13 fun facts about Easter
- 90 million chocolate Easter bunnies are made for Easter each year.
- Each day, five million marshmallow chicks and bunnies are produced in preparation for Easter.
- 16 billion jelly beans are made for Easter (that’s enough to completely fill an 89 feet high and 60 feet wide plastic Easter egg – about the height of a nine-story office building!)
- 82 percent of Americans say they would prefer a chocolate or candy bunny for Easter, while only 4 percent say they would prefer a live rabbit (can you blame them?!)
- 63 percent of Americans would most like to receive a chocolate bunny on Easter morning, followed by marshmallow bunnies (10 percent). I know my little guy would love anything chocolate!
- The world’s largest jar of jelly beans weighed 6,050 pounds.
- 75 percent of kids are willing to do extra chores for extra Easter candy (what, we’re supposed to give them something for doing chores??!
). - According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest Easter egg ever made was just over 25-ft high and made of chocolate and marshmallow. The egg weighed 8,968 lbs. and was supported by an internal steel frame.
- 88 percent of adults carry on the Easter tradition of creating Easter baskets for their kids & 90 percent of adults hope for their own treat from the Easter Bunny. Who wouldn’t want chocolate?!
- The first chocolate eggs were made in Europe in the early 19th century and remain among the most popular treats associated with Easter.
- Kids first grab for chocolate bunnies (76 percent) when checking out their Easter baskets, followed by marshmallow treats (18 percent), malted milk balls/eggs (17 percent) and jelly beans (16 percent).
- When it comes to knowing which types of bunnies please the palate, the majority of Americans say a solid chocolate bunny (42 percent) first and foremost, followed by a hollow chocolate bunny (21 percent), marshmallow bunny (10 percent) and other types of Easter bunny candy (9 percent).
- Red jelly beans are kids’ favorite.
You also might want to read our Easter basket ideas for toddlers, 13 Toddler Easter Egg Fillers & check out our Photo Easter Card designs, then go see the Easter crafts and recipes from the National Confectioners Association who provided us with the opportunity to share these fun facts with you!
Red jelly beans are my favorite too, followed by the purple ones.
My son has been begging for a Chocolate Easter Bunny since February!
Cute TT!
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WOW! Where did you find all these crazy facts?
I definitely prefer chocolate over marshmallows or live bunnies – LOL!
Who eats these “worlds largest such-and -suchs” I wonder? Not that I’d complain about eating that egg! happy TT
I like the butterfinger flavored chocolate eggs. We are practically skipping easter this year. Too much going on and it happens to fall on my dd’s birthday. I hope your easter is wonderful.
No wonder the kids have been hyper this week! Thinking about all that chocolate even makes me a little jumpy
What about the Cadbury Cream Eggs?! They’re my favorite!
We both made a list of Easter facts this week LOL Happy TT!
Very cool facts. I did not know most of that stuff . . . but I could have guessed the part about the live bunnies!
Happy Easter!
My 13 is up, too.
I love the Harry Potter jellybeans best, all the crazy (and some quite gross!) flavors!
Ack, I hate peeps!! Happy TT.
I definitely prefer pure chocolate to marshmallow anything!
That was a fun list.
Fun facts!
I’m all about a Peanut Butter Bunny in my basket. They used to make only peanut butter, but now I have to go for chocolate and p-nut butter. (It’s not hard to take seconds on that one!)
I love the Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs, but with my son’s nut allergy, I can’t eat them anymore. I’ll just have to settle for a solid bunny instead! Happy TT!
I’m a grown up (I think) and I STILL go for the chocolate bunnies first
Wow, great list. Now I want candy! I would much rather have chocolate than a marshmellow or real bunny.
Happy TT!
What a yummy TT. I had to have some chocolate after reading it!
I like the hollow bunnies best, I get get them most of the way melted, before they hit my mouth… YUM
Oooh, my favorites are the Cadbury caramel egg. Oh man, I live of those for like a month. lol
What a fun list!
i guess i’m with everyone else, i prefer chocolate bunnies to other bunnies, and cabdury eggs are great too.
great TT!
That really made my teeth ache.
I love the Easter chocolates and stale peeps!
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Ohh I so dread the sugar high coming on Sunday.
Very cool facts. I like the hollow bunnies … they are easier to eat.
I had the post all written up with 13 Easter facts. I’m so glad that I did not go ahead and post it. The sad thing is I did not learn anything new here. The good thing is that you educated other TT participants. Happy Easter.
I love the malted milk eggs – the cheaper the better!
What a fun list for TT! Here is mine –
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Your kids will love it.
That was very nice to know about Easter. Thanks for sharing that one.
I, personally, like the white jelly beans, but I’ve always been a rebel.
Happy Easter!
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see now for me it’s not an easter basket unless there are some reeses pieces in it. YUM
great facts! Thanks for sharing!
Great list…my daughter would definitely like to have a real rabbit vs a chocolate rabbit, but thats not going to happen anytime soon. Thanks for sharing these facts.
Too much Easter info – LOL!
Those stats are staggering. I’m gonna go eat some matzah now and be glad I’m going to be spared the deluge…
(btw, I’d rather have a solid chocolate rabbit above anything else except maybe MAYBE some Smucker’s brand jelly beans. Maybe.)
That is a LOT of marshmallow chicks and bunnies! However, I could take about 89.9 million of those chocolate bunnies off their hands.
Delicious list! Now my jaws are aching for chocolate.
Happy Easter!
amazingly, I would always look for the marshmallow or chocolate eggs before the bunny itself. Chocolate bunnies are dull.
Wow! That’s so cool! Easter is such a GREAT kids’ holiday. We celebrate Passover — not quite the same…. No bread or flour isn’t exactly easy when you have a picky eater on your hands!
That’s a lot of
Easter knowledge. My Thursday Thirteen is up. It’s #36 and it is 13 things about my friend Scott’s book Trucker’s Tales. Stop by if you get a chance.
Great TT for the Easter week.
My TT is finally up tonight!
Thanks…I’ve been trying to cut down on my chocolate and what do you do?!? You talk about CHOCOLATE!
Thanks for all the fun facts!
Wow…16 billion… thats a lot of candy!!! I know I would definitively want a live rabbitt over a candy one!!
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What about the traditional hard boiled eggs?!?!?!?!