To ask what do your children think of the Easter bunny?

[sweetpea37]

My son 7 told me tonight he couldn't wait for the Easter bunny to come. He was dead serious. We never make a big deal out of Easter to us it's just a normal day and we buy dc a small gift rather than Easter eggs and they get too many from family members but we're always clear the gift comes from both me and DH. We're big into Christmas and I make Christmas very magical but I'm not sure if he is too old to believe in the Easter bunny. Any thoughts please? Thanks

When I grew up we often referred to the Easter Bunny rather ironically, both my brother and I knew it wasn’t real. We celebrated Easter with a lot of church, possibly a big egg from any family who might be visiting and a hunt in the garden.

I intended to continue this for my own children but my 6 and 3 yo evidently totally believe in the blasted bunny!! I’m not sure how to get out of it now!!!

(I should say, my children are all over the Easter Bunny, Father Christmas, the Tooth Fairy and other fairies... God, not so much, despite frequent attendance at church 🙄😂)

@LittleMissHappy19 aw that sounds great! Thats like the kind of thing my parents did for us and i have lovely memories of it. :)

I'm Canadian and despite living in the UK for several years (pre DS) I didn't realize you didn't do the Easter bunny. I just kind of naively thought the whole world does the Easter bunny and Easter egg hunts. We don't do presents. Just hunting down eggs and chocolate in our baskets full of Easter grass. And it has to be on actual Easter Sunday too.

We don’t “do” the Easter Bunny in this house. But I left the eggs on the landing outside the DCs rooms, and was woken to shouts of “the Easter Bunny’s been!” from the 11yo and 8yo so what do I know?

MY five year old came home from school telling me about the Easter bunny, we have never done ‘Easter Bunny’ and I’m not starting now either! I think it’s good for him to know Mum and Dad buy things too not just these mysterious characters.

Easter bunny has been here too. We don't do the bible stuff, just chocolate and fun
My Easter bunny must have arrived early because at 4am I was eating an egg while feeding my newborn. I thought there was no evidence but the small bits of dried chocolate on her pyjamas have betrayed me

They just look at me like I'm mad

We’ve never done the Easter bunny. It wasn’t part of either of our families traditions so not something we ever thought of doing. It doesn’t seem as widely believed as Father Christmas or even the tooth fairy.

We’ve never done the Easter Bunny either. DS did come home saying the Bunny came to school and hid eggs for them, and I just told him that in our house mummy and daddy write the clues and hide them. That’s our only nod to Easter though, I don’t see it as anything other than a nice long weekend where we eat chocolate eggs and hot cross buns!

We’ve never done it. Didn’t when I was growing up which is probably why.

We never did the Easter Bunny. We had our Easter Eggs given at breakfast on Easter Sunday with a token present from grandparents. Before going to Church. We then had an Easter tea with aunties and uncles in the late afternoon.

The easter bunny comes and leaves little chocolate treats on the fireplace for the kids.
Last year I didn't do it as youngest was 13 - big mistake!
The easter bunny came last night.
We still do Santa though - they are teens but leave their sacks out for Santa to fill on Christmas Eve.
It is all part of the magic and there has to be some fun in life.

@Whisky2014 it so magical isn't it when you are little! That's why despite me being told on MN, I'm a 'lunatic' and 'how dare I lie to my children, how could I do that to them?!' We still do and will do the Easter Bunny and Father Christmas..I remember the excitement of going to bed, desperate to sleep, knowing who was on their way!

I wish my mum was like yours though and still done egg hunts for me 😂
Your mum is my dream..Im off to phone mine, and tell her she needs to step it up a bit 😂😂

Happy Easter, hope you do well on the hunt..I'm not jealous one bit 🙈

Last year my 8 and 9 year olds asked for the truth and I admitted the Easter Bunny was me. This year my now 10 year old (ASD) seems to have forgotten.

DS1 did this with Father Christmas. He asked me to tell him the truth when he was 7 or 8, so I did and he was fine with it. Understood not to spoil it for his little brother/kids in his class etc. Next year - he completely believed again! I wasn't sure whether to say 'Er, you do remember the conversations we had last year, don't you?' or just let him enjoy believing again (opted for the latter and he was a non believer again by the next year)

It's not a thing in my house and we don't even bother with buying eggs...until t

LittleMissHappy19 yep exactly, you can really do lots of little things that don't take much time or effort and yet, to a child is so magical. I dont agree with the lying crap and the sending presents to FC so he can deliver them. What a load of crap. Stick to the story people!

Haha yep, mum spoils me! Happy Easter!

Easter bunny came for us last night..

Only comes if you believe; saves me a fortune in buying in buying eggs every year.

My two believe in the easter bunny at 9 & 7, i think its the last year though, DH is working today so was up early and i asked him to set the hunt out, eh.... yeah the easter bunny has got super lazy this year, a random wee egg on a stair then the rest on the rug in the livingroom dd1 looked a bit doubtful! Then dd2 asks why the Easter bunny goes to Marks and Spencer, i can't deal with such questions at 7 in the morning!!

My 8 year old has just asked me when we are going outside to look for the eggs the Easter bunny has hidden.... Hence dh is driving around trying to find a shop open... 😂😂😂😂

Never done it - Easter is sunrise service, rolling eggs down the hill at the Kirk and chocolate for breakfast. No decorations, bunnies or big get togethers. Guess I'm following what we did as kids 🤷🏼‍♀️

We never did the bunny either, we did egg hunts when small but they never bought into the whole bunny thing. They say it now older as a joke to see what eggs they have.

OP my 8 year old said to me last night in total seriousness, 'I really hope the Easter bunny comes tomorrow'. I was a bit surprised as we haven't talked about it. I had an egg each we were going to give the DCs but I hid them in the house in a little basket so they were from EB. I think it's endearing.

We didn't do the Easter bunny with our children but we had lots of fun with Easter egg hunts (did them like treasure hunts and the clues got more complicated each year). We're not religious, but their grandparents are/were so they saw the Christian connection and were free to take part if they wanted.

I didn't realise that some kids believed the bunny was real until I saw it on here. It makes sense, I suppose, as most families do Father Christmas but I also like the idea that they can know something is pretend and still find it exciting and magical.