Can the Easter Bunny come a day early?

[iheartdisney]

I am racking my brain here, trying to figure out how to work this out, and i know the DIS boards are a wealth of ideas (and hopefully the debates a minimum). And I'm sorry if the wording here is weird, I'm trying to keep it as neutral as possible to stem off the rhetoric.
So, I LOVED the practice at Christmas of doing the secular stuff Christmas Eve, to leave Christmas day with our hearts in the right place. Which made me think of Easter, which is even truer, seeing as how it is celebrated on Sunday.
So, my kids are 8, 7, and 5, and we have always woken up on Easter morning with baskets of stuff for the kids, and eggs hidden in the yard. How can we push it up a day and the kids wake up suprised SATURDAY morning instead?
I was thinking that since the Easter Bunny has left a note the past two years (since the oldest can read- Santa leaves a Thank you note also!) So maybe the Easter Bunny can leave a note explaining why he came early, or just SUPRISE!
Has anyone ever pulled this off, and does any ideas are welcome!

 

[imthatgirl]

I don't see why the Easter bunny couldn't come tomorrow if you wanted him to. There are no rules or regulations regarding how you celebrate Easter.

For us it's all secular so we just do it on Easter morning, but if we wanted to do it on Saturday then we would. I don't know how it would be any different.

 

[scrappinginontario]

I think the kids are just happy for the Easter Bunny to arrive and don't really check the calendar. A friend of mine always had the Easter Bunny come Friday night for a less pressured hunt Saturday morning rather than when getting ready for church Sunday. I think I'm going to do the same this weekend.

My brother and SIL had Easter yesterday with their kiddos since the majority of the kids will be with their other parents next weekend. None of the kids said anything.

Now....if I could just get my Mom to stop hiding the eggs while the kids were searching we might get somewhere. Heh...she doesn't quite remember that it's the Easter Bunny who is hiding the eggs for the kids! With 10 grandchildren she sometimes forgets that the little ones still believe in the Easter Bunny. Thankfully they were too busy hunting to realize what was happening!

 

[kkmcan]

We do this all the time with Easter and Christmas being that my dh is a firefighter and misses lots of holidays. when our kids were little and dh was on shift I got really creative on doing Christmas morning either on Christmas Eve morning or the day after Christmas so dh would be home to enjoy the day with the family. I would never do Easter or Christmas without him home to share it with us.

One Christmas I even put all the gifts in big white sheets and tied them up with fancy red rope and left them by the fireplace. Dh was due home that morning but not until 8:30 and I didn't want my dh to miss the kids faces all lit up from all the gifts under the tree. So Santa left a note about how he didn't have time to put our gifts under the tree so he left them in the sack When dh got home the kids got to untie the sacks and pull out all the wrapped gifts. It was still fun that way and dh didn't miss a thing

 

[roscoepc1]

Of course he can! In our family, we say that Santa gives us gifts to remind us of the gifts the Three Wise Men brought to Baby Jesus, and we get gifts at Easter b/c Jesus gave us the gift of Eternal Life...

I tell the kids that each set of Moms and Dads gets Santa's (or the Easter Bunny's, or whomever's) private magic email addy when they become parents for the first time, so they can decide together what that family will do....and Santa (or whomever) honours that...(that explains why some kids get their "big gift" from Santa, but in our house he only brings a DVD, lol)

I see absolutely no reason why the Easter Bunny can't be the messenger of those gifts, on whatever day you deem appropriate!

 

[deuceswild10]

Easter Bunny can come whenever you want.

 

[Jaime4004]

I'm planning on Santa coming a week early this year, since we'll be in FL and I don't want to lug all the gifts back and forth! I'm just going to tell the kids that I emailed Santa and he's going to come a week early because we'll be on vacation. I'm sure my kids will buy it..

 

[dntd]

As we try to tone down doing things like santa and the easter bunny we just don't have him come. My kids are well adjusted, they still get a tree and gifts but not from santa. We do the same for the easter bunny, they get an egg hunt and treats but we leave out the easter bunny.We have had Christmas a day early due to my DH's work. Normally my kids are quite excited about holidays as the children's sunday school in our chich sings for the church and a retirement home.

 

[disprincessatheart]

I was just thinking about the same thing yesterday, but because my dh has to work sunday morning. Ds is just 15 months so we won't have the eb hide eggs but i want dh to be here to find the basket the eb leaves.