Sounds a little like the Purim baskets I send. This year we found them for sale in personalized water bottles (candies etc inside). I have it on good authority (the ten-year-old daughter of our friends) that that was “the coolest”.
She’s very brilliant and insightful, having also told me on shabbat that my bathroom was immaculately clean and that my brisket was delicious.
We still do them, in their old wicker baskets from childhood. This year, both kids will be here, so I am feeling the pressure. The weird thing is that neither of them is really a chocolate lover. They expect there to be chocolate, but then I get to eat it most of it after a week or so. They do like the hard-boiled eggs and, now that we are living in France, the most difficult thing is that there are no white eggs and it is difficult to decorate the brown ones. I found a set of metallic dyes that I am feeling hopeful about this year. France is actually terrific otherwise - the array of Easter candies is amazing - not just bunnies, but lambs and chickens and all sorts of things. Also many kinds of Haribo gummies, which they also like. When they were little, I used to hide the baskets and leave clues from the Easter Bunny to guide them. They still look for that, but now that we have a dog, my potential hiding places are more limited.
I still do them! In fact, my oldest graduated from college in 2023 and lives in NYC, and I send her a little Easter “goodie” box. For my younger two still in college, I still fill their childhood wicker baskets. We even still do an egg hunt- filled with $1 scratch offs and little/inexpensive items like chapstick, gum, etc. I’m a sucker for traditions and they seem to love it. I do make their baskets fun, but practical. They’re both athletes and not huge candy lovers, so I add a couple of treats (favorite chocolate) and the rest is practical items such as their favorite sunscreen, hair products, lotion, golf balls, tennis balls, protein bars, etc.- things I know they’ll use but don’t cost a fortune. I love holidays and any reason to celebrate!
I still fill DS’s childhood Easter Basket. All the same candy he liked as a kid..starburst jelly beans, Reese’s eggs, candy corn and dove dark chocolate eggs.
I ask him what he’d like, and it’s usually a specific LEGO set or vinyl.
We stopped hiding eggs for him years ago.
I’ll buy DH some candy, too, but no basket for him lol
Baskets are so evolved. My children had to hunt for their Easter treats. Dh would hide treat filled eggs throughout the house. One year the children could not find one of the eggs and dh could not remember where he put it. I found it two years later with a Cadbury egg still inside.
I asked s26 if he wanted an egg hunt this year. He said no.
We apparently are doing a hunt. Last year Miss M. was very upset that her little brother found a few more eggs than she did! We will see what happens this year - we also have a toddler thrown into the mix. I’m sure the toddler would be happy with anything she finds as she is too little to be competitive about the hunt!
A friend had what I think is a fantastic idea for an Easter egg hunt with kids of different ages - they give each kid a specific color and they can only pick up eggs in their assigned color. They hide the eggs in more/less challenging places depending on the age of the kid. This way the younger kids get to find eggs as well.
I like that idea! For years I hid hundreds of candy filled eggs in our yard for the Ss’ and their friends. I’d give the younger kids a couple minute head start. There were also large “prize” eggs. One for each kid. If someone found more than one, at the end whoever didn’t get one could choose one from the other. Inside was a slip of paper with a number on it. That was the order they got to pick the “prizes” which were usually left over things from H’s jump rope for heart at school - water bottles, jump ropes, and then maybe a chocolate bunny or something. Those were the days. I loved loved the Easter egg hunt.
I stopped with Easter Baskets for goskids when GosD got married and now GosS is engaged. the kids really don’t want the sugar/calories that the Easter Bunny traditionally brought.
We will have an egg hunt (filled with lottery tickets, cash, mini booze bottles) for the “kids” (all 20/30 somethings).
My minimalist GosD told me not to get my Precious grandbaby anything (“grandbaby has too many clothes, toys, books, stuffed animals…and we don’t have the space living in the City”). Ok.
(Grandbaby is getting a tiny bike). oops…forgot to relay message to Easter Bunny.
I stopped Easter baskets after the kids moved out (post college). Now with grandkids, I do send a small consumable (TJs Easter Jojoes, Annie’s bunny snacks) and a small spring outside activity (sidwalk chalk, bubbles).