Coronavirus Causes Americans To Look For Easter Fun At Least 6 Feet Apart

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Article content NEW YORK Easter is a holiday that is special for 6-year-old Nora Heddendorf. It's a day that she is a fan of dressing up in fancy shoes and fancy dresses and hunt with her family and friends to find brightly colored eggs.



The coronavirus pandemic forced her to adapt this year. She will complete her Easter outfit by wearing a white mask and blue disposable gloves and a container of disinfectant wipes. After learning that the annual egg hunt in her New Jersey town might be cancelled, she thought of an "rock hunt."



Article content Nora's hunt does not only substitutes brightly painted stones for eggs which are scarce at certain stores, but it also allows her neighbors to hunt during their walks with friends.



"I was devastated that the program was going to be canceled because of the virus" the kindergartener said to Reuters in a telephone interview. "I would like people to be content."



The pandemic has affected everyone from the White House to small towns parks. It has also forced the cancellation of traditional Easter egg hunts across the United States. Closed churches and scupched plans for Easter meals with extended families.



However, many Americans are still looking for ways to enjoy the holidays for the holidays, from an Oregon candymaker making chocolate bunnies with face masks to a Texas church organising an egg hunt that is virtual using the video game Minecraft.



Article content Weeks ago, Nora and her mother started organizing her hunt in their town of Medford Lakes. She put together a number of DIY kits, each containing five rocks as well as four paint colors, instructions and all of it wrapped in plastic bags. She used disposable gloves and spray the contents with disinfectant.



The kits were then placed outside her house to be picked up by anyone who wants to participate. Extremecraft The young artist, Nora's rocks, requested her friends return the rocks she had left to her to keep for herself.



"Thank you for helping Nora's Rocks bring our community closer yet remain separate," she wrote in the instruction note she included with her kits.



Her mother, Samantha Heddendorf, president of an environmental cleanup firm that has been cleaning up areas that have been affected by the coronavirus epidemic The hunt is expected to start on Good Friday and continue through Easter Sunday, with fresh paint-stained rocks being hidden every day.



Content of the article The aim is to place 500 stone "eggs" in every corner of the 1 square mile (2.6 square kilometers) town.



"People can look for Easter eggs or even rocks walking socially distancing." Samantha Heddendorf stated that they are able to find something to hunt for, then collect them, and have at least smiles to celebrate Easter.



In Central Point, Oregon, chocolatier Jeff Shepherd had a brainstorm to save his Lillie Belle Farms from shutdown in the wake of the coronavirus. He told his Facebook followers that he was going to create "Covid Bunnies" which are dark and milk chocolate with white face masks and white chocolate ones with blue face masks.



It was an enormous success. Extremecraft Shepherd was able to bring back the full-time staff of seven he had laid off, has sold 5,000 bunnies and is in a frenzy with back orders. He is now restricting purchases to six per customer.



Article content Safe distancing to thwart spread of the virus is what prompted the Tate Springs Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, to go digital with its Easter Egg hunt, using Minecraft but disabling potentially frightening game elements like monsters.



"Our primary goal is to preach the gospel, but we want the kids to still enjoy Easter," said Reverend Curtis James.



Nora was thrilled to learn that her concept was appreciated by many. The mayor of the town stopped by to look at the kits, and the Lions Club invited her for lunch "when the entire thing is done."



Her most loved "thanks" was wrapped in gift-wrapped rolls of toilet paper. This was one of the mainstays that people panic-shopped during the pandemic.



"My mom smiled when the toilet paper camein," Nora said. (Reporting by Barbara Goldberg in New York Additional reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien.)