What do you enjoy doing with your DCs over Easter? Tell Cadbury and you could win a £200 voucher! NOW CLOSED

[MichelleMumsnet]

You may have noticed that Cadbury Dairy Milk Egg ‘N’ Spoon have been working with Mumsnet over the past couple of months in the run up to Easter. Now that Easter is almost upon us, Cadbury Dairy Milk Egg ‘N’ Spoon want to find out what Mumsnetters enjoy doing with their children around Easter time.

Cadbury Dairy Milk Egg ‘N’ Spoon have been celebrating those spontaneous joyful little moments parents share with their DCs. With Easter coming up in a couple of weeks Cadbury Dairy Milk want to know what you enjoy doing with your DCs in the run up to Easter or on Easter Sunday itself. Perhaps you decorate Easter eggs together? Or maybe you do an Easter egg hunt together on the morning of Easter Sunday? Whatever it is, we’d love to hear it.

Everyone who adds their comments to this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £200 John Lewis voucher.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

P.S. Cadbury Dairy Milk are encouraging Mumsnetters to get artsy this Easter and have come up with two how-to arts and crafts guides on what you can do with a left over Cadbury Dairy Milk Egg ‘N’ Spoon box. You can view the Larry the Lamb guide here, and the Easter Chick Basket here. What do you think of them? Is it something you'd try?

We go to the beach where we all have to find stones buried in the sand. Each one has a label that indicates the prize - s/m/l egg

We try to do the national trust and cadburys hunt too but it's quite far from where we live.

We always make/decorate baskets for our egg hunt and last year we did bonnets too :)

And of course the Easter bunny comes and does a hunt in the garden if it's dry!

Then sunday lunch at nanny and grandads!
My dc get waaaay too much chocolate on Easter

Apart from as much fresh air as possible, it's difficult to do anythign structured with my boys.

DS1, however, has unilaterally decided that the house is going to be a shop, this easter.

The 19th is my youngest sons birthday so we thought we would have a small Easter theme - we are going to have an Easter egg hunt and decorate hard boiled eggs which we will later use for an egg and spoon race.

On Easter Sunday we are going to Grandma's house with the rest of the family for some traditional Easter crafts. I think we are going to make a birds nests out of tissue paper and put little easter chicks inside, and make easter gardens.

Our Easter is going to be hard work this year, so I'm trying to set aside one day for a bit of fun.

DD is 16 and will start to sit her GCSE's after the Easter Holidays so this year will be lots of study. She's too old for Egg Hunts so we'll probably spend a day in PJ's, on the sofa with an Egg each and a good girly movie.

We will be dying and decorating eggs for an Easter egg hunt and rolling some down a very big hill!! We will also go on a spring treasure hunt with little chocolatey prizes when everyone is done, making paper baskets, Easter cards and fluffy pom pom chicks and a Easter Egg hunt in the grounds of a local landscaped gardens!! :)

We just go mad and just eat loads and loads of Easter eggs. Only day of the year there are no limits. Yummy Cadburys!

Making Easter bonnets, baking & having a little Easter egg hunt! I swear i get more excited than the kids lol

A walk in the woods (free and fresh air) . It usually involves playing the in the river with wellies on :)

Making Easter crafty stuff. Anything that looks vaguely chick or rabbit related will be fine.

Making Easter chick biscuits. I am loving my biscuit cutter. The rabbit ones are good but the chicks are my favourite. The children love to help cutting the biscuits out and oddly enough, eating them!

We have an Easter egg hunt in the highlands at my mum's house. We send the cousins who range in age from 20somethings to little ones in teams up the glen with a starter clue, which is a riddle which leads them to the next one and so on. The older folk watch them all traipsing around all morning trying to find the treasure.

We'll be doing an easter egg hunt for DS this year as he'll love it! we normally just enjoying spending four whole days together with family... and eating chocolate (more DH and I than DS...).

We also try to take DS to the theatre or on a special day trip if we can.

making easter decorations : put 3 mini eggs inside a balloon, blow it up, cover in wool and glue, let dry, pop the ballon, beautiful egg shaped baskets. Then we eat all the eggs. Has to be done. :)

The Easter holidays - so far we have made lots of tents in the living room by using chairs and blankets/sheets & had picnics in there, made easter pictures and cards, made a big chocolate cake decorated with Easter theme and rice crispie chocolate cake nests & lots of junk modelling (a castle, a crocodile and a dinosaur habitat!)

Next week (as long as the chicken pox are all gone) we are going to the local farm to see the lambs, the local national trust place for an easter trail and our own egg hunt around the house and garden on Easter morning!

After that it will be stuff your face full of chocolate for the rest of the day

Our annual Easter must do event is a walk over Easter in the stunning grounds of the National Trusts Crom Castle , every year Cadbury's send a rep with mountains of Easter Eggs and they hide themselves around the sprawling estate .... You pay for a sheet of clues , and you have to follow the clues one by one to find the next clue ... your reward at the end is a scrumptious Easter Egg ....

Our only Easter tradition is egg rolling. Round here it's always been an Easter Monday occasion at the local park and I only found out a couple of years ago that most people roll/eat their eggs on the Sunday!

we enjoy going to parks and swimming as well. We also love to get paints, glue, papers and pens out and decorate models or just paint pictures or make cards

We go to a national trust site and do the egg hunt, we also have one at home.
We decorate eggs and do some spring arts and crafts.
We also like to visit a farm.

I love the Easter holidays, if the weather is nice we do lots of excursions and dog walks either on our own or with friends. It is my Mum's Birthday at the beginning of April and we always have a family get together to celebrate this, usually at my house and always involving a massive easter egg hunt! As all the children have got older and we have more dogs, the Easter Bunny is having to get more cunning in his hiding! For Easter itself, we will go to Church on Easter morning, the children will go to a Good Friday children's workshop and I will pop into the Easter Vigal at some point one night.

We have our own chickens and blow our own eggs and decorate them which the girls love. We have an Easter Tree (of twigs) in the kitchen, I have a collection of things to hang from it and this is added to every year. Inspired by the GBBO my eldest daughter wants to make hot cross buns this year!

Easter day we will pick up my Mum, go to church and come home for a big roast, maybe joined by our elderly neighbours if they fancy coming along too and my children will eat lots of chocolate.

We make a point of having a family tradition and it goes like this...

1. A special breakfast, that Carson (5) chooses - normally scrambled eggs are 'special'
2. We see if the Easter bunny has left him any special messages in the letter box
3. Begins the Egg hunt!
4. Finishes with a choccy bunny under his pillow that wasn't there when he woke up "so it MUST be magic"
5. Start preparing the Easter roast - normally lamb, but Carson and his daddy always moan and want beef. I say tough! I cook it!
6. Whilst it's finishing cooking, we play board games/top trumps/something as a family - no TV on whatsoever, today is family time!
7. We eat at the table, all set nicely with Carson's little toilet roll tube chicks and painted eggs.
8. If it's sunny/warm, we go for a little family walk together and Carson is allowed to munch his eggs... as long as he shares, of course.
9. Family Film before bed. He's even allowed to get away with having a bath on Easter Sunday (a real treat for a 5yr old boy let me tell you!)

10. Once he's gone to bed, I indulge in my Buttons egg (that I get every year!)

We put easter eggs round the house and garden and the children have to find them.

Oh, we love a couple of proper days out, swimming, lounging in pjs, DVD sessions, baking, walking in the forest and best of all snuggling!

Family visit, walk in the park, easter egg hunt, drive to a beach and watch a sunset

We have an Easter egg hunt around the house in.the morning ( lsdt year ds2 was so taken with it that he spent the rest of the day rehiding eggs! We were in a holiday cottage so I'll never know if we found them all ) My sister lives in Germany so if she's around there will also be a nest in the garden left by the Easter bunny. We always have a big family meal - either a roast or a barbecue depending on the weather and I usually manage to make something with the dcs to give to their grandparents and grandparents. Egg shell heads with cress growing in them were my favourite!

My in-laws always organise an Easter egg hunt which the children love but last year ended in tears when my youngest didn't find any and my daughter was compelled to share. Hopefully this year the Easter bunny will provide more eggs. When I was a child having hot cross buns were a great Easter treat but now they're available all year round so they're not so special but we have them anyway. I'm going to make some Cadbury crème egg brownies using a recipe I found online. I've been meaning to make them for a couple of weeks but every time I buy more eggs they get eaten before I get around to baking.

we will doing our usual easter tradition of melting all the chocolate eggs and making cornflake/rice crispy cakes, as well as covering all manner of food in chocolate. Last year we did chocolate dipped cherries, frozen bananas, and my son made chocolate covered cheddar squares which he insisted were delicious I might take them to the local open farm to feed the lambs (weather permitting)

Nice relaxing lie in, Easter egg hunt around the house, visiting nanny in the afternoon