what do you do w/the dyed eggs?

[luvmyfam444]

I don't remember dying eggs as a kid - I know you're supposed to hide them - but my question is - how does the Easter Bunny get the eggs from you to hide them? I'm confused on this one -
We just had baskets hidden & then plastic eggs as a kid not the ones dyed but this year I wanted to dye some w/my kiddos...

 

[foolishmortal]

our house the bunny just brings the baskets. We (parents) hide the egss while the kids look through the baskets.

 

[T1130]

Ypu leave the dyed eggs on a plate for the Easter Bunny (like cookies for Santa)and he hides them when he leaves the Easter Baskets.

 

[foolishmortal]

Ypu leave the dyed eggs on a plate for the Easter Bunny (like cookies for Santa)and he hides them when he leaves the Easter Baskets.

Do you do this inside?

Because we do ours outside, and if we did that then the birds, cats and squirles would get them...lol

 

[Aidensmom]

My parents always dyed the eggs after we went to sleep, so we assumed the Easter Bunny did the dying.

That is what I have done so far too, but now that my son is getting older I may change that. I like the idea of leaving them on a plate for the Bunny to hide.

 

[T1130]

Do you do this inside?

Because we do ours outside, and if we did that then the birds, cats and squirles would get them...lol

We only hide them inside. Sometimes it is still to cold to go out to look for them.
I aways hide one egg in the new easter shoes.

 

[CheshireVal]

We always dyed the eggs together as a family, and then ate them as deviled eggs or with potato salad and ham for Easter (and a few days after!)

The eggs my parents hid for Easter egg hunts were those old marshmallow eggs (individually wrapped) with the hard candy shell. I haven't seen those in stores in years and years!

 

[mommytotwo]

We dye the eggs with the kids and then as they dry, let them play or color Easter coloring pages.
We then have an egg hunt and then lunch.

 

[mickeyfan2]

We always used the plastic eggs for the Easter Egg hunt. They has candy, money and small toys in them. I am in charge of this each year for my Nieces and Nephews. We just decorated with the colored eggs. Never eat them if they have been sitting out. If we wanted to eat them, then the colored eggs sat in the fridge.

 

[CEDmom]

We'll dye and decorate them on Saturday and serve them as part of Easter dinner. After that I'll make a big batch of egg salad. We don't hide the real ones - never did as a kid either. If you do decide to hide real ones don't eat them because eggs spoil very easily.

 

[gris gris]

We dye our eggs together on Saturday night, and then leave them in the Easter Basket on the table (along with a carrott!). Then the Easter Bunny comes, hides the eggs and fills her basket with goodies. DH or I wake up early and hide the eggs around one room. After DD finds the eggs, we usually eat a few of them and give the rest to the dog

When I was a kid our Easter Bunny used to hide my eggs in one room and my sister's in another. The Easter Bunny (aka DAD!) was very creative - he used tape to tape them under the staircase, under shelves, etc....we had to search hard for them!

 

[Hannathy]

When I was a kid we would dye them and then they would sit out in a bowl or basket with some grass and we would eat them all week! No one ever got sick and everyone I knew did this back then. Now we dye them a few days ahead but I only sit out a few to eat and refrigerate the rest. Each kid always decorates a special egg and that smart Bunny finds it in the refrigerator and puts it in the right basket.
We never had an egg hunt but Easter Bunny always hid our baskets and it could take forever to find them depending on our ages and how sneaky Dad felt. Our bunny hides the baskets to but isn't as mean and they find them in 5 -10 minutes!

 

[mtemm]

we always dyed eggs the night before and the easter bunny would hide them in the yard. we never put them out for him to do, I think he just went to the fridge to get them and we never thought to question it. that's what we do with our kids, now.

 

[disykat]

We never hid the dyed eggs either. We dyed them and they sat in the fridge until they were eaten up. My 10 year old still thinks of egg salad sandwiches as Easter Egg sandwiches. My mom was an even worse food safety nut than I am.

The Easter Bunny hid plastic eggs.

 

[donnajon]

We always dyed them as a family - the kids love it - and took turns hiding them. Then when we are finished, we play a game of toss the eggs until they bust. You keep tossing the eggs back and forth to each other taking a step back each toss until the eggs bust. This is particularly fun when the egg busts on your sister (who taught this game to your kids) and the egg isn't quite completely hard boiled!!!!

 

[aprilgail2]

I always dye them with my daughter...thats half the fun of the whole thing! Then at night the bunny hides them and she finds them in the morning..she looks at them a few days then we toss them in the trash.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

We hide fake eggs.

Dyed easter eggs stay in the fridge and can be enjoyed for breakfast on Easter morning.

 

[ryka]

We dye them the night before and the Easter bunny comes sometime at night and gets them out of the fridge and hides them. ( I do it at like 6 in the morning before they wake up) Then my kids find them and we put them away to eat later. We did this when I was little too and nobody ever got sick.

 

[DaisyD]

The kids and I always dyed the eggs a few days before Easter. Some of them we leave out of the frdge for decoration. We don't eat those. The others we keep in the fridge for eating. We never hide real eggs, only plastic ones filled with candy, toys, and money. DD loves dying them so much that I buy 4 dozen just to let her get her fill. We then feed our dogs a couple every day, eat some ourselves, and throw out the rest.

 

[Evil Queen]

Depending on our schedules we color either Friday or Saturday. Put them in the fridge. We always make one for the Easter Possum (see story below). EP leaves basket. In the morning I hide about half the eggs, leave the other half in fridge. We hunt at our house, then in the afternoon we go to my sisters and have another hunt. We have eaten the eggs we use for hiding that same day, and the other half (that's left in fridge) for the remainder of the week. We never have gotten sick either, but may re-think eating the "hiding" eggs. I had a bad bout with a stomach virus a couple of weeks ago and my stomach has on and off bouts with not "being well" ever since.

As for the Easter Possum who comes to our house, when my oldest son was young (he's 23 now) he got up one Easter morning to get his basket and on the back screened in porch, there was a Possum. My son stated the Bunny must have "helpers", and that the Possum must be the helper who comes to our house. We have never changed the story.

We have the boiled eggs for breakfast and egg salad sandwiches until we run out of the eggs.