Either April or March. This year the RCC Easter Sunday falls on April 24th.
They do make solid ones, but they are more expensive (it’s a lot more chocolate) and you can’t get them everywhere. You’d probably have to somewhere more upscale than the local Kroger.
But the hollow ones are useful - you break it off at the head, then fill both the head and body cavities with peanut butter. Ta-da!
Weeeeeeel we’re not very religious but we build a giant whicker man and fill it with virgins, and then set fire to it while we chant hymns to Ouestrus .
(I’m pretty sure I spelled that wrong)
But its for the kids really, if it wasn’t for them I don’t think that we’d bother.
Could be they’re celebrating ham on sale at the supermarket.
The latest possible day for Easter is April 25, so here’s a rule of thumb: The long May weekend that happens in April is the Easter one. 
They have solid ones, but you have to look for them.
Yeah - Easter eggs, egg hunts, egg painting and egg rolling (adults can get really competitive about this), occasionally Easter bonnet parades when my daughter was younger. Nothing to do with the church.
In response to Alice: Like Nava says, I like the folklore. I kinda feel more ‘settled’ if I mark the changing of the seasons in some ritualistic way. Also, all the activities are fun.
Yeah, sorry. I posted impulsively instead of finishing the thread first.
I guess I should expect an “Ahem” from Skammer next. 
Not only do I like chocolate, I also like hard boiled eggs.
Coloring the eggs is part of the fun, though that’s less likely now that the kids
are older. Halloween, Christmas and Easter and to a lesser extent the tooth fairy,
allow a parent to be magical to their kids. Watching the kids run about the apartment looking for hidden eggs and candy remains a pleasant memory as well.
Magic is generally more fun than any religion as all it requires the willingness to be pleasantly surprised. Childhood should not be denied magic.
Being atheistic and introducing magic to a child’s life seems perfectly natural to me. There’s plenty of grim reality – with or without god – in life.
You mean Chocolate Friday & Pickled Fish Sunday, Guinness Day and Hallmark Eve? Sure, I celebrate them.
Oh, do you get an extra day in Oz? Drat, we (NZ) just get to have both Easter Monday and ANZAC Day on the 25th. (It’s particularly bad this year as Waitangi Day also falls on a Sunday and that one doesn’t get Monday-ized either). 
OP: Atheist-ish (that’ll do for this purpose). 
Choc-eggs and a big egg or bunny for the kid. Otherwise it’s just a long weekend… and when the moon is right my birthday falls within it. I was even born on a Good Friday… not sure how “good” my mother felt that made it.
Ah yes, chocolate bunnies as a metaphor for life.
Many of the things we covet glisten and glitter. They present an attractive and appealing external appearance making us desire them, and yet their reality turns out to be hollow leaving us feeling unfulfilled and disappointed.
I believe this is a life lesson children need to learn early.
I also buy my son chocolate Santas.
(Why isn’t there an “evil” smiley?)
Most British kids are getting pretty much all of April off, what with the Easter holidays and then the Royal wedding. We’ll have Friday 22nd, Monday 25th and Friday 29th April plus Monday 2nd May as bank holidays, 2 4-day weekends in a row; can’t imagine much work’ll get done in the intervening weekdays.
Now Jewish, ex-Christian.
I stopped celebrating Easter a long time before I stopped celebrating Christmas. Easter stopped being much fun when I got too old to hunt for eggs and became a teenager and started my ongoing struggle with my weight. My first year of college, I managed to break it to my mom that I wouldn’t be coming home to celebrate Easter. I didn’t stop celebrating Christmas until I was just about ready to convert to Judaism, probably about eight years later.
I’m satisfied, as long as you already feel convicted in your heart.
Atheist son of atheist parents.
We always got candy into our teens and when we were younger we colored eggs. Plus fancy dinners ( usually the traditional ham ) most years. Despite their extremely fervent atheism my folks took a very pragmatic view of major religious holidays, for the sake of us kids if nothing else. If they were big enough to be fairly universal and somewhat secularized, they were celebrated as holidays with most of the standard trappings, sans Jesus & Company.
All my parents still do some version Christmas and Thanksgiving and I expect my mother at least will probably get me some bag of nasty candy ( cheap-ass milk chocolate or Jujubes or both ) for Easter.
ETA: I personally do not consider Easter a “major” holiday anymore and don’t aim to have any sort of celebration. Though I will attend one ( dinner, usually ) if invited.
Atheist, no kids. It’s an even bet as to whether or not I’ll even remember that the day in question is Easter. I don’t get a day off for it at my current company, so it tends to drop off my mental radar.
When I first started in the corporate world, I was looking at the calendar of holidays. I said, incredulously, “We get April Fool’s Day off?” My co-worker laughed and informed me that Good Friday was the reason for the holiday.
OK, but… the Christian Easter is linked to a Jewish holiday: do you celebrate that one?