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Coronavirus Causes Americans to find Easter Fun at A Minimum 6 Feet Apart

Article content NEW YORK – Easter is a special holiday for Nora Heddendorf, 6 years old. 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 for colorful eggs.



This year, the coronavirus pandemic has forced her to adapt. She will accessorize her Easter outfit with a white paper mask and blue disposable gloves and a container of disinfectant wipes. And after hearing that her New Jersey town's annual egg hunt could be cancelled, she came up with the idea of the idea of a "rock hunt."



Article content Nora's hunt replaces eggs with brightly colored stones, and lets her neighbors walk with her to do their hunting.



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



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



But many Americans are still finding ways to have holiday fun, from an Oregon candymaker making chocolate bunnies with face masks to a Texas church organising an egg hunt in virtual reality using the video game Minecraft.



Content of the article Nora and her mom began organizing their hunt in Medford Lakes a few weeks ago. She put together a number of DIY kits, each containing five rocks as well as four paint colors, directions, and all wrapped in plastic bags. Of course, she was wearing disposable gloves and spraying the contents with disinfectant.



The kits were then placed outside her home to be picked up by those who wish to participate. The young artist, Nora's rocks, requested her friends return the rocks she 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.



Samantha Heddendorf, Samantha's mother and the president of an environmental cleanup company that has been cleaning up buildings that have been affected by the coronavirus epidemic She said that the hunt will begin on Good Friday and run until Easter Sunday, with new batches of painted rocks being hidden every day.



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



"When people are doing their walks with friends, they can look for rocks - or so-called Easter Eggs. Samantha Heddendorf stated that they can find something to hunt for, take them home, and have at least smiles to celebrate Easter.



Central Point chocolatier Jeff Shepherd created a plan to keep his Lillie Belle Farms in Oregon from being shut down by coronavirus. He informed his Facebook followers that he'd make "Covid Bunnies" - milk and dark chocolate confections with white face masks and white chocolate ones with 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 now scrambling to fill back orders.



Article content Safe distancing to thwart the spread of viruses is what convinced the Tate Springs Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, to go digital with its Easter Egg hunt, using Minecraft but removing potentially frightening game elements like monsters.
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"Our primary goal is to spread the gospel, but we want children to still have fun at Easter," said Reverend Curtis James.



Back in New Jersey, Nora was delighted that her idea had been warmly embraced by a wide range of people, including the town's mayor who stopped by to see her fill the kits, and the local Lions Club inviting her for lunch "when the whole thing is over."



Her favorite "thank you" was wrapped in gift-wrapped rolls toilet paper one of the essentials such as eggs being taken in by panic buyers 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)


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