We do an egg hunt, with some small & some medium sized eggs, all divvied up after the hunt - they usually end up with around 4 med sized each, and a heap of small ones. It used to be a bunny each as well but this year I am letting them choose what they want - Panda only wants Lindt, Bubble wants Creme eggs. Pie will just get whatever cause she's too young to know or care
My son is dairy allergic so it's Easter lollipops and a ne car and bunny sticker book this year. My other son is only 14 months so he's getting a small kinder egg (his fav) and a few new toy cars. Were also taking them so sovereign hill as a treat.
My DH is getting a Turkish delight pack and I have asked for a rocklea road from Darrel Lea
Mil ways buys a bag full of cheap nasty stuff for them...
The whole family gets a Elegant Rabbit and Humpty Dumpty. I am buying the plastic pack of eggs for an egg hunt that we all share. DD is also getting a Dora toy I got for $5.
Last year I got heaps of comments about how much chocolate DD got. People just didn't seem to understand that we only got her 2 eggs. The rest was from the family and she didn't eat it all.
The girls get a Bilby, a Humpty and a character set (DD1 getting a tinkerbelle cup with egg, DD2 getting Dora eggcup with egg) plus a gift (DD1 getting a snow white dress up and DD2 getting a Peter Pan dvd).
I will get a box of chocolates from Koko Black as usual
Although we have this new chocolate shop just opened up at my shopping centre, "John Brennan Chocolate" or some such. Either way it look and smells devine, so I will be going in and checking out what they have in there for myself this year.
Yay!
i love buying my kid stuff and now he is prolly old enough to do easter
I think we will have a hunt, but also buy a couple of winter top/pants too.
My older kids get an elegant bunny & a tray of medium eggs each. DS2 & DD2 will each get a Bilby. DD3 will get a plush bunny. We buy a pkt or 2 of the small, solid eggs and scatter them all around the house. They get put into a large bowl for everyone & anyone to help themselves to.
DH & I will be receiving as many Buenos as possible!!! lol
I bought ds a cute white and blue pair of fluffy bunny ears
and two bunnies, (they both are different colours lol )
a new set of textas,
some new winter pjs and
a bag of solid eggs for the hunt.....
Well we had to buy eggs for the Kinder easter raffle, and each Kinder kid would "win" an egg - I bought 2 bilbies - well DS was one of the first kids to choose an egg off the table, there were rabbits and eggs and humpty dumptys and lindt (yummmmmy) - the bilby I bought that he hadn't seen me buy was the only one on the table - and he chose it! Go Pip!!!!!
The Hunt is a Very Big Deal in our household (*sigh*) but I'm kind of over having masses of chocolate hanging around for ages, so this year I went to one of the cheap shops and found a pack of two dozen egg decorations (like you'd hang on a tree). So they can be found and re-hid and found again countless times without anyone committing an act of high-blood-sugar violence
So, the kids will both get an Elegant rabbit, the grown ups will get a very tiny but exquisitely good selection of Haighs treats, and anything else Easter-y will be because we're doing an activity together (eg baking and decorating cookies for friends, dying eggs, etc).
I have just ordered some molds to make our own easter eggs. Should be a good activity to fill in some of our kindy holiday free time (and cheaper too).
This is what we are doing:
Adults (we are entertaining 2 separate family functions and 1 group of friends) - gingerbread biscuit in egg shaped decorated with royal icing (presented in a cello bag with ribbon and gift tag).
Gluten free adults - home made chocolate eggs in cello bag and gift tag.
Children - muesli bar cut into egg shape in cello bag with gift tag
Baby - round teething ring - the closest thing I could find to oval shaped!
Have just had 15 minutes of entertainment looking up what elegant bunnies and Easter Humpty's are, and been educated about PJ's being traditional Easter presents - being from the UK these were new things to me. A question - is Easter a bigger thing here now than it was when you were young? or is it just bigger here than it was in the UK? I don't remember a big deal being made of Easter at all at home, we did get some chocolate mum and dad were big on value for money so we always got bars of chocolate rather than eggs as more for your money that way, but I don't remember ever being bought eggs by other people unless we were staying with relatives over Easter - or buying eggs for others, and I have never been on an Easter Egg hunt. So any other UK Expats, was it just my family or is Easter a bigger deal here in Aus?
So what have I got DD? Nothing had never occurred to me - well she got Giggle and Hoot PJ's a week ago, so maybe they count, and we are going to an Easter Egg hunt as on holiday.
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