Tiffi and Elsa talk about Easter

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It’s Friday and Elsa will be showing up shortly. Tiffi gathers all her printouts and leaves them on the dining room table. Just then the doorbell rings.

“Hi Elsa, you are right on time,” Tiffi says. “Come in and I have to show you all the information that I found on Google.”

She shares all the printouts about the traditions and what the Easter bunny has to do with Easter. Elsa looks them over and tells Tiffi that these are great articles. Then she shares some information with Tiffi.

“Easter egg hunts and egg rolling are two popular egg-related traditions. In the U.S., the White House Easter Egg Roll, a race in which children push decorated, hard-boiled eggs across the White House lawn, is an annual event held the Monday after Easter. The first official White House egg roll occurred in 1878, when Rutherford B. Hayes was president. The event has no religious significance, although some people have considered egg rolling symbolic of the stone blocking Jesus’ tomb being rolled away, leading to his resurrection.

Easter is the second best-selling candy holiday in America, after Halloween. Among the most popular sweet treats associated with this day are chocolate eggs, which date back to early 19th century Europe. Eggs have long been associated with Easter as a symbol of new life and Jesus’ resurrection. Another egg-shaped candy, the jellybean, became associated with Easter in the 1930s (although the jellybean’s origins reportedly date all the way back to a Biblical-era concoction called a Turkish Delight). According to the National Confectioners Association, over 16 billion jellybeans are made in the U.S. each year for Easter, enough to fill a giant egg measuring 89 feet high and 60 feet wide. For the past decade, the top-selling non-chocolate Easter candy has been the marshmallow Peep, a sugary, pastel-colored confection. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based candy manufacturer Just Born (founded by Russian immigrant Sam Born in 1923) began selling Peeps in the 1950s. The original Peeps were handmade, marshmallow-flavored yellow chicks, but other shapes and flavors were later introduced, including chocolate mousse bunnies.” You can read more here. 

“Another tradition is the Easter parade,” Elsa says. “let’s take a break for a few minutes because it’s lunch time and I picked up some fishies for you.”

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