Allergy & Chocolate Free Easter

I know its early to be thinking about this but between all the children in our family we have soy, dairy, nut (tree and peanut), wheat and egg intolerance/allergies and I want to make Easter something special for them.

This is our first allergy Easter. Im after ideas that do not include food including chocolate and buns etc.

What things do you do for a non-chocolate/food Easter?

So far I have a few little chickens up my sleeve to pop into a couple of plastic eggs for a hunt but not sure what to put into the other plastic hunting eggs.

Any crafty ideas are welcome. Will also try making them each a bunny or chick from face washers...

Apart from that we have the standard books and PJ's ideas.

Any help appreciated....:D

What age are your children Abigail?

$2 shop stuff for the easter egg hunt?

They will all be around 12 months and 4 years.

What about an Easter DVD?
Bunny ears?

Could you make Easter Cakes out of carrot? (using an allergy friendly recipe?)

½ cup vegan butter , softened
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ tablespoons unsweetened applesauce
1 ¼ cups brown rice flour
½ teaspoon cornstarch
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 cup non-dairy chocolate chips


Directions:

1Preheat oven to 350°F and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
2 Cream together butter and sugar.
3 Stir in vanilla.
4 Stir in applesauce.
5Combine flour, cornstarch, salt, and baking soda.
6 Stir dry mixture into creamed mixture.
7 Stir in chocolate chips.
8 Drop spoonfuls of cookie dough onto prepared sheets and bake, one sheet at a time, for about 8 minutes or until golden-brown.
9 Allow to cool 5 minutes on cookie sheet before removing to drying rack.

You could make these "Easter biscuits"...

For food ideas check out quirky cooking, it's a blog and the lady who's it is has similar allergies in her family. She uses a thermomix but you can make some stuff normally.

I've seen play dough in plastic eggs which would be good for 4 year olds

Can they eat cocoa? Or are you avoiding chocolate because it is usually made from soy or dairy?
If cocoa is ok, you can buy chocolates made from rice milk- a brand called Bonvita. They usually make little theme packs for Easter and Xmas. They are available from several online stores. Let me know if you are interested and I can give you the names of the stores.

I'm going to make our own chocolates as we don't have dairy, soy, grains, additives or sugar. I've got an easter chocolate mold and will be making the chocolate from a recipe I have that uses cocoa butter, cocoa and honey. You can skip the cocoa too and make it white chocolate if you want. Let me know if you want the link.

For plastic eggs- stickers, wind-up toys, small crayons.

Can they have other jelly type lollies? Or boiled lollies?

Ceramic eggs to paint?

Using ester chocolate moulds you can melt down old crayons and turn them into Easter shaped ones.

i got some funky egg shaped wooden musical shakers last year - i think it was from ecotoys- good size for little kids hands and they still get played with regularly.

ooo I like those last two suggestions!

I'm particularly after non food ideas, though thank you to those who have made suggestions thus far :D They are all appreciated :)

How about a rabbit stew? :p

or going to church?

Rabbit stew is a food suggestion :P lol

church is on the list :)

ecotoys has some easter ideas in their latest e-mail newsletter - organic cotton bunny, egg & spoon race, chicken jigsaw, natural dye eggs, wool felt carrot....

i love ecotoys

Thanks! I shall go have a look at those now. :D

We have allergys here too and Chocolate is out in a big way.
From the rabbit.
I type out small notes for the easter egg hunt. Dc are handed the first clue, which leads to the second clue so on and so forth till the last clue to the prize. Which is usually a matching plate, cup, egg cup type deal that comes with a chocolate egg but minus the egg and packaging. Of course the notes are read for the little people and the clues are easy such as, to find the next clue that leads to the prize go to where the dog enjoys a drink.

We do $10.00 toys or activity packs from Mum and Dad.
The kids still enjoy Easter and it's not a huge hassle for us either.

We do an allergy egg hunt with the plastic eggs. We often put in jelly beans but not in them all, and those chicks.... at the end of the hunt there are prizes like colouring in books etc etc... the girls love it. They don't care what is in the eggs, they just love the prizes at the end.

I know I'm a bit late, but where do you get plastic hunting eggs from? I'm really keen on having as few chocolate eggs as possible. I have some blown eggs which we are painting, but I had never even heard of plastic refillable hunting eggs.

Lenny I have seen them at spotlight

I was in a chocolate shop with Divvy on Friday and they had some lovely wooden eggs. They're a bit posher/pricier than the plastic eggs but you could re-use them every year.
Or you could ask around for old pavlova eggs (the ones that they sell to make pavlova with in the supermarket).

OOoo, posh wooden ones. Maybe i'll be in time for next year! I've never used a pavlova pre-mix before, but i should ask around.

I went to local Woolworths and believe it or not they had a set of plastic ones. DH had never heard of them either. (Daft foreigners).
He did say Oh, poor kids, are they going to be allowed any chocolate, or are you taking all their fun away!

Balloons, bubbles, stickers, bikkies, maybe a toy. I think they will be having a pretty good easter this year, and i don't have to take their chocolate away from them and ration it out. They're too young to have THAT much self control! Pretty sure thay get that from their mum.

My first Easter with an allergy child as well. I have sourced rice milk (no nut, soy, dairy or egg) easter chocolates from my local absolutely gluten free shop. So I will put an egg in a bulldogs mug for him.
A friend got me onto those plastic eggs, they look fantastic! I will fill them up with his rice chocolate eggs as they don't come wrapped.
Otherwise, you could get egg dying/decorating kits.
My Mum used to always give us Pj's at Easter, or some slippers :)