Did you get an Easter basket when you were a kid? What were your favorites?

Even though I didn't eat them, I liked the eggs that you peeked in and there was a little scene. Do you remember them?

I also loved the Peeps. Way back when, all they had were yellow chicks. Now they have assorted pastels and even for different holidays.

All five of us had baskets, new little starch dresses, and those hats that look like a band leader from the musical 76 Thrombones...LOL

Ooooh, I remember the Easter hats. Mom was a hat person, always wore a hat to church on Sundays, from the time she was a little girl right up until she died. She looked so good in them, too. I didn't inherit that from her, maybe because I wore glasses and had a big head - poor Mom just couldn't find hats to fit me, and the thick coke-bottle glasses always got in the way of whatever look she was trying to achieve...

But I do remember how beautiful those hats were. AND the Easter baskets were glorious...full of wonderful chocolate goodies! We used to call Mom the living incarnation of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

I remember Easter baskets, and the chocolate Easter eggs filled with goodies, and the chocolate Easter bunnies, and the Cadbury's eggs with filling (that I see still in the stores around now, and I pig out on them as they're not available the rest of the year!!) I loved Easter for the chocolate!!!!

We had something chocolately Easter every year. But always shared amongst other siblings. I don't remember candy eggs as part of the deal much. More like chocolate bunny memories.

Each Easter morning, I could not WAIT to run upstairs to the kitchen and see what Mr. Bunny brought us. In fact, the child still in me still "looks" for a basket on the table...but the Easter Bunny forgets me each year.

We'd always get large chocolate hollow bunnies...and sometimes solid ones...a REAL treat!! Does anyone remember the Chocolate Easter Bunny song??

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I got a brand new Easter outfit, a coat and hat and all the rest.
But there’s one thing more at the candy store that I really loved the best.

I got a chocolate rabbit, for an Easter treat
A great big chocolate rabbit, big enough to eat.
So I ate his ears on Sunday,
His nose I finished Monday
And Tuuuuesday I nibbled on his feet.

On Wednesday (cannot remember the rest of this sentence)
Thursday I kept on
By Friday he was going
Saturday he was gone.

Oh I loved that Chocolate Rabbit from the moment that he came
And if I get another one I’ll love him just the same!
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Later on as adults, we got clothes etc. Now, we do nothing.

Easter morning meant an easter egg hunt. Mamaw always worked through the night to finish our Easter dresses. She always made them for us. When we were around 5 or so I remember wearing soft white gloves with buttons and socks with lace and the Red Goose shoes...patent leather. And yes, the hats. Very cool.
We had eggs we helped decorate and it was a race to see who could find the most. We had lots of chocolate bunnies and other candies...we'd dump everything out on the floor and put the green grass on the floor and arrange the rabbits and eggs until they were all eaten. I sent off care packages to my grown sons filled with Chocolate Easter Bunnies...they're in their 30's...can't help myself. They love it.
This Easter will be quiet...hopefully, doing some gardening...today was so beautiful here. The azales are blooming and spring is popping out all over...it's a wonderful time to be alive. Happy Easter everyone!!!!

I remember the eggs with the scene inside. I used to love those too. My grandmother made these big things that were like a cookie. they looked like an Easter basket. She wrapped the dough around a bightly colored hard boiled egg. I think there was some kind of frosting and sprinkles on it too. I loved them. I ate the cookie, not the egg.

We never got the diorama eggs. I don't think I ever even touched one. That's what the rich kids got from the Easter bunny.
Mother would stay up and color boiled eggs at night and that would make up the main content of our baskets. With the eggs we'd get some chocolate, jelly beans and sometimes a little toy.
I think we had a couple of home Easter egg hunts, but it was usually the older of us eight hiding for the younger.
Church was the big event, so baskets and hunts were secondary.
Mother did make our dresses when we were young... later we sometimes got store bought.
We didn't have Easter meals either. I didn't even know families did that, until way into my older years.

Now, for my girls, we went all out... white gloves, bonnets/hats, new dresses, new shoes, ruffly socks, hidden eggs and full baskets (after church).

I actually associate boiled eggs with dyed shell...subliminally for newborn babies. My parents gave out pink dyed boiled eggs to friends each time their child reached 1 month old. It's an old Chinese tradition.

practiced in Canada then and now sometimes. Most recently my sister, so-hip Canadian-born, gave out pink dyed eggs in celebration of their new daughter.