The first Easter

What you can do, by age

• Before chocolate: the hunt can be for toys or soft animals hidden around the house.
• A basket with only a few things in it, hidden somewhere easy. Two or three discoveries are plenty.
• Paper bunny ears, made in five minutes, which produce the best photo of the day.
• Painting boiled eggs with washable paint, with newspaper underneath.
• If it is the very first one, accept that she will understand none of it. The celebration is yours.

About chocolate

What age to introduce chocolate is a conversation with whoever looks after her health, not with the internet. In the meantime the hunt works just as well with toys, and nobody misses anything: the fun is in looking and finding.

What to record

• The basket laid out, before anything else.
• The face at the instant she finds the first one. Have the camera ready and stay ahead of her.
• The messy mouth, if there is chocolate.
• A photo of the whole family, which is almost always the one that is missing.
• A fifteen second video of the hunt, with the sound.

The letter

Two lines in the evening: how old she was, who was there, and the funniest thing she did. Every year in the same format. In ten years you have the whole family's Easters documented.