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Coronavirus Causes Americans to Seek Easter Fun at A Minimum 6 Feet Distance

Article content NEW YORK Easter is a very special holiday for 6-year-old Nora Heddendorf. It's a day she is a fan of dressing up in a pretty dress and shiny shoes and spend time with her family and friends searching for eggs that are brightly colored.



The coronavirus epidemic forced her to adapt this year. She'll complete her Easter outfit by adding a white paper mask disposable gloves in blue and disinfectant wipes. After being informed that the annual egg hunt in her New Jersey town might be cancelled She thought of the idea of a "rock hunt".



Article content Nora's hunt is not just a way to substitute brightly painted stones for eggs, which are in short supply at certain stores, but it also allows her neighbors to do their hunting during their social-distancing walks.



Content of the article "I was sad that it was going to cancel due to the virus" the kindergartener said to Reuters in a telephone interview. "I would like to make people feel happy."



From the White House to small town parks The pandemic has forced the cancellation 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 looking for ways to have fun during the holidays such as an Oregon candy maker making chocolate bunnies that wear masks to a Texas church organising an egg hunt that is virtual using the video game Minecraft.



Content of the article Nora and her mother started organizing their hunt in Medford Lakes a few weeks ago. She put together a variety of DIY kits, each with five rocks, four paint colors, and instructions, all tucked away in the plastic bag. Of course, she was wearing disposable gloves and sprayed the contents with disinfectant.



She then left the kits outside her home for pick-up by anyone who wants to participate. On her Facebook page, Nora's Rocks the young artist encouraged her followers to return decorated rocks to her for her to hide.



"Thank you for helping Nora’s Rocks bring our community closer while remaining apart," she wrote in the instruction letter she included with the kits.



Her mother, Samantha Heddendorf, president of an environmental cleanup business which has been removing toxins from buildings affected by the coronavirus crisis The hunt is expected to start on Good Friday and continue through Easter Sunday, with fresh paint-stained rocks being hidden every day.



Article content The goal is to install 500 stone "eggs" in every nook and cranny of the 1 square mile (2.6 square kilometers) town.
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"When people are out on their walks with friends, they can look for rocks, or what are known as Easter Eggs. Samantha Heddendorf stated that they are able to find something to hunt for, pick them up and at the very least, have a smile to celebrate Easter.



Central Point chocolatier Jeff Shepherd created a plan to help save his Lillie Belle Farms in Oregon from being shut down due to the coronavirus. He shared with his Facebook fans that he was going to create "Covid Bunnies" that are dark and milk chocolate confections with white face masks and white chocolate ones with blue face masks.



It was a roaring success. Shepherd was able to bring back the seven full-time employees he had laid off and has sold 5,000 bunnies and is scrambling with back orders. He is now limit purchases to six per customer.



Article content Secure distancing to prevent virus spread is what convinced the Tate Springs Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, to go digital with its Easter Egg hunt, using Minecraft but disabling potentially scary game elements like monsters.



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



Nora was delighted to discover that her concept was well received in New Jersey. The mayor came to visit her to fill the kits and the Lions Club invited her to lunch "when the whole thing is finished."



Her most loved "thanks" was wrapped in gift-wrapped rolls of toilet paper. This was among the most popular items that people shopped for in the panic of the pandemic.



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


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