Guest guest Posted March 22, 2002 Report Share Posted March 22, 2002 Hi all, I'm new here but don't have time for a right-proper introduction, forgive me. Just thought I'd suggest these easter egg ideas. I'm guessing you just want to avoid using real eggs - note these suggestions all include fake eggs. If you're actually asking for suggestions on how to avoid even egg-shaped substitutes, pick your own shape and call it what you like ( " Easter Spheres " ?), or go with easter animals such as bunnies and ducks. If you have in your town one of those stores where you can paint your own pottery, they will likely have ceramic eggs (and bunnies, etc) which you can paint and pick up a week or so later - so go in and paint waaay before Easter if you want them back from the kiln in time. Our local paint-your-own-pottery had this advertised in today's paper (lucky I noticed it!). Also, you might buy plastic eggs and use paint pens and stickers. I got the veganessentials email newletter today, and they mentioned they have a selection of vegan chocolate easter eggs and bunnies and such. These things might be expensive, but it might also be a nice basket treat. HTH, Doh, 12-yr veg*n mama to Griffin, veg*n all his 2.75 years. > Thomas Hansen <tckhansen > Easter activities > > Does anyone have any alternative ideas to painting eggs for Easter activities. (snip) > Tracey, Mom to 3 veggie kids since before birth--Callum 9, Katie 3 1/2, Wil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2002 Report Share Posted March 23, 2002 About the Easter egg thing - I guess I always thought the reason for the egg was that it is a sign of new life - and if you celebrate Easter, you believe Christ was alive and rose up. And I thought it could also be attributed to all new life that we celebrate in spring. By having eggs that aren't real chicken eggs, there wouldn't be anything un-vegan about that - just showing how new life begins as an egg. (And I guess if that really is the reason eggs are used - and I don't mean offense to anyone who eats eggs, I really don't - it would seem a little ironic to use an egg that is definitely not going to turn into new life to celebrate new life at Easter.) Does anyone know how the egg hunt and painting tradition got started? I guess I can look it up...I would be curious to know. Again - I wasn't meaning anything against anyone who eats eggs. Maybe the reason for using eggs at Easter is different from what I thought. Jenny - " Doh! " <dohdriver Friday, March 22, 2002 12:04 AM Easter ideas > Hi all, > I'm new here but don't have time for a right-proper introduction, forgive > me. Just thought I'd suggest these easter egg ideas. I'm guessing you just > want to avoid using real eggs - note these suggestions all include fake > eggs. If you're actually asking for suggestions on how to avoid even > egg-shaped substitutes, pick your own shape and call it what you like > ( " Easter Spheres " ?), or go with easter animals such as bunnies and ducks. > > If you have in your town one of those stores where you can paint your own > pottery, they will likely have ceramic eggs (and bunnies, etc) which you can > paint and pick up a week or so later - so go in and paint waaay before > Easter if you want them back from the kiln in time. Our local > paint-your-own-pottery had this advertised in today's paper (lucky I noticed > it!). > > Also, you might buy plastic eggs and use paint pens and stickers. > > I got the veganessentials email newletter today, and they mentioned they > have a selection of vegan chocolate easter eggs and bunnies and such. These > things might be expensive, but it might also be a nice basket treat. > > HTH, > Doh, 12-yr veg*n mama to Griffin, veg*n all his 2.75 years. > > > Thomas Hansen <tckhansen > > Easter activities > > > > Does anyone have any alternative ideas to painting eggs for Easter activities. > (snip) > > Tracey, Mom to 3 veggie kids since before birth--Callum 9, Katie 3 1/2, Wil 1 > > > > > For more information about vegetarianism, please visit the VRG website at http://www.vrg.org and for materials especially useful for families go to http://www.vrg.org/family. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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