Page 2 | To not know how to do the Easter bunny?

pastaparadise · 2022-04-16T22:52:24+00:00

Posting here as I can't find chat and need some answers before I go to bed soon! Dc are 7 and 5. Both still believe in the Easter bunny. How do people hide eggs in the garden without them seeing?? Both are early risers so doing before they get up would mean alarm at 5-5.30 ish... Dp says to distract with the iPad and do it in the morning, but they are both so excited I don't think it'll work. Both our living areas face onto the garden so I'd be quite obvious. I don't want to leave them overnight as we have badgers visiting which I think would nibble them. Any top tips?

TechGinny · 17/04/2022 00:58

Get your OH to chuck them in the bath while you hide the eggs - if you have any glow sticks, give them a special Easter disco bath 😁

WelshyMaud · 17/04/2022 01:04

We've never done it in the garden...always around the house!

Cherrysherbet · 17/04/2022 01:05

Did it outside once and put the eggs in little cardboard bowls with shredded paper to look like nests. Got them ready the night before, and popped down to quickly hide them in the morning ( told the kids to wait upstairs while I check to see if the bunny has been!). Can’t be arsed this year, so it’s inside 😁

MissedItByThisMuch · 17/04/2022 01:06

I do coded/cryptic clues and riddles leading from one hiding place to the next. This seemed easy when they were little and I didn’t have to think very hard. Now they are 15-19 and it’s become an Easter tradition - every year I ask if we can stop, but they love it and always ask to continue. It’s much much harder now that they are older and cleverer than me, but I really enjoy doing it. In answer to you actual question I do it indoors the night before for the reasons you mention. Although them getting up too early is no longer an issue!

NotSure94 · 17/04/2022 01:08

You can download a multitude of series of generic clues online. Obv requires printer but marginally less brain space needed to set it up when you are half asleep.

TheChosenTwo · 17/04/2022 01:13

I never built up any expectations or excitement over an Easter bunny but always just hid eggs small eggs/treats around downstairs and in the garden, weather permitting.
I’m just about to do the downstairs ones now and then in the morning I’ll just come down and Chuck a few about in the garden. Our garden is very boring for an egg hunt, no plants/bushes, just lawn and patio so no really good hiding places although there are things in it to hide things behind. Can’t do it too early because previously they have melted if the weather was nice!

Giraffesandbottoms · 17/04/2022 06:37

We have told DC that the Easter bunny is very shy and will only
Come if they are out - DH will take them to feed the ducks whilst I hide the eggs in the garden.

Aug12 · 17/04/2022 07:10

Easter bunny leaves Easter baskets with goodies in the living room so this keeps my 4yr old happy over breakfast... I have to hang a load of washing out in the morning ;) that’s my chance but I have to be quick. Happy Easter

Minesril · 17/04/2022 07:12

We have a tradition that we buy the big fancy eggs which the DC know are from us. We put them out the night before 'for tomorrow'. The Easter Bunny steals them! And hides them at the end of a trail (a mini egg with each clue). One year DS designed an 'Easter Bunny Trap'

Normanpriceisnotarolemodel · 17/04/2022 07:15

Do you not have curtains? I just shut the curtains so they can’t see. But am also open about it being me hiding them.

DatingAWidower22 · 17/04/2022 07:18

I’ve just put ours outside. One in the sandpit and a big one in the Christmas tree! The rest are in the house.
Chucked son the iPad and went to ‘make coffee’

Hugasauras · 17/04/2022 07:20

Ours were always in the garden! Doing one for DD and a pal out there later today. But when I was a kid, it was very clear it was my mum etc. setting it up. The clues had to get more elaborate as I got older, by the end there were clues in different languages, puzzles, riddles, etc I really loved our egg hunts.

You can get large plastic hollow eggs that clip shut that you can put stuff inside and it will be fine overnight, although a bit late to be of use this year! I would either do it super early and back to bed or make DH entertain and distract for a bit while I dotted them around. Or just do inside if they'll find that as exciting.

PeonyRose80 · 17/04/2022 07:21

My 10 yr old caught me hiding eggs this am - whoops

LoisLanyard · 17/04/2022 07:24

The Easter bunny was never a thing for us growing up, and it was really surprising when my kids were little to hear parents whispering about the bunny and their plans. How did I miss this whole cultural reference! My kids have never been told there is a bunny - its much easier this way, they stay inside when I hide some eggs outside and then off they go to find them. Honestly, is it the bunny or the chocolate they care about? I suspect it is the latter so you could stop the 5am wake ups by dropping the idea of a bunny delivering eggs…

OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea · 17/04/2022 07:24

It has never been a first thing for us, generally and then to walk and get the paper with dh then hide them.

One year I just put them on their bedroom window sills. It was amazing, they searched the garden, the house, the park, back to the garden and were getting very distressed, I had to drop huge hints about how nice and light and sunny it was and how lovely it was not to have to have lights on with the curtains open.

Giraffesandbottoms · 17/04/2022 07:25

@Minesril

I love this! I’m stealing this idea (like the Easter bunny apparently steals eggs!)

Unexpecteddrivinginstructor · 17/04/2022 07:28

@MissedItByThisMuch

I do coded/cryptic clues and riddles leading from one hiding place to the next. This seemed easy when they were little and I didn’t have to think very hard. Now they are 15-19 and it’s become an Easter tradition - every year I ask if we can stop, but they love it and always ask to continue. It’s much much harder now that they are older and cleverer than me, but I really enjoy doing it. In answer to you actual question I do it indoors the night before for the reasons you mention. Although them getting up too early is no longer an issue!

I feel your pain. Only done half the clues so far and can't just get clues from the Internet as they will Google! Might have to resort to Google translate and do as @Hugasaurus suggests and write some in a different language. At least getting them to sit in their darkened bedrooms for some of the day is not an issue anymore.

lollipoprainbow · 17/04/2022 07:29

I leave a basket of treats on the doorstep (inside) for my dd10 to find. Gutted that 2 of the large eggs have melted as I had to keep moving them round the House to stop her finding them.

violetbunny · 17/04/2022 07:29

My parents clearly couldn't be arsed with all this egg hiding business. Our eggs turned up next to our beds in the morning in a basket with ribbons. I think they got delivered there once we were asleep.

TitoMojito · 17/04/2022 07:29

My eggs were never hidden when I was a kid. They'd just be sitting on the living room table haha! Easter bunny wasn't very creative at my house

Whelmed · 17/04/2022 07:41

This year I've done a box of clues for my DC. It holds 5 items that link to the places where the eggs are hidden. Simple ones for dc3 and trickier ones for dc8.

SpidersAreShitheads · 17/04/2022 07:52

This is a really big thing in our house. Every year I wonder why the hell I do this to myself haha!

We do a trail around the house because of the risk of weather/animals nibbling them outside. The trouble is that our current house isn't especially big and we have a dog.

Our Easter Bunny arrives mid-afternoon. We take the dog out for a walk to the park over the road and then just as we're leaving I suddenly need the toilet and say I'll meet them over there. I sprint back inside and frantically dash around the house hiding eggs in the pre-determined spots. I always wonder why the kids never ask why going for a quick wee makes me sweat 😅

Our Easter Bunny leaves a letter with all the clues (written the night before so it's all ready for me to follow when I put the eggs and sweets out). There are 33 clues this year (they don't have 33 Easter eggs!!! Most clues are for something small, like a mini packet of Easter Haribos etc). We draw it out as the DC really LOVE the Easter hunt. We actually do a spooky one around the house at Halloween too (they are autistic and don't trick or treat).

The letter from the Easter Bunny takes ages to write. This is because - very stupidly - I decided years ago that all the magical entities would write in swirly calligraphy. So that's the Easter Bunny, Meany Boney (our Halloween skeleton), our Elf on the Shelf, Santa and the Tooth Fairy (although the latter's writing isn't just swirly but teeny tiny too, just for added pain). This year's Bunny letter is three A4 sides. Don't even ask how bloody long it took me to write out in the stupid swirly shitty writing 🤦🏻‍♀️😅

I know it sounds bonkers but they absolutely adore it. And I love watching them get all excited about the clues.

jacqelinedaniels · 17/04/2022 08:12

Loving reading these! I went all out with the treasure hunt clues for ds during main Covid, we lost our dog at Easter time and I wanted to cheer him up. Only now he loves it and still believes in the Easter bunny despite my gentle hints (he’s 9). I didn’t have the energy this year for creating complex clues but was delighted this morning with the success of my plan of anagrams! He had a little poem at the start explaining he had to unscramble the words and find a new anagram at each spot around the house. He loved it and it was a lot less effort. Thinking ahead, as I can’t see him letting this go (and I do love seeing him so excited) I will have to borrow the poster above’s foreign languages idea for sure! I hide the eggs once he’s gone to bed the night before btw, much easier.

Porkbuttsandtaters · 17/04/2022 08:26

You’re all making me feel a bit guilty. DC have just asked me when are you going to hide the eggs mummy and I’ve told them after this cup of tea
I do Santa properly honest

speckledrose · 17/04/2022 08:30

We do an egg hunt inside. I put the eggs inside those plastic eggs that we reuse every year so they could go outside, but I don’t think the neighbours would appreciate the shrieks of excitement at 7am! No clues - they just have to hunt for them, and the trail leads to their main eggs. My parents didn’t do any of this when I was younger - we just got given our eggs.I love seeing the children excited about traditions like the egg hunt.