Shop Easter statues in our Holiday Collection. the fact that
Easter is possibly the most religious holiday in the Christian
world, the Easter Bunny actually garners a lot of attention on
this holiday. As such, Easter decorations featuring bunnies and
rabbits have become very popular. Interestingly, many aspects of
the Easter celebration actually find their origin in ancient
pagan festival of Eastre. The ancient Saxons celebrated the
return of spring by honoring, Eastre, the goddess of fertility
whose earth symbal was the bunny rabbit. When Christian
missionaries were converting these pagans, they realized the
need to integrate their holiday into the Christian calendar and,
consequently, integrated the Eastre celebration with the
Christian observance of the resurrection of Christ. The first
recorded history of the Easter Bunny is credited to the Germans
in about 1500 and they are also responsible for the first edible
Easter bunnies. However, it was the Pennsylvania Dutch that
popularized the Easter bunny in Am