Hold onto Your Baskets, Folks: These Crazy Easter Facts Will Blow Your Mind!
Eggs Were kept In Straw-filled Hats Before Easter Baskets
Long before Easter baskets became a thing, children had a different way of carrying their eggs. They put them into their hats filled with hay, which made for quite a sight. Then came the Germans!
In the 1700s, Germans introduced a game-changing Easter tradition in the United States. Kids filled their bonnets with straw the night before Easter. The next morning, they were rewarded with a rainbow of eggs spilling out of their bonnets. Who needs baskets when you’ve got hats?
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