Children's Easter Gift Guide - 2019

As much as I love a chocolate egg at Easter, sometimes it's nice to give something different. Especially if your children are going to get multiple eggs from family! There are some lovely Easter themed gifts in the shop at the moment and here's some of my favourite bits....

We're Going on an Egg Hunt Book (£4) - Children will love the simple storyline, with the added bonus of flaps to lift! This book features some beautiful illustrations too.
Bunny Pull Back Racers - Baker Ross (£2.45 for 4) - We always do an egg hunt in my parent's garden and I think these would be perfect for that so the kids are overloaded with chocolate!
Cuddlebunny Hooded Bath Towel (£34.99) - For a special Easter gift, these bunny towels look adorable. The child sizes even go up to 3-6 years too which is fab as a lot of the hooded towels seem to be suited to smaller children.

Bunny Scissors and Desk Organiser* (£23.50) -  This is the cutest desk organiser I have ever seen and would make a lovely Easter gift for an older child. The scissors make up the ears, whilst the green paperclips create the carrot stalks.
Cadburys Easter Eggstravaganza (£10) - Of course, Easter isn't Easter without a bit of chocolate and personally for me, it's all about Cadburys! Why does Easter chocolate taste even better than normal chocolate?!!

LEGO Brickheadz Easter Bunny (From £12.99) - Elliot is really into Lego at the moment and he has actually asked for one of these at Easter. It says 10+ but I'm sure with a bit of help, younger children would enjoy it too
Personalised Gift Mug (£3.99) - These are super cute and would be lovely filled with some mini eggs to make a little Easter gift
Penwizard Personalised Books* (From £12.49) - For a really lovely gift that's a bit different, Penwizard create personalised books for children. Featuring lots of favourite characters such as Peppa Pig, In the Night Garden and Paw Patrol, kids will adore starring in the story as their very own customised character! We have a Peppa Pig one which Erin loves and the illustrations genuinely look like her which she finds hilarious!

Wishing You all a Happy Easter

**Disclaimer - Two of these items were sent to me for the purpose of this gift guide

Breakfast with the Easter Bunny at Wyevale Garden Centre

Last year I remember reading my friend Jeni's blog (The Poole Mamma) and she took her family for breakfast at their local Wyevale Garden Centre to meet the Easter Bunny.

At the time I thought this sounded brilliant fun for little ones so I was really pleased to see that Wyevale Garden Centres were running the same event this Easter.

Wyevale Garden Centre

We have several Wyevale branches close to us in Dorset but we booked breakfast at our local one near Verwood, purely because the date and times worked for us. Our slot was 9.30am on Easter Monday so it was something to look forward to after the busy weekend!

The cost of the event was £7.99 for adults and this covered a "Great British Breakfast" with unlimited tea or coffee. For children is was £9.99 and this was child's breakfast plus lots of Easter activities and treats.

When we arrived at the garden centre we found the restaurant and were taken to our table by Alice in Wonderland who was very chatty and friendly. Elliot was excited to see an Easter activity and colouring sheet on the table but even more excited to see a little cup of mini eggs! (They didn't last long...)

There were 5 other families on the event too and it was nice that it wasn't over booked, the service was great and the staff couldn't do enough for us.

Our breakfasts didn't take long to arrive and they were really nice. I'm not a massive fan of a cooked brekkie (unlike my husband!) but all the food was cooked well and very tasty. Top marks for having the baked beans in a separate cup too, these went straight to hubby!! Elliot's breakfast was great value - he had sausage, scrambled egg, hash brown, beans, mushroom and toast. It was a big portion and he couldn't finish it!

Once breakfast was eaten, "Alice" invited the kids to join in with the Easter trail. They were given crayons and answer sheets and they had to find the clues hidden around the garden centre. The clues were really simple and Elliot enjoyed shouting out the answers! The children were given a cream egg and little bag of Haribo sweets for finishing the trail.

The Easter Bunny made an appearance then and was waiting for the kids as they got back into the restaurant - cue lots of excited children!! They were given the option of a cuddly bunny or a chocolate bunny. Unfortunately Elliot just couldn't make up his mind and we had some tears when he realised he wanted a cuddly bunny and not a chocolate one! Luckily one of the other children swapped with him but you know what toddlers are like, he'd changed his mind again 10 minutes later!

Just before the tears...!

The last activity was decorating an Easter biscuit. Elliot was given some toppings plus a giant bag of buttercream icing - his finished result was more icing than biscuit I think! The staff were on hand with takeaway boxes so we could take it home with us.

The whole event lasted 90 mins and I think it was really good value for money. Despite the tears Elliot enjoyed himself and said his favourite part was meeting the Easter Bunny!

The Easter events have finished now for this year but Wyevale do lots of family events throughout the year so it's worth keeping an eye on their website.