To not know how to do the Easter bunny?

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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?

I told my children you have an ‘Easter Mummy’ they think it’s hilarious, I hide the eggs in the morning after breakfast, they still find it fun.

Wrap mini eggs in tin foil and hide around the garden after they've gone to bed. This advice may be a little late now 😁

As a kid, as far as I know, no-one had their eggs hidden. I had never heard of the Easter bunny until about twenty years ago. My kids are always handed a large egg. Mind you, one dd often has her birthday at Easter so when she was little we sometimes did it at her parties.

Too late for you now but we have a garden full of squirrels and birds so I have told DS that the rabbit didn't want to put the eggs out overnight incase the wildlife ate them, so the bunny left me the eggs in a box with a note telling me where he wanted to hide them. Told DS Mummy will go out after lunch and hide them where the bunny wanted and then we have to find them quick before Mr Squirrel and Mr Magpie!

Like others we never really intended to do Easter bunny,but I blame school for the fact mine actually believe. I'm suspicious that my eldest (8) doesnt but my 6 year old does. We do an egg from Easter bunny and then we do bits from us- pjs, choc, cuddly etc. And we do the egg hunt ourselves in garden they know the Easter Bunny doesnt go to everyones house and hide eggs. I love Christmas but Easter Bunny I just cant get into!

Never heard of children believing in an Easter bunny. We did egg trails in the garden but they knew grandad hid them AFTER breakfast!

I enjoy reading about what everyone does.

We have a tradition of laying the table with egg cups and mugs for Easter breakfast the night before. In the morning the they have been filled with little foil wrapped eggs.
DC are now secondary age but still firmly wedded to the tradition, and were in the kitchen laying the table “for the Easter bunny” at 9pm last night.

We write cryptic clues for one another to find larger eggs - DH and I get one each too now, with clues written by the dc.

I never had this growing up- and we would have had an amazing garden for it, too! We did an egg hunt for my cousins little DC yesterday though. They were coralled around the front of the house with a new toy whilst we hid all the loot out the back.

My children know I hide the eggs (same age) - they ask when I’ll be hiding them and I insist that they go and play somewhere they can’t see the garden. Then we have lots of fun playing ‘hot’ and ‘cold’

Oh and there are two small chocolate eggs MIA in the garden. They will be found by children over the coming weeks

We don't do an egg hunt, we just tell them the Easter bunny is coming. Then we lay the eggs on the couch in their own little piles for them to come down to.

@Maternitynamechange

Please set up a camera to snap a badger eating an Easter egg!

Yes! I'd love to watch a badger eat an Easter egg

Easter bunny wasn’t a thing when I was little and we never did “egg hunts”, were just given eggs by family members,
With my kids we have done “Easter bunny” in quotation marks. So - OK kids, you watch TV because the “Easter bunny” is about to go and hide your eggs outside. They knew full well it was me wearing a headband with bunny ears, it was like a funny joke.

@FairyJuice

I keep telling mine that the Easter bunny isn't real (in a nice way) but the school keep filling their heads with it. It's ridiculous really!

Anyhow, I knock up 6-7 egg hunt questions and leave little treats at every point, with the main eggs at the end. All indoors.

The kids at school. The school wont be.

Lovely hearing about all these ideas! I left it til this morning and nipped out back early while they were distracted with the ipad... we don't have curtains downstairs but a big garden, so I managed to hide them down both sides out of view!

I'm doing a clue trail later to find an egg from us so will pinch some of these ideas

Not sure how I'll wean them off the Easter bunny but assume it fades like father Christmas.. . Happy Easter everyone!

We do an indoor hunt with clues, always done it this way but now they are 15 and 13 I'd hoped we could stop but no! Each year I'm trying to make the clues more tricky 🤣🤣

@Fedupsotired when our neighbours’ kids were about that age they transitioned into doing an Easter egg hunt for our young children. It was really lovely!

@NotSure94

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.

that's so helpful! thanks!