Can someone clarify the whole easter egg thing for me? (party, teens)
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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?
On easter sunday morning we have boiled eggs. While they are hot, the kids use felt pens to draw a face on them. Then we cut off their hair and eat them. Bizzare when you actually think about it.
The kids will find a chocolate egg beside their beds or someplace which they may eat at breakfast time. oooh oo. Warning will robinson Warning will robinson Bad diet example here.
Then the kids have a treasure hunt where they find more chocolate easter eggs.
Then we go off to church where the kids show each other what chocolate easter eggs they got and I am sure listen intently to the sermon while sneaking little bits of chocolate communion.
Then we go home for morning tea where we parents try to convince the kids to keep some chocolate for another day. Just to string out the sugar high. Personally I will have a dark chocolate egg with a cup of black coffee.
In the afternoon its a bike ride or walk to the park to try to burn off some of that sugar.
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but I wonder how other families do the Easter egg thing?
Well some families go to the supermarket and fill a trolley or two with chocolate eggs. Then go home and consume them. Thats in January when the eggs first appear in the stores for easter.
Growing up, we always colored eggs then left them out in the carton Saturday night. On Easter morning, all the eggs would be hidden, along with baskets. I do the same for my boys now. We have never, ever, ever used plastic eggs and as long as I am breathing we won't!
By the way, not only can you dye brown eggs, the colors turn out brighter than the on the white eggs.
We always hid real eggs eggs very early in the morning before the kids woke up. Always had one special egg, worth a small prize for the lucky finder.
The eggs usually wound up as deviled eggs for our Easter dinner.
My daughter enjoyed egg hunting so much that every year after Easter was over she would color and cut out paper eggs and hide them for her little brother to find. Every time I cleaned house I'd find those paper eggs everywhere for months afterward.
easter baskets are hidden saturday night. my mom started this because she likes watching her kids search all over for their baskets. one yr the baskets were hanging from the fan ;P
plastic easter eggs are hidden easter day with money and treats in them for kids to find after lunch and colored boiled eggs are colored the day before and used as name place settings.
Okay, maybe this is a stupid question, but (for those that hide real eggs) do you eat these real eggs that sit out all night? Don't they go bad? Or do you just throw them away afterwards?
Okay, maybe this is a stupid question, but (for those that hide real eggs) do you eat these real eggs that sit out all night? Don't they go bad? Or do you just throw them away afterwards?
With my kids, ours always stayed in the fridge except for the brief period they were hidden for an hour or so in the morning.
Way back in the dark ages when I was a kid our Easter eggs were left on display in the dining room for hours and we would still eat them. We never got sick from it, but that was back before raw eggs had salmonella, or whatever. Don't know if that would be safe nowadays.
We usually dye a dozen eggs per kid the day before Easter then they get put in the fridge shortly afterwards. The Easter Bunny then collects the eggs out of the fridge Easter morning, just after sun up and hides them. He always hides the baskets in the house so on his way out he swings by the kitchen for the eggs. The kids are usually up within a 1/2 hour to an hour after the eggs have been hid.
We do buy plastic eggs, but we fill those with candy and/or money and they are put in their baskets. We put together their baskets after the kids go to bed. We get the plastic eggs so the kids have eggs that they can hide later for each other rather than hiding the real eggs. Everyone gets a dozen plastic eggs also. We hide the baskets after the eggs have been hid so the animals won't get into them, but the kids don't know that at least not until they are older and are the ones helping with hiding the eggs and baskets.
We use the real eggs for deviled eggs, potato salad, and just for pickling. The eggs go right into the fridge after they have been found until we are ready to use them.
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?
My late mother-in-law, who grew up in Maine, once told me that she never saw a white egg until she married and moved to New Jersey! Your post reminded me of that.
I always let my daughter and niece color and decorate the eggs, and then they put them in a bowl to let the Easter Bunny hide them for them to find in the morning.
After they went to bed, my brother and I would break out a few beers, hide the eggs, and make up goofy clues for the girls to use to find them in the morning. We were both divorced, our exes weren't around, and we did this at my mom's house.
The girls grew up and my brother died a few years ago, but that's one of my favorite memories.
SO...there are no rules! Do it in a way that's fun, and make some lasting memories of your own!
Okay, maybe this is a stupid question, but (for those that hide real eggs) do you eat these real eggs that sit out all night? Don't they go bad? Or do you just throw them away afterwards?
Eggs don't go bad as fast as the scary women's magazines would like you to believe.
Sure the risk is probably higher technically, but we ate hard-boiled eggs that were left out all night when we were kids, and I have never known a single person who got salmonella that way.
Nothing has changed except levels of paranoia.
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