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To ask how I do the Easter Bunny?!

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HallidayGranger · 08/04/2023 22:15

OK my kids very much believe a large, smartly dress Bunny comes at night and leaves chocolate eggs hidden in the garden for them to find on Easter morning. Why? I don't really know. Om not sure I ever actually told them this but nevertheless this is what they are expecting and they're VERY excited this year. Its cute. They're little. I want to let them be little.

In our previous houses this has been easy to pull off (breakfast room and bedrooms not overlooking garden, or just much easier for me to sneak put early while they eat breakfast) however our new house both kids bedrooms overlook the garden and they wake up earlier than the sun, and will.no doubt have eyes glued on the garden from the moment they wake. The breakfast table overlooks the garden also.

I'd planned to put the eggs out before bed but got stuck under a baby till after dark. Now I'm in a panic because I can't figure out how I get the flipping eggs into the garden 🤣😭🤡

If the Bunny comes to your house how do you pull it off?

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JudgeRudy · 08/04/2023 23:01

Rooky error. Plan the hiding places before hand and make a map so you know you've found them all. You're just going to have to go out in the dark....or get up very early. I know which I'd prefer.

I think that's such fun. When I was a kid we didn't have an Easter Bunny, we knew exactly where they came from...the Co-op! We would clock them hidden on top of the kitchen cupboards or at the back of the pantry...just the one. Still it was a big treat. I didn't even like milk chocolate but I loved the shape and foil and the extras inside.

PaddingtonBunny · 08/04/2023 23:02

I did put them out the night before one year - about 30 or so of the little foil wrapped ones. In the morning we could only find two…
…I never found out if it was a squirrel, fox or rats…

veellygud · 08/04/2023 23:02

@HallidayGranger we just do it around the house or, this year, around the Airbnb cottage where we're staying. DH does a trail with cryptic clues. My boys are 19 and 16 now, but still love the Easter bunny. 😀

fuzzbearpenguin · 08/04/2023 23:03

When I was little the Easter bunny always hid the eggs in the downstairs rooms. Always some guaranteed behind the curtains and always a big one in the washing machine! 😆 I used to love searching for eggs!

specialsauce · 08/04/2023 23:08

The way I do it is:

you never know when the Easter Bunny is going to come.

Tt can be anytime of the day - usually when you least expect it, and the Easter Bunny can leave the eggs anywhere, but, he will always leave a little clue to show he's been (this is sometimes a couple of smarties, a flower, a broken bit of chocolate).

This has worked well as it's always strong in mystery so it doesn't matter where we are either home or away

Whoiscomingtosaveyou · 08/04/2023 23:11

Easter isn’t about a magical bunny.

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HallidayGranger · 08/04/2023 23:13

Haha OK thanks everyone I've just gone out in my wellies and dressing gown and hidden them! I think the chances of them being eaten is slim in our garden. .I hope 😨
Bloody freezing out there. At least Santa operates indoors!!!

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Animalsoffartingwood · 08/04/2023 23:13

Whoiscomingtosaveyou · 08/04/2023 23:11

Easter isn’t about a magical bunny.

True.
.....

It's about chocolate.
Chocolate. Our one true saviour.

May09Bump · 08/04/2023 23:14

Dad keeps them corralled upstairs, I go downstairs to check Easter Bunny as left :) All sorted. If you see the Easter Bunny like Father Christmas - the gifts or Easter Eggs disappear, so the little ones or big ones don't peek.

Those who don't believe in magic - don't comment :)

neslop · 08/04/2023 23:15

mistermagpie · 08/04/2023 22:57

I'm with you, this is baffling! I have three young children and none of them actually believe there is an Easter bunny, it never even occurred to me to present it that way. We do do a little egg hunt in the garden if the weather is ok, but they know it's us who hide the eggs and they don't seem any less enchanted by the whole thing (until the arguing starts, obviously).

I never believed this as a kid either, I think we just got eggs from relatives and things, I never believed in a bunny.

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So good to hear there are at least a few sane parents left! We still do Easter egg hunts for our kids, youngest is now 20, they have great fun, but we've never had to pretend that the easter bunny actually exists.

specialsauce · 08/04/2023 23:15

Is this thread making anyone else want to start on the chocolate?
Can the Easter Bunny come at the stroke of midnight?

May09Bump · 08/04/2023 23:17

Animalsoffartingwood · 08/04/2023 23:13

True.
.....

It's about chocolate.
Chocolate. Our one true saviour.

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Awesome response!

GrandmaWins · 08/04/2023 23:17

The eggs were never in the garden for me. The Easter Bunny hid them indoors.

Ladysaurus · 08/04/2023 23:19

Growing up the Easter bunny hid them round the house. Up north meant an increased likelihood of them getting rained on...

Tipofthemeltingiceberg · 08/04/2023 23:20

i’d get up at the crack or dawn!

Did it once at night and they were all covered in slug trails in the morning or had snail poo on them!

Sorry - just read your update - you don’t need to hear than now! Excitement for all of you in the morning as to what you’ll find!

Whatever you do, in a few years time start weening them off or you’ll still be doing the bastard thing post puberty!

UmbilicusProfundus · 08/04/2023 23:25

Easter bunny was never a thing when I grew up and I didn’t realise it was a fantasy I was supposed to fulfil until my son told me he didn’t believe in the Easter Bunny. Probably as the fucker never visited our house. Your world view changes to fit the available evidence I guess.

DrHousecuredme · 08/04/2023 23:25

Just do a treasure hunt style thing around the house instead?
Mine are all indoors, outside just adds another layer of difficulty.

Moonlightdust · 08/04/2023 23:28

I’ve always hidden them around the house. I’d never get up early enough before the kids to hide them in the garden and what if it was pouring with rain? 🤔
This year now they’re all that bit older, I’ve done a treasure hunt with clues - it might be more civilised than in previous years with the mad whirlwind rush! 😆

UndercoverCop · 08/04/2023 23:33

DS left a wicker basket by the back door with some carrots in, they've been exchanged for his egg and one each for DH and I

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 08/04/2023 23:37

Has to be inside here! I heard screaming outside the other night, every 10 seconds for like 10 minutes. I googled it and sounded like foxes calling for a mate 😁So eggs will be hid inside to prevent said foxes having a feast.

Prescottdanni123 · 08/04/2023 23:50

I actually did look out the window too early one year. My mum distracted me while my dad raced to put the stuff out. Then they got me to look again. Told me that Easter bunny had been running late and that ours was one of the last houses he had to call on this year.

mastertomsmum · 08/04/2023 23:52

Gosh things have changed 🫤 my DS is 17, the Easter Bunny was a thing we saw on American movies never something we did here in the UK. I used to do an Easter egg hunt, but there was never a suggestion that a bunny hid the prizes

Prescottdanni123 · 08/04/2023 23:52

If you are worried abut it though, just hide them in the house as others are suggesting.

mac1974 · 08/04/2023 23:53

Ugh. I've just got into bed. Totally forgot it's Easter tomorrow. Back downstairs I go.....

wejammin · 08/04/2023 23:58

I usually do plastic eggs in the garden with clues inside, which I hide the night before. The kids go out in the garden, find all the eggs then come inside to open them and the clues make a hunt for chocolate.
This year, we're in a holiday cottage with no garden so I got a kit from home bargains with a scavenger hunt and clues and I've just finished putting them all out. Kids will be raring to go by 7am and it will all be over by 7:30. Chocolate for breakfast!