What do you do on Easter and Halloween?

[mayflower21]

My DC will be 3 in the spring and I think might be interested in egg hunting. Also do they do egg hunting in nurseries?
What do you do when your child has allergies (mine has milk, egg, suspecting cocoa)?
Just tell them they can't? Any ideas?
Thank you 🙏

At Easter, you get him some free-from chocolate to give to the nursery for him to hunt?

Although my child’s nursery didn’t do hunting with actual chocolate - just fun eggs to find.

With Halloween Trick or Treating, carry your own free from treats around with you and give one to him every time he spots a pumpkin in the window?

2.5 is young to notice the lack of sweets or chocolate at Halloween though. I think you’ve got a few years yet. Mine doesn’t have any allergies, but I wasn’t giving them that sort of stuff at that age anyway.

With Halloween Trick or Treating, carry your own free from treats around with you and give one to him every time he spots a pumpkin in the window?

That's such a lovely suggestion

Tricky if it is cocoa too. Otherwise dairy free eggs they should be easier now as more people are vegans. My DD is now. Look in health food shops and Holland and Barrett. The thrill is the finding so you could use wooden eggs for all except the last and the final one could be an DF egg. If it is the cocoa as well perhaps a cake or jelly.
Halloween I think he a bit young for that. It can be scary for little ones. The pumpkin counting idea is a good one. My son lives in another village near us and last year in the village they asked people to put a pumpkin or a display so the children could go on a pumpkin trail instead of going to houses. It was very successful.

At Easter I get a branch I put into a plant pot with some packaging ( white polystyrene) and hang wooden eggs, rabbits and fluffy chicks.
Maybe put the emphasis on this and printing cards. Fingerprints of yellow and then draw on a beak and legs to give to relatives and friends. So lots of other activities rather than focussing on the chocolate. I did this with my children and still put a tree up for other children to see( we have no front garden) and one child had carob egg but the others only had an egg from Easter Bunny and one from us not the mountains some children get. It was the norm when I was a child but a lot of people over indulge kids nowadays. They don’t need it.

Have fun!🐇🐣🐥

My son is also allergic to cocoa. At Easter we use plastic eggs that open up and put sweets inside. For the egg hunt we have ones that are about the same size as creme eggs and sometimes get a larger cardboard one for his easter present.

Halloween has not been a problem either, and despite all the allergies has been one of his favourite days in the year. He just aims for sweets he knows are ok and I swap any he can't eat when home. We did have a strict no eating till home rule though and obviously only picked the wrapped sweets with readable labels.

Thank you all so much for your great ideas!
Yea I'm probably worrying a bit in advance haha as she is young, just want to be ready for when she starts paying attention to those things. She doesn't eat sweets, a piece of gummy bear is a rare treat I allow