The Egg Tree and Easter Eggs

This Easter I was inspired by the book "The Egg Tree" that I got from the library several weeks ago. (It is due back at the library on Monday. I finally got around to reading it to the girls on Good Friday.) In the book, a young girl and her brother and cousins hunt for Easter Eggs and make an Egg tree.

In previous years we had an Egg Tree, but Wander wasn't so keen on saving the eggs from year to year. However, this book made me feel good about keeping the eggs rather like keeping Christmas ornaments.

Every year we have a small Easter egg hunt for the girls in the house on Easter morning. I borrowed the idea of leaving flower petals for the Easter bunny from the book, rather like how we leave cookies out for Santa.



Bright and early on Easter morning the girls raced downstairs and squealed with delight when they saw all the eggs left by the Easter bunny. They grabbed their baskets and raced to gather all the eggs.


Then the candy from the eggs went into the candy dish. Well, most of the candy.

I had the girls also pull out all the rest of the thorns on the crown of thorns.