Easter eggs at Rockefeller Center

Easter may be over, but the eggs that were part of The Big Egg Hunt in New York are still on display at Rockefeller Center until this Friday, April 25.

The eggs, all 260 of them and all individually designed by artists, were placed throughout all five boroughs from April 1 to April 17. New Yorkers were welcome to participate in the citywide event and digitally collect the eggs through an app on their smartphones.

The eggs are now are being auctioned off online to help two charities: one to promote the visual arts in NYC schools, the other to help protect the endangered Asian elephant. The event is sponsored by Faberge, and bidding for the eggs is now in the thousands.

Which egg would you get for yourself or to give to someone?

How do you celebrate Easter?

Happy Easter, everyone! You probably know that Easter is traditionally a Christian holiday that is now largely linked with Easter eggs and the Easter bunny. Even families who celebrate the religious significance of Easter in church have their kids participate in Easter egg hunts right after Catholic mass or Protestant service, sometimes right in the church yard!

While some people think that the egg and the bunny are recent additions to make the holiday more secular and profitable for businesses, they've actually been around for centuries and have their connections with pagan celebrations of spring, as the video above, "Bet You Didn't Know" from History.com, mentions. This was long before candy and chocolate makers started capitalizing on this holiday.

Enjoy your Easter! We hope you have a good one, however you celebrate this holiday.

#vocabulary:
SECULAR - not spiritual or religious
PAGAN - ancient belief in many gods