Spring is in the air! With all the economic gloom and doom surrounding us, the natural beauty of Spring and Easter has become the must do reason to celebrate! Who says Easter egg hunts are only for kids? This year we could all use a little pick me up; let The Party Goddess! show you how! Until then enjoy these fun little facts!
FACTS & FIGURES:
* The Easter Bunny legend is German in origin and tells of a poor woman living in Germany who decorated colorful eggs for her children to find. As soon as the hidden treasures were discovered, a large rabbit was seen hopping away.
* The custom of giving eggs at Easter time has been traced back to Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans for whom the egg was a symbol of life.
* The first Easter baskets were made to look like birds’ nests.
* In 1953, it took 27 hours to create a Marshmallow Peep. Today it takes six minutes.
* Ninety million chocolate Easter bunnies are produced each year.
*If you laid all of the candy eggs produced by the Cadbury Company, end to end, they would stretch a staggering 12,000 miles!
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