Easter - Does the Easter bunny bring presents?

[Sugar Jones]

Just curious how everyone celebrates Easter in their homes.

We do the Easter bunny as a celebration of spring, but we also recognize the religious side of Easter.

The Easter bunny brings lots of chocolates and a few gifts. Each kids usually gets a movie, a pair of spring/summer jammies and some dollar store outside toys like bubbles, sidewalk chalk, skipping ropes etc.... This year I did get the boys a new Ds game each, the new Pokeman Black & White games.

I admit I used to go overboard at Easter and spend about $150.00 on each kid, but I have cut back a lot over the last two years.

What do you do?

 

[imthatgirl]

There is nothing religious about our Easter. the "Bunny" brings them each a basket with all kinds of gifts( these include anything small enough to fit in their baskets) and candies. then they each get one large gift.

Our kids get more then enough, but I wouldn't say we go overboard. I'm also not willing to share what we spend.

 

[cogero]

Each kid gets a basket with the following

A book and a toy. For DS it is a Puzzle and car.

For DD it is usually a Disney Gift Card and a DS game or movie.

I generally keep them at aroung $50 each.

Oh and they get no candy. DS doesn't really like it LOL and DD hates chocolate

 

[momof1princess]

we gave up on easter baskets several years ago, because DD just didn't care about the usual stuff-coloring books, chocolate bunnies, etc. we started just buying her a DVD or other gift. she really likes it, even though she's 13 now, that the Easter bunny still brings her something. this year, she's getting a Thirty-One skirt purse.

 

[Crystal824]

This is our DD's first easter. I plan to make her a basket (she will only be 8 mo. at the time) with puffs, baby mum mums, baby food, a few new outfits from Target). I have already bought an Easter dress for her. I also got her a babydoll stroller that is made for babies to learn to walk and hold on to. I got it at the 75% off Target toy clearance after Christmas. I probably will spend about $40.00 (exclusing her dress). I usually get DH a new shirt and candy, book, or video game in a basket. That is usually $30-$40 excluding the shirt. DH usually does the same for me.

 

[Sugar Jones]

There is nothing religious about our Easter. the "Bunny" brings them each a basket with all kinds of gifts( these include anything small enough to fit in their baskets) and candies. then they each get one large gift.

Our kids get more then enough, but I wouldn't say we go overboard. I'm also not willing to share what we spend.

I'm sorry I only mean overboard for me and our budget. And I certainly don't mean to imply that anyone who spends $150.00 is going overboard.

 

[imthatgirl]

I'm sorry I only mean overboard for me and our budget. And I certainly don't mean to imply that anyone who spends $150.00 is going overboard.

Oh, no I wasn't saying anything bad. Sorry, I was just saying for me and what I spend it's not overboard. Everyone has a different idea of what overboard would mean to them.

 

[lady_bug_888]

In our house the Easter bunny leaves candy all over the place and DS (DD is too young) goes around and collects it all. We bought him a bucket a few years ago and he puts his haul in there. The Easter bunny also leaves some bigger items (chocolate bunnies/carrots/eggs etc...) on the table in 3 piles--one for DS, one for Mom and one for Dad.

As for gifts we told DS a long time ago that the Easter bunny brings candy and Mom and Dad give gifts because we love him so much.

This year I am taking the kids to the IL's without DH so he is going to stay behind and set up a 'reading corner'--complete with a taller bookshelf, funky pillows and a beanbag chair--for DS while we are gone. DS will be told that his gift couldn't be brought with us so it will be waiting when he gets home.

DD 1 is getting a bag of balls (the kind kids jump in!). She doesn't eat candy yet but I may get her a 3 pack of kinder surprises from the 'Easter Bunny' and then feed them to her over time.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

We color eggs the night before, the bunny hides them, and Easter morning the kid's baskets ave a video game or movie and some candy, and they the search for the eggs.

 

[dizneechic]

We are another family who colors eggs the night before and those go on a basket in the middle of our table. Overnight eggs appear in our yard for the kids to hunt for (contain coins, small trinkets and some candy) along with a larger silver egg (has $2 in it) and the grand daddy of them all, the golden egg (has $5 in it). The easter bunny also leaves small baskets on the table, but they may have 2-3 small pieces of candy, a small toy and a book.

We also have a neighborhood egg hunt where us parents donate eggs to one family who hosts each year. Since I have 3 kids I usually send along 75-100 eggs, we fill them with coins, trinkets, toys, and some candy. The host family hides them all and all the kids go hunt easter afternoon. We also do games with bigger prizes and have cupcakes and ice cream. The neighborhood hunt/party is what my kids love the most about easter, it's a great time!

 

[southern_redhead]

Yes, the Easter Bunny leaves my kids gifts as well as candy. This year its two or three books a toy and some eggs. Actually, this year I think they'll get their Lindt bunny and the eggs will not have candy but instead crazy bones and mighty beans. If the weather cooperates they can hunt for the eggs. I guess I spend between thirty and fifty dollars per basket. I haven't kept up with it. I get stuff through the year so it doesn't hurt so much lol.

 

[Becc1]

At my house the Easter Bunny brings the kids a basket filled with mostly summer essentials. The "basket" is usually a large sandbucket and in it I put things like beach towels, sand and pool toys, sidewalk chalk, sunglasses etc... Plus each kid gets a wrapped gift, something like a video game or doll. This year the bunny will be bringing Disney baskets with things for our trip in May!

 

[LuLuO]

This year the recession has has finally caught up with the Easter Bunny and he will only be bringing each of our kids a small basket of chocolates.

 

[goofy4wdw2]

We usually fill each child's basket with some of their favorite candy and 1-2little non-food items like a puzzle, book, or cute little game. We don't do anything big but they are always super excited. They also have an Easter egg hunt in the neighborhood a few days before and with extended family on Easter Sunday.

 

[kkacar]

DD wakes up to her same basket that she has always had refilled with various candies, a book and other small things. Now that she is older, the items are changing. When she was small it was coloring books, crayons, bubbles; now its bath soaps, nail polishes and lotions. Sometimes there is a new DVD in it, other times there is a new DS game.
We color eggs the night before. We only color 1 dozen. We don't hide those we use them to make deviled eggs for dinner. We go to church and have an egg hunt at church, then we come home and eat Easter dinner at the in-laws. Later that afternoon, we hunt eggs with the cousins at our house and have dessert. Thats our day.

keli

 

[here757]

our kids get their busch gardens passes for easter. very little candy. ds has a retainer lol

 

[3pletprincesses]

Easter at our place means very little chocolate as they girls don't eat it that much but it means a big egg hunt. It will take them around 1.5 hours to do it and they love it. It also means Easter fest and spending a week at grandma's cottage. It's been the tradition since they were born.

 

[cam&phoebsmom]

We have a small house and break up the candy in a scavenger hunt.

Eggs are hidden on one floor they can find, but in their basket is a note with clues and they go together to get treats. Usually they are just little things I have picked up but not "big" things. Stuff like mechanical pencils (my DS loves those), colored pencils, a small crayon pack to replace ones at school that by now are yucky, new toothbrushes, a pack of sugarless gum (that is a huget treat), a small bottle of root beer for my DS and lemonade for my DD (my kids drink milk and water at home, so Santa and the Bunny bring soda, LOL), and this year I have a DS game for DS and a Leapster game for my DD.

I was lucky to have some rewards dollars and got the game for $10 and a coupon for the Leapster game that was on sale, so that was I think $13.

In the afternoon my friends come over with their kids, and my whole family comes over and we grill. Each family brings a dozen filled plastic eggs per kid that they have. My adult nephews and nieces hide the eggs in our backyard and the kids go and hunt them. We end up with about 8kids hunting and is a totally fun day.

 

[a1tinkfans]

If it were up to me there would be tons of candy and baskets for my ds and dh but alas, they really have no interest , so instead the dh will get his usual, a bar of dark chocolate (or white, ugh!) and the ds will get some type of gift and a favorite snack (he does not even eat chocolate), like a T shirt or something and the pet will get a special snack, lol.
The closest nieces and nephews all got gifts, a Plant Growing Kit for the 5 year old, two other girls are getting a calligraphy set and a stamping set respectively. They each get a chocolate bunny too..the SIL each get a plant, MIL gets one too, dad gets a shirt or something...it starts to feel like Xmas again...

 

[Worfiedoodles]

We color eggs the day before, but they're part of Easter dinner, instead of a hunt. When ds was small, we would set up the egg hunt, go to church, and come home and find a basket full of goodies (summer clothes, dvds, candy, toys, etc.), ready for the hunt.

Now that ds is 13, he wakes up to his usual basket (why on earth did I pick such a large basket?!). This year it's going to have the new Kingdom Keepers book, and I-tunes gift card, Twizzlers (a rare treat since he has braces), the new Britney cd, and summer jammies. He doesn't like chocolate, and doesn't need a bunch of candy, so it will also probably have some gift cards for McDonald's and such. He's not interested in an egg hunt anymore.

Easter is about Jesus for us, so after the goodies are examined we will be heading for church. We'll spend the rest of the day relaxing as a family, after we have a big Easter dinner.

I told dh yesterday I expected a basket (it varies from year to year whether he thinks of it), hopefully it will have Godiva dark chocolate caramels and Cadbury caramel eggs (love those!).

Maria