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We never colored eggs when I was a kid (I don't think this tradition is as popular in New England, because we only have brown eggs?) Either that or we just didn't do it in our family.
So, I've always thought it was a charming tradition to color eggs and we did this when my kids were little (white eggs in Ohio).
But my question is, how do you have the Easter Bunny hide the colored eggs, if the kids themselves colored them the day before?
We always hid those plastic eggs with candy in them in the yard for the kids to find, and gave them Easter baskets...from the Easter Bunny, but I wonder how other families do the Easter egg thing?
I was born and raised in New England, and we kids colored Easter Eggs every year. We would leave the eggs out at night in a bowl and the Easter Bunny would come and hide them while we slept. We always left a carrot for him that would have some teeth marks on it in the morning and a little bit of white fur, (which looked suspiciously like the fur from our white cat.) And of course, the Easter baskets full of candy were waiting for us as well.
We would eat the hardboiled eggs for days afterward, and then my mother would save the colored shells and we would create decorative mosaic'd jars and bottles by gluing the small pieces of shells to them.
In New England, you could always get white eggs if you wanted them....not just brown.
I was born and raised in New England, and we kids colored Easter Eggs every year. We would leave the eggs out at night in a bowl and the Easter Bunny would come and hide them while we slept. We always left a carrot for him that would have some teeth marks on it in the morning and a little bit of white fur, (which looked suspiciously like the fur from our white cat.) And of course, the Easter baskets full of candy were waiting for us as well.
We colored many kinds of eggs. White and brown chicken eggs, Duck eggs, Banti hen eggs. They all took the dye differently, and the white chicken eggs were actually the least pretty IMO. Mom hid them mostly around the house and occasionally a forgotten one made a itself known a month or so later. haha
Yes. Us too, but don't a lot of people hide colored eggs?
Not that I know of.
For one thing, the dog would eat them.
my brother and I would hide and find Plastic eggs every day for a week before easter. The real eggs were put in the fridge, then the Bunny would somehow put the eggs in the basket. We got candy in our basket, and new stockings or something to wear to church. There may have been an egg hunt in a public place or at church, but I don't recall anything like that. Then we'd have egg salad for lunch.
Once you're old enough to question how/why the bunny got the eggs out of the fridge, you probably don't believe in the easter bunny anymore.
With my own kids, we put out a display of real eggs in the baskets and on the table. Then the Easter Bunny would come, leave candy and dollar store crap and an item of spring clothing. He would also leave half eaten boiled eggs nearby. Then we'd have egg salad for lunch.
Come to think of it, the dog will eat plastic eggs with candy in them also.
We never colored eggs when I was a kid (I don't think this tradition is as popular in New England, because we only have brown eggs?) Either that or we just didn't do it in our family.
So, I've always thought it was a charming tradition to color eggs and we did this when my kids were little (white eggs in Ohio).
But my question is, how do you have the Easter Bunny hide the colored eggs, if the kids themselves colored them the day before?
We always hid those plastic eggs with candy in them in the yard for the kids to find, and gave them Easter baskets...from the Easter Bunny, but I wonder how other families do the Easter egg thing?
When I was a kid we colored the eggs and left them out for the Easter Bunny who hid them. The Easter Bunny also hid a bunch of chocolate candy eggs. We didn't question it, even though the Easter Bunny would hide them inside the house when weather was bad and outside when it was nice. Having read through these posts I got tickled by a poster mentioning that their dog would probably eat the real eggs. Yes. When I look back to my childhood I realize how much trouble my parents must have gone to in order to keep our dog from chowing down on the real eggs. That only occurred to me when I was doing the Easter Egg hunt for my own kid. I hid the real eggs out of the dog's reach (inside or outside). We also hid the plastic eggs that had treats inside. Tradition in our family was a decorated Easter Basket with a chocolate Easter Bunny already in it, then the egg hunt.
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