I have a question for those of you reusing baskets: how do you handle this with the kids? Surely they notice that it is the same basket. When you put it away after Easter do you say something about sending it back to the Easter bunny? Do you set it out empty for the Easter bunny to fill the next year? I love the pottery barn baskets and liners but I would have to reuse them at those prices.
My DS hasn't noticed but he's three. I don't think it will be a big deal. We may have him set it down empty the night before though, haven't really thought about it too much.
I have a question for those of you reusing baskets: how do you handle this with the kids? Surely they notice that it is the same basket. When you put it away after Easter do you say something about sending it back to the Easter bunny? Do you set it out empty for the Easter bunny to fill the next year? I love the pottery barn baskets and liners but I would have to reuse them at those prices.
My kids haven't noticed/questioned it yet. Or maybe they just know the gifts are from us? I haven't been too into marketing the Easter bunny like I do Santa.
I have a question for those of you reusing baskets: how do you handle this with the kids? Surely they notice that it is the same basket. When you put it away after Easter do you say something about sending it back to the Easter bunny? Do you set it out empty for the Easter bunny to fill the next year? I love the pottery barn baskets and liners but I would have to reuse them at those prices.
When I was a kid we would have our baskets out on the fireplace hearth and they would sit there as decor. Then the Easter bunny would fill it with a toy and hide chocolate eggs all over the house. So for us the Easter basket itself wasn't from the bunny but what was left in it.
Ours were reused when was a kid and I don't remember ever questioning. They were also hidden in the house Easter morning so we had to find them. The eggs were hidden outside. We'll do the same for our kids.
Post by honeybee434 on Mar 5, 2015 15:23:46 GMT -5
We also had an empty basket that we left out each year and then the Easter bunny filled it when we were sleeping. The baskets were hidden and we had to find them each year. Colored eggs were hidden as well, be we could look for the basket before my parents got up and then thr eggs we had to wait for my parents to sit and watch us.
I think we figured out pretty quickly that my parents were the ones hiding and filling everything, we just "said" Easter bunny.
I got a cute fabric basket at target 2 years ago for DS1. Hoping to find another this year for the baby. The last two years, we hid eggs in the yard and had an egg hunt. In prior years, his eggs have had small toys in them, like little dinosaurs and temporary tattoos. This year he announced he wanted candy (le sigh). We don't fill up a basket with Easter gifts (the kid has enough stuff and the egg hunt is exciting enough). However, I have no control over the relatives who always show up with stuff for the kid(s) - like the epileptic-fit-inducing lighted bunny wand one showed up with last year.
Post by honeybee434 on Mar 5, 2015 22:09:11 GMT -5
Do you guys hide real eggs? Or plastic eggs? My parents always his our real eggs that we colored, and it was always inside. (This was also in Wisconsin where it wasn't usually nice enough to egg hunt outside). And there were more places for my parents to be sneaky and hide the eggs. DH's mother puts them outside, plastic eggs filled with things. I haven't figured out which way we will go when DD gets old enough.
Our Easter bunny hid plastic eggs for our family inside the house. He also hid our Easter baskets when we got a little older to keep us interested! We each had our own color egg to search for that way there was no competition.
Do you guys hide real eggs? Or plastic eggs? My parents always his our real eggs that we colored, and it was always inside. (This was also in Wisconsin where it wasn't usually nice enough to egg hunt outside). And there were more places for my parents to be sneaky and hide the eggs. DH's mother puts them outside, plastic eggs filled with things. I haven't figured out which way we will go when DD gets old enough.
We always had plastic eggs. I'm in MI so like WI it's never warm enough to hide eggs outside. I couldn't imagine hiding real eggs inside... I feel like we were still finding plastic ones a week after Easter!
Do you guys hide real eggs? Or plastic eggs? My parents always his our real eggs that we colored, and it was always inside. (This was also in Wisconsin where it wasn't usually nice enough to egg hunt outside). And there were more places for my parents to be sneaky and hide the eggs. DH's mother puts them outside, plastic eggs filled with things. I haven't figured out which way we will go when DD gets old enough.
Real eggs were always for decoration. We also only did the shells, never hard boiled eggs or anything that could go bad so we could keep them year to year. Plastic eggs filled with change were hidden outside for finding.
My friend was telling me this story about a friend of hers.
This friend would hide Kinder Eggs for her kids every year. After years of trying to come up with new hiding places, she decided to unscrew the lamp lightbulbs and hide the eggs there. Welllll, she forgot to UNPLUG the lamps. Kids got a little shock but they were ok. I laughed a little when I heard this. I'm a bad person.
The Easter baskets are like stockings. The EB fills them like Santa does the they go away until the next year.
We use plastic eggs filled with candy like Hershey kisses or money (sometimes stickers and stuff for the little kids). Easter morning egg hunt at our house is always inside since I'm not going out at night to hide eggs and sometimes it's still too cold/wet to count on it not being muddy. If it's nice then they have an outdoor egg hunt at my mom's house later in the day.
Only plastic eggs here. Frankly, between the egg hunts my kids do at preschool, both sets of grandparents' houses (they're all AWs!), and the one our HOA organizes here in the neighborhood, I don't do one at our house. I figure they get tired of hunting for eggs?
Though I was so desperate for an indoor activity yesterday that I had the boys taking turns hiding (empty) eggs for each other and then hunting for them.
I'm not sure about egg coloring, only because I was traumatized by my sister as a child. Whatever cleaning stuff my mom used to help get the dye off our hands was fine for me but my sisters hands and forearms turned bright red and she screamed that it burned for like 20 minutes
Thank sounds horrible! I imagine similar to when you cut up a pepper and then touch your eye and it burns forever.
Post by surfmama106 on Mar 7, 2015 17:44:37 GMT -5
I caved and bought a PB fluffy white bunny Easter basket. And yes I absolutely got her name embroidered in the ear.
Inside I'm going to put puffs, little yums, little crunchies, the jellycat puppy I already gave her, 2 bathing suits... That maybe it. If I think of anything else I'll throw it in there as well, maybe those Melissa and Doug cars?
I seriously can not wait to take her Easter pics with basket and adorable outfit.
I caved and bought a PB fluffy white bunny Easter basket. And yes I absolutely got her name embroidered in the ear.
Inside I'm going to put puffs, little yums, little crunchies, the jellycat puppy I already gave her, 2 bathing suits... That maybe it. If I think of anything else I'll throw it in there as well, maybe those Melissa and Doug cars?
I seriously can not wait to take her Easter pics with basket and adorable outfit.
Post by gingergrant on Mar 9, 2015 11:10:32 GMT -5
Thanks to you ladies, I've ordered a pottery barn basket and liner (large natural basket and the Beatrice Potter liner with his name embroidered) and a jelly cat woodland bunny. We're also going to buy LO a new sun hat and a pool raft that he can sit in. I never would have started this early if not for this thread!
Thanks to you ladies, I've ordered a pottery barn basket and liner (large natural basket and the Beatrice Potter liner with his name embroidered) and a jelly cat woodland bunny. We're also going to buy LO a new sun hat and a pool raft that he can sit in. I never would have started this early if not for this thread!
Just ordered 2 baskets and liners from pottery barn too! Finally bit the bullet because I wanted something that I could match if we have a third kid. Also had 3 gift cards (1 from our wedding 6.5 years ago) that paid for them. Yay!
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