# First timer not so good Easter basket and candy hunt ideas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293 "2013-03-07T15:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/1 "2013-03-07T15:43:17Z")
Pretend you didn’t grow up getting Easter baskets or doing candy hunts for hidden candy. Your culture has no Easter traditions. You just read about Easter and plan on having a candy hunt and Easter basket for your kids for the first time. List things that you might pick for the Easter hunt and kids basket, that would have Americans going WTF. For the basket a lucky rabbit’s foot key chain. For the hunt Thousand Year Old Eggs. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/2 "2013-03-07T16:04:37Z")
[Balut](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_%28egg%29) for the hunt. Images on the page could disturb some. They _will_ disturb others. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/3 "2013-03-07T22:37:15Z")
Real robin eggs, not the chocolate candy ones. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/4 "2013-03-08T00:11:09Z")
Hide scrambled eggs all around the yard. Homemade jelly beans: stew pinto beans in pork jelly. Everyone’s childhood favorite! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/5 "2013-03-08T03:45:53Z")
Well, for starters, if I had only read about these things but had no actual experience, I would probably plan the whole things out, only to have it all go horribly wrong right from the get-go. For starters, I would buy and raise a small flock of Easter bunnies well ahead of time, expecting them to mature and start laying all the Easter eggs in time for the holiday. Then, as the holiday approached, I would begin to wonder why they aren’t laying the Easter eggs. I would worry what I’m doing wrong in raising and caring for the bunnies. I would start threads on SDMB asking for bunny-raising advice, and get all kinds of strange responses that fail to solve the problem. On the day of the scheduled Easter egg hunt, I would finally have to face the problem: NO DAMN EASTER EGGS! What did I do wrong? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/6 "2013-03-08T04:10:33Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Well, for starters, if I had only read about these things but had no actual experience, I would probably plan the whole things out, only to have it all go horribly wrong right from the get-go. > > For starters, I would buy and raise a small flock of Easter bunnies well ahead of time, expecting them to mature and start laying all the Easter eggs in time for the holiday. Then, as the holiday approached, I would begin to wonder why they aren’t laying the Easter eggs. I would worry what I’m doing wrong in raising and caring for the bunnies. I would start threads on SDMB asking for bunny-raising advice, and get all kinds of strange responses that fail to solve the problem. On the day of the scheduled Easter egg hunt, I would finally have to face the problem: NO DAMN EASTER EGGS! > > What did I do wrong? You have to cut them open to extract the eggs. As true Easter Eggs are highly perishable, it must be done that morning. Preferably in front of the kids. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/7 "2013-03-08T04:36:42Z")
Use raw eggs. Not enough kids. Forget where half of them are. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/8 "2013-03-08T10:40:05Z")
I can’t wait to make hand dipped chocolate bunnies. How do you make them hold still though? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/9 "2013-03-08T10:56:55Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I can’t wait to make hand dipped chocolate bunnies. How do you make them hold still though? [ul] [li] Cut bunnies in half.[/li][li] Extract Easter eggs.[/li][li] Then dip them (the bunny halves, not the eggs) in chocolate. (They’re quite still at this point.) (You can dip the eggs in chocolate too if you want.)[/li][li] As chocolate cools, stick the halves back together.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/10 "2013-03-08T11:08:28Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > [ul] > [li] Cut bunnies in half.[/li][li] Extract Easter eggs.[/li][li] Then dip them (the bunny halves, not the eggs) in chocolate. (They’re quite still at this point.) (You can dip the eggs in chocolate too if you want.)[/li][li] As chocolate cools, stick the halves back together.[/li][/ul] Waste nothing as my great grandma used to say. I of course forgot mention the little chocolate eggs, made by dipping the rabbit droppings. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/11 "2013-03-08T11:16:36Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > [Balut](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_%28egg%29) for the hunt. > > Images on the page could disturb some. They _will_ disturb others. I guess you’d serve those with alfalfa sprouts or bean sprouts. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/12 "2013-03-08T19:48:52Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I can’t wait to make hand dipped chocolate bunnies. How do you make them hold still though? Don’t bother with that. The bunnies will make M&M’s all by themselves! (They’ll all be brown ones, but those are the best anyway, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-timer-not-so-good-easter-basket-and-candy-hunt-ideas/652293/13 "2013-03-11T12:56:24Z")
Dyed hard boiled duck eggs. Egg shaped balls of aluminum foil.