Easter

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Do you do the whole colouring eggs and hiding them for kids to find them thing? Sadly we don't, we don't even hide chocolates. We just lounge about in PJs and give each other chocolate eggs!

 

[Buzz Rules]

Do you do the whole colouring eggs and hiding them for kids to find them thing? Sadly we don't, we don't even hide chocolates. We just lounge about in PJs and give each other chocolate eggs!

My family did when I was little. We did Easter candy baskets as well.

 

[WorldWacky]

My children are 23, 20 and 20. We still color eggs with whoever is around depending on college schedules. This year, 2 out of 3 will be home. The Easter Bunny still hides plastic eggs filled with money and/or candy in the backyard. And there are elaborate clues/puzzles they must follow and solve to find their Easter baskets which are always hidden inside.

 

[soccerdad72]

We still color Easter eggs at my parents' house with our kids and their cousins. We'll be short two kids this year and they're at college, but the remaining 5 (oldest is 24, youngest is 14) are still coloring eggs tomorrow. When they were younger, my parents would also hide Easter eggs (plastic ones filled with money and/or candy) and Easter baskets as well. We would also spend the night and all go to Easter Mass the next morning (my brother and I live about 2 hours away, whereas my sister lives in town). Once they got older, we decided to just drive up in the morning and home after dinner.

 

[snowwite]

Do you do the whole colouring eggs and hiding them for kids to find them thing? Sadly we don't, we don't even hide chocolates. We just lounge about in PJs and give each other chocolate eggs!

We stopped hiding them after the year we found one we missed behind the sofa weeks later!

 

[soccerdad72]

We stopped hiding them after the year we found one we missed behind the sofa weeks later!

We found one egg (again, thankfully plastic) a full year later.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Do you do the whole colouring eggs and hiding them for kids to find them thing? Sadly we don't, we don't even hide chocolates. We just lounge about in PJs and give each other chocolate eggs!

When I was young, and when my kids were young, we'd color eggs and hide them and candy around the house for egg hunts.

As my kids got older, the "egg hunts" stopped, but we'd still color eggs for a number of years. Mostly because I like the variety of egg colors when making things like potato salad (the dye would often seep into the whites under the shell, especially if you rolled the eggs to create cracks).

Now, kids are gone and I don't do anything except, maybe, buy a couple packages of easter candy after the day of on sale.

 

[fla4fun]

I don’t really like boiled eggs, so I don’t make any colored ones. There aren’t any young children in the family right now for a candy egg hunt. We make up small baskets with people’s favorite candy to give each other. My sister sent me some nice Swiss Laderach Easter chocolate yesterday that I have put away for Sunday. She and my BIL love Reese’s Easter candy, so I give them the big Reese’s bunnies, and some of the smaller eggs and carrots.

 

[barkley]

when the kids were small they like doing it for a few years but then were kind of 'meh' on it so we went to the plastic eggs (different design for each kid so the more expert hunter did not get every egg).

every year around Easter I look to the massive number of pillowcases and beach towels I have. detest that nasty Easter grass that's used in baskets-it's like Christmas tree needles and hangs around forever except it can knot up inside the rollers of a vacuum so we never used it and instead lined baskets with whatever our kids were into a given year themed pillow cases or a beach towel. it is a walk down memory lane to look in my linen area-from preschool favs to Disney to Harry Potter to Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon classics and eventually iconic video game, trading card and anime characters

 

[PollyannaMom]

@barkley, I love the pillow case/beach towel idea! My mom always did new clothes when we were kids for the same reason.

When we were little, we also colored eggs and those were hidden in a big hunt with our cousins. As we got older, there were chocolates hidden instead.

When DS was little, we colored eggs for fun, but hid plastic ones with jelly beans or coins in them.

He outgrew the egg hunts, but I still make him a basket.

 

[amcnj]

We dyed/decorated eggs, but never hid the real ones, just plastic ones. We did hide them outside once or twice, but variable weather conditions ended that practice.

Aside from containing candy the gold/yellow eggs had a slip of paper saying things like “Look in the oven”, which led to a small gift/candy. The baskets were also hidden and the note explaining the number of hidden eggs had the first clue towards locating the baskets, usually involving six or eight steps and requiring going all over the house.

I still continue the practice, though one is now conducted via the mail, and has just a few eggs, and one clue, something simple like “Look in this box”!

 

[WorldWacky]

I usually get up at dawn to hide the plastic eggs outside. One year I thought I would get ahead of the game and hide them the evening before so I wouldn’t have to wake up so early. The children were met with plastic eggs that had been chewed through and the candy missing! That was the last time I did that!

 

[barkley]

I usually get up at dawn to hide the plastic eggs outside. One year I thought I would get ahead of the game and hide them the evening before so I wouldn’t have to wake up so early. The children were met with plastic eggs that had been chewed through and the candy missing! That was the last time I did that!

speaking of egg hunts gone awry...when my oldest was a toddler the private school she had daycare at had a big multi area egg hunt with different zones designated to toddlers/preschool/k/elementary. good idea in theory UNLESS you mix up the toddler plastic eggs which were filled with cheerios and raisins with the elementary which had herseys kisses and other chocolates. toddlers (nor us parents) complained a bit when we opened our plastic eggs but the elementary kids started throwing their eggs contents all over the place till the place looked like a war zone-that lawn area was a mess for months

 

[ronandannette]

Not really, no. Granted, our DS is an adult now so there's no issue, but even when he was little, we focused our Easter season on the solemnity and joy of our faith. I wouldn't say we never coloured an egg or whatever and we definitely eat our share of treats, but the occasion is not nor will ever be about rabbits and chocolate for us.