How A Bunny Made Its Way into Your Easter Traditions

When you are young you do not care about where the Easter bunny came from or how a bunny got associated with Easter in the first place. All you care about is the presents and candy, and the egg hunts you will be doing in the morning. As you grow older and start to question the little things in life - just as I have- you want answers to those questions. Do your Research, don't be ignorant about your past, and the traditions that come with it, you might find an interesting fact or two along the way just as I have.

The earliest of our civilization recognized a pattern with Women giving birth around the cycles of the moon. In Asia the Rabbit was the symbol for the moon, and in among others a symbol for fertility.

Easter is celebrated in The Spring at the time of the Paschal Moon, and so the moon and the rabbit became the symbols for rebirth, life after death.

Germany is also where the first edible Easter bunnies were made during the early 1800s, when baked pastry bunnies first appeared. Together with gummy candies shaped like eggs, (which is where jelly beans came from), they were placed in straw nests in secluded areas of the house or in the garden for children to find.

The custom changed over time and eventually the Easter Bunny began to put eggs - in children's shoes. It may well have been the world's first scavenger hunt!

The Easter Bunny Comes to America.

While everyone was moving over to America, their traditions were as well. Everyone soon wanted Chocolate bunny's and jelly beans!

While, originally the children would take their shoes of and hold their chocolate and candy inside them as they attended scavenger hunts, there became and abundant amount of candy for them to hunt, and therefore had to use baskets instead. There is the start of your Easter Basket and Candy!

It is interesting to find out why things are the way they are. I was actually saying the other day, I have no Idea why we associate a Bunny with Easter, and I find it ridiculous. Well Shame on me for thinking that way, when I was ignorant to the meaning and ways of the past.