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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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Trainstrike · 09/04/2023 07:00

Yes I'm another one who had no idea Easter was a thing either. Now I'm panicking slightly as my children have never been aware there's a real Easter Bunny and I'm concerned they may have "ruined" Easter for a child who believes there is one!

In actual fact we don't even get Easter eggs for our children because they get 3 or 4 each from their grandparents, so they're genuinely waking up today to nothing because their grandparents visited earlier this week...

We go all out for Christmas so it's not that we're some house of non-believers who are too grown up for occasions, I just never remember Easter being a big deal.

LumpyLoo8 · 09/04/2023 07:00

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? 😰

🤣🤣🤣

ohh I definitely think we need coronation chickens!

DiscoBeat · 09/04/2023 07:07

We don't hide chocolate around the place as we have a dog. We do clues and a £1 inside refillable plastic eggs, leading up to a stash of chocolate hidden in the house.

SushiSuave · 09/04/2023 07:43

The Easter Bunny was up at 6 here, DS woke up at 6.15! It was a close call!

SushiSuave · 09/04/2023 07:44

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? 😰

😂😂😂

cadburyegg · 09/04/2023 07:50

I'm a single parent and couldn't guarantee the dc wouldn't see me sneak out so I hid them last night with a torch. I put most of them under flowerpots or in similar containers so hopefully they haven't been eaten by anything! We'll see soon enough (told the dc we have to wait til 8.30)

TheShade · 09/04/2023 08:02

Do it inside the house!

nimski · 09/04/2023 08:02

Ours leaves a basket of goodies inside 🐰

DrHousecuredme · 09/04/2023 08:03

Trainstrike · 09/04/2023 07:00

Yes I'm another one who had no idea Easter was a thing either. Now I'm panicking slightly as my children have never been aware there's a real Easter Bunny and I'm concerned they may have "ruined" Easter for a child who believes there is one!

In actual fact we don't even get Easter eggs for our children because they get 3 or 4 each from their grandparents, so they're genuinely waking up today to nothing because their grandparents visited earlier this week...

We go all out for Christmas so it's not that we're some house of non-believers who are too grown up for occasions, I just never remember Easter being a big deal.

I hide the Easter eggs but I don't think DS has ever believed that a large, magical bunny brought them.
I didn't really know it was so much of a "thing" though.

WonderingWanda · 09/04/2023 08:06

He visits indoors in our house.

GreenMarigold · 09/04/2023 08:07

My kids also believe in the Easter Bunny despite never having pretended there is such a character!! I don’t have it in me to break the illusion.

I got up at 6:30 and hid the eggs round the garden. Every year I think this is the year they are going to wake up and catch me but I’ve got away with it so far!

TeamSleep · 09/04/2023 08:12

OP I hope your eggs survived the night outside! I got up at 6:30 to hide them, DC went looking for them at about 7am and they were already covered in little tiny slugs!

BillyDeanisnotmylover · 09/04/2023 08:26

Just hide them inside. Upstairs while they’re downstairs eating breakfast and downstairs while they brushing their teeth.
And don’t worry, when they eventually find out it’s you, they won’t love it any less. I had hoped to avoid doing it this year with a 16 and 14 yr old, but they gave me the puppy eyes and said it’s their favourite tradition of the year 🤷‍♀️

WhisperingAutistic · 09/04/2023 08:35

My 2 are nearly 9 and 7 and have never mentioned the Easter Bunny.
I just buy them eggs and put them on the table for them when they wake up.
They are doing egg rolling and having an egg decorating competition at Church later.

MissMaple82 · 09/04/2023 09:03

Sylvaniandysfunctionalfamily · 08/04/2023 22:28

I just used to get up early and do it then...didn't want soggy eggs after sitting out in the dew all night. Sometimes we used to do treasure hunts indoors if the weather was bad.

They don't go soggy!

MissMaple82 · 09/04/2023 09:04

Whoiscomingtosaveyou · 08/04/2023 23:11

Easter isn’t about a magical bunny.

Oh do fuck off

MissMaple82 · 09/04/2023 09:07

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

Or maybe you were just in an odd family that kept the magic away? I'm 40 and we did the egg hunt as a children, so did all my friends and family.. I have always done it with.my children and their friends always did it. I'm in the Uk also. It's not a new thing from America at all !!

Inanun2 · 09/04/2023 09:28

I also thought Easter Bunny was just on American films.
My children are older but no one I know with young children do the Easter Bunny thing.
Quite sweet and imo a lot less irritating than Christmas Eve boxes and elf on the shelf that has crept in recently from no where.
You could make little easy clues to make a treasure hunt then the treasure is a pile of eggs in the living room ?
Happy Easter

Inanun2 · 09/04/2023 09:29

To add we did Easter egg hunts it was just was eggs from us not Easter bunny

Pasithean · 09/04/2023 09:32

All this shit stopped when my nan came and served Easter rabbit pie

Geranium1984 · 09/04/2023 10:09

I left a basket/hamper style thing of eggs for the whole family just inside the patio door.

TheFifthTellytubby · 09/04/2023 10:53

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? 😰

This. I WANT there to be a Coronation Chicken! 😂

JulieHoney · 09/04/2023 11:02

We’d do egg hunts but no Easter bunny, the damned tooth fairy was hard enough.

I so very in favour for the Coronation Chickens. Do they bring crowns?

thegrain · 09/04/2023 11:02

TheFifthTellytubby · 09/04/2023 10:53

This. I WANT there to be a Coronation Chicken! 😂

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OH MY GOODNESS THATS GENIUS

thegrain · 09/04/2023 11:03

JulieHoney · 09/04/2023 11:02

We’d do egg hunts but no Easter bunny, the damned tooth fairy was hard enough.

I so very in favour for the Coronation Chickens. Do they bring crowns?

I think they'd lay eggs with crowns (ouch)