Anyone giving easter eggs this year

Oh yes, I’ve got Easter eggs for all my grandchildren. I’ve also got some nice chocolates for their parents, a Symnel cake for my mother, and DH’s favourite mint chocolates. I’ve also got all the grandchildren a new summer tee shirt each.

6 dgc. The two older ones get a really nice egg each. The other 4 wee ones get a small egg and a t shirt each.

Just for the little ones this year though I gave some small ones to the teenagers.

I must be the only one who never buys Easter eggs for grandchildren. I used to buy some of those tiny ones for Easter egg hunts if any were visiting on the day itself but I haven’t done that for a long time.

No eggs the little ones don’t eat a lot of sweets/chocolate so I stopped a while ago. I might buy one for myself though ?

Yes, eggs for GC who are teens plus boxes of Easter chocs for the AC. I've even bought some hand painted eggs from St. Petersburg as gifts.

I may be wrong but didn’t we just have this thread a couple of weeks ago ?

Our DGC are all teens and get a "flat Easter Egg" i.e. cash in a card, usually.

This year I have gone hi-tech and they are getting a credit into their bank accounts and an e-card each. One of them is vegan, another is vegetarian and the other two prefer cash anyway!

Money for the older GC, then Lindt Bunnies and an item of clothing for the younger ones.

Today we are going to dgds birthday party. Have also got a pile of Easter eggs to take for DDs, Sil and a load of chocolate bunnies for Dgc

I had always bought my DD a Thorntons egg with her name iced on the front but since our local Thornton's has been closed it will not happen this year so a nice bunch of flowers I think,my two sons will get their usual Terry's Chocolate Orange they get miffed if they don't get one.
GCs all grown up except one will get a voucher of some kind or money,and GGD a gardening kit as she is happiest in the garden watering my garden.

I never buy chocolate for my grandchildren. I have seasonally decorated cardboard ones which I pop some little surprises into. The shells can be reused each year.

I buy them it’s traditional for the DGC to go on egg hunts it’s what mine did.

I don’t buy Easter eggs for my grandchildren. Their parents do, so there is no need for yet more chocolate. If I was with them at Easter, I would probably get them some sort of present, but not chocolate.

My DIL asked for caterpillars for my 2 GC! They are studying insects at school and have a mini butterfly farm at home. Who knew you could order caterpillars online? Not cheap, so I hope they're not just cabbage whites!

Do children still go out to roll Easter eggs? We used to hard boil eggs coloured by cochineal in the water and paint them with patterns when cold. We'd compete to see whose stayed intact the longest being rolled downhill. It was fun seeing the yolks fly off in different directions. Simple pleasures!

We are giving our grandchildren Easter eggs, but not the usual sort. We bought chocolate eggs filled with little marshmallows that you melt in hot milk. Going by the weather forecast for the coming weekend I think it was a good choice. ?

Yes Nell8 my youngest 2 grandchildren still delight in painting and rolling eggs. They live 140 miles away so due to covid restrictions we can’t be together. But I’ll look forward to a video call during the painting session so they can show me their creations.

Grannynannywanny You've cheered me up!

Yes,eggs for all g/children/ son`s and dil`s.
It`s traditional in our family.

No point in buying DGSs Easter eggs as they are inundated with them. It's eldest DGSs birthday on Monday and I've got him a good present which will occupy him for ages. I'll get a small present for his little brother.
I did get a lovely Hotel Chocolat one for DH though.

Nell8 I’ve been thinking I’ll give them a laugh and be sitting at the kitchen table painting my own when their video call connects ?

Yes, to Mr. B. There are so many little ones and they get so many eggs, so we don’t bother.

I'm not buying Easter eggs either. I'm just doing an easter video for the youngest DGC's egg hunts and I used to give them small eggs as well, but I've stopped doing so about 2 or 3 years ago as they get lots of them from their parents, etc. DGC don't seem to be bothered.