That is really, really cute! And how awesome would a yard look with so many of those pops stuck in it. Hmm. Think I'll be doing this!

LOVE this idea. We currently have a square metre or so of unused veggie patch and I predict swirly lollipops sprouting all over it!

So sweet! I wish my kids were still little *sigh

cute - but whatever does it have to do with Easter?

I am not a practicing christian, but I find this a bit ridiculous as an Easter activity - it's just lollies, even if they grow - couldnt this be a first day of spring or may day activity instead?

@Missheliotrope - Easter was traditionally associated with fertility and growth, so it is totally appropriate, as well as fun and imaginative. Pagan Eostre predates Christian Easter by centuries (in fact, Christians adopted both Easter and Christmas for their own holidays, utilizing the dates and in some fashion modifying their own stories to fit those dates). This is a perfectly cute way to celebrate the ancient holiday of spring!!

@Kiera: Thanks for the info. Very interesting! :)

I'm so doing this!

What fun! I might even plant a couple of chocolate buttons to grow something chocolatey for the adults.

Our kids are going to plant their jelly beans everyday when they see the results of this one.

Why would you want to teach your children that lollipops grow from jelly beans? Go and grow some wheat grass instead, don't raise your children on a cute joke (and there a lot of those here on the AT Family channel).

@susannemuc: I will keep on raising my children on 'cute jokes' such as this one, Santa Claus, fairies and the likes.
It doesn't mean my 4-year old doesn't know about Darwin, how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, a seed becomes a plant and the actual facts of life... sheesh...

I love this . This kind of "magic" creates fond memories. There is nothing wrong with pretend, fanatiscal stories, the Easter Bunny, and big dreams. Childhood is too big and too fleeting to be bounded by reality.

Why would you want to teach your children that lollipops grow from jelly beans?

Thinking like that is exactly why parents like US create magic for our children. Do you even have children, Susanne?!!!

I shudder to imagine your magicless childhood.

This is such an adorable idea! I am so doing this when I have children some day. :-)

I don't disagree with SusanneMuc. It can be awful to realize one day what you believed was true is just a game. For example my mother hated that people lied to her about Santa. It was not a good experience for her as a child. It's not the case with everyone, but I have heard similar experiences. A parent can introduce the possibilities of magic through stories, art and play pretend. A magical experience can be grounded in reality. Also, I wouldn't mind this game if my kids realizes it's pretend either during or soon after. It's fun to pretend, but I wouldn't want my children to live with a lie. Adults do it for amusement as well as children. It doesn't mean a person's childhood has to have no "magic" if their parents didn't lie to them about santa and other things. You can raise your children how you want, but It's not right to assume Susanne's childhood was "magic-less" or suggest that she'd be a bad parent.

But dont call it Easter (or Christmas) - call it being a pedantic pagan or summat.

I do actually know, as most people should, that stuff about christian cooption of some pagan festivals. & thats why there are rabbits all over easter. I am saying, however, that calling it Easter, with its now widely accepted christian overtones, and then saying heres even more sugar, seems odd. Growing plants is a miracle. Getting lollies from the Easter bunny is part of Easter, mixing the two is what you're complaining the early christians did, and seems less magic than either.

who cares if you use the day to think about jesus raising from the dead after 3 days. make it whatever works for you and your family. i'd be just fine if there was more imaginative family days and less structured religion in this world.

This is a great Idea and I don’t even have kids!

To the insanely boring people why don’t you live a little and have some fun with your kids. Yes they probably will believe what you tell them at such a young age but imagine the excitement they have when they see the lollipops. It won’t take them long to grow up and realise/forget. It’s not like one day your son will invest $250,000 into a lollipop farm and then discover the truth behind all the lies. I can see the headlines now "lollIpop gate"

Now if you don’t mind I’m off to go buy me some magic beans!

I think this is so cute. I work in a Catholic school and even though we do all the religious stuff at Easter we also do the fun holiday stuff. We make baskets to leave out for the Easter bunny and while we are at our Easter liturgy watching the stations of the cross enacted, a parent will come into the classrooms and put talcum powder bunny prints everywhere and leave eggs. You should see the kids scream when they see it! They go crazy - even the big ones who know it isn't real. Life's a celebration - enjoy it all!!

Just wanted to mention that I did this last year after I saw this post and WOW, did my three year old love it!! It was so fun to plant the beans and go look at them in the morning. He got a huge kick out of it. We're doing it again this year for sure.

I had bought a big swirly lollipop but my husband dropped it, luckily we had a few of those smaller ball shaped ones in several colors so we used those instead. It turned out looking like a little lolipop forest, it was really awesome.