Baby Bunny

 Alternative Easter Basket

Hippity Happity Easter chick

We celebrate Easter in our home to welcome Spring; a much-needed season after the long haul of (Shanghai!) winter. This year being O's second Easter, she was much more into the festivities and we got a head start the week before, washing Easter eggs! Really I had no idea this would be such a hit, so much so that on a day when I am tapped for something new and creative, we pull out the plastic eggs and get washing (photo exhibit A!) Though we avoid buying plastic, even while living in the plastic capital of the world, I had some extra's from my teaching days and so we made good use of them.

Instead of chocolate, Adam and I decided that we would start our own tradition of a alternative Easter basket; A Gardening Basket. This years was a tin bucket filled with seeds, mini garden gloves, mini shovel and rake as well as an owl puppet (just because.) Of course Dad's Easter basket screamed traditional; chocolate and pastel coloured candies galore!

We incorporated my parents tradition of an egg trail leading to the basket 'o goodies, but we substituted candy eggs for the plastic type and filled each with a Cheerio. Not only was it adorable watching our bunny ear wearing toddler with a bounce in her step chance upon every egg, she had an absolutely blast opening them, skipping over to her favourite colours and being surprised every time to find another Cheerio inside!

The afternoon was capped off with a great picnic in the park with friends and their wee. A wonderful Sunday to welcome the Spring!