To ask how I do the Easter Bunny?!

[HallidayGranger]

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?

I would love to design a Lego figure for the Coronation Chicken. But product tie ins might start something 😂

Definitely not a thing where we lived when our son was little apart from the the time we spent in New York. However, that year we were in the UK for Easter.

Before you poo poo this one, we lived in a major UK university city.

They did! Thank god. One did have a tiny slug on but ds didn't seem bothered he just said "ooh a slug!" and picked it off 🤣🤣🤣

Exactly 👍🏼 we spent many a wet Easter devising clues to find plastic eggs hidden in the house. They often contained Lego mini figs. One year I did a band - guitar, sax, drum, punky hair pieces - one year a little farm build. Little choc eggs too

No I don't think so! My parents did it for me, which is why I now do it for my kids 🤷‍♀️ we had a big garden growing up and lots of kids in the hpuse so I think they just thought it was fun. So. I blame my parents 😄

Yes it is! A magical bunny who poops jelly beans. Happy Easter!

Reminds me of the time my BIL and family were over at the MIL’s house. His daughter - now 32 - asked her Dad what meat we were eating. He said “It’s goose, a bird like Jemima Puddleduck”. I’m always amazed she didn’t become a vegetarian after that.

Also, if you like the Easter Bunny tradition that’s fine and if it’s not something others bother with that’s also ok. So maybe lay off the swearing

Not all kids have Dads

I'm 38 and we had this when I was a kid And my parents are very anti-commercialism

We did this in the early 80s

the tradition has its origins in Germany but was a bigger thing in the US. I wonder if these things come and go in UK culture. The only bunnies were chocolate ones in the 1960s when I was growing up. Peter Rabbit etc might have made an appearance but not delivering eggs.

"Foisted!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We do an indoor treasure hunt. You set up by hiding the main eggs and writing a clue on a post it note. Hide the note and a few little eggs and write the next note, working backwards until all of the eggs are hidden. I'm not sure a bunny comes into it for us, as I heard my DC discussing how bad my handwriting is as they tried to decipher the clues.

This is a very good point, my mum still did Easter egg hunts for my sister and I until I stopped coming home for Easter (I was perhaps 23ish and my sister almost 30!)

Although our version of an easter egg hunt was a cryptic clue to the next location where you found a small egg (cadbury's creme egg size) and the next clue. This repeated, eventually leading up to the "big egg" or in later years a mini bottle of fizz (my mum really is the sweetest thing bless her - she'd still be doing them now if I was living closer to home!)

Easter Eggs represent new life ie: He is risen. This has been the case for two thousand and twenty three years.....! This is not new....!

@Trainstrike Yes I'm another one who had no idea Easter was a thing either.

😧 What? Easter is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's been "a thing" for over two thousand years.....🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

@SchoolTripDrama hence I said "and failing that cartoons...."

One year I did it before bed and they either got eaten by foxes or melted. I'm glad my dd isn't invested in the Easter bunny tbh

Glad it worked out for you OP! I usually do it before bed and never had any issues.

My parents did the eggs in the garden for me and my brother when we were kids and I remember so well the thrill of throwing open my bedroom curtains and looking out trying to spy the glint of colourful wrappers amongst the daffs. I used to find Easter just as exciting as Christmas and definitely believed it was a real rabbit that delivered the goods.

I think you'll find like most of the Christian festivals they hijacked it from the pagans a few hundred years AD

I was told to fuck off for suggesting Easter isn’t about a magical bunny…

My DParents hid the eggs in their garden this morning and a bird (or squirrel or something) pecked open one of them! So I think hiding them the night before is too risky