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

New York - Easter is a holiday that is special for Nora Heddendorf, 6 years old. It's a time when she's a sucker for dressing dressed in a fancy dress and shiny shoes and have fun with family and friends searching for eggs that are brightly colored.
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This year the coronavirus pandemic has forced her to change. She'll be wearing her Easter outfit with a white paper mask along with blue disposable gloves and a bottle of disinfectant wipes. And when she heard that her New Jersey town's annual egg hunt might be cancelled, she came up with the idea of a "rock hunt."



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



Content of the article "I was sad it was cancelled due to the virus," the child 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 elimination 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 enjoy the holidays, from an Oregon candymaker making chocolate bunnies that wear masks to a Texas church hosting an egg hunt that is virtual using the video game Minecraft.



Article content Nora and her mom began organizing their hunt in Medford Lakes a few weeks ago. She assembled dozens DIY kits, each with five rocks and four paint colors, and instructions, and all wrapped in plastic bags. Of course, she was wearing disposable gloves and applied disinfectant to the materials.



Then, she left the kits outside her home for pick-up by people who want to take part. On her Facebook page, called Nora's Rocks the young artist appealed to her community to return decorated rocks to her for her to hide.



"Thank you for helping Nora's Rocks bring our town together but also keep us apart," said the instruction letter she included in the kits.



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



"When people are out on their social distancing walks, they might be looking for rocks - or so-called Easter Eggs. Samantha Heddendorf stated that they are able to find something to hunt for, pick them up, 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 coronavirus. He informed his Facebook followers that he would make "Covid Bunnies", which are milk and dark chocolate chocolates with blue faces, and white chocolate ones without blue faces masks.



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



Article content Safe distancing to stop spread of the virus is what prompted the Tate Springs Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, to move to digital for its Easter Egg hunt, using Minecraft but removing potentially frightening game elements such as monsters.



Reverend Curtis James stated, "Our main goal in life is to spread the gospel. But we want the children to have fun celebrating Easter."



Nora was delighted to discover that her idea was well-received in New Jersey. The mayor stopped by to see her pack the kits and the Lions Club invited her to lunch "when the entire thing is done."



Her most cherished "thanks" was gift-wrapped roll of toilet paper. This was one of the mainstays 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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