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According to German writings, the bunny started serving as an Easter symbol in the 1500’s. By the early 1800’s, the first edible Easter bunnies, made of pastry and sugar, were made.

In the 1700’s, folklore about the Easter bunny came to America by the German settlers who arrived in the Pennsylvania Dutch country.  The “Oschter Haws”, as the Easter bunny was called at that time, was considered “childhood’s greatest pleasure” next to a visit from Christ-Kindel on Christmas Eve. Children at that time believed that if they were good, the “Oschter Haws” would lay a nest of colored eggs. In anticipation of the visit, children would build a nest for the eggs using their own caps or bonnets.

The Easter Bonnet

The first Easter bonnets were not even bonnets. They were a circle or wreath of leaves and flowers to celebrate the coming of spring. Today, the Easter bonnet is typically round and still filled with flowers. The round shape of the bonnet is to symbolize the shape of the sun and the path the sun takes abound the earth. 

Easter Candy

• After Halloween, Easter is the biggest candy consuming holiday.

• Each year, 90 million chocolate Easter bunnies are made. 

• Sixteen billion jelly beans are made for Easter (that is about the height of a nine-story office building).                                    

The Marshmallow Peep

Each Easter season, Americans will fill their Easter baskets with more than 700 million Marshmallow Peeps, shaped like chicks, bunnies and eggs, making them the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy. Peeps originated in the early 1950’s.  When it was first developed, it took 27 hours to make one peep, today it takes six minutes. Each day, five million marshmallow chicks and bunnies are produced in anticipation for Easter season, with yellow Peeps being the most popular, followed by pink, lavender, blue, and white.

Chocolate Easter Eggs

In the early 1800’s, the first chocolate Easter eggs appeared in Germany and France.  The first chocolate eggs were solid chocolate.  Making hallowed chocolate eggs at that time was difficult, because the easily worked chocolate used today didn’t exist at that time. Later on, during the discovery of the modern chocolate making process and improved mass manufacturing meant that the hollow chocolate Easter egg was fast becoming a favorite in Easter baskets everywhere.                                                                                            

Easter Egg Hunt

Wichita Dept of Park and Recreation will host Easter Egg Party at Watson Park

Sat. April 4, 2009

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

3022 S. McLean Blvd.

Children ages 2-10 are FREE! Activities include Easter egg hunt, Easter bunny, inflatable moonwalks, games, free train rides starting at noon

Egg Hunt Schedule 

10:15 - ages 2-4

10:45 - ages 5-7

11:15 - ages 8-10

For more information, please call 263-4361 or Watson Park 316.529.9940.

Easter Brunch

Palomino Grill

Brunch on Easter Sunday

Adult Buffet & Children Buffet

Buffet Times 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

$19.95 for Adults / $9.95 Children

Easter Egg Hunt For the Kids

at 12:15 p.m. or 12:30 p.m.

Phone 733-7800

Yia Yia’s

Brunch on Easter Sunday

Buffet / $24.95

Buffet Time

9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Phone 634-1000