Umm, what do I do with the Easter Basket??

Re: Umm, what do I do with the Easter Basket??

• molliedb

  April 2011

  ours were from the easter bunny.  of course he's a very resourceful bunny that managed to find some canvas bags the girls already have and love and filled those with the goods   they were just sitting outside where the eggs were hidden.

  our debate was to hide the eggs inside or outside.  dh said outside, but my family always hid inside.  we opted for outside.
  

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• ali-1411 member

  April 2011

  We never hunted for eggs as kids.  The first egg hunt I ever did was when Jakob was 3 years old.  My parents always hid our baskets.

  I do the same.  This year, the kids baskets were hidden in the blanket chest.  Sometimes they are in the fireplace, in the dryer, in the oven, in a cabinet...
  

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• mcgee member

  April 2011

  We picked out a basket for the kids when they were babies, and it's their basket as they grow up. Last year I asked Mer to put the baskets out for the bunny, but we forgot to do that this year. I had to hunt for them after the kids went to bed. Normally after the novelty of putting stuff in the baskets fades, I put them on a high shelf in my craft closet, and we'll bring them out again in the spring or whenever Meredith gets into the closet and wants to play with her basket.
  

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• m_and_m

  April 2011

  We hunted for eggs until we were 12, I think? My patents just hid them better. Like the year we found an egg at my birthday party. In February. :-O
  
  I filled H's basket and set it outside our bedroom door so she would find it after she woke up. She said "Look what Grandpa gave me!" but we told her it was from the Easter Bunny.
  My parents never hid the baskets, but they'd pit them in different parts of the house. Sometimes they'd sneak it into out bedrooms after we fell asleep, sometimes on the hearth, at the back door, etc. We always knew it was my parents (same as Santa and the Tooth Fairy) but went through the motions.

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• HSartteach member

  April 2011

  Probably too late now, but we never did egg hunts.  Like a pp, I never did an egg hunt until--well Friday at the bumpie egg hunt.  Our baskets were from the Easter Bunny.  I don't think they were hidden, but we each had our own basket that was used from year to year.  They were placed in specific places for each of us--the same every year.
  

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• Angie&Doc

  April 2011

  We always woke up to ours on the fireplace. That is where I put the kids too.

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• Taytee

  April 2011

  FIL and SIL came over for Easter lunch. When the girls went outside to find eggs that SIL hid earlier, I stayed back and put the baskets inside so they'd see them when they got back. I told Abby the Easter Bunny must have gone through the house to go home. She didn't seem to care or need an explaination for she was far too interested in the baskets contents. Our outside eggs were just the plastic ones with jelly beans etc in them. We weren't done coloring real eggs in the house and regardless of the fact that I have no intentions of eating them anyway, the thought of hardboiled eggs outside grossed me out.

  I have no recollection of hunting for eggs with family. I once did a hunt in the woods behind our community center but I think I was in the 5th grade. I wanted to win the grand prize so bad but didn't even come close to 1st place for the most eggs found. I cried my eyes out. Maybe that's why my parents never took me on public hunts much.

  I remember taking my Easter Basket to church when I was really young as they were blessed during Mass. My grandmother always had ours wrapped in plastic (with a little window flap for the blessing? to avoid wandering little hands and also because my Aunt had her chocolate bunny stolen from her basket when she was a kid. In church! Who does that!?

  

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