Easter Eggs - What do YOU buy?

My girls get a Cadbury or Red Tulip Bunny as well as a Humpty Dumpty egg and some solid Cadbury eggs spread around the house as a little path for them to follow to find their bunnies. When I was little it was a tradition in our family to get a Humpty egg each year, so I have continued it on for my girls. I also get each of them a book.

hmmm im not sure wat to do this easter DD is too small for chocolate but i might be naughty and give her a little bit and DS likes the aldi bunnies so he'll probably get a few of those and they might get a gift set each or i'll just buy DS a proper cutlery set which he needs and a few more winter clothes

mum has already bought the kiddies little bunny ears i cheated and peeked :redface:

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 :lol:

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!

Just quitely, I'm pretty pleased with myself!

Cadbury rabbit, some of little hollow eggs, Bowl/Cup/Spoon set with a small egg each.

We buy a few eggs for an easter egg hunt but we are actually getting them some Jewelery with their names & birthstones on them for Easter.

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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Thanks WYSIWYG for reminding me about the pyjama thing, not something done in my family of origin but quite timely hear since the weather is getting colder and all the too-small winter clothes get pulled out around now.