The celebration of Easter extends beyond the church. Since its origins, it has
been a time of celebration and feasting. Today it is commercially important,
seeing wide sales of greeting cards and confectionery such as chocolate Easter
eggs, marshmallow bunnies, Peeps, and jelly beans.
Throughout North America, the Easter holiday has been partially secularized, so
that some families participate only in the attendant revelry, central to which
is decorating Easter eggs on Saturday evening and hunting for them Sunday
morning, by which time they have been mysteriously hidden all over the house and
garden. According to the children's stories, the eggs were hidden overnight and
other treats delivered by the Easter Bunny in an Easter basket which children
find waiting for them when they wake up. The Easter Bunny's motives for doing
this are seldom clarified.
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