Easter Baskets (sssshhhhhhh...don't tell Lillycat!)

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

We always got baskets too. My oldest brother had the biggest, mine was medium sized and my youngest brother got the smallest - no wonder he has a complex these days.

I can remember finding mine in the oven one year. And if I remember right, if we found someone else's basket, we snatched a piece of candy but didn't tell them where the basket was.

As we got into our teens and Easter baskets became oh so uncool, my mom started putting just one basket in the middle of the dining room table - filled with her and my dad's favorite candy (black jelly beans (mom) & those orange marshmallow peanut thingys and candy corn (dad). Needless to say we kids thought that candy was G-R-O-S-S, so we didn't eat any of it - my mama was no dummy!

Peanut, CJ & Terry do not get baskets - I'm so boring these days.

[Uabassoon]

I've never heard of hiding the gifts before, that sounds like a really fun idea. There was one easter tradition in my family that I loved, but I've never heard of anyone else doing it (other than people that grew up where I did). You would save and wash out your egg shells, just leaving a small hole on the top to get the inside out. Then fill the eggshell with confetti and glue a piece of tissue paper on the top where the hole is. Then we would hide them in the yard. After they were all found we would chase each other and crack them on each others heads! There was nothing more fun then smashing a confetti filled egg on my sisters head.

[slick]

When I was growing up, we did have an Easter Egg hunt on Sunday morning and that was always alot of fun. I remember one year my Mom got the idea to really make us hunt. She posted a note on the fridge that said "go look in the oven". When we looked there, there was a note to look downstairs on Dad's workbench. Then there was a note there to look somewhere else. Finally, after about 20 min, we were lead to our baskets. They were always filled with little easter eggs and lots of chocolate. Funny, I loved chocolate when I was a kid, now I can't stand anything sweet.

Laura, that's too funny!!! That would be fun to do at the BBQ this year....

[RobiLee]

Of course Jonah should have an Easter Basket!!!!

We had the same tradition when I was a child. Every year my mom would make my sister and I beautiful Easter baskets filled with candy and little gifts. Then she would hide them in the house. It was such a thrill waking up Easter morning and searching for our baskets. I can also remember coloring eggs. Such a fun time. As we got older we still got baskets but we didn't have to search for them anymore. Mom always had them sitting on the table waiting for us. Of course I carried on the tradition with my son and it was a favorite time for him also. I don't know what I will do this year since he has moved out. I'll probably just pick him up some of his favorite Reece's peanut butter eggs and mabye a gift card or something like that.

[Kfamr]

Easter egg hunting and baskets are so much fun! Ask the dogs in Findlay.. we had a lot of fun hunting for eggs at the April Meeting last year.


I was really excited when we went to Anna's... she made Amy & I Easter baskets. I hadn't gotten one from my parent's in a long time so it was a very, very nice treat. I really enjoyed that (Thanks again, Anna!)

[Karen]

We colored eggs, mine being the most complex and elaborate, of course, and had some easter candy, sometimes hidden in the house or yard, depending on the weather. But each year we'd each get a stuffed animal. Mine were ALWAYS bunnies, (again of course), but after a while my sister's were always elephants, Lady's Human always some kind of bird, and I think my big brother got Easter bears. They were more fun and lasted longer than the candy anyway!

Of course Jonah needs a basket - what you put in it, though, is up to you, whether it's candy, toys, or other fun stuff!

[ChrisH]

I never heard of that before, we just had chocolate eggs and I still get them for my grandaughters. It's given me ideas for this year though, I think I will do something similar for grandaughter Dannielle instead of just getting her an egg.

And yes, add my vote to the Easter Basket for Jonah pile!

[Barbara]

We got an empty basket and had to search for the eggs and candy hidden all over the house. In an ideal year this egg hunt would take place outside in the garden- but most of the time around Easter it was too cold and rainy so there was egg hunting in the house. We had candy and chocolate eggs but of course also coloured hard boiled eggs. We ate eggs for days

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Of course that boy needs an Easter basket

[prechrswife]

We always had Easter baskets, too. My sister and I both got the actual baskets on our first Easter, and we would put them out every year for the Easter bunny to fill. We also dyed and hunted Easter eggs.

[Vermontcat]

Yes! Jonah needs an Easter Basket this year!
You don't have to fill it with chocolate, a few toys and some of those plastic eggs will make him happy enough at his age.
Easter eggs hunts are fun, you can't let him miss out on that fun either!
Tell Lillycat that it is her duty as a grandmother to spoil Jonah!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Oh yes....easter basket! Don and I still give each other Easter baskets (although he saves the "grass" from year to year!)

When I was a kid we had Easter baskets and ALWAYS an egg hunt. One of my favorite family movies involves an egg hunt in which I found more eggs than my big brother. He cries and I offer him one of my eggs....

We continued the egg hunt even after we were grown and before there were any grandchildren. In the house unless weather permitted an outside hunt. Of course....since I am now in California....no family with whom to hunt....