Any Lenience for Easter Eggs?

[SunnyMellowMan]

I know all of our ethics here, and I suspect vegans will be going a-wall about this, but, are there any people here who will allow their children to participate in Easter Egg Hunts? What if the eggs are cage-free (I know that doesn't mean much in term of the treatment of mother chickens) ?

[Brandon]

They make plastic easter eggs. :)

I don't have kids so this is where I duck out of the conversation.

[jenna]

i don't have kids either but whenever i was participating in helping with easter egg hunts at church, i always opted to use/bring plastic ones.

it was mostly because if they weren't all found, it wouldn't go rotten later on. :spew:

and the plastic ones last forever and you can stuff'em with candy/money/whatever.

[*AHIMSA*]

Paper mache and reusable or vegan chocolate eggs are fun and cruelty free. I have no need to allow my child to participate in cruel activities when there are easy ways to have fun without doing harm.

[Mr. Sun]

Paper mache and reusable or vegan chocolate eggs are fun and cruelty free. I have no need to allow my child to participate in cruel activities when there are easy ways to have fun without doing harm.

Reusable vegan chocolate eggs are good too. You let the child suck on them for a minute and then you get them to spit them out and you dry them out and rewrap them in the tinfoil and bring them out next year. By the time the eggs are down to nothing the kid should've figured out there is no Easter Bunny. :)


and the plastic ones last forever and you can stuff'em with candy/money/whatever.

That's a great idea! I want to remember that for next year for my friends who have kids.

[Porffor]

err planning ahead at it's extreme! lol

mine have never taken part in a hunt, the whole 'winner' side of things is too much for my little one and as a foster carer we've had children in the past that really can't handle the competition.

The ethics of it also apply though. We don't buy eggs as have our own chooks - we know they are happy then. I wouldn't risk the eggs being broken as we only have one laying hen - it's all the girls and my husband need.

[sarahjayn1980]

I don't think real eggs are a good idea in a hunt because I've seen too many kids get sick off of them. I live in sunny Florida, though, so its pretty hot during Easter time. I do dye eggs, though, with kids. My aunt has a pet dove who lays. She saves the eggs all year for me (we blow them out, so its just the shell) and we fancy them up at easter.

[cstadt]

we never hid real eggs when I was little. We used plastic eggs and put candy or money inside them

[The Lurker]

our local park has an easter egg hunt using painted wooden eggs which when you find them you exchange for a cadbury's creme egg. . . . . yum yum

we use the plastic ones at home though, or just chocolate ones.

[jeezycreezy]

A-wall?

[The Lurker]

A-wall?

Quiet Vegan!!!

[MrsKey]

I'm not a vegan and I still say - plastic Easter eggs stuffed with good things ... if you have to participate in the whole "egg hunt" at all that is.

[sarahjayn1980]

A-wall?

:wall: ?

[PlaybackGuru]

Reusable vegan chocolate eggs are good too. You let the child suck on them for a minute and then you get them to spit them out and you dry them out and rewrap them in the tinfoil and bring them out next year. By the time the eggs are down to nothing the kid should've figured out there is no Easter Bunny. :)



That's a great idea! I want to remember that for next year for my friends who have kids.

Wait....there is no Easter Bunny?!?!?!!?:cry:

[revelsunrise]

Yeah...I've never seen an Easter egg hunt where they used real eggs. We always had the plastic ones filled with candy or quarters!

[Iria]

I didn't think anyone used real eggs to hunt with anymore. Every Easter egg hunt I've ever watched/participated in has used plastic eggs.

[LetoTheTyrant]

A few yaers when I was a kid my parents stuffed plastic eggs with type-written clues telling us where to look for the next egg. At the end it would send us to a large gift after our 'scavenger hunt'. You could do this with plastic eggs, and then get the reusable chocolate eggs *AHIMSA* wrote about and put them in a basket. (you've got a lot of time, maybe you could start weaving their baskets now :?)

[Fromper]

The plastic eggs are cool for hunting, because you can fill them with candy or toys (the type of cheap stuff that comes in Cracker Jack boxes). But that takes away the artistic side of letting the kids decorate their own eggs. As others have suggested, wooden eggs or paper mache can be used for that.

As for the Easter Bunny, unfortunately it is real, and there are lots of them. People buy rabbits from pet stores because they're cute for Easter, then most of them end up getting dumped when people find out that rabbits are more expensive and higher maintenance pets than they realized. :furious: I forget where I read it, but apparently more than half of all rabbits purchased from pet stores within a month before Easter don't survive to their first birthday. :cry: That's how I ended up adopting Flash - I found him (http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=86470) about a week after Easter this year.

--Fromper (and Flash)
:juggle:

[Willowriver]

I grew up omni and we always hid plastic eggs. Reusable and everything! And they don't go rotten if you lose one somewhere.

As for dyeing eggs ... and I'm so excited about this for some reason ... dye chalk eggs! I looked it up online and you can make your own chalk - it's basically plaster. So if you get a silicon egg mold (like for candles and stuff) you can make white plaster eggs that look just like real ones. Then dye them just like real eggs! And instead of them sitting in the fridge until they go bad because nobody wants that many hard boiled eggs, they become fun Easter activities! Or you can preserve your decoration indefinitely.

[Mr. Sun]

Wow, I feel so deprived now. I've never even heard of plasic eggs filled with stuff being used for easter egg hunts. And it's such a great idea. My parents are lucky I didn't go awol on them when I was a kid.

[Animosity]

I grew up omni and we always hid plastic eggs. Reusable and everything! And they don't go rotten if you lose one somewhere.

As for dyeing eggs ... and I'm so excited about this for some reason ... dye chalk eggs! I looked it up online and you can make your own chalk - it's basically plaster. So if you get a silicon egg mold (like for candles and stuff) you can make white plaster eggs that look just like real ones. Then dye them just like real eggs! And instead of them sitting in the fridge until they go bad because nobody wants that many hard boiled eggs, they become fun Easter activities! Or you can preserve your decoration indefinitely.

That's a good idea. I don't do Easter so the odds of me ever having to do this for anyone is pretty much nothing; but I always thought that maybe using those decorative crafting "eggs" for dyeing would be cool. They're meant to be painted so they will take dye well, They're weighted like real eggs, They look like real eggs, Plus you don't have to eat them and you can keep them to show off the kids' art for years vs days. Oh and they don't break so insanely easily!

[Willowriver]

That's a good idea. I don't do Easter so the odds of me ever having to do this for anyone is pretty much nothing; but I always thought that maybe using those decorative crafting "eggs" for dyeing would be cool. They're meant to be painted so they will take dye well, They're weighted like real eggs, They look like real eggs, Plus you don't have to eat them and you can keep them to show off the kids' art for years vs days. Oh and they don't break so insanely easily!

What's a crafting egg? Sounds cool. I don't do Easter, but I do do the whole bunny, egg, flower celebration thing. Just makes me happy. Haha oooh egg breakage. Now that's traumatic. I remember bandaging up my poor broken eggs with stickers. I bet we could sell the craft/plaster egg idea to omni parents by just advertising the potential trauma and tantrums due to real egg breakage. :P

[rabid_child]

You could also buy wooden eggs to paint, and then you could save them to see how much your kids have changed over the years.

[slicknickns]

Let the children in on the easter hunt, especially if you're Christian. Don't let the child feel left out socially or try to exclude him/her from social activity

[Earthly Delight]

I've only ever had chocolates and candies to look for at easter... It was a strange year when we used the odd real egg, and most of the time it included some confusion and dissapointment on the side of the kids, hahaha...