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Of course, we still need to finish Lent, but it's also the time for planning Easter Baskets! What do you put in your children's baskets? Do you have family traditions about baskets? Do the parents also get a basket?
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Parents get a big basket on the table. Kids have to find theirs. We put the usual jelly beans, a stuffed something for the little ones (I was eyeing these, but missed the deadline. Maybe St. Nicholas will have to bring them). One year we hid hard-boiled eggs around the house. The hiders forgot where they put a few of them . Never again.  We found them after a few days. 
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a chocolate bunny, a couple other types of candy. a bowl of other candies on the table.. remember with so many the candy doesn't go as far as you might think. 
I put jelly beans in the plastic eggs we use for hiding (they don't melt).. one time deal.. first egg hunt we have the candy filled eggs.. after that it's just an egg hunt.
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We do a very little bit of candy but I mostly put other items in instead. This year, we're really getting back into our nature hikes, so all the kids are getting nature-study items (binoculars, bug jars, plant presses, etc.). I think I might fill their backpacks with "easter grass" and put the items in there instead of using their Easter baskets. I can't decide if that's taking the idea too far though. It sure would be different!
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We do movies! Everyone gets a new dvd movie in their basket and usually one new book as well. The littles get a small toy rather than a movie. Then there is ofcourse the standard chocolate bunnies and other candy. I love purchasing all the bunnies. I don't think I've ever gotten out of the checkout aisle without being questioned as to why I'm buying 7 bunnies? Shouldn't that be obvious!!!!!
We also hide the baskets. We wake up go to Mass. Then when we get home, dad runs inside, everyone else waits very anxiously outside. He hides Easter baskets and then 12 plastic easter eggs per kid (each kid finds a certain color). He's good at making the hiding places harder for the bigger kids. The eggs contains jellybeans and one egg will contain a dollar or two!
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Gosh, I just realized how INcomplete my post was. Yes, we also do chocolate bunnies, peeps, chocolate-filled eggs, pastel m&ms and other Easter-ish candy. My 15 yo wants an iTunes card tucked into his basket. However, we don't usually spend much on the contents of the baskets. I'm debating as to what to do for the older four. When I was a kid, the older ones shared a community basket with JUST candy in it. That's the way I'm tending right now, though they'll still find their own baskets.
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Oh I forgot.. this year we're putting good jumpropes in their baskets. and I have a few dvd's for them to share (they'll be on the table not in a basket
Oh and I cultivate being the last one out the door most Sundays.. which means as long as I'm prepped.. I put out the Easter baskets when we leave for Mass so there's no delay on getting home.
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Ours are usually pretty simple. Jelly beans and malted-milk eggs are necessities. Also a smallish chocolate bunny. Sometimes a small toy, soap bubbles to blow, something like that. Everyone's are out on the table. Mom and Dad get a bigger basket to share. Usually cashews for Dad, who isn't too big on candy. One kind of silly tradition is to hide 3 or 4 jelly beans under the *grass* before the baskets are put away for next year. Nothing quite like those stale jelly beans.  We always go to the Easter vigil, so we put the baskets out when we get home.
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Ours are less traditional. We have multiple kids with food allergies, to different foods  . 3 baskets will have a small choc bunny and a few Starburst jelly beans (only safe brand for Celia). Ana will have a maple syrup bunnny and a few dum dums and smarties. Also, all 4 will receive change purses.
Hidden eggs - Ana will only look for purple ones, hers will have more maple sugar candy or money.
Everyone else will look for the other eggs, with jelly beans or money in them.
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We just do baskets full of Easter candy and maybe a small something else. This year I have a couple of coloring books for each from Dover for the older three and Petook for the youngest's basket. Sometimes I buy small, outdoor things too like sidewalk chalk or bubbles, that kind of thing. I will probably get my toddler a small stuffed something since she doesn't need all the candy. Mmmm...Easter candy is my favorite. We dye real eggs and hide them, a dozen for each seeker. The youngest goes first so she finds the easiest ones, and so on so that the oldest is left with the hardest ones. No, she hasn't outgrown egg-hunting yet.  I used to buy more stuffed animals...that not only got expensive as more kids joined us, but we were getting overrun with stuffed animals for these different holidays! After a couple of big stuffed animal purges, I now buy very few of them. The boys would rather have more candy anyway.
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We do some candy, plus garden-themed things, usually. I almost always put in seeds of some kind, which are very inexpensive and also kind of resurrection-themed! Otherwise, whatever I can find at the dollar store that looks fun: sidewalk chalk, crayons, maybe a squirtgun (uh, not so resurrection-themed!), possibly a tiny stuffed toy for the youngest, though we're overflowing with stuffed animals. I love Dover coloring and activity books, too, if I can remember to order them in time.
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SallyT wrote:
...maybe a squirtgun (uh, not so resurrection-themed!)
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Maybe not so far fetched...
The Polish celebrate Smigus Dyngus on Easter Monday (also called "Wet Monday"). One of the traditions is pouring/squirting water on each other - I guess the boys squirt the girls.
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brrrrr that would be rather chilly here
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Tina P. wrote:
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Tina, dh and I count all the eggs before they're hidden (plastic and real). We've been known to obsess all day over a missing egg.
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Our children each have a special basket (full of plastic eggs) that they put out before bed on Saturday night each year. My husband and I usually put jelly beans and mini cadbury eggs and sometimes other little candies in the eggs and hide them. In the basket, we usually leave some small gifts: a book about some aspect of our Faith, or a video, sometimes new spring pajamas, or a music CD. We sometimes put a larger Chocolate treat of some sort in the basket as well. In the morning, the children are greeted by the treats in their baskets and then go on an Easter egg hunt.
It's been such a fun tradition over the years!
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KackyK wrote:
We do movies! Everyone gets a new dvd movie in their basket and usually one new book as well. The littles get a small toy rather than a movie. Then there is ofcourse the standard chocolate bunnies and other candy. I love purchasing all the bunnies. I don't think I've ever gotten out of the checkout aisle without being questioned as to why I'm buying 7 bunnies? Shouldn't that be obvious!!!!!
We also hide the baskets. We wake up go to Mass. Then when we get home, dad runs inside, everyone else waits very anxiously outside. He hides Easter baskets and then 12 plastic easter eggs per kid (each kid finds a certain color). He's good at making the hiding places harder for the bigger kids. The eggs contains jellybeans and one egg will contain a dollar or two!
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Love this- especially the color-coordinated eggs and the children waiting anxiously...
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I'm lazy. This year I just asked dh to get some chocs while he's in Germany. He bought them, then I told him the Lindt choc bunnies were only $3 at Wal-mart. Poor guy.
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Oh, this thread has reminded me that I haven't thought about Easter baskets yet.
I love the idea of squirt guns! (My boys will too...)
Sure hope the bunnies are still $3 at Wal-mart, Stef!
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I was glad the idea for a water gun came up - so was included in ds basket. He had a nice Dingus day though no one would go outside to get soaked with it, much to his dismay .
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Can I take a moment to brag? My little Easter baskets really turned out well this year ~ sometimes I get rather lazy about it all because I have two other family members that typically prove to be outstanding at gift-giving, and they happen to gift my children for *everything* (wonderful, really ...). But this year I came up with some ideas that turned out entirely better than I had even hoped!
I gave them all their own decorative Rumkins, filled with the traditional jelly beans, and attached to card-stock, with fine ornate printing, was the jelly bean poem. Then I gave them each their own wooden Rosary, beautifully painted with the "how-to's" inscribed on the box it came in. Then each of them received their own Mass book and Little Acts of Grace book, along with a beautiful Catholic Folk toy wooden Saint doll (*huge* hit) ... so, Yeah me ! My kids, and my sister's kids loved their baskets. (my little ladies haven't set their Rosary's down yet)!
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