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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 remember looking for real eggs as a kid but I also remember never thinking or being told they were hid by the Easter Bunny if they were the ones I had colored earlier that week. Its possible they were a completely separate set of eggs that were dyed covertly. My grandmother once found an egg many weeks after the actual egg hunt and that has turned me off forever to hiding real boiled eggs.
Just like cookies for Santa, you "leave them out for the Easter Bunny" at night, and when the kids wake up, the baskets are empty and the eggs are hidden.
If you want.
We just make the older kids hide them for the younger kids. Easter Bunny just brings a basket of toys and candy.
^I don't think so much anymore. We've always hid the plastic eggs. When I was a kid my Grandma would hide the colored eggs but I haven't heard of it since I've become a parent.
As for the how to hide the real ones... My Grandma told us that the Easter Bunny came in and took our eggs that we colored and hid them all over the house and now it was time for us to find them.
The top part was responding to gentlearts question about people hiding real eggs still.
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
easter eggs are hidden easter day for kids to find after lunch and colored raw eggs are colored the day before and used as name place settings.
My mother always colored eggs to put in our baskets after we went to bed the night before. Then she hid our baskets filled with treats, eggs, and a surprise (small toy). For mine, when young, it was the same.
We always colored some eggs during the day the day before, as mine did when young. We don't color eggs anymore. During those years, we always had a couple dozen boiled eggs as a result. We ate a lot of egg salad.
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 grew up in New England and we colored eggs. We never did the Easter egg hunting/Easter Baskets and such as my hardcore Catholic family thought that was all just crap made up from the Hallmark card company.
Also grew up without the Easter Bunny thing, it being considered a sullied not so pious 'celebration' of the holiday.... <shrug> Oh well.
Whatever. We don't do any of it nowadays.But back then we colored them and ate them over the course of the week....
And by the way, the eggs are white brown or speckled due to the kind of hen that lays them, it has absolutely nothing to do with geography.
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