If the Easter basket is filled...

barnwife

what do your kiddos put the eggs they find in? Do they get a filled basket and another one for the egg hunt? 

How does this work?

(The Easter Bunny leaves your empty basket on the table. You pick it up and begin hunting for the things to fill it. At least, that's how it's always been done in my life.)

LoriLee14

They get the candy and toys out and use the same one to hunt for eggs. Candy we keep in a dish and toys will just get thrown into the living room....

Cherryblossoms07

They empty their baskets and then hunt for eggs. That gives DH and I time to get ready for our day before we go downstairs or outside for the hunt.

bumpuser8448316

Wake up, find the basket that's been filled, empty basket (which kids do naturally as they check out all their stuff) and then hunt for eggs. Same as we did growing up

Spin313

Our neighborhood does an egg hunt the day before Easter, so the kids use their buckets/baskets for the hunt then leave them on the fireplace at night for the Bunny to fill.

NicoleWI

Usually we'd find the eggs first and just bring each to Mom & Dad to put back in the tray in the fridge (hard boiled). We'd find our baskets next b/c they were hidden more carefully. 

If we do plastic eggs this year, that's a good point. I think I'll have them just give them to me and make one big pile so we don't have fights about who has more.

fancynewbeesly

Same basket. 

We go to my IL's for an egg hunt. We just use the same basket. 

zbeesma86

we had a basket for collecting then another basket with all our goodies in it.

I used to put Easter eggs in my shirt to make boobies.

cactus5

We don't do an egg hunt for the kids. Both sets of grandparents do one, and we go to a lot before Easter.

LatteLady5

LoriLee14 said:

They get the candy and toys out and use the same one to hunt for eggs. Candy we keep in a dish and toys will just get thrown into the living room....

This. The Easter Bunny actually came to our house today because the kids are getting baptized tomorrow and we go to church an hourish away from home so most of the day will be gone by the time we get back. I wanted DD to have time to enjoy her stuff. We're coloring our eggs tonight and she'll hunt tomorrow.

barnwife

LatteLady5 said:

LoriLee14 said:

They get the candy and toys out and use the same one to hunt for eggs. Candy we keep in a dish and toys will just get thrown into the living room....

This. The Easter Bunny actually came to our house today because the kids are getting baptized tomorrow and we go to church an hourish away from home so most of the day will be gone by the time we get back. I wanted DD to have time to enjoy her stuff. We're coloring our eggs tonight and she'll hunt tomorrow.

I am floored. The Easter Bunny doesn't hide things at all in your house? I don't think I know anyone where the Easter Bunny doesn't hide something.

Also, after reading everyone's responses I feel shortchanged. Clearly it is common for the EB to leave a full basket, which you then get to empty and fill again! Really, he's leaving 2! I want all the stuff I missed out on! (Not really, since my kiddos will also apparently be shortchanged.)

rosesandpetals

Everytime I think back to my childhood, I realize how weird it was. We used plastic bags for the Easter egg hunt. I have no idea why we didn't use baskets, they were like old plastic bags from the grocery store. WTH. Seemed totally normal at the time, though.

LatteLady5

barnwife said:

LatteLady5 said:

LoriLee14 said:

They get the candy and toys out and use the same one to hunt for eggs. Candy we keep in a dish and toys will just get thrown into the living room....

This. The Easter Bunny actually came to our house today because the kids are getting baptized tomorrow and we go to church an hourish away from home so most of the day will be gone by the time we get back. I wanted DD to have time to enjoy her stuff. We're coloring our eggs tonight and she'll hunt tomorrow.

I am floored. The Easter Bunny doesn't hide things at all in your house? I don't think I know anyone where the Easter Bunny doesn't hide something.

Also, after reading everyone's responses I feel shortchanged. Clearly it is common for the EB to leave a full basket, which you then get to empty and fill again! Really, he's leaving 2! I want all the stuff I missed out on! (Not really, since my kiddos will also apparently be shortchanged.)

The Easter Bunny hides eggs and leaves the baskets out on the table. This year he (me obviously :P) put a mini-decorative white picket fence around the baskets and little battery powered chicks and he filled our glass, decorative eggs with mini reeces cups.

Tomorrow he'll hide some plastic candy filled eggs while we're at church and DD will hunt for them in the evening.

In summary, DD got her basket and present early because we're going to be gone most of tomorrow and I wanted her to enjoy it for the day. DS got his early too obviously but he's 3 months old so it was all for DD's benefit

alake

We don't do an egg hunt.  The kids get baskets from the Easter bunny.
My parents and my Auntie and Uncle put on a huge Easter egg hunt for the kids.  It includes about 750 plastic eggs and is over 10 acres, for 14 kids.  It is a long process which my little ones get bored of quickly.  It will be more fun the older they get.

dizzycooks

auroraloo said:

As a kid I left out the basket with eggs in it overnight. The bunny came and hid the eggs. I found them in the morning.

I like this idea!

notkateanymore

We had two baskets for DD when she was the age that she hunted eggs. So one was filled and the other was for hunting, but usually just she grabbed them and brought them to me.