Easter Bunny

Someone will make a lot of money from your idea. Just saying ??

Just my personal view, but why spoil the little bit of magic that children still have in their lives? Parents can choose whether they use commercially produced stuff or make their own. My (now adult) children loved their Easter celebrations & now provide great fun for their own children. The same goes for Christmas celebrations: modest gifts but great love.

Oh GrannyLaine I completely agree and would go to the ends of the earth to preserve the magic for children. We always celebrated Easter with games and egg hunts, but the children knew that we had bought the eggs for them. They were a gift from us, and from other relatives and friends, not from a mythical bunny. It meant that children understood, just as at Christmas, that some of their friends received more than they did because their parents could afford more. It wasn't because Father Christmas or the Easter Bunny preferred other children to them and gave more treats to others than they received.

Our grandchildren aged 7y & 3y apparently came downstairs this morning and were delighted to find two creme eggs in the cereal box, then shrieked with glee when they saw two more creme eggs in the fridge when the opened it to get the milk for their breakfast cereal! What’s not to like? What the Easter Bunny left cost pennies. Other eggs they know are from family & friends.

A bit of magic. Like the tooth fairy. And Father Christmas brings 2 presents - the rest again, they know are from family & friends.

I give them to my grandchildren they don’t do Easter hunts for the or like Christmas have them laid out! We do a little egg hunt in the garden sadly not this year though.

I've always done an Easter egg hunt in my garden, first for my DS and then for GC. Of course they know that rabbits don't lay eggs, they're not daft! They know it's the adults me who buys and hides the eggs and surprises but it's just a family game that happens once a year and gives everyone pleasure and fun. But sadly, not this year. I'll make up for it next year though!

Easter Bunny leaves little eggs in a basket outside C / GCs bedrooms.

They get their Easter Eggs from family and an Easter Egg hunt.

No Easter bunny ever visited my house as a child or this house when my children were small.
I and they had eggs but we knew the adults bought them. We never had egg hunts either.

One year I hid gold foil eggs in the garden before the arrival of the GC only for the pigeons to be attracted and have a good peck at them!

Where does all this Easter Bunny stuff come from ( the idea that he provides choccy eggs) the US?

We always do egg hunts ....but that’s different.

I bought my 2 1\2 year old granddaughter some plastic eggs from Amazon a while ago with little wind up toys inside, intending that we would have an Easter egg hunt in the garden when they came to us for Easter Sunday lunch, but the lockdown put paid to that. However I gave them to my daughter when she called in to exchange Easter eggs (keeping social distancing of course) and I've just had a video of my granddaughter having an Easter egg hunt in their garden. She was told the Easter Bunny left them - what's the harm in that? The video was magical and it really cheered me up to see her excited little face. We all need a little bit of magic at this horrible time.

How long before the shops start selling Easter Bunny 'advent' calendars?

I love that idea!

When I was a reception teacher the children made little baskets and overnight the Easter Bunny put some little eggs in them. I used to make talcum powered paw prints around the place. It seemed a bit of harmless 'magic' that brought some joy.

I agree, our children can have a little magic whilst they are very young. Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, Father Christmas. Real life kicks in soon enough I think.
I'm not sure that the cost or amount of gifts is important. As Urmstongran said only a couple of gifts are from the Easter Bunny or Father Christmas the rest are from family and friends.

Beechnut is spot on.....

You have your traditions and we respect that, other people have their traditions please respect theirs ?

No, the Easter bunny didn't come to me as a child either.

It is, I believe, a German tradition and the bunny is a hare there.

Surely, it does no harm for children to think the Easter hare or bunny has hidden the eggs they find?

Their parents and grandparents can still give them Easter eggs too if the want to.

No Easter Bunny for me as a child or my own children - eggs were just from the parents or grandparents although when I was at infant school we decorated hard boiled eggs for a competition. However I had to smile last night just before going to bed when we received a message from my son over in NZ (where of course the Easter bunny and tooth fairy are classed as essential workers ). Our little grandsons had done their egg hunt and eaten chocolate before breakfast. They both then felt rather ill and the eldest (6) had 'retired to his bed and turned his face to the wall'! Having just devoured the ears off my Lindt bunny I know the feeling

I can't remember when the Easter Bunny came into our lives. I don't think my children were visited by him/her/it.

I definitely wasn't as a child in the 1960s. Our Easter activity was to decorate a hard boiled egg, which we rolled/threw down a hill to break the shell, and then we ate it. Chocolate eggs were given by family/friends of the family.

My granddaughter and grandson have an Easter Egg hunt in our garden/house with coloured plastic eggs and when they have collected 20 each, they can exchange them for an Easter egg (for my granddaughter) and an Easter themed book (for my grandson, who doesn't like chocolate or sweets).

I just think it's a hit of harmless fun for them whilst they're little. I'm pretty sure they know full well there's no bunny doing the hiding, and just humour the adults

Like all religious days Easter has become commercialised. When I was a child my father would take us to the sweet shop to choose an Easter egg each. On Good Friday Mother would cook a special dinner of salmon, expensive then, and Easter Sunday roast spring lamb with new potatoes and fresh peas.
Mother’s Day didn’t exist. Mothering Sunday after church we gave our mother posies of primroses and violets picked from the hedgerow.

My late aunt would take us to roll dyed hard boiled eggs down our local hill. She was an historian and called it "pace egging" The hill was called "Pudding Pie Hill!"

As children we painted hard-boiled eggs, or dyed them with flowers or old bits of cloth tied around during the boiling. Sometimes we marked them with candle-wax before painting or dyeing. It was incredibly good fun and filled the days between breaking up school and Good Friday. We made little Easter Gardens with old shoe boxes, plaster of Paris and twigs & greenery from the garden or hedgerow. We did get given chocolate Easter eggs by grandparents and aunties. But how much better for children to be creative than have everything magically provided. The commercialisation is regrettable, in my view, but people are free to choose, and that's fine.

Advent calendars for Easter? But that would go completely against the idea of Lent (about 42 days I think) when the idea is to be frugal and restrained - not that I've ever managed it.