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Coronavirus Requires Americans to find Easter Fun at A Minimum 6 Feet Away

Article content NEW YORK – Easter is a special holiday to Nora Heddendorf, 6 years old. It's a day she's a sucker for dressing up in a pretty dress and shiny shoes and spend time with her family and friends looking for eggs that are brightly colored.



This year the coronavirus pandemic has forced her to adapt. She will complete her Easter outfit by adding a white mask disposable gloves in blue and disinfectant wipes. After hearing that the annual egg hunt in her New Jersey town might be cancelled she came up with a "rock hunt".



Article content Nora's hunt does not only replace brightly colored stones for eggs that are in short supply at some stores, but also allows her neighbors to do their hunting during their walks with friends.



Article content "I was disappointed that it was going to end up being cancelled due to the virus" the child told Reuters in a phone interview. "I would like people to be happy."



From the White House to small town parks The pandemic has forced the removal of the traditional Easter egg hunts and "rolls" across the United States, closed churches and scotched plans for Easter meals with extended families.



However, many Americans are still finding ways to have fun during the holidays, from an Oregon candymaker making chocolate bunnies that wear masks to an Texas church hosting a virtual egg hunt using the video game Minecraft.



Content of the article A few weeks ago, Nora and her mother began organizing her hunt in their town of Medford Lakes. She assembled dozens DIY kits, each containing five rocks, four paint colors, directions and all packaged in plastic bags. She used disposable gloves and sprayed the contents with disinfectant.



The kits were left at her home for anyone who wants to pick them up. The young artist, Nora's rocks, asked her friends to return the rocks she left to her for hiding.



"Thank you for helping Nora's Rocks bring our town closer but remain separate," said the instruction letter she included in the kits.



Her mother, Samantha Heddendorf, president of an environmental cleanup business that has been cleaning up structures affected by the coronavirus crisis, said the hunt will start on Good Friday and continue until Easter Sunday, when fresh batch of painted rocks to be found every day.



Article content The purpose of this project is to install 500 stones "eggs" in every corner of the 1 mile (2.6 km) town.



"When people are doing their social distancing walks they can look for rocks, or what are known as Easter Eggs. Samantha Heddendorf stated that they could find something to look for, pick them up and, at a minimum, put on a a smile 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. Bitrix He shared with his Facebook fans that he'd make "Covid Bunnies" that are dark and milk chocolate with white face masks and white chocolate ones with blue face masks.



It was a roaring success. Shepherd was able to hire back the seven full-time employees that he laid off, has sold 5,000 bunnies, and is in a frenzy with back orders, and is now restricting purchases to six per customer.



Article content Safe distancing to stop the spread of viruses is what convinced the Tate Springs Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, to make the switch to digital for its Easter Egg hunt, using Minecraft but disabling potentially scary game elements such as monsters.



"Our ultimate goal is to spread the gospel, but we also want kids to have fun and enjoy Easter," said Reverend Curtis James.



In New Jersey, Nora was thrilled that her idea was warmly embraced by so manypeople, with the town mayor stopping by to watch her fill the kits and the local Lions Club inviting her for lunch "when the whole thing is finished."



Her favorite "thanks" was gift-wrapped rolls toilet paper. This was among the most popular items that people panic-shopped during the pandemic.



Nora said, "My mom smiled when toilet paper arrived." (Reporting by Barbara Goldberg, New York Additional reporting by Rich McKay, Atlanta; Editing done by Rosalba Obrien


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