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Your two cents:
I buy my only niece a gift.
I may go down to the store after Easter to buy marked down Easter lilies to plant in the yard or chocolate bunnies to use for baking.
I voted “Yes, I’m giving Easter gifts beyond candy” but thought you should have had a 4th choice: I give Easter gifts IN PLACE of candy. I limit my children’s intake of sugary chemicals as much as possible. They get enough outside the home. So, they get a few chocolate goodies. But I supplement this with dollar store spring gifts like skipping ropes, bubbles, and stickers (they LOVE stickers) I make clothing, so if they get a “New” Easter Outfit for Church, it is generally handmade by myself. And I like to repurpose existing clothing or fabrics…. so the cost is minimal. There is no way Easter compares to Christmas in our house, in regards to gift giving. We do not have an “Easter Tree” which seems to have become the trend….. We have a marvelous easter egg hunt, complete with clues, and they find their baskets at the end. Top spending is $10/kid and is generally less. I like to stick to things they enjoy and will use/need. And it MUST include something they can be active with (hence the ever-popular skipping rope). To burn off the sugar from the chocolate.
Here’s free one: Go to church. Isn’t this what Easter is supposedly about?
We buy each of the kids a spring outfit at Easter as a gift to make it special.
I do buy chocolate for the kids, but wait until it is marked down the evening before. Then I get something small, but good, and only chocolate. We don’t do the other sugar stuff with the colours and flavours and packaging. I try to avoid all stores around any “holiday retail event” because it usually just makes me annoyed. I did make one woman in our local grocery store laugh on February 15 when they had marked down Valentines junk next to newly displayed Easter junk. I commented to my husband that pretty soon the stores will be displaying Christmas, Valentines, St. Patrick’s, Easter, Mother’s and Fathers’ Day and Halloween stuff all at the same time, because it is all soooo important to have.
My daughter gets an Easter basket with small toys (bubbles, a little stuffed animal, that kind of thing), a religious-themed book, and a tiny bit of candy. Nothing at all like Christmas! This year we’re also doing a plastic egg hunt at one of our family gatherings – the eggs will have dollar store toys and jelly beans, that kind of thing. It’s nothing extravagant and I pay less than $15 for the whole thing.
One great way I have experienced Easter with my daughter when she was little was to purchase 1 dozen plastic Easter eggs. Number each egg after which you place a symbolic trinket into each egg. For example a purple cloth, a thorn, spices, a cross, etc. The last egg will be empty. Hide the eggs and once all eggs have been found you can begin to tell the Easter story to your child as they open the eggs one by one revealling Jesus as the true story of ressurection. You can also add extra eggs for the hunt with little gifts, chocolates, messages etc. I did find a miniature tea set that I put into a dozen eggs. For me this was a great way to share what Easter means to me without the Easter bunny. You can find more info if you look up ressurection eggs. Churches often have wonderful expressions of the Easter story often involving youth and children. Palm Sunday would be a great start to something new.
Right on Mira , go to church and give gifts that are appropriate for the occasion.
I do the “easter bunny thing”… each kid gets a chocolate bunny and then some outside toys (bubbles, skipping ropes, jacks) and new socks and shoes… its kinda a celebration of “omg we can play outside now” since its usually the first week of outside time
I give a few chocolates, and then a couple of other things like a new t-shirt, a skipping rope, or a book. As always, I try to thrift shop whenever possible.
My Mom, (Oma, to my children) does an egg hunt on Sunday after church and so my kids and their cousins get their little dish of eggs and I get to not spend anything!
It’s perfect!
What, wait… is there such thing as easter gifts? That isn’t just a joke about commercializing all holidays? O.o
// Confused swede
I buy more than chocolate, but don’t spend more than I would if I only bought chocolate. Instead of a whole basket of candy, the basket contain inexpensive and usually useful items so the basket is full without including too much candy.
I love the the pagan roots of the Easter celebration of birth and new beginnings, such a blessing. I make dinner and enjoy the hope and joy of new life. This year everyone gets a bit of chocolate and creme brulee (its all about the eggs!). If I had children though, I am sure they would be spoiled rotten!