Here at Real Mum Reviews, we are really excited about the Easter Holidays, for a number of reasons. Not only is it my birthday in early April (woop!) but we have two weeks without the craziness of the school run, and our infamous annual Easter Egg Hunt to prepare for. As much as I love all the Easter festivities, the amount of chocolate the girls get bought is a little bit vulgar to say the least. Whilst I don’t mind them having the odd egg here and there, I always look to find a non chocolate alternative in terms of gift – something that they can play with, something they can keep or something they can wear – things that last so much longer than chocolate which often gets consumed in the blink of an eye!
Here’s my round up of the best non chocolate gifts this Easter Season:
Erin loves sitting watching her favourite YouTube videos on the iPad, however, there is only so much I can cope with listening to someone opening surprise eggs before I actually lose my mind! These super soft and snuggly headphones from Snuggly Rascals are a very cute alternative Easter gift and also a major blessing for parents!!! 🙂 – With flat earphones encased inside a super soft fleece headband, these adorable headphones are comfortable for both short and long term use, and are ideal for drowning out the noise on family road trips during the holidays!
Debenhams Blue Zoo range have some great items this Spring that are perfect as gifts to wear over Easter. Erin fell in love with this gorgeous pink applique Bunny hoody / sweater, and loved the little holes in the sleeves to pop her thumbs through – warm and cosy and perfect for the days where the weather can’t make up it’s mind! If pink is not their colour, there is an adorable yellow chick version too! The Bunny Applique Sweater retails at £13/14 and is available in sizes 12-18 months through to 5-6 years.
Debenhams also have some great items for younger children too. I love the Blue Zoo pyjama twin pack featuring two bunny themed designs – the one below (right) and a “Some Bunny Loves You” quote. There is something incredibly cute about a little one snuggling up in their cosy pyjamas before bed, and I absolutely love Neve in blue so these were a big hit!
The Blue Zoo range also includes this adorable light pink bunny print jersey dress (left and below), which is an absolute bargain at just £9, and looks super cute paired with some tights and pump style shoes! You can check out the full range of Easter clothing at Debenhams here.
For those who are likely to get a little more muddy in their clothing, Chipmunks Kids have the perfect solution for little explorers. These brand new Lopsy bunny wellington boots with pull on handles are lined with fleece to keep little feet warm and dry when splashing in muddy puddles. Available in sizes Infant 4 to Junior 2 with prices starting at just £18!
Claire’s Accessories have a huge range of Easter themed gifts this year, with a real focus on dressing up and having fun.
Neve adores snuggling up to this super soft and fluffy TY beanie boo medium Dixie Sheep soft toy, with his huge sparkly eyes not being too dissimilar in scale to her own!! 🙂 These collectible toys are hugely popular with little ones and this is a limited edition as part of the Easter 2018 range.
For those having an Easter parade or Egg Hunt this holiday, this pastel rainbow fluffy ears headband is the perfect accessory and a little bit different from the norm!
Erin loves dressing up, and will be totally rocking this Bunny dress up set from Claire’s this year, which includes a pin on bob tail, sparkly paw mitts, and a sequin bunny ear headband, with wire inserts making them fully poseable, allowing children to have one ear up and one down if they so wish!! 🙂
Continuing on the Easter Hunt theme, these emoji #chatpacks come with 4 collectable emoji toys inside and are the ideal size for popping into plastic collectible eggs. With over 100 to collect in Series 1 alone, children will enjoy trying to collect them all, and get their hands on the elusive #squishy and #goldi specials!
These adorable slippers from Chipmunks Kids are ideal for toddlers this Easter, and perfect for keeping those little toes warm before bedtime! The adorable Katie bunny design has a durable PVC sole, which means little feet are fully supported as they grow, and touch and close tabs so that your little ones can easily take them on and off themselves. Available from infant size 4 with prices starting at just £16.
For babies and young children, these adorable brushes from Rock and Ruddle come in a wide range of designs including both rabbit and chick options that are perfect for Easter, and are one you can keep in the memory box for when they are all grown up. With super soft bristles perfect for those first downy hairs, you can guarantee there will be no tears after bath time!
Talking of bath time, we have been big fans of Cuddledry for some time now, having reviewed their hands free apron towel when Neve was small. Their range of toddler towels are an ideal Easter gift, particularly this fantastic Bunny design. Coming in one toddler ready size (Erin is 4 and it still fits perfectly!), these super soft towels have floppy bunny ears, and a press stud button meaning they can be wrapped and secured in place ready for the post bathtime snuggle! 🙂
For little ones, these super soft Molang from Tomy is the perfect bedtime companion, with his unbelievably soft body making the perfect travel pillow for road trips and travel. Soft and squishy, children will love stretching his ears and arms and watching him slowly return to his original shape. A less conventional bunny for Easter, but one guaranteed to be fought over for cuddles! 🙂
You cannot mention Easter without mentioning Peter Rabbit! With the brand new movie hitting our screens this week, many little ones will be keen to go and check out James Cordon in his starring role! Why not treat the children to a cinema trip this Easter? There is a great selection of Peter Rabbit merchandise to accompany the movie release, including this super soft talking peter rabbit plush from Rainbow Designs. With five different phrases from Peter’s adventures, he is sure to be a big hit with the little ones! We have a review and giveaway here – so check it out for your chance to win your own!.
From talking bunnies, to moving bunnies, the kids will absolutely love this adorable Pitter Patter Pets Happy Hopping Bunny – just like a real rabbit, he twitches his nose, and moves his ears. Recommended for ages 3-8 years. Available from the Entertainer and currently reduced to just £12!!!
Last but my no means least, Erin is a huge fan of Smiggle, and is definitely not alone! This Easter, Smiggle have a fab range of Easter products including the fantastic Easter Surprise Eggs box – This cardboard box resembling a real box of eggs has 6 plastic eggs inside, each housing it’s very own surprise eraser, with loads of different designs to find! That’s not all – if you are lucky enough to find an elusive GOLDEN egg inside your pack, you can bag yourself an £150 shopping spree in a Smiggle store. These Eraser Surprise Eggs boxes have been insanely popular this Easter – so much so that they are completely sold out online – however there are still plenty in store – so do go take a look! Just £7 each.
I hope the above has given you some inspiration for Easter.
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Lucy x
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family time and a wee easter egg hunt with the kids
just eating lots of chocolate and watching films with my sons x
no plans for easter yet….but i need some with the kids off for 17 days!!!!
No plans yet but we always take part in our town’s local Easter Egg hunt 🙂
We are having a family get together on Easter Sunday
Our plans for days out depend on the weather.
Having a family lunch and going on an Easter egg hunt.
Still no plans as such but I’m favouring to meet extended family at the beach
This Easter we will be spending it with my mum. we will go out on an Easter egg hunt in the morning then we will all sit down to a roast chicken dinner later on in the day! Lovely, i just hope the weather stays nice.
Great selection of goodies here. The hoodie is to die for, do they do pregnant adult sizes? haha!
Going to blackpool for the easter
am working most of the time but will still enjoy it
Same as usual for us, crafts in the morning, roast for lunch and an egg hunt in the afternoon 🙂
Arranging an egg hunt around the house
easter egg hunt and roast dinner x
We’re going to Portugal on holiday with my whole family!
I’ve not really got any plans for this Easter except eating way to much chocolate!
Easter egg hunt followed by lamb roast dinner and pudding for after! Perfect
Just a roast dinner and a chocolate filled afternoon
we are off to spend Easter holidays with my family who we haven’t seen in a year
Quality time with my daughter while she’s off school, and hopefully seeing some newborn lambs!
It coincides with my Nephew’s birthday this year so we will be celebrating with them
Staying at home and doing an egg hunt with my foster little ones x
My sister will be coming home from Uni for Easter so we will have days out and eat easter chocolate!
easter actiities with my little girl
This easter we’re due baby number 2 so will be relaxing and eating lots of chocolate!
Easter egg hunt and visiting family.
WE have plans to spend the Monday down at the coast as a family. We’ll take the kids to the amusements, have some lunch and maybe a game of bowling etc, and probably stop for a few drinks as we stroll along the seafront.
We will have a big easter egg hunt with all of the family
hopefully sorting the garden if its nice weather
If it warms up, we will have a chocolate egg hunt in the garden x
Family time with my brother and his 5 boys
We’re going for a picnic
We usually plan to go somewhere and do something outdoorsy but with the threat of snow we’re completely lost what to do this year.
Trip to the seaside
We’re seeing our nephew and other relatives this Easter.
My family are going to a easter egg hunt
We are going to have a nice family meal and lots of chocolate lol x
Easter egg hunt in the garden and a proper roast leg of lamb
nice meal and family games
We’re planning on going for lots of waalks!
Lots of fun things with the grandkids , baking easter buns , decorating eggs
clothes look lovely
Spending time with family
We have a couple of craft days all set and for any rainy days but we will be going lots of walks and park trips to the local country parks and we like to visit grandparents in the Easter hols and go to a little farm park
Unfortunately I’m working: (
Visiting our caravan
we are having an easter egg hunt
It’s my birthday as well so home with the family, champagne. Sunday dinners and lots of other amazing food.
Dinner with the whole family and then dish out the eggs to everyone, various Cadburys and Nestle eggs (hope I get one witha mug)
no plans as yet, apparently the weather is meant to get cold again 🙁
Spending time at home with family (and eating Easter eggs!)
An Easter egg hunt & I’m cooking lamb for Easter dinner
I always do an ester egg hunt for my son and his 2 cousins. They love it and it burns off some of that energy!!
visiting family
Getting together with all the family
I have no plans yet. I try not to plan too far ahead as something always happens which messes up my plans!!
Easter Egg Hunt with the kids, visiting the local farm to see the newborns, lamb roast for Easter dinner and spending time with the family x
We’re off to Italy for a family visit
Eating easter eggs, having lunch with family and going to an Easter Sunday wedding!
Our families will be visiting for Sunday lunch, and the children will have an egg hunt
My husband’s working so we won’t have much family time but me and my little boy will go on an Easter egg hunt together.
Always have the kids and grand children down for Easter lunch, then an Easter Egg hunt for the little ones. After we all chill out and moan about how we’ve all eaten too much 😀
A lovely meal out I think with the traditional egg hunt first of course x
Easter egg hunt in the local woods followed by a family meal
All the family round for a lovely meal then an Easter Egg hunt for the kiddies.
we go to church then have the whole family over for a roast x
We will be having a quiet family lunch and lots of spring cleaning x
We have a big family get together with a yummy roast dinner and tend to do a glow in the dark easter egg hunt in the evening – lots of fun and memories made, we love this time of year 🙂
We are having a family dinner on Easter Sunday.
Spending time with friends, and family, having great food, maybe a few walks, and of course the amazing 4 day weekend 😉
No plans yet but i have the day off on friday so i am excited!
An Easter egg hunt and then yummy roast dinner with family
Visiting our local farm park
My daughter has the bunny hoodie she got it for Christmas we love it so much. We will most likely have a nice family meal and then eat chcocolate eggs whilst watching a film.
Eating my Body weight in Chocolate!!
Me & my son are going to a local wood with friends for an egg hunt.
we will be having our family bonnet decorating contest as usual
Easter egg hunt and roast dinner with my family
Going to Longlet & doing an easter egg hunt
Watching easter movies and baking chocolate easter nest
My brother, sister-in-law and niece are coming over for lunch.
Have the family coming over for the day on Sunday, will be great fun and Monday will be spent cleaning up lol
easter crafts easter baking and an egg hunt
Christening Easter Sunday
Visiting my parents with my daughter who absolutely adores her grandparents.
We were supposed to be going camping over Easter but my daughter got took ill on Easter Friday with a servier chest infection so we’re are just recovering over the Easter weekend, trying to get her better… Which she is
Relaxing at home
We are visiting grandparents and going on an egg hunt tomorrow x
I’ve just spent the weekend at home with my husband and dogs
A trip to the market with a friend and a catch up with the family.
Having a roast dinner with all tbe family
Went to the seaside with family
If it stops raining a brisk walk with the dog along the beach, then home to relax and make a start on my new book as the rest of the family will be playing Monopoly! I might need a few chocolates to help me concentrate.
We visited family on the Saturday, had a relaxing day baking on Easter Sunday and went to see Peter Rabbit today (Easter Monday)!
we went on an easter egg hunt at the local park
I was working the whole weekend.
Looking after my best friend’s cat and chillin as much as we can!!
Easter Egg Hunt followed by dinner with all the family
It was a very loud and chaotic Easter just me and my 3 boys as Hubbyt was on call and called out. Too much chocolate, but also a lot of fun – sad its over now but ttrying to enjoy my last week with them before back to school and work next week
We had treasure maps and Easter egg hunts and lots of chocolate eating and opening of surprise eggs!
Been away for a mini break which was lovely and having a few family days out
We had an egg hunt with clues!
Didn’t have anything planned for Easter as the family were all working
we decorated eggs and rolled them down a local hill on Good Friday….we have plenty of arts and craft activities planned for this week too
Just staying at home spending time together, and eating chocolate!
It was my daughters birthday, so we opened prezzies, ate easter dinner then had a lovely birthday cake!!!
We went to an egg rolling competition and visited family… Shame the weather wasn’t too nice x
Eating chocolate – long walks were planned but the weather let us down.
Going to Legoland Discovery centre
We had family dinner and an Easter Egg hunt
We have been to see Peter Rabbit the Movie, been trampolining and swimming and now we are off to visit friends. The kids are excitedly planning a midnight feast and lots of games while we are hoping for tea, biscuits and time to catch up.
I work in retail, so I have been working, pretty much constantly. Easter week is the busiest week in retail apart from christmas. Now its over, I’m enjoying my 9 days off!!!
This Easter we spent the weekend chilling out and going Pokemon hunting.
My youngest doesnt eat chocolate so alternative gifts are a must at Easter
2 Easter Egg hunts and lots of hot chocolate to keep warm afterwards….
We went visiting my son and his family it was so lovely to see them all xx
Spent quality time with family.
Easter egg hunt at grandma’s
Spending time with my family
An Easter Egg hunt with my five year old great-niece.
Its my birthday as well so eating double the amount of chocolate!
we stayed home 🙂
Easter was really nice this year with a mixture of going in to work and also having some time off for some walk with the family.
Trying to relax, ha! Plenty of easter crafts and maybe a trip to the farm.
Hosting an Easter egg hunt which will be my little nephew’s first one (I hope he’s as excited about it as I am!!)
Broke up from work today got the work men in to fix a wall next week then off to Scarborough for the weekend.
Staying with my mum for a few days and a big meal with sisters and their families on Easter Monday.
we had easter lunch with all the family then we had a easter egg hunt
we’ve had fun on easter egg hunts, a big family roast and lots of movies and snuggles.
Nothing to much, just spending some quality time with my kids
We’ve had lots of family days out, an easter egg hunt and baked some Easter treats
Not a lot as my daughter has broken a bone in her foot. Maybe we’ll do some Easter baking x
I spent it at home with my family x
Spending precious time with our grandchildren 🙂
went to butlins with my friend and the kids, had a fab but wet time
Waster egg hunt and lots of family days out
We had the annual Easter Egg Hunt and took the kids crazy indoor golf, laser quest the list goes on. It’s great having a long weekend with the kids 🙂
We did an Easter Egg hunt for the Grandchildren, not all chocolate eggs but some little treats aswell.
Egg hunt in the garden, family roast lunch and then ate lots and lots of chocolate!!!!
Lots of family time and a trip to the zoo
Sadly working right through the easter
We had a lovely easter at home, i did a little egg hunt for my son and we did some crafts making finger puppets and painting eggs
I had to work some of the bank holiday weekend, but the rest of the time is quality family time, hopefully getting outside of the weather is kind x
We had a quiet Easter at home. Had a nice roast dinner and an egg hunt for our children
We had an easter egg hunt in the garden and ate too much chocolate.
out for a rainy walk with the family and then a lovely dinner!
Gardening, and had the family over
a relaxing weekend at home
We have a weekend away planned so the school holidays is broken up a bit
We visited Disneyland in paris 🙂
Having some days off work and spending extra time with the grandchildren 🙂
We went to my dads for a family get together on the Sunday and on the Monday we went to the in laws and this Sunday I am having my siblings and all the children at our house for an Easter egg hunt and afternoon tea
We’ve had an Easter Egg hunt at home and at the local farm and walks at the local national park x
Spoiling my niece with chocolate bunnies
We have been visiting family and having easter egg hunts, going to park and London museums
eating choclate
We went to the cinema for a. Fancy dress EASTER egg hunt and to watch Peter Rabbit
we did an egg hunt, then had a family meal
We went a visited a local dairy farm and got to bottle feed the lambs!!! It was a morning of money cant buy memory making!
We had a lovely weekend with family and the grandchildren
Worked Good Friday, we had an Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, out for dinner on Sunday and then went to the rugby on Monday (in the rain and we lost too lol).
We had an egg hunt then a lovely roast dinner.
Went out for a family meal with my daughters and my grandchildren. Took my granddaughter out to feed the ducks and to a nursery to look at their parrots and buy some spring plants. She found a ‘hidden rock’ and then we went home to paint some of our own.
We have been doing lots of crafts, playing games and getting out when the weather was permitting!
We went to Kent Life with the kids and they fed the lambs
We had an easter egg hunt, lots of chocolate, family time and a lovely roast dinner x
done but we went easter egg hunting 🙂
Spent all day with family 🙂
we had various family members come to visit
We ate mounds of chocolate, had an easter egg hunt and played board games in the afternoon
We did a treasure hunt with the kids. The clues lead them around the house and there were toy or egg rewards every few clues!
We had a weekend break away in Germany. A hit with my elder child but the younger hated it.
We had an egg hunt and easter family lunch.
we had family fun with many kids around doing lots of crafts
this easter we went to visit friends and family and all went on a big easter egg hunt and long hike to work off the chocolate
we went a family trip to a farm
I spent Easter with my partner which was a lovely surprise, as hes in the army and he just turned up at my door on Good Friday. Probably the best Easter I have ever had.
Ah so lovely!!!
We did an easter egg hunt and had a nice roast lamb x