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We applaud these egg hunt ideas that make Easter a little more magical

On Easter morning, will your kids follow a trail of foil wrapped eggs from their bed to an Easter basket filled with festive confections in the living room? Most parents create some sort of Easter egg hunt on Easter morning, whether they scatter a few treats around the house and make the kids hop like a bunny from egg to egg, or create a yard full of wacky obstacles for them to overcome. We hope these egg hunts taking place this year across the world will inspire your hunt planning strategies.

1. LEGO EGGS STASHED IN FARMS ACROSS SINGAPORE

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How international families are celebrating Easter

Peep dioramas and creepy chocolate bunnies are fun and all, but the really awesome Easter traditions happen across the globe. We swept over five countries to give you a run down of the coolest family Easter customs we could find: some sinister, some delicious, some shocking. Rooted in folklore, these celebratory activities will inspire you to think outside the basket this Easter.

RUSSIA

In Russia, Easter eggs are painted blood red and people crack them open with their fingernails. Some parts of the country also partake of the pussy willow beating tradition à la Ukraine. After these slightly sinister activities, they bake a tall cake called a kulich and frost it with flowers and sprinkles! Often the kulich is carried to the church and blessed by a priest before the family scarfs it. The kulich lasts up to seven days, which is ideal because Russians party for the whole week. Kulich goes great with paskha, a dish made mostly of cheese and formed into the shape of a pyramid. Its white colour symbolizes purity. We reckon eating a pyramid of cheese may have you feeling not so pure afterward, but it’s all about symbolism right?  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. New play date trend: signing a waiver. Are people threatening legal action action play dates gone wrong? Can we add sub-clauses re: reasonable, expected childhood injuries like scraped knees from skateboarding?

2. You know how toddlers are so irresistibly cute and you can’t get mad at them but you have no trouble yelling at their older siblings if they’ve misbehaved? Yeah, science shows babies loose their cuteness at 4.5-years-old. If any genius 3-year-olds are reading this, live it up while you can! You can’t rely on your adorableness to get you out of trouble forever.

3. Parents are going to have to shell out a little more money on Easter eggs this year. Europe is low on eggs. Between Norway’s butter shortage and the current egg crisis, it’s like the world is trying to deny Europe rich desserts. Egg production has dropped about 10-15 percent since the EU’s new requirements for bigger, better cages for egg-laying hens. Eh, maybe this is the Western privilege coming out, but raising egg prices and making them slightly less easy to come by doesn’t seem like the worst idea…  Read more...

Make way for some seriously creative Easter ideas

Easter wouldn’t be Easter without a sugar rush, a solid egg hunt and a killer brunch. Here at Bunch, we like to keep things interesting by throwing some unexpected tricks and treats into the Easter mix. We have some great ideas for DIY Easter bonnets and chow-mein birds nests, simple crafts like dino-egg bath bombs and no shortage of creepy chocolate bunnies and wacky peep dioramas for you and your kids to chuckle at. Join us as we review our best Easter ideas from our lovely bloggers, crafters and readers.

TREATS

Krista Rao’s Easter to-do list is pretty tasty. While creme egg cupcakes are in the oven, she plans on making silk tie dyed eggs and finger print chick cards. Oh yeah, this is all going down before the glow-in-the-dark egg hunt. We hope this crafty lady’s super powered Easter list inspires yours.  Read more...

Krista Rao blogs about crafty adventures with her kids

A super busy schedule around here the last couple of weeks hasnʼt really left us with any substantial time for crafting. Never fear, I have found pockets of time in which to dream, plan and bookmark crafting ideas that I am interested in doing. I have put together an Easter craft roundup of some of my favourite ideas and tutorials. Hopefully we can get some of these done before Easter!

1. I can imagine Ava cuddled up reading with one of these, these or these adorable bunnies!

2. Check out these Birdʼs Nest Cookies– they look super easy and delicious.

3. Cadbury Creme Egg cupcakes! I have a sister who would just go crazy over these cupcakes from My Baking Addiction… hmm, but does she deserve them?

4. Silk tie dyed eggs, chalkboard eggs and cross-stitched eggs. Yup! All on my list!  Read more...

And how to determine what sort of hunt you should have

Like that other major Christian holiday, some of the symbols we associate with Easter derive from pagan traditions. We get it: Easter celebrates Jesus’ new life having risen from the dead. Easter is all about new life, what with birds laying eggs and bunnies having millions of baby bunnies. So the egg is a sign of fertility and new life. One theory as to the origin of the Easter egg hunt goes that pagan farmers would bury an egg on their property to ensure a fruitful harvest. During the crusades, the Christian soldiers would reward kids who found the hidden eggs, as that allowed them to identify the pagans. Nowadays, egg hunts are considerably less dark and have much more delicious consequences.

The basic set-up of an Easter egg hunt is:  Read more...

Because not every egg needs to be a creme egg

You may have one of those kids who doesn’t like chocolate, or you may just want to limit the amount of egg and bunny-shaped sugary treats they’re receiving this year. Either way, here are five Easter treats that lack both chocolate and high fructose corn syrup.

1. Egg sidewalk chalk: This treat comes closest to looking like what you might dip into a bowl of coloured water. Best part: A chalk egg lasts way longer than its chocolatey counterpart. Downside: Since we’ve been having such a grey/wet/snowy/crummy April, Sunday’s not looking like an optimal “get out and colour” day. Monday does though!

2. Bunny egg cups: The incredible, edible egg! Like, the real kind. Once you’ve boiled your free-run chicken eggs just enough so that the white is solid and the yolk is toast-dippingly perfect, a sweet little egg cup is the perfect way to serve breakfast on Easter morning.  Read more...