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Eggcited for Easter!
I LOVE Easter! I love coloring eggs, hiding eggs, eating eggs and cracking eggs filled with confetti on someone's head!
We picked up a new tradtion when we lived in San Antonio...Cascarones! What are cascarones???
Cascarones or confetti eggs are festive, hollow chicken egg shells, filled with confetti, meant to be thrown or broken over someone's head (usually as a surprise from behind), scattering confetti all over the person. Breaking the eggs over someone's head can be quite painful if done hard enough, however, this is most often done between friends, usually teenagers. Cascarones derived from Mexico and have recently regained popularity in the southwestern United States. They are used for many different occasions but, especially Easter. Having one broken over your head is said to bring good luck.
Living in San Antonio was great casue we could buy these eggs homemade from families locally...now I am lucky if I find them mass produced and sold at Walmart. Not the same but it works. The homemade ones were so colorful and unique and you knew a family all worked together to make them...saving their shells all year long and we were putting money in their pockets when we bought them...not Walmart's. Oh well...
We usually buys dozens and dozens of these eggs...you would be surprised how quickly they go when you are running around the yard trying to get someone with one. One dozen is never enough! I will miss our family in Texas this Easter, we always had such a nice time spending the holiday with them.
So I have a few questions for you now... (grrrr poll option not working so I have to do this the old fashion way. lol)
1. Do you color eggs?
2. Do you just buy plastic eggs?
3. Ever heard of Cascarones?
4. Do you hide eggs? And if so do you hide the plastic ones or the real ones. If no kids in the house any longer did you used to?
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I color eggs, and bought the cascarones at WalMart last year. I remember my Nana making them for our big town Fourth of July celebrations when I was little, though. :)
My kids loved the cascarones, I will look for them again this year.
Anna -
I don't color eggs anymore because no one eats hard boiled eggs but me! I do plan an Easter Egg Hunt for my 3 kids (yes, they are older...19, 16 & 13) but they still love it!...and my nieces and nephews. I use plastic eggs and put candy and money in the eggs. All the kids love it!
((hugs))
Jeanne -
1. Do you color eggs? I do not, but have a memory of helping my mother once. Seems to me that there was a funny smell to the process. Not sure?
2. Do you just buy plastic eggs? I haven't participated in an Easter celebration since I was a kid. I am not opposed to it.
3. Ever heard of Cascarones? I have not. Sounds like fun.
4. Do you hide eggs? And if so do you hide the plastic ones or the real ones. If no kids in the house any longer did you used to?
I was the oldest of four cousins growing up. The Easter egg hunt was thrilling. I miss the good ole days where all my food and board was taken care of. No worries, just dead sprinting to collect as many eggs as I could. I did like winning too. -
1. Do you color eggs? Yes even if I have to do it alone. I made some last year and one looked like Jesus on the cross..all I did was make a cross on it with a crayon.
2. Do you just buy plastic eggs? I have alot of those from my childrens choir I use to teach
3. Ever heard of Cascarones? Sure have! Watch out here comes a flying egg! Not so great after a swim and it sticks in your hair for the rest of the day...
4. Do you hide eggs? not anymore but I will when I get some grandchildren
And if so do you hide the plastic ones or the real ones. If no kids in the house any longer did you used to?
Real eggs and plastic ones filled with candy and money
3/22/08 2:55 AM
2. No! I don't buy plastic eggs!
3. No, I have never heard of Cascarones, but thanks for telling me, they sound like the new replacement for water balloons, only used at Eastertime! We used to smash water balloons at each other, and they didn't hurt that much. So tell us, why would a chicken's egg hurt, LOL?
4. No, don't now, and never had done the hide egging thing. I guess I am no fun. Except with water balloons!
Krissy :)
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