What do you all do with regard to Easter pressie for children?

[joelalie]

Do you give chocolates …eggs or otherwise. Do you give presents or money instead. Don’t you bother?

DH reckons that we should give our three toys/books instead of chocolate. He, not unreasonably, worries about the amount of sugar that they will eat. I don’t agree – I think they have more than enough toys and giving them money will only make them more materialistic - the eldest 2 already love getting their hands on ready cash… I believe that if we are going to celebrate the festival at all it might as well be in a more traditional fashion (as a spring celebration rather than purely a Christian festival I mean) and give eggs of some kind. I don’t want it to turn into another feast of acquisitiveness. OK, I know sugar is not good for them but it’s not as if they are given a sugar-free diet the rest of the year anyway. Bear in mind also that whatever we decide the rest of the family will probably give chocolate anyway.

What is anyone else doing?

going to church.

How about a tresure hunt with clues leading to a present at the end....a small bag of bunnies or such like for them to share - we used to do this as a kid and LOVED it!!!

we were always given small presents growing up, skipping ropes and bubbles, thyat sort of thing, and had an easter egg hunt in the bac k yard.
but im not paticularly religious and my dds don'tg get anytnig for easter - though we do make decorataions and coloured eggs and go on an easter egg hunt. no other choc though, just the n=small foil eggs to hide kids (well most kids) alaready get so many things, I don't want my girsl thinking that Eastertime is a present giving holiday

With donnie on that one.
We have an Easter Egg Hunt on the day itself and swap Easter gifts (book usually) with mutual godparents/children.
We love Easter, I think it is the most moving and ultimately joyful Christian festival of the year.

We're not religious but I love Easter too. For me it is the start of spring and I really look forward to it as a celebration.
Only do chocolate here.

Presents at Easter???? why???? Dss and dd will get a chocolate egg each as always. What more do they need?

Hang on mmt, are the fish really for the dd's or for you?

mean mummy!!

Mum has always bought DD1, and now DD2 a summer dress for easter.

Last year we went to a farm type place on easter monday, saw sheep and lambs nad the like.

Agree with tarantula. What's with presents at easter?? You've been conned by all the marketing!Give them a hard boiled egg and some paint then take them to a hill or the top of your stairs!

"Agree with tarantula. What's with presents at easter?? You've been conned by all the marketing!Give them a hard boiled egg and some paint then take them to a hill or the top of your stairs!"

Thanks...most helpful. I have not been conned by any marketing thankyou. My family always celebrated Easter with the giving and receiving of eggs and I'm happy to continue the tradition even as a non-Christian. Just wondering what anyone else did.

My mum does the Easter hunt in their much bigger garden so I don't want to do it too. The kids are making gifts for relatives

mine are getting eggs - becuase well kids get eggs at easter and thats that. it must be so dissapointing to get a book instead of chocolate.

i would either enter into it or not. and if not - just ignore the whole thing.

i enter into it. and give eggs to rellies - we rarely get any back.

mine are getting eggs - becuase well kids get eggs at easter and thats that. it must be so dissapointing to get a book instead of chocolate.

i would either enter into it or not. and if not - just ignore the whole thing.

i enter into it. and give eggs to rellies - we rarely get any back.

Mine get pressents. Small ones.

Actually, the Easter bunny lays strings through the house, which the kids must follow. Small eggs along the string, also small presents (like tiny figures etc), then something big at the end (like a book).

We had an Easter bunny with strings when I was a kid, and it was great. The strings were in our family colours, and the routes the strings went got harder and harder as we got older. Particularly when we got to lay each others' strings out (then mom and dad would put the toys out on the strings after we were in bed).

How long were the strings?

Yeah it drives us nuts. We got eggs from the Easter Bunny when we were kids but now my brother and his wife buy eggs and pressies for everyone's kids. My sister and I agreed not to buy pressies last year but she bottled out and turned up with pressies at the big family lunch, it was awful! We don't even get our own kids anything. DH and I vowed to go camping every Easter weekend from then on to avoid the whole thing!

PS like egg rolling suggestion actually, might do that this year.

The strings would go through the whole house. Start at the front door and go all over the place. Behind sofas, under tables, whatever.

Mine get an egg each (and any from relatives if they remember they've got them, sometimes we get to them first and snaffle them) and that's it. I hate that easter has become a 'gifting opportunity' to use a marketing term. In My Day you got yer egg and that was that. I don't see the problem with one egg if they're not eating crap the rest of the time, sugar's not the devil's work it's often made out to be.

Oh god joelalie, don't be so chippy, mawbroon can say she thinks we've all been conned, I tend to think she has a point. Oh well.

And I don't mean that it's wrong to celebrate easter, of course it absolutely isn't but I think marketing people would like it to become a gifting opportunity rather than a religious festival, that's what I meant.

I have accidently begun a tradition of giving them a new mug every year which I fill with little chocolate eggs/ rabbits etc. This year I have bought gorgeous moomintroll mugs. They will each get a book too - have bought the first moomin book for ds, still need to get one for dd.

We always have a treasure hunt first thing to find the presents from the Easter Bunny.