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Coronavirus Causes Americans to Search for Easter Fun at least 6 Feet Apart

Article content NEW YORK Easter is a very special holiday for Nora Heddendorf, 6 years old. It's a day when she's a sucker for dressing dressed in a fancy dress and shiny shoes, and spend time with her family and friends hunting for brightly colored eggs.



The coronavirus outbreak forced her to change her clothes this year. She will complete her Easter outfit by adding a white paper mask disposable gloves in blue, and disinfectant wipes. And after hearing that her New Jersey town's annual egg hunt may be canceled, she came up with the idea of the idea of a "rock hunt."



Content of the article Nora's hunt replaces eggs by colorful stones and lets her neighbors stroll with them on social walks to do their hunting.



Content of the article "I was disappointed that it was going to cancel because of the virus," the kindergartener said to Reuters in a phone interview. "I want to make people happy."



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



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



Article content Weeks ago, Nora and her mother started organizing her hunt in their town of Medford Lakes. She gathered a plethora of DIY kits, each with five rocks, four paint colors, directions, and all wrapped in plastic bags. She used disposable gloves and sprayed all the contents with disinfectant.



The kits were tucked away outside her house for anyone who wanted to pick them up. On her Facebook page, Nora's Rocks the young artist appealed to her followers to return the decorated rocks to her to keep in.



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



Her mother, Samantha Heddendorf, president of an environmental cleanup firm which has been removing toxins from structures affected by the coronavirus crisis, said the hunt will start on Good Friday and continue until Easter Sunday, when fresh batches of painted rocks hidden each day.



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



"People are able to look for Easter Eggs or rocks while they are walking with their friends." Samantha Heddendorf stated that they can find something to hunt for, take them home and, at a minimum, put on a a smile to celebrate Easter.



Central Point chocolatier Jeff Shepherd came up with a plan to keep his Lillie Belle Farms in Oregon from being shut down by coronavirus. Arkadne-igre.net He told his Facebook friends that he was going to create "Covid Bunnies" which are milk and dark chocolate confections with blue faces and white chocolate ones that don't have blue masks for faces.



It was a huge success. Shepherd was able to rehire seven of his full-time employees, sold 5,000 bunnies and is currently scrambling to fulfill back orders.



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 scary game elements like monsters.



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



In New Jersey, Nora was thrilled that her idea was enthusiastically welcomed by so manypeople, with the town's mayor stopping by to see her fill the kits, and the local Lions Club inviting her for lunch "when this whole thing is finished."



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



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


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