BlogCarnival: Easter Tradition

[bunnykissd]

RainyDayArt gives us the topic: Easter is April 4, what family traditions do you do for Easter?

Ever since we moved here, we've had a big Easter egg hunt with the kids. We fill nearly 100 plastic eggs with candy (sometimes coins), and before the kids wake up, Jacqueline wanders around our 3 acres to hide them all. As the kids get up, they have to find their baskets in the house, which usually have a few unwrapped candies (jelly beans) and things too big for eggs (a bigger chocolate bunny, some peeps, and webkinz this year).

Then when they're all up, they gather in the kitchen and we give them the low-down: how many eggs they each can find (used to be 25, now the packages of plastic eggs don't come with so many in them so it's down to 21 this year...), where they might be (in the woods, in the house...), etc.... Some years, we've given the younger girls a 5 to 10 minute head start; this year they all took off at once!


Some years, there has still been snow on the ground (as you can see in the photo above), and one year, the snow was so deep, we postponed it until June! XD (It was the earliest time we could find the time when the weather was nice enough!) This year was perfect for it! ^-^

Comments

[marilavado.livejournal.com]

That's a beautiful tradition. =)

[bunnykissd.livejournal.com]

It is fun too!

[sandalfon.livejournal.com]

When my kids were younger I would color eggs and fill some plastic ones, hide them in the morning and the kids would find whatever they could (with some help, even though they were not too hard to find). As the kids got older, I let them help me color the eggs. I'd always make certain to write down how many eggs were hidden and the most difficult places (for me to remember) so that we wouldn't end up with a rotten egg or two in the summer. I also hid their baskets and gave them a clue to start with clues along the way, like a scavanger hunt. I did this one year for a birthday party with prizes hidden, it's fun watching them go from one clue to another and finally finding the treasure. A friend would also hide the small foil wrapped chocolate eggs around the house as the first hunt, they the kids would go out and find the other eggs. We all had such great fun. I too began giving them the amount each one could find, that way it was more fair.

[bunnykissd.livejournal.com]

I used to color eggs for myself, and then with the kids, but then I realized that none of us really liked that part much (and I'm not into eating Egg Salad Sammiches for the rest of the week, since no one else likes them); so we dropped it. We have lost a few plastic eggs, but with only a piece of candy inside it's not too much of a loss. ^-^ I like the scavenger hunt idea! We might try that sometime...

[rockgcrazy.livejournal.com]

YELLOW HAIR IS YELLOW.
And I think I deserve a headstart next year. /failure

[bunnykissd.livejournal.com]

BLOND HAIR IS PRETTY!

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