Does anyone's DC actually only receive 1 easter egg each?

[nappyaddict]

All my friend's DC seem to get loads of them. And I mean some get 20+!!

If the DC's grandparents are local do they buy your DC easter eggs and if so do you buy them one as well?

If you do an easter egg hunt do you use chocolate eggs, plastic eggs or hard boiled, painted eggs?

My mum usually buys DS an egg, so I don't bother. We used coloured plastic eggs in the garden with clues inside with my mum's egg as the end prize.

They get a clutch. One from each set of grandparents, one from us, and usually one or two from neighbours and friends.

I've just bought them one each (for £1 each). Ds1's godparent bought them one each. And one of the grandma's will buy them one each. Dh and I will buy each other one. Then we'll hide them all and use them for the egg hunt. Then I'll eat them all when the dcs aren't looking.

Mine get a few - grandparents, godparents and one or two more from other people. I don't need to bother buying any for this reason. Godparents also bring mini eggs/mini creme eggs for easter egg hunt.

Mine seem to get loads, but I tend to store them and eke them out slowly so they last for months, very good for bribery I find I like to buy them ones from us too. We love to celebrate Easter in a big way so it's part of it all.

Use choc eggs for hunt. Boiled eggs? Nah.

Ours get a chocolate something from us (usually a Lindt rabbit), an egg from their uncle/aunt, an egg from one set of grandparents, and then with £ from the other grandma, I buy a DVD they're after and they get that as a joint present. So usually three chocolate things + DVD. It is these eggs etc we hunt for on Easter morning, not mini ones.

Everyone in the house also gets a little creme egg or similar inside one of those knitted chick efforts, but they're not hunted - just sat on a table.

1 egg each for my DC (this is what we hunt on easter morning), plus little ones on easter egg cake (if I don't eat it all, having given up chocolate for lent).

My children have only ever had 1 egg... in fact DS has never had any.
MIL buys DD one, though I imagine she'll buy DS one this year too. We don't buy them one- we're not christian, so I don't think we should.

CaptainNancy - what religion are you?

Do you celebrate Christmas, Shrove Tuesday etc?

Hi NA- I follow no religionand am an atheist (though was raised free church).
My DH is buddhist, though becoming more and more atheist as I work on him he gets older.

We do celebrate Christmas in a very quiet way- we have a tree and decorations, a modest number of presents for the children, spend time with friends and family, and we talk to the children about the meaning of Christmas and why people celebrate it.

On Shrove Tuesday we talked about Lent, and the fast leading up to Easter, and we had pancakes.

These are traditions in our country though- yes they have basis in religious practices, and yes for Christians they are important, but there were celebrations at christmas time even before Christianity existed.

At Easter we talk about what happened to Jesus, and what Christians believe happened after his death, and why it needed to occur. Spring is an important time of the year, and rebirth/resurrection is highly symbolic alongside the new leaves and blossoms that appear then.
Some eggy type confection is fine, but more than 1 is really overkill (my 2 are very small, and don't eat much confectionary as a rule). As a child we painted eggs, so we'll probably do that this year.

You said in your OP that your DS only gets one from your parents- I think this is fine! (he is similar age to my eldest)

They get a small one each from us and a small one from DHs parents.

One each here. In fact some years they get a little prezzies instead.

I don't give Easter eggs as gifts to other peoples children. It seems weird to me that people do that.
But I realise I am unusual

What sort of present might they get instead of an egg Pagwatch

Do the grandparents live local or not?

Ds2 can't have milk and it can be hard to find nice eggs for him so sometimes I will get him a DVD and maybe get ds1 a book and dd a fluffy chick or something. Just something they can have at the end of a egg hunt.

Ds1 indulges the egg hunt as the two small ones love it so

My mum is miles away but with 20 plus grandchildren she can just about manage Christmas.

My pils have never met dd. Stopped talking to us 9 years ago.

one each here.

We do dragon eggs as DS(11) won't touch chocolate, and he believes firmly in dragons and doesn't believe in god. And there is no suitable dragon-themed national holiday.

Dragons...er....St. Georges day??

Mine get one big, then little bits and bobs. When they are older no doubt they will be knee deep in them.

One each here.

Ooh, Secret, I hadn't thought of that! But St George's Day celebrates bumping off the poor old dragon, which wouldn't go down well with DS.

(I guess Easter etc is also about bumping people off, but DS doesn't have a problem with that...)

One large egg and tiny ones to hunt for. Little presents to hunt for games or books.

We have a large family and don't want overweight or nauseous DCs

avenginggerbil your comments really made me chuckle, regarding the OP I did feel guilty and buy children ridiculous amount of eggs (they ended up with about 8 each) to make up for lack of family friends giving eggs to dc but after reading this thread i've come to my senses and realise they're not the only kids who recieve few eggs, so this year I'll not buy any and will have easter themed hunt prizes of colouring items or puzzles, and leave chocolate eggs recieved for dc's to fate (and kind friends) and not buy out tescos egg counter due to guilt or worry whatever makes me buy them.

I managed to eke out the Easter eggs until just before Christmas last year (at the moment they go (broken up) along with all sweets/chocs from party bags, birthdays at school etc into a bowl from which the dcs choose 1 or two bits after tea - when the bowl gets low I add another packet of haribos/chocolate buttons etc). I'm sure I won't get away with it as they get older but they seem quite happy with the arrangement at the moment. I think they got about 3 each this year (just mini-eggs for a hunt from us)