Did you do Easter hunts growing up?

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I was a child of the 80’s, teen of the 90’s…I remember going to one Easter hunt as a child at a neighbours across the road, I had no idea what to do.
My parents would get me an egg for Easter for the morning and my grandparents would get me one…I was happy with that as I knew no different. We don’t go over the top in our house but I do plan a lovely egg hunt for Dd, get her some bunny ears/t-shirt etc and we do Easter activities -paint eggs, make Easter nests etc.
I’m not trying to sound like I’m perfect, I just enjoy doing it and it isn’t a massive hassle…I didn’t do any of it..we painted eggs at school and did nests so I suppose my mum didn’t think we needed to do anything else. But when I think about it, it’s like that with so many things…I do so much more with Dd and I work, whereas my mum was a Sahm for years. She wasn’t an awful mum, I’m not saying that at all, but things seem so different these days…even dinners were easy and things you just bunged in the oven (fishfingers, Findus crispy pancakes, chips etc) then she’d maybe cook from scratch on a Sunday. Breakfast was cereal in a bowl, no fruits, avocado on toast, eggs etc really like a lot of people nowadays. I think of all the things I bust my ass over and wondered why it wasn’t like that then or why just she wasn’t (not sure if that was the case or all motherhood was similar back then)
The thing she did do differently to me was a lot more daily cleaning…I’m rubbish and hire a cleaner as a treat as I prefer to put effort into spending time with Dd when I’m home and make better meals in general than in the 80’s.
Why didn’t my mum or maybe it was lots of other mums? Do these things?

I was an 80's child and absolutely did egg hunts every year. I don't know anyone who didn't!

I do more craft stuff with my kids than my parents did with me but not as much as I like. Maybe a couple of times a year. They always bicker and make a mess (age range from 10yo to a toddler). I did more with the older two. lots of sensory activities when they were younger.

I'm a sahm too. I don't know, I'm struggling to wash and eat at the moment and have for the last maybe 3 years. Maybe your mother's the same? Life with children can be very monotonous and depressing.
When I was working with 3 kids I managed to keep the house clean, do loads of activities and go out after work, when I'm not working with 4 kids I just feel dead and worth nothing.

don't be too hard on her. it's certainly easier to work with children than not work and I've been on both sides.

oh I should say we do egg hunts and treasure hunts and drawing and stuff but painting and playdoh just wreck the place. Lots of gardening etc. But I still feel guilty despite doing 10x as much as my parents (which was 0) but I like crafts so maybe that's why.

@MissMaple82 God, really?

@bitcharming I understand as I was a Sahm for the first 4 years of my Dds life and it’s definitely very hard at times, not trying to be hard on her at all. But she also had many years we were at school all day too and we didn’t do these things after school or at weekends that’s all. I just wondered if we now as a mum/parent society just do shit loads more with our kids

Nope we never did one. We'd get a couple of eggs given to us during the day. There was no Easter bunny either, we knew they came from my mother. She too was a sahm. I don't recall her doing any crafts with us , playing games with us, even taking us out to kid centered activities much. We did crafts on our own and played on our own . We would go on walks or to the beach etc but not to play centres etc. My childhood was vastly different to my kids on the involvement of parents front

I never did one growing up. Used to get 10 plus eggs though, which seems ridiculous now!!

we do one for the kids. Usually with friends. Will be tomorrow though this year as DS had a friend over last night so didn’t do it this morning

I was an 80s child and we did one every year. Was great fun.

@Blinkingheckythump Exactly the same for me…was this the 80’s? Do you put it down to being a different time? Why were they so different in their ways?
My Dd goes to a couple of clubs-ballet, swimming…I never went to any, when I asked Dm how come, she said I never asked 🤷🏻‍♀️But I had no idea about them, where was the guidance…just feels so different now

@Xmasfairy86 I remember friends getting 10 odd eggs 😂

I was a 90’s child and never did an egg hunt. Never went trick or treating either.
We had cereal or toast too.
Both my parents worked full time

Easter egg hunts were common for me in the 70's and 80's. Clues, solving riddles, searching for chocolate eggs. And teen ds's : at school, after school club, football, church, most places do them.

We didn't do egg hunts as such but my parents used to do these treasure hunts where you had to follow clues (in the car) the winner used to get a prize. There would generally be a big Easter one.

@Morningcoffeeview Yes, trick or treating too! None of that…although my mum got sweets in for the ones that came around to knock on, but we never did it or dressed up etc

Another 80s child/90s teen here. We had an Easter egg hunt sometimes, if it was a year we happened to be visiting my dad's parents. Not sure it ever occurred to my parents. And they were just small eggs, maybe 5 or 6 each. Never any pretence they were from the Easter bunny or anything.

Did do activities; Brownies, gym, dancing.

Never did nothing for Halloween though. Trick or treating, decorating for it etc was entirely unknown and I still find it weird anyone in England doing anything for it.

Grew up in the 80s and don't remember ever doing an egg hunt or anything to do with the easter bunny. Would get an Easter egg from parents, grandparents etc.

Never did an Easter egg hunt growing up in the 80s, and don’t feel that I missed out . My mum now organises a (very low-key) hunt for my children (her grandchildren) every year, but I don’t feel jealous or anything!

No, it wasn’t something we ever did, nor did we do anything at all for Halloween. I was born in ‘92

80s child here too. We didn’t do anything for Easter other than get given an egg. We did nothing for Halloween either (no fancy dress, no trick or treat). We did Santa, and some Christmas crafts but my mum didn’t organise or join in the crafts- it was just something me and my little sister did on our own. We did one day out a month, normally a picnic but a couple of times a year my dad would take us swimming and we always went to Blackpool Illuminations. When we were preschool age my mum would take us to the duckpond or playground on the way home from the shops every 2 or 3 weeks. We mostly entertained ourselves playing in the garden, or the cul-de-sac when older, reading, writing, colouring or doing jigsaws etc.
My mum cleaned a lot more than I do, and did more laundry. She worked part time, I work full time. We both cook(ed) every night, though she used more jars and packets (pesto is the only pre prepared sauce I use).
I tend to take my dc out most weeks for a day out- often a walk and an explore still! When they were younger we did more crafts/ play, now it’s more likely seasonal eg Christmas decorations, Easter stuff. When they’re off school we do 2-3 things a week like swimming, climbing, ice skating, cinema, bowling, local events, riding too.

I'm actually really surprised this was a thing, I just assumed this was one of those new things that shops invented to make you buy more eggs!

We got given an Easter egg in the morning from the Easter bunny. I genuinely didn't think anyone did more than that when I was small, apart from some people maybe getting more eggs.

My mum is quite into crafts and making stuff so nothing to do with that

@Howmanysleepsnow Sounds the same as my upbringing, we went to Blackpool and the illuminations etc too. Perhaps it was just the way things were then and we put or too much pressure is put on us now…must have been freer/more relaxing back then in many ways

Nope. Never heard of them over here until we had kids, and they became a thing we did.

I also assumed that play centres and soft play were recent inventions... This thread is blowing my mind

I think times were different, but it also depends on the family. Nowadays craft items are ten a penny in pound shops and there's such a commercial push and craft items for every event. I really don't think that was the case in the 80s. Don't be hard on your Mum OP, in twenty years your dc will be making threads about what you did and didn't do.

Egg rolling ( down hills) and welly throwing here!