Here is one of my favorite religious holidays of the year. Because yes, I love tradition, during this Easter period, the egg hunts, which are organized differently depending on the country: in France and Belgium, the church bells bring the Easter eggs, whereas in Germany and Austria, it is the rabbits that bring the eggs. As for the little English children, they go from house to house searching for the eggs themselves.

I loved it when I was little and, strangely, it’s a childhood love (I have others!) that has remained in me and of which I am proud (no, no, I assure you I am not ashamed!).

You will therefore understand my joy each year to concoct this special Easter Tips article for you, this time with a little chocolaty selection as a bonus, as well as a super prize to be won at the end of the article.

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Egg Hunt in the Renoir Gardens

This year again, the Musée de Montmartre will welcome children aged 2 to 12 for a grand egg hunt in the Renoir Gardens.

Their mission? To track down 5 eggs of different colors hidden among the flowers, trees, and shrubs. Starting at 2 PM, once the bells have passed, the children will be able to roam and discover the various museum gardens in search of the precious Easter eggs.

At the end of their expedition and once the 5 eggs are collected, the hunters will receive chocolate treats.

The tip: the hunt is free for those under 10 years old, and for others, it is included in the museum admission ticket.

Musée de Montmartre
12 rue Cortot 75018 Paris

Sunday, April 5 and Monday, April 6, 2015
Registration required at 01 49 25 89 41 or by email: groupes@museedemontmartre.fr

Free Egg Hunt at HEMA

For Easter, HEMA is organizing an egg hunt in its stores!

The principle is very simple: pretty wooden eggs will be hidden in the stores and the children will have 20 minutes to find them.

1 wooden egg found = 1 chocolate egg won

In addition, the toddler who finds the most wooden eggs will have the chance to win a super prize worth €15.

For whom: all children aged 4 to 10 can participate upon registration (you must go to the checkout to fill out the registration form), up to a limit of 35 participating children per day.

Wednesday, April 1 from 3:00 PM to 3:20 PM 

In more than 30 HEMA stores in France

An egg hunt and great deals at One Nation Paris

The outlet One Nation Paris is celebrating Easter and offering fun and gourmet activities every weekend until April 6, 2015.

On the program: egg painting workshops, an Easter egg hunt with Lindt, extra discounts on outlet prices,…

As a bonus, the outlet will be exceptionally open on Monday, April 6!

One Nation Paris

1 avenue du Président Kennedy 78340 Les 
Clayes-sous-Bois

Popelini cream puffs celebrate Easter at The Chess Hotel

Located in the heart of Paris, just a stone’s throw from the Opéra Garnier, The Chess Hotel (designed by Gilles & Boissier) has been offering tea-time with Popelini and Mariage Frères for a few months now (I will tell you about it in detail very soon in a special tea-time article).

On the occasion of Easter, the establishment will offer the special collection created by the famous pastry shop.

3 puffs, 3 flavors for chocolate lovers:

Loma Sotavento dark chocolate (grand cru): creamy dark chocolate filling rich in cocoa, dark chocolate puff pastry
Milk praline: milk chocolate praline cream, milk chocolate puff pastry
Dulce de leche apricot heart: Dulce de leche cream with a tangy apricot heart. Plain puff pastry

The Chess Hotel
6 rue du Helder, 75009 Paris

Chess-Tea from March 27 to April 5, 2015: every day from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM Price: €12 per 
person (including 3 puffs and a drink)

The Great Treasure Hunt by Expo in the City

Expo in the City, the cultural outing magazine, is re-organizing its fun and free cultural event this coming Sunday, April 5, in a new, giant version at the André Citroën park, with hundreds of exhibition tickets to be won.

This immense cultural treasure hunt is a free event that puts more than 600 exhibition tickets up for grabs for the capital’s finest cultural institutions.

Participating is quite simple! Spot the colored balloons floating in the air and you will find in a bush, behind a tree, or on a path, a pretty foil-wrapped package containing an Expo in the City magazine, a small Lindt chocolate rabbit, and… a Golden Ticket!

Every ticket is a winner; you just need to bring them to the Expo in the City booth to collect your surprise gift.

Parc André Citroën

Sunday, April 5, at 3:00 PM

Easter Attack at the Manoir de Paris

On April 3, 4, and 5, 2015, the Manoir de Paris (one of my favorite places in Paris) pulls a rabbit out of a hat!

For three days, the hunt is on, but there are no eggs! Instead, there are huge killer rabbits that will chase you through the haunted labyrinth of the Manor.

Le Manoir de Paris
18 rue de Paradis - 75010 Paris

Friday, April 3: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday 4 & Sunday, April 5: 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Price: full price: €25 / child price (10/15 years old): €20 / fast pass: €35 (however, be careful about the sensitivity of your children, the Manor is an experience to be avoided for the faint of heart)

Easter at the Hard Rock Café Paris

The Hard Rock Café Paris welcomes Little Rockers accompanied by their parents for Easter on Sunday, April 5 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM.

This morning will be marked by numerous surprises for the whole family. Children will be able to participate in a big egg hunt organized inside the Hard Rock Cafe Paris in the company of a surprise rabbit.

On the program: face painting, drawing contest, magic show, and each child will also receive a balloon sculpture. A giant breakfast buffet will be served all-you-can-eat for young and old alike.

Hard Rock Café Paris
14, boulevard Montmartre 75009 Paris

Reservation essential at 01 53 24 60 00
€35 per adult / €15 per child

Easter Brunch at the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile

For Easter, the Restaurant La Fayette is partnering with Valrhona and inviting guests to discover and deepen their knowledge of chocolate during an Easter brunch.

It is around an educational and gourmet workshop that an expert will invite guests on an initiatory and sensory journey, from Madagascar to Trinidad, passing through Venezuela, to explore the full diversity of grand cru cocoas and discover what lies behind a square of chocolate.

Budding mini-chefs will be able to create their own chocolate egg with the Pastry Chef.

Easter Brunch at Restaurant La Fayette

3, Place du Général Koenig / 75017 Paris

Sunday, April 5 and Monday, April 6, 2015, from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
€49 per adult with a glass of Roederer Champagne / €19 per child up to 6 years old
Workshop for children aged 6 to 11

Easter in the Yvelines

If you live in the Yvelines (a very beautiful department of Ile-de-France in which I love to walk…), the tourist office has put together a great program for you for these Easter holidays with a beautiful selection of egg hunts throughout the department.

The Sanoflore Aqua Magnifica Hunt

Sanoflore is organizing the “Aqua Magnifica Hunt” this Sunday morning, April 5, starting at 9:30 AM: 100 Aqua Magnificas will be hidden at Parc Monceau in Paris.

The icing on the cake, a very large-format Aqua Magnifica (400ml vs 200ml for the classics) will be hidden, and the person who finds it will win a year’s supply of Aqua Magnifica!

Parc Monceau

Sunday, April 5 starting at 9:30 AM

35 Boulevard de Courcelles, 75008 Paris

The Milka Egg Hunt

After 2 years of success in France, Milka and Buzzman are back in 2015 with a new egg hunt to celebrate Easter in 4 countries (France, Belgium, Austria, and Germany).

This time Milka is shaking up the rules of the traditional egg hunt and inviting participants to “Dare for Tenderness” by suggesting that players no longer hunt just for themselves but dare to offer the fruits of their hunt to their loved ones.

New arrivals in the Milka egg pack, the orange eggs, will be hidden in stores in the soft-boiled egg boxes, and every day, 10 of them can be found in the huge virtual Milka garden until April 5, to allow internet users to make a tender choice: keep this egg for themselves or dare to offer it to a loved one. If they dare to show tenderness, they and their loved one could win numerous gifts.

The challenge will be significant because players will only have 5 minutes of daily play to scratch the huge digital garden as fast as possible and thus find the delicious Milka eggs hidden before the other hunters!

The Rockmafia Easter Operation

Rockmafia is a leather goods brand based in the southwest of France. For this special Easter operation, a number 9 has been slipped at random into each of the following famous bags: ELVIS US mix ballet, ELVIS TINY mix ballet, JOHNNY mix Ballet, ELVIS US mix foil gold, ELVIS TINY mix foil gold, JOHNNY mix gold, ELVIS US mix brown, ELVIS TINY mix brown, JOHNNY mix brown.

People who are lucky enough to find a number 9 on the label when purchasing one of these bags will have their bag refunded, and what’s more, for any purchase, shipping is free! But be careful, the deadline to try your luck is Wednesday, April 8.

To participate, go to the Rockmafia L’Officine boutique (60, avenue Edouard VII, 64200 Biarritz) or on the e-shop

Easter at Planète Sauvage

The animal park, Planète Sauvage (located 15 minutes from Nantes), is organizing an Easter weekend full of surprises and discoveries from Saturday, April 4 to Monday, April 6, 2015.

Small animals have escaped! Children are called to participate in this big hunt to find thousands of small chocolate animals hidden in the pedestrian area of the park.

The famous goose that laid the golden eggs has lost its eggs and the children will therefore have a major goal: to find its eggs to win exceptional prizes!

a Safari Excellence for the big gold eggs

a Dolphin Encounter or a 4×4 Raid for the small gold eggs

Small chocolate selection for Easter

La Maison du Chocolat is stopping by Moynat this year, a trunk maker dedicated to travel since 1849 and located on rue Saint-Honoré. Its chocolaty traveling geese take flight at Easter with their “limousines” (concave trunks) towards summer destinations…

Personally, I really want to bite into them…

This year for Easter, the chefs at La Grande Epicerie de Paris have created Easter eggs and a cake with starry inspirations for an intergalactic journey.

L’Atelier du Chocolat offers Psychédélices, a flashy and sparkling Easter range.

Assortments of organic and fair-trade Easter chocolates from Belvas (Belgian chocolatier). In addition, these chocolates are also lactose-free and gluten-free.

La Pâtisserie Foucade Paris is opening a pop-up space at the Epicerie Générale (1 rue Moncey, 75009 Paris) for two exclusive weekends, April 3 & 4 and April 10 & 11.

To celebrate Easter, Pascal Caffet offers his chocolate creations, fruit of the successful union of Poupoule and Cocorico in 2014.

Creations of chocolate characters filled by the Nantes pastry chef and chocolatier Vincent Guerlais.

The very beautiful and very original chocolate creations by Joséphine Vannier.

For Easter, Thés George Cannon offers as a gift idea “Fabergé Eggs” egg-shaped tins (18 different designs) to offer Easter tea or to hide it…

The Lidl Easter chocolate collection, for 100% French production at soft prices.

François Pralus has prepared for the arrival of the church bells with the Tropical Egg, which is made from 75% cocoa Madagascar chocolate, filled with milk and dark chocolate shavings and small praline-filled eggs.

Easter at L’Eclair de Génie, with the DIY Eggs Box, imagined by Christophe Adam.

To do something original, you can celebrate Easter with the very light “Easter Roll Cake” (€12), a new creation by chef Hironobu Fukano from Pâtisserie Ciel, which is available from March 19 to April 10, 2015.

It is made of a yuzu sponge cake, rolled with yuzu cream, all decorated with fresh raspberries, yuzu zest, and mini chocolate eggs.

Easter at La Maison Fouquet

Since 1852, Maison Fouquet (which I mentioned to you for Christmas, but also for Valentine’s Day) has been offering chocolates made in an artisanal way by the teams of the Laboratory of the historic boutique on rue Laffitte, located in the heart of the Opéra district in Paris, and which I had the chance to discover.

For Easter, Maison Fouquet offers 3 gourmet creations :

The Hieroglyph egg branded Fouquet (net weight approximately 600g – €80), which I am inviting you to try to win just after this!

Lollipop sticks (individually – €3.5)

The Fouquet sugar egg (available in 4 sizes and 4 flavors: vanilla, lemon, orange, or raspberry starting at €43 / egg cups with chocolate egg also available in 4 flavors – €14)

Easter fry in animal version, with dog, rabbit, hen, bear, horse, rooster, cat, chick, turtle… not forgetting the famous Squirrel from the house of Fouquet (Dog – filled with Easter fry and small eggs – €15, approx. 130g Squirrel – filled with Easter fry and small eggs – €20, approx. 180g Rabbit – filled with Easter fry and small eggs – €20, approx. 180g)

The half-egg, filled with Easter fry and small eggs (€80, approx. 600g)

Fouquet boutiques in Paris

36 rue Laffitte 75009 Paris

23 rue François 1er 75008 Paris

EASTER CONTEST:

Because I always try to spoil you, you know it, I invite you to win a magnificent prize in partnership with the Maison Fouquet on the blog: a magnificent filled chocolate Hieroglyph Egg of 600g (worth €80 after all!).

To participate, just leave a comment below this article answering this question about the house’s history (you will find the answer on the brand’s website): “what was Monique Chambeau’s nickname?”

A draw among the correct answers to this question will designate the winner of the prize. Be careful, however, the winner will have to go and collect their prize at the Fouquet boutique on Rue Laffitte in Paris. It will also be an opportunity for them to have a private visit to the production workshop by my side.

Good luck to everyone!

Rules:

– Contest limited to Metropolitan France

– The prize must be collected by the winner at the Fouquet boutique in Paris

– + 1 chance if you are a fan of the blog’s facebook page; + 1 chance if you follow the blog’s twitter page; + 1 chance if you follow the blog’s hellocoton page + 1 chance if you follow the blog’s Instagram page + 1 chance for each share of the article (don’t forget to leave your aliases in your comment if you want to benefit from extra chance(s))

– 1 entry per IP address

– contest start date Saturday, March 28, 2015 – participation deadline Sunday, April 5, 2015 and result the next day on the blog in an edit of this article