Comments on: Eco Friendly Easter

By: Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:42:17 +0000

I love your ideas, thanks for posting. For us, Easter is the most important holiday of the year- so it’s nice to get a reminder that we can make if good for our souls and good for our earth! I love that your suggestions are also family projects. When I was a child, our Easter baskets did not appear- we worked on them together. I am going to have a blast trying these suggestions with my girls. They are going to think dyeing eggs with beets and coffee is hilarious!

By: Freya

Freya — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:39:47 +0000

If you’re not a knitter or crocheter, you can also buy wooden eggs from Casey’s Wood products (US) or Bear Wood (CAN) that are super durable and reasonably priced. They can even be dyed with RIT dye (check website for how to).

By: Nadene

Nadene — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:59:23 +0000

I don’t know, my point was just that some parents are a little TOO paranoid, that’s all.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:22:11 +0000

Any studies on exactly how miserable kids are if we don’t give them candy with petro chemicals, articifial flavors, and tons of sugar? Or is this your persona,l opinion? I don’t any kids miserable on natural, healthy sugars…honey, agave, fruit, etc.

By: Nadene

Nadene — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:14:00 +0000

Kind of reminds me of the candy-deprived Willy Wonka. (Remember his horrible father?) The resemblance is uncanny…

By: Nadene

Nadene — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:12:18 +0000

I’m all about being natural and all, but some people take it too far. Come on! No candy on Easter? So many kids with parents like these end up miserable in their childhood because their all-natural, all-organic, paranoid moms feed them the vegetable-granola crap instead of a chocolate bunny. And although that’s a wise choice, it’s no fun. I’m glad I got candy on Easter when I was little. That was the highlight of the day. People just need to come down and let their kids live a little, instead of creating all these lame alternatives.

By: Greta

Greta — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:19:06 +0000

Here it is Easter, already, but I wanted to add a tip! We filled a real egg shell with organic jelly beans for our daughter to crack open– using a needle, I poked a hole in the bottom of an uncooked egg, and slowly picked at the opening until it was big enough for a jelly bean, then let the egg drain out after “scrambling” it with a wooden skewer. I but the empty shell in simmering water for about 10 minutes and then let it dry completely inside. I stuffed in the jelly beans and covered the opening with a sticker. My daughter sure had fun cracking into the egg, and was definitely surprised when jelly beans fell out! God Bless you all this beautiful Easter day!

By: simplifiedmom

simplifiedmom — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:02:55 +0000

Great article…real eye-opener! We try so hard to be green and I am sort-of a newbie at it…I never even gave it a second thought on Easter! YIKES! I am thankful to read such great ideas here. We have an especially difficult time with “candy holidays” because our 4 yr old has always had severe food allergies and could not handle sugars of any kind (natural or synthetic). Thankfully God has healed him through a special kids probiotic we found and we do not have to worry so much about ingredients for the purpose of Eczema prevention. However, that said, we have changed our ways as a family because of this…we read all kinds of labels now and work really hard to eat healthy whole foods snacks and meals. BTW our kids LOVE the smooshed fruit/fruit-a-boo snacks….yummy, healthy and convenient for lunch boxes! Thanks for the ideas! Caroline *mom of 2 (one with a missing front tooth…and the other healed from Eczema – yay for Zorbee!)

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By: Connie

Connie — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:32:18 +0000

Instead of toys that get broken we buy our girls Easter books that we can read every year. They love books and I love reading them. Now my oldest is reading so I know she will enjoy reading them to all of us for a change. Once the girls outgrow the books, we can hand them down to younger family members or friends with young ones. However, these books should be good for many more years and explain the reason we celebrate Easter. For candy, I chose Organic Dark Chocolate candy bars which my girls absolutely LOVE!

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:35:30 +0000

Thanks for all the suggestions! I can’t stand all the cheap toys, and all the candy (that doesn’t even taste good!!) Me and my girls are going to try to color some eggs this easter, and maybe make some candy on our own.

By: Half Assed Kitchen

Half Assed Kitchen — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:18:11 +0000

Fabulous ideas. Thank you!

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By: Jeffrey Harry

Jeffrey Harry — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:30:24 +0000

We are planning to throw a larger Easter Egg Hunt (Over 100 children) at a park, and we want to be eco-friendly. We just don’t know how based on the number of kids. It just seems more feasible to buy plastic eggs and candy, and most of the people attending this event do not have much money, so they won’t be able to donate much to cover the cost. Any eco-friendly easter egg hunt ideas for large groups would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeffrey Harry

By: sandy winz

sandy winz — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:58:23 +0000

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By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:29:32 +0000

A great idea that my friend does is put a new toothbrush in her kids basket.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:19:03 +0000

I recently saw a great idea to make Easter baskets out of 4 lire milk jugs (gallon jugs for you Americans!) They left the handle on and cut a hole in the front and put paper bunny ears on it and made it look like a bunny. You could also just cut the whole top off and uset he bottom “bucket” part with some braided yarn or something for the handle. Whe I showed this idea to my kids, they were so excited about making their Easter baskets instead of buying them!

This year we are going to make a braided, sweet easter bread with bits of candied fruit in it and, again, the kids are so excited. I think if you focus on the traditions that you do with your family, the kidsdon’t even miss not having all the sugar! Especially if you start them young and they don’t know any different!
I think it’s shameful that companies are trying to make Easter the new Christmas…pressuring parents to buy their kids bigger and bigger toys to celebrate Easter.

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By: Diane MacEachern

Diane MacEachern — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:13:51 +0000

Thanks for the useful comments. I’m going to link to them from my blog and website over at http://www.biggreenpurse.com.