Easter question.

We were in California last year around this time staying with my BIL for a bit. Easter rolled around and as usual i was getting ready to get an egg coloring kit. Well, apparently my BIL and SIL have their own tradition for their 9 year old daughter (I suddenly forgot her name! it starts with a K lol). They don't color the eggs with her. instead, they do it when she is asleep and hide them so that in the morning she finds the eggs that the "Easter Bunny" hid. so they told us we couldn't color eggs with the kids cause it would ruin it for K. I was kinda upset because i color eggs with the kids every year. they enjoy it and know that we are the ones that hide the eggs, but the Easter Bunny brings them their baskets. i know we were guests in their home so i respected their traditions but i just thought it was odd that they were so into having their 9 year old believe in the Easter Bunny. By then i pretty much knew that Santa wasn't real, lol. my kids were upset that they didnt get to color eggs. so this year we are going to have fun again, lol.

so i guess what i'm getting at is whats your tradition when it comes to easter? do you color the eggs yourself like them and say the Easter Bunny hid them? how old are your kids when they stop believing in the Easter Bunny etc?

i know the real meaning behind Easter etc etc. but we aren't real religious so for the kids its about the eggs, lol.

we do more plastic eggs than real eggs. It gets HOT here, so if we do color eggs for the fun of it they are usually not hidden. The coloring of them is the activity and then we eat the eggs on Easter with dinner. Usually my mom turns them into deviled eggs for the kids.

We color the eggs for fun and give the kids baskets with goodies from the Easter bunny. My dad throws an egg hunt with plastic eggs for my son & nephew who are 4 & 3.

We color eggs for fun, the Easter bunny leaves the baskets and we do an egg hunt with candy-filled plastic eggs at the in-laws with extended family after lunch. My kids are 5, 3 and 1. My DH told me that his family used to hide the dyed eggs when he was a kid, but they wouldn't find them all and they'd smell awful, so they stopped doing it.

We let Rachel dye the eggs with us. It's a fun activity, and I'm not into the Easter bunny thing anyway.

We'll do both, and I'm not hot on my kids believing in the Easter Bunny forever. They'll know that we hide the eggs.

We color hard boiled eggs together as a family and use them to make deviled eggs for Easter dinner. The Easter bunny brings the baskets and then we have a plastic egg hunt with my grandparents.

mmmm, deviled eggs.

We color eggs as a family, the Easter bunny hides plastic eggs -- some of which contain clues as to where to find the baskets he has hidden.

awesome. seems we do it like everyone else. good, lol. i personally thought it was odd the way my BIL did it. their daughter is freaking 9 years old! (and SPOILED, btw lol)

We dye eggs together and hide them for the kids. The baskets are from the Easter Bunny.

We dye eggs as a family, its fun to watch the little ones smash them into the color. We usually end up with fingerprinted eggs & dyed hands.

I use them to make deviled eggs & potato salad on Easter.

& we hide plastic ones, depending on the weather, inside or out.

We get together with another family & dye eggs for Easter. They hide them for an egg hunt and I think the Easter bunny brings the kids baskets. But we're not Christian so we don't do egg hunts and the easter bunny. We decorate them to celebrate the return of spring & the rebirth of life. Last year we decorated only a few eggs and made some egg shaped sugar cookies to decorate as well because the plethora of hard boiled eggs were going to waste

My 9 year old still believes, and he's a real smart cookie. I think if he thought about it, he'd know it wasn't real, but I'd say he's just not thinking about it enough LOL. Either that, or he knows and just doesn't want to tell us that he does.

The baskets are from the Easter Bunny. We don't typically dye eggs, but if we did, I would do it as an activity with the kids. We do a plastic egg hunt, I put chocolates in the eggs and hide them. After the kids open their baskets, they use them to put the eggs in.

I would REALLY like to have an outdoor egg hunt, but it is always too cold at that time of year here.

For years we have been coloring the eggs on Good Friday. This developed because my sister usually has to work but her kids have no school so they stay with me for the day. Making that our egg coloring day just seemed like a good activity. The kids usually have so much fun and the ingredients involved (I make the dyes with food coloring and vinegar) are so cheap that I've expanded to allowing them to make as many colors as we can create and a dozen eggs per kid. Sometimes they also color designs on the egg with a crayon to make a wax resist before coloring. Sometimes they try to make a two-tone egg. It really is fun.

In my experience the egg coloring is so much fun for the kids that it kind of makes me sad that your niece has never had that experience.

We color eggs and then they wake up to their baskets. We are not horribly religious and not big on eggs. We don't dye too many.

But we're not Christian so we don't do egg hunts and the easter bunny.

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Teehee, this made me giggle. I know Christians who don't do egg hunts and the easter bunny because those traditions aren't really "Christian" and they feel they distract from the meaning of the holiday.

We dye eggs as a family and it's always so much fun. Easter bunny brings baskets in the morning and usually my mom does a big easter egg hunt with plastic eggs for anyone who wants to hunt (yes this does sometimes include some of the adults in my family..lol). When we aren't able to go to my parents we still hide plastic eggs for DD to find.

DH introduced something to my I'd never done but was a tradition in his family for easter. They do an easter egg fight whenever anyone wants a hard boiled egg. DD loves this.

BTW DD will be 9 this month and still believes...or at least lets on that she does. Something that cracked me up though that I thought I'd share. Valentine's Day 2009 she wanted to leave a little present for Cupid...and I said but sweetie Cupid is a mythological figure there's no need, and she looked at me and said "so is Santa Claus but we leave him milk and cookies." Threw me for a loop..lol.

Well over the last year my Easter plans have drastically changed. Growing up we'd get all the grandkids (or ones that still lived by us) over to my grandma's house (about 10 grandkids ranging from 1-22ish) and we'd dye a ton of hard boiled eggs. A ton because we'd all dye our eggs at the same time at my grandma's house. It was so much fun just sitting around the table laughing, talking, joking doing what we've done every year. Plus my grandma would be getting started on the Easter lunch at the same time (getting the stuff done that would be served cold lol) and just one of my favorite times. Then on Easter morning we'd do our tradition (Dad would hide the eggs but would say the Easter bunny did) and we'd have a basket of goodies a piece.

Then going to grandma's we'd have a HUGE egg hunt outside (she had like 3 acres of land I think) if the weather permited and it was so fun to just run around out there. Then of course she'd tell us the Easter bunny hide them all over the house too (Both hunts were mostly plastic eggs I don't recall her ever hiding the real ones lol) and we'd each have a basket from the Easter bunny plus if our aunts/uncles wanted to bring us a gift they could.

Last year was rough I didn't want to do anything reallly (first year without my grandma and everything was a mess) but me and Owen dyed some eggs at our apartment just the two of us and he had so much fun. Then I hid a few of them around the house with some plastic eggs and he hunted them down and enjoyed the gifts in his basket.

scrap2day said:

In my experience the egg coloring is so much fun for the kids that it kind of makes me sad that your niece has never had that experience.

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thank you!! on one hand i was mad my kids didn't get to do our usual tradition and on the other hand it is sad to think she's never done it. one day when she's older she'll realize what she missed out on.

When I was a kid, my mom once hid the hard boiled eggs overnight, for us to find Easter morning. The dog really appreciated it. Needless to say, he had an upset tummy and we had no eggs to find.

Depends on when Easter is.... sometimes it's on our Spring Break, and when that happens, we're usually on vacation, so the kids get an Easter Basket in the room. If it's later, we'll go to my mom's and color eggs, last year my sister and I made a ton of Easter yummies, and then the kids will have egg hunts for each other using plastic eggs.

I don't know what we'll do about baskets this year. I'll have a 14 y.o. and a 15 y.o. who are way past believing, but my 10 y.o. still believes, and I don't want to take that away from her. If we're at my mom's, my younger nieces will be there, too, so I'll probably stick with the "if you keep your mouth shut, you'll get a basket, too" line for my kids.

Here we don't do coloring eggs. We do the egg hunt inside/outside the house w/ baskets themed w/ the bunny easter and everything. But the eggs are chocolate made eggs. We buy (some people do the chocolate eggs w/ the kids at home) them. Even religious people do this b/c 99% of population can't avoid chocolate, kwim?
We have themed chocolate eggs like Toy Story, Ariel, Princess, Cars, Strawberry Shortcake, Ben 10, Monsters S.A... w/ some treat inside. Grown up children likes to go to the store and pick their own eggs.
I already know what chocolate egg I want for easter LOL



P.S. - I would love a scrap kit inspired by those eggs!

We all love to decorate eggs, we do an insane amount every year (true even before we had kids). We hide plastic eggs for hunting and they often get gathered up and hidden multiple times because the kids have so much fun with it.

We dye eggs for fun. We also don't usually do an egg hunt. I never did them as a child so I sort of forget to prep for it and then remember at the last moment. All my kids still believe in the Easter bunny and my oldest is 11. When he finds out, he finds out, but I will not ruin it for him until that time.

DawnMarch said:

Teehee, this made me giggle. I know Christians who don't do egg hunts and the easter bunny because those traditions aren't really "Christian" and they feel they distract from the meaning of the holiday.

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Oh I know When I tell some people around here that we don't do egg hunts and Easter baskets they often get a bit defensive and tell me it's just for fun for the kids after church because the real purpose of Easter is to celebrate Jesus. Then I have to explain that we're not Christian so they don't feel bad about the bunny.