Easter gifts

[WorthyOtter]

What do you buy your kids for Easter? Growing up we only got Easter eggs, it wasn't a big day for us. But for my partner, it was quite big in terms of presents, clothes, toys, money etc. now we have a child of our own it's become a bit of a debate :)

My ds (5) gets an egg and a book from me and DH and the same from my parents. He gets an egg and some money for his piggy bank (£5-£10) from my in-laws and my uncle too. My brother also gets him an egg. So de definitely does well, but I don't feel it's "over doing it" if that makes sense.

However this year he also won a school raffle prize that's a chocolate hamper weighing about as much as he does 🤣🤦 He was buzzing, but actually offered bits of it out to his little mate from school and my parents. Not the smarties though, they're precious apparently!

Growing up we got several eggs.

Control freak much?

That’s what I posted too! Confiscating the gifts that don’t fit the theme of the day. It’s a bit scary …

1 medium size egg
OR
Several small chocolate things that add up to the price of an egg
OR
Something else the child chooses that costs no more than a medium sized egg

Used to be eggs/chocolate items and a new dress/sunhat/straw hat/bonnet, but as DD got older it turned out that she only really likes a few types of chocolate, so instead of an egg I now sometimes get her a few little gifts in Easter/pastel colours instead, eg. mini nail varnishes, hair bobbles, an Easter decoration. We used to do an egg hunt with mini-eggs when she was young, but haven’t since she was about nine or ten, to her chagrin.

This year she got a little Lego birds set and some pastel hair clips, as well as some mini eggs from us; plus various chocolate bunnies/mini eggs etc. from relatives. I’ve stopped buying the Easter dresses and hats now she’s too old for cute dresses (😭) but instead I got her some pink cotton summer pyjamas with pretty spring flowers on. (Usually if I give her new clothes for Easter nowadays it’s stuff I would have needed to get her anyway like pyjamas.)

She gets a fair few Lindt bunnies or chocolate eggs from aunts/uncles/grandparents, more than she can usually eat, so now I ask them to tone it down a bit. The eggs these days just get bigger and bigger - when I was a child we got them from lots of relatives, but they were just the very small size Buttons or Smarties ones! Also when I was young Easter eggs were only for little children: not really for teenagers and certainly not for adults. Nowadays my family seem to exchange them with everyone in the family, which they never used to do!

Small milky bar egg, dressing gown, socks, Easter chick soft toy, melty sticks and a tonie. Follows what I got as a child (something you need - dressing down & socks, something to read - well tonie for DD, something to eat - melty sticks and egg. The chick was a random purchase as her NN is chicken licken 🐥

@LuluDelulu Easter is chocolate, that’s all it’s ever been - trying to avoid confusion for the (still very young) kids, before they become spoilt brats expecting a showering of gifts for any occasion.

With both kids birthdays always close to Easter, they really don’t need any more actual presents anyway!

The control freak comment did amuse me, and gave DH and I a giggle during a night feed - one of those couldn’t be more ‘not me’ descriptions that mumsnet can always provide, based off judgements from a single comment. 😂

An egg, a terrys chocolate orange, a big dairy milk bar, and an easter outfit xx

One egg each and then we have a quiz type game with questions and answers in a form of an Easter themed slideshow where kids get small prizes for correct answers. Things like crayons, stickers, chocolate coins, etc.

I didn't want it to be another Christmas day, for me Easter was never a big day

No DC. I got my dog a remote control car 😁

One new item of clothing (tradition from my home country, we don’t do the chocolate thing). Little bunnies for an Easter Egg hunt and a big chocolate egg as the “reward”.

Thanks everyone for so many replies!! Really interesting to see what everyone does. It was our first Easter with our son (8months) and I guess I wanted some ideas of a yearly tradition (not so much this year) but I really didn't want to go overboard and turn it into a second Christmas. It was never a big day for me. Other issue was my partner has a 8 yo daughter from a previous relationship and usually we'd do gifts. But yesterday we went to my partner's parents with his daughter, just had a nice dinner together, lots of Easter eggs and an Easter egg hunt and it was great. I hope you all had a great day whatever you did!

🤣🤣😜