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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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Blort · 09/04/2023 00:21

If your washing can get "the dark" on it I feel like Easter Eggs definitely would!

Pheefifofuckthisshit · 09/04/2023 00:34

"Animalsoffartingwood · Yesterday 23:13

True.
.....

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

Best MN comment ever. 🥇

mathanxiety · 09/04/2023 00:45

The Bunny leaves all the chocolate in individual Easter baskets inside the house where I live. The baskets are filled after the DCs are in bed. There's usually some little trinket along with the chocolate - pack of markers, etc.

What your kids are thinking of is surely an Easter egg hunt?

TooOldForThisNonsense · 09/04/2023 00:54

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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Same. Do people actually do the Easter bunny in the same kind of vein as Santa? We never did. My kids just got eggs from
relatives and I might have done an egg hunt but not the Easter Bunny bringing eggs.

TempletonTheRat · 09/04/2023 02:21

The Easter bunny is most definitely a thing in our house. The children love it. I have always hidden the smaller foil wrapped eggs all over the house. Completely at random - none of this treasure hunt, clue, map nonsense that takes up too much of my time lol.

The children love waking up Easter morning and tearing the house down looking for the odd places the pesky Easter bunny has left the eggs. Inside their shoes, plant pots, chair rails, chairs, stairs, shelves. They get a bunch of the small foil ones as well as a big one and maybe a Lindt bunny or something similar.

Snugglemonkey · 09/04/2023 02:39

I have mine out. They are usually in plastic eggs, but I cannot find them for the life of me and I am so hoping nothing eats them!

Goldbar · 09/04/2023 03:11

DH takes our DC to the park opposite to "stake out" the front of the house and watch for the Easter bunny. I tell DC that I'll keep a watch from the upstairs window and phone daddy if I see him. Meanwhile, I rush around the house and garden hiding the eggs.

DC gets distracted by swings/ slides/ other children ("just one swing, daddy, you keep watching") and they and DH often end up staying at the park for an hour or so. I have time for a quiet coffee and some breakfast after hiding the eggs. I then stick some cotton balls to the top of our fence, photograph them and send a picture to DH. DC and DH return home. I tell DC "I heard him but when I rushed downstairs, all I could see was what looked like his tail disappearing over the fence. He left this for you though." DC then gets an envelope containing the first clue of the hunt.

I'm not sure how our Easter has developed this way but our DC does actually believe that a giant rabbit breaks into our house and garden to leave chocolate for him 😂 . Hopefully they won't be too traumatised when they rumble us!

Forgottenmypasswordagain · 09/04/2023 03:19

We always did it inside.

RockhoppersLovePoppers · 09/04/2023 03:45

I've legitimately never heard of this as Thing. Is this new or did I have a weird childhood?

LumpyLoo8 · 09/04/2023 05:40

I’m awake and waiting to sneak outside for Easter Bunny duty.

I didn’t want to risk putting them out last night in case they became a midnight feast for bugs & wildlife.

Eldest is at the point of definitely knowing that it’s me, but desperately trying to keep the magic alive, so she’ll be disappointed if she catches me in the act. Youngest is much easier as he’s pretty laid back and easier to distract.

Just hoping the dog doesn’t wake everyone up when he hears me go outside.

WeWereInParis · 09/04/2023 06:00

We do it indoors. I hid eggs round the living room last night.

lifechanginglemoncake · 09/04/2023 06:19

I set up a simple trail in the house last night and a note from the Easter bunny. Note says he bunny got muddled and left some things in the wrong place. Six things in the wrong places, putting the first one away leads to the next one, mini chocolate egg at each location leading to a larger stash. Also everything is hidden so hopefully not disturbed until I 'find' the note in the morning.

Forgooodnesssakenow · 09/04/2023 06:23

Same, stuck under cosleeping toddler and fell asleep, woke at 5 with toddler, got her back to sleep, snuck down, popped a basket with a cuddly toy Infront of bedroom doors, his chocolate eggs around living room and dining room and snuck outside to hide plastic eggs with little toys in around the garden and now I'm back in bed. Threw a load of washing on since I was up 😂 what a helpful Easter bunny, getting the laundry started

LumpyLoo8 · 09/04/2023 06:31

Success! I’ve just finished and they still appear to be asleep.

Neighbour caught me creeping round the garden in my pyjamas though!

Snoozingagain · 09/04/2023 06:34

I usually do a hunt with clues leading to the next one with a gift at the end,. I couldn't be arsed this year so just left a basket at the back door outside with some eggs and bits, lucky my kids don't get up early so just sorted it out now. Happy Easter! 🐣

Speedweed · 09/04/2023 06:34

TooOldForThisNonsense · 09/04/2023 00:54

Same. Do people actually do the Easter bunny in the same kind of vein as Santa? We never did. My kids just got eggs from
relatives and I might have done an egg hunt but not the Easter Bunny bringing eggs.

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Thank you @Beginningless , @mistermagpie @TooOldForThisNonsense !

I've been reading this thread with growing horror (not another bloody thing that I am not doing to worry about!), and am so glad there are dissenters. When I was a kid, no believing in the easter bunny was required - we knew the eggs came from our parents, they were just sat on the side for us. No egg hunt. When we got older, and my mother got fed up of seeing how quickly we ate them, she came up with written clues for a few years, which were really hard to deliberately slow us down.

Glad I won't be the only one continuing to say we give each other eggs to symbolise new life, not this easter bunny creature!

Flavabobble · 09/04/2023 06:35

I did mine mainly indoors with rhyming clues as a treasure hunt. There'd be the of creme egg with a clue. Thinks like:
"I'm the Easter bunny,
I think that I'm quite funny,
For your next clue,
Would you like a poo?"
And it would be on top of the toilet etc

Bigoldmachine · 09/04/2023 06:36

As a child I never ever did an egg hunt. Weep for me!

I jest. I was not in the least bit bothered, it just wasn’t a thing! We did get eggs from family though.

for my own kids I do a little Easter egg hunt in the garden, but there’s no Easter bunny…. I just go out and hide them, and then they do the egg hunt?! It never occurred to me to do it all in secret or pretend a giant bunny had been.

Flavabobble · 09/04/2023 06:37

And I was brought up Catholic, I was having none of the religious overtones foisted on my kids

kikisparks · 09/04/2023 06:38

Is this a new thing? I believed in the Easter bunny as a child but he left one large Easter egg on my bed to wake up to, there wasn’t a lot of little ones to search for. Maybe my parents didn’t do it “properly” but their way seems much simpler!

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 09/04/2023 06:40

Easter Bunny is easy, it's the August Bank Holiday Unicorn we have trouble with...

...and then this year there's the Coronation Chicken to contend with too.

Where will it all end? 😰

NY152 · 09/04/2023 06:51

I hide plastic eggs outside and then they can trade them in for the good ones when they come in. Definitely trying to avoid the Easter bunny though, although apparently my 4years olds teacher told him it’s definitely the bunny who brings them. Which seems to have led to him thinking that rabbits lay eggs now 😂

Oysterbabe · 09/04/2023 06:55

You tell them it's too early to go out because you'll wake the neighbours then one of you takes them off to get dressed while the other hides them.

GodSaveTheClean · 09/04/2023 06:58

Wow. I thought I was pushing it with an Eastery breakfast table and some chocolates in a bag each.

I had no idea the EB was such a huge part of this weekend. Even growing up I thought it was a silly notion.

Reluctantadult · 09/04/2023 06:59

This is the thread i was looking for! My kids are 8 and 5 and they've suddenly decided the Easter bunny comes overnight. I don't know where this has come from, I don't have eggs to hide, juste a single egg to give them later. I've had to just tell them the Easter bunny isn't like father Christmas. My 5yo is about to cry!

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