’t be.

big breakfast at 10am with (actual) eggs and fresh bread. All kids are given an Easter egg after this that they can eat. Then egg hunt.

mine are 9, 7 and 5 and no chocolate is rationed. It can be pigged out on if they want, but once it’s gone it’s gone and we go back to them only getting chocolate / sweets once a week on Friday after school.

I'm always a bit gobsmacked that the fun police have to manage their children's enjoyment on special occasions with rules about when, where and how. Christ on a bike let kids have fun and have a day out of the norm!

And that's what childhood deserves - magic!
And we get to enjoy it with them. 🤗

We’ve eaten ours already…

Fair enough. I don't see it as being the fun police. Never thought to give chocolate for breakfast, never been asked for it either.

Plenty of chocolate will be coming their way pretty much every day now for weeks. Happy to wear a fun police hat if that's what that makes me.🤷‍♀️

I completely agree. It’s one or two days a year!! One Easter I ate all my chocolate in before we left for my grans house for lunch, and threw up on her driveway when we got there. I was mortified, and also sad because I had no chocolate left to eat that evening…guess who learnt a lesson in moderation that day, with zero arguments with her parents lol.

We are another family where Easter and Christmas are the only days it’s acceptable to have chocolate for breakfast and it’s encouraged! Not everything has to be a life lesson and a bit of chocolate before their toast isn’t going to hurt your kids.

The DC do an egg hunt as soon as they wake! They find the empty baskets at the bottom of the stairs and go around hunting for mini eggs - with different colours for each child. At the end (in a much better hiding place) they find their larger (medium sized) egg. They can then eat some chocolate before breakfast!

I didn’t have an egg hunt as a child but I can certainly remember being allowed to eat chocolate before breakfast on Easter Sunday!

Don't prepare an outdoor Easter egg hunt in the garden the night before - my neighbor did this once, only for her kids to find scrunched up coloured foil all over the garden next morning and no chocolate!
The foxes had got there first, so she had an emergency dash to corner shop on Easter Sunday to replace them!
😮🤷‍♀️

Small eggs (creme egg size or smaller) are hidden all around our downstairs before we go to bed. Then we all have to get up at the same time to come down and the dc run around scooping them up. It is harder now they are teens and go to bed at the same time as us but still want the tradition.
I don’t know how anyone with small children could miss out on them running round all excited about the eggs the Easter bunny has laid.
The best thing is the eggs that get found later in the year. I think the latest was when cleaning to put the Christmas tree up.

We never had an Easter Egg Hunt, it’s not a thing, where I live. We’d just be given our eggs. Some kids would get several eggs from aunties, neighbours etc… We never did that, either. DS will be getting an egg, a toy, some stickers & sweets.

Easter eggs on table, for breakfast
.. that's it really.

Same, and chocolate for your birthday, (as well as birthday cake for breakfast the day after!).

We always have birthday cake for breakfast after each birthday in the house 😆

Last year for my 2 y/o I made a little trail of chocolates from bedroom to living room where a basket of more chocolates was waiting. I think I did same the year before, so planning that again for my now 3 y/o and 1 y/o and I'm adding a book each, a soccerball for my 3 y/o and a stuffed bunny for the baby. If the weather is dry I'm placing little bundles tied with ribbon to find in the garden (plastic eggs sold out). Breakfast will be choc chip pancakes with berries and whipped cream. I've got bunny ears for them to wear when they wake up and look for chocolates. We've "visited" the Easter bunny twice: once at the Easter train where there was a train ride, egg hunt and meet EB to exchange eggs for a gift bag and take a pic and the 2nd was at the aquarium where EB dons scuba gear and swims in the big seal tank and greets kids at the observation windows for pics.

Not sure I'm explaining very well 😵‍💫 ... links are better!

https://www.bctrains.com

https://www.vanaqua.org/explore/special-events/spring-break/

Neither did I have but have done one for my now five year old nephew for the past two years. I absolutely love it. The bunny has been and hidden ten prizes (Cadbury crème egg, some jellies, a Pez sweet thing, a cookie baking kit, a water pistol, bubbles, slime, a sticker book and finally his Easter egg from me/the bunny). He’s coming round at 5pm and I cannot wait. If you’ve got the time it’s lovely seeing their excitement.

We never had the hunt when we were kids but never had the eggs restricted. Once it was Easter Sunday we could have the, whenever we liked.

My 11yr old is making up stories!… She said to me yesterday that she used to really love it when she opened the door to go out and there was an Easter egg on the door step. We have never done this!!! But she’s insisting we used to when she was little 😅

We’re hide the big eggs around the house usually, for them to find in the morning.

The when we’re out and about we do a hunt with little eggs wherever we are.

Today we’re out climbing in Yorkshire, so I’ll dot them about the crag for her

DS picked his egg at the supermarket on Friday and made a start on it yesterday. I told him to save a little bit for today so he’ll probably finish it off this afternoon. I wondered whether to give him some with breakfast but he hasn’t mentioned it so we’ll save it for later. He has barely any left to be fair!

We used to hide (in fact we still do for eachother!) and go on a search around coffee time. I guess DC were used to that and never expected chocolate first thing in the morning.

The sooner the better

Eggs are hidden and DD either hunts before or after breakfast. She (and I) also had chocolate for breakfast together with Hot Cross buns. DH prefers a real boiled egg.

I also make a small basket with chocolate eggs and a bunny for each of us.

We do eggs at the breakfast table for breakfast chocolate....