When DD was little, one parent would distract while the other did E.B duties out in the back yard. As she got a bit older, the E.B had to visit before we went to bed because she would get up literally at the crack of dawn and expect to glimpse chocolate offerings out the window LOL.

One thing my mum did that was always nice ( and I think probably dates from a time when the emphasis was less on chocolate eggs) was she (well the E.B) would leave a fresh egg at each child's place on the table with a funny face drawn on it in texta. Then she would take the eggs away to cook them and she put food colouring in the water, so on Easter morning we always had a coloured "magic" egg softboiled for breakfast.