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AIBU to retire from easter bunny duties.

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pourmeanotherglass · 04/04/2015 23:03

When DD1 was 3, her pre-school teacher told her that the Easter bunny hides eggs for children to find. So I did her a little trail with picture clues to find all the eggs. I've done some sort of trail every year since, and they are now in years 6 and 7 (ages 10 and 12).
DD1 clocked it was me a couple of years ago, but DD2 still says she believes in the bunny (I don't think she does really), and THE BUNNY ALWAYS HIDES THE EGGS. I've just done a trail tonight for them to find in the morning - but AIBU to think this is THE LAST, as the easter bunny doesn't really come to Secondary age children. It's been fun, but I'm running out of new ideas for clues.
Can I just give them the eggs next year?

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MrsFlannel · 04/04/2015 23:05

I feel your pain. I've just "hidden" ours for DDs aged 10 and 7. I don't do clues....scrapped that a year ago. I shove them in semi obvious corners of the house.

I was JUST thinking that I'd be doing this when they're 18 and 21!

987flowers · 04/04/2015 23:11

I normally do clues but this year have left a note saying that there are 6 eggs hidden in your room to find then go to the lounge!! My brain couldn't muster enough energy for clues tonight.

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pourmeanotherglass · 04/04/2015 23:11

I gently suggested that I'd heard the bunny sometimes just hid the eggs rather than doing clues, and the response wasn't good, so I did the clues.

I'm also wondering when they will grow out of bedtime stories.

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Besta · 04/04/2015 23:15

Ds has just come in from being out with friends. He's traumatised that he's seen that the Easter Bunny has already been before Easter Sunday.

He also hates presents under the tree before Christmas Day. It ruins the magic, apparently.

He's almost 17.

Dr0pThePirate · 04/04/2015 23:15

I've just done my first one this evening!

DS is three and I've hidden 10 little eggs around the house (They were from IKEA and really delicious). We've also put a cadbury's easter egg in a fancy cardboard egg holder-thing. We've not done any clues as I don't think DS would "get" them and the eggs aren't that well hidden anyway. I don't know what he'll make of it (besides sick obviously). He doesn't know about he easter bunny either, we've not mentioned it. He'll probably think it's Santa!

Amy106 · 04/04/2015 23:20

If you google "Easter bunny clue cards" images , you will find colourful ones with cute pictures ready to be printed off. They lead kids to places common to most homes and are a lot less work than writing your own

DustBunnyFarmer · 04/04/2015 23:26

We haven't even bought our kids eggs this year. They've been coming home from parties, school and after school club with eggs for the last couple of weeks. We figured they had plenty already, but now I'm wondering if we should have bought a couple.

frankie001 · 04/04/2015 23:28

I've just hidden my 12 year old nieces egg in a pack of sliced bread. She knows bunny isn't real but loves the hunt still!

CelibacyCakeAndFuckThePO · 04/04/2015 23:32

sod that.

The eggs get laid out in a neat pile. Then we do an egg hunt, no clues, for the plastic eggs filled with little sweets/chocolates.

This is DD's on the right (she's 11, told me she didn't want an egg so I have got her a magazine, a choc bar, a little cuddly toy, a book of mother/daughter quotes and some tat and decided last minute to get her a Malteaser Bunny egg that I could share with her ).

DS is on the right, he is 2 and I got him a Thorntons football egg, bubbles, a cuddly toy and a Guess How Much I Love You book. Everything else is from family and friends.

I love Easter. We have a tradition that we always thank Jesus for our eggs before we eat them.

AIBU to retire from easter bunny duties.

CelibacyCakeAndFuckThePO · 04/04/2015 23:33

oh dear, had wine, can't tell the difference between left and right. DD's is on the left and DS on the right.

FoxyVeganJane · 04/04/2015 23:47

I'm going to be a mythical childhood fantasy figure for a long time - dc are 2,4,6 and 8.

No clues usually put them outside but last year something ate them! So this year there is a storm tonight and eggs are hidden in house. No clues, the kids love finding eggs weeks later and teasing their siblings with the find - it then gets confiscated and shared. It's a beautiful tradition.

Kinda fluffed the tooth fairy 7 am this morning last night as I had no money so left gaudy clip on earings, dd was very and as she was awake when I tried to do the switch. I kinda think I'm busted but she isn't letting on so maybe I got away with it

DisappointedOne · 04/04/2015 23:56

2 words. Fuck. That.

DisappointedOne · 04/04/2015 23:59

Seriously, what's with the mini xmas-but-in-chocolate-egg-form pics all over Facebook? What a crock of shit!

Dr0pThePirate · 05/04/2015 00:02

Looks like someone didn't get an egg this year!

Welshmaenad · 05/04/2015 00:09

I've declined to photograph the egg piles. I don't want lingering photographic evidence of what they received that might potentially tip them off that I've eaten some.

shitebag · 05/04/2015 00:09

I've never done the Easter Bunny, does that make me a Grinch?

8yo DS doesn't seem too traumatised by just having an egg shoved at him in the morning and I doubt the 2yo will care.

oneplusoneplustwo · 05/04/2015 00:20

I think 10 & 12 is old enough to make this your last time. My 12yo is now the Easter Bunny and lays out the hunt and enjoys watching her younger 3 siblings follow her clues the next day.

ashtrayheart · 05/04/2015 00:26

I don't bother with this and the dog would probably find and eat them all!

DustBunnyFarmer · 05/04/2015 18:19

I've never done the Easter Bunny, does that make me a Grinch?

Me either, but going on some of the comments here, I am wondering if it just shows up my lack of a Facebook account.

DustBunnyFarmer · 05/04/2015 18:20

As in, I didn't even know it was a thing.

nooka · 05/04/2015 18:38

I didn't think that the Easter Bunny was a thing in the UK? My family has always done Easter Egg hunts, but usually in the garden or on a hill or somewhere and hidden by whoever feels like it, often a child. dh's family just had big chocolate eggs for breakfast.

We've not done either this year, no big eggs because where we live (in Easter Bunny land, North America) they don't sell them, just shaped things in quite nasty chocolate, and no little ones for hunts because dh's colour blindness means he isn't keen and it can be a bit of a downer.

CallMeExhausted · 05/04/2015 18:53

We are totally insane in this, I guess. The hunt is the fun, the "bunny" does not exist.

We have 2 dozen small plastic eggs that are hidden around the house. We use the same eggs every year. They are filled usually 12 with stickers, 6 with sweets (one wrapped sweet each, no ridiculous quantities) and 6 with coins.

The DCs know I hide them after bed. They search for them in the morning. This year, DS (16) asked to hide the eggs so his sister (9) could find them in the morning.

The Easter overkill is following every other damn holiday. Not for me, thanks.

Happy chocolate zombie rabbit day (or something).

LicoriceComfit · 05/04/2015 18:54

I genuinely had never heard of the easter bunny till I was in my early 30s when a colleague asked if Ia wad doing it for the kids. WTF? Honestly, one egg on day, what else do you need?

Now Santa, of course, I had heard of. But easter bunny, nope.

We used to roll hard boiled painted eggs though, they loved that.

littlejohnnydory · 05/04/2015 19:17

We do an egg hunt with clues and I'll carry on into their teenage years as long as they want to. The clues just get progressively harder as they get older. My children know there's no Easter bunny, we've never pretended there is but it's such a good laugh and family bonding thing doing an egg hunt. The eldest tried writing some clues himself this year, maybe they'll all get involved when they're bigger. Let the silliness continue, I say!

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