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Being the Easter Bunny for the First Time
By admin | March 8, 2010
So your first child isn’t a baby anymore and you’re going to have to convince her that the Easter Bunny has hopped into your home, left a basketful of chocolate goodies and hidden a horde of dazzling colored Easter eggs around your house. As a new parent, how are you going to pull off this important holiday for your child? Here are a few hints for making sure your little one will believe in the magic of the Easter Bunny for years to come:
You don’t have to wear a bunny costume
The good news is that you don’t have to make a complete fool of yourself to create the illusion of the Easter bunny for your little prince or princess. You just have to have a little more energy than your child does for a couple of days while you prepare the following things:
• Colored eggs – no Easter is complete without them. The hard-boiled variety are not only fun to color, but are genuinely healthier than any chocolate treat you can muster up, so coloring your own batch is a great place to start. Boil the eggs on Thursday night and tuck them into the back of the refrigerator so they are ready to color on Friday; then they’ll be completely dry and ready to place into baskets on Saturday night.
• The basket – you can make your own, paint a basket you have around the house, or buy one. The best way to make your child believe in the bunny is to add a few home-made treats that only the bunny could have made. During the week before Easter, spend a night making some Chocolate Bunny Pops or easy Hollow Chocolate Eggs that you can add to your baby’s basket alongside a few little toys, and your toddler will be amazed.
• The hunt – so the last time you were involved in an egg hunt you were the one finding the eggs? As long as you remember the complete joy you felt when you discovered another of the Easter Bunny’s treats you’ll be alright. This is probably the most exciting part of playing the Easter bunny. If the climate in your area is particularly hot or humid, you may want to wake up early to hide the eggs instead of hiding them on Saturday night. If you are hiding eggs outside be sure to use tightly closing plastic eggs or well-wrapped treats.
Don’t be caught speechless
As small as they are, your kids will come up with some questions about the Easter Bunny that may stump you. Be prepared to defend the bunny as if your life depends on it! Some of the most common questions are:
• Why does the Easter Bunny lay eggs? Rabbits don’t lay eggs, and even if they did, the Easter Bunny is a boy. The real answer to the question is that the Easter Bunny (originally the hare) and the egg both symbolize fertility and renewal of life and are not co-dependent. But many people still think the Easter Bunny lays the brightly colored egg treats that kids find during the Easter hunt every year. Kids are not brainless though, and it’s pretty clear – even to a three year old – that the plastic eggs filled with store-bought candy are not actually expelled from the bunny’s body. So, you can completely deny that the bunny actually lays the eggs and tell your child that he buys them or makes them just like Santa buys or makes the toys that are delivered at Christmas time. Instead of a magical sack, the bunny has a magical basket. Or you can tell them it’s a complete mystery to you, too.
• What do Easter eggs have to do with the resurrection of Jesus? This is another good question that most kids ponder sometime during the Easter Sunday service, when they are supposed to be paying attention to the longest sermon of the year but can’t get their minds off the basketful of goodies they had to leave behind in order to get to church on time. Right after you reprimand him for letting his mind wander during the service, you could tell your curious church-goer that after the resurrection Mary Magdalene delivered a red egg to the Emperor of Rome proclaiming the rising of Christ. The red coloration represented the blood of Jesus, the egg shell His tomb, and the fertilized egg His renewed life.
• If the bunny leaves the eggs, why are we coloring our own? As kids grow up it is hard not to want to share the dyeing experience with them. But how do you explain that the Easter Bunny is no longer responsible for bringing the colored eggs with him? Well, it’s always nice to help out, and the Bunny does have a lot of work to do on the night before Easter. If we make our own there will be more eggs for him to share with the kids who don’t make their own.
No matter how many times you let the ball drop and think that you’ve given the kids reason to doubt your story, just remember that they want to believe in the Easter Bunny as much as you want them to believe it. The magic of it all is so alluring that you have lots of room for slip ups!
Chloe Matthews
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March 8th, 2010 at 4:46 am
First easter with child? Any pointers?
My Wife and I will be have a wonderful baby girl, age 3. This ear we will be doing the "easter bunny" tradition for the first time. Anyone have pointers on what to buy/lay out? When and where to hide the eggs?
Also, is the die in egg colors safe for her?
Whoops, I meant we have a wonderful 3 year old baby girl.
Conne, its my daughter. I want her to have the best Easter possible.
March 8th, 2010 at 9:48 am
No better way to celebrate the resurrection of everyones favorites jewish zombie than by having an easter egg hunt!
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March 8th, 2010 at 9:50 am
The dye is perfectly fine. Dying the Easter eggs is almost the best part. Easter egg hunt by far is the greatest! Hide them all over the house……or if you have a yard, all over…..in the grass, bushes, trees, etc.
Easter baskets: fill with crayons, coloring books, toys she might like. Easy on the candy though!
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March 8th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Hide the eggs in sort of obvious places you know she will look so that she feels good about herself when finding them and make sure to put fun things inside of them that you know she will she love such as her favorite candy or small toys. The dye should be safe for her … but it isn’t meant to be consumed to watch out. Also, if you are giving her an easter basket, hide that too & let her find it at the end of her egg hunt like a surprise! (: good luck
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March 8th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Oh, how sweet! I would make her a small basket with a little bit of soft candy and a nice, fluffy toy in it. I would "hide" the eggs in pretty obviouse places. Somewhere she would have to turn a corner to or look down and to the side just a bit. Usually people hide the eggs (and they dye will not hurt her) on Saturday or Sunday and you can do it anytime you would like. Most people do it in their yard but if you do not have a yard or it is bad weather, do it in the house in one or two rooms. You are going to have a blast! She is going to be SO cute! Have fun!!
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March 8th, 2010 at 9:56 am
you can hide the eggs anywhere. what my parents did, and i will get to do next easter. is they had one room where santa and easterbunny always came. they left a basket with that stringy colored straw at the bottom with candy and some plastic eggs filled with candy, and some little gifts. they hid easter eggs all around the house while we were sleeping and they were putting out the basket. but only the easter eggs that are plastic and hollow that you put candy in. i remember one year we had a little situation where they had forgot where they hid a hard boiled egg, and we didn’t find it. so the smell haunted us for a few months after wards until we finally found it. from then on, we only used real eggs outside. and they hid those while we were eating breakfast.
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March 8th, 2010 at 9:58 am
soft toys, bunnies and maybe some acceptable candies approved of for that age.
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March 8th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Have fun pretending but don’t lie about the Easter bunny or
santa Claus either. You can be truthful and still have fun. egg dye is not harmful. Instill good habits by giving treats like raisons, and yogart covered fruits etc. instead of all the sugar that just hipes up the child. Thats what I’d do if I had it to do over
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March 8th, 2010 at 10:02 am
that is fine have fun decorating Easter eggs.
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March 8th, 2010 at 10:04 am
If you are woried about the dye in the egg coulors, just boil eggs in pink foodcoulor.
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March 8th, 2010 at 10:06 am
I’ve got a little girl of my own… For her age I think that the best thing to do it one of to things:
Inside: Wait til she goes to sleep and then at around 12 or 1 put the eggs out in spots that you can get to if you were on your knees or lower. Keep in mind that she is only 3 so do put them in tough spots. Really get into it with her too. They like it when you interact with them!
Outside: One of you should do it while the other feeds her breakfast or gets her ready. In other words keep her busy and the apply above.
The dye is only food coloring, totally safe.
Basket ideas
Jelly Beans
Balls
Books w/ thick pages
Rubber Duckies
Bath Toys
Any softer candies
and so on!
I hope this helps you out!
Note that the brown skin from a onion dyes the egg a really pretty brown like wood almost.
Boil the eggs with the skins let them sit in the water. (the longer they sit the darker they get.)
They are even pretty in an Easter decor, simply just gently gloss them with oil!
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March 8th, 2010 at 10:08 am
The word is "dye." Read the package and find out. And if your child is 3 years-old she is NO LONGER a baby! Honestly, I can’t imagine why this is all so difficult for you. When to hide eggs? Come on! In time for the holiday itself! Where? Gee, you can’t figure this out? How in the world did you two ever figure out how to conceive a child? This isn’t rocket science!
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