The Weird and Wacky of Easter
The world’s largest easter egg weighing a husky 5 000 can be found in Alberta, Canada. It towers at 31 feet in height and has a width of 18 feet. It is put together from 3 500 individual pieces of aluminum and construction on the structure took over 12 000 hours to complete.
The first recorded easter egg hunt was actually practiced at the white house capitol hill.First lady lucy Hayes wanted to connect with a younger generation and created the hunt as something fun for families to do together. However the increased foot traffic proved damaging to the capitol hill lawn and the practice was later moved to a different area. Local parks and even family yards still host easter egg hunts to this day.
US candy makers produce some 90 million chocolate bunnies and sixteen billion jelly beans for Easter each year. Jelly beans were invented in the 17th century but they only became an easter candy in the 1930s after merchants pointed out how much they look like eggs. Today more candy is sold for Easter than any other holiday except for Halloween and more than 88% of American parents prepare Easter baskets for their kids.
Rabbits are an ancient symbol of fertility and new life and so is strongly associated with spring and with Easter. The connection between rabbits and Easter arose in Protestant Europe in the 17th century and as probably brought to America a century later by German immigrants. Easter Bunny isn’t the only animal associated with the holiday. In Switzerland a cuckoo delivers the Easter eggs while in different parts of Germany kids wait for the Easter Fox.
The original easter baskets were actually easter nests. Kids used to wake up early in the morning to build nests from sticks and leaves to be filled by the easter bunny.
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