Easter Isn’t Complete Without this Strawberry Freakshake Recipe

Choceur Easter Caramel Filled Mini Chocolate Bunnies

These decadent lil' bunny chocolates from Germany are filled with caramel for extra Easter indulgence. Whether you break up the $3.39 box across several baskets or use the whole thing to fill your home's candy dish, you simply need to have a taste!

Our Specialty Double Layer Carrot Cake

No baked good screams 'Easter' like a carrot cake does! Aldi's bakery is more than ready to sweeten up your celebrations this year with this stacked dessert topped with the most adorable carrot motif.

Create-A-Treat Easter Colorful Eggs Decorate Cookie Kit

This is the perfect Aldi Easter item to snag to get your fix of family fun this season. Complete with 8 nut-free cookies, some candies for decorating, and a few bags of easy-to-use icing in the coolest spring colors, you can get real creative then have a personalized sweet treat to chow down on!

Moser Roth Easter Chocolate Truffle Eggs

This is not your ordinary dozen of eggs – these truffles that span stunning flavors like strawberry rhubarb, raspberry cream, lemon mousse, chocolate mousse, and sea salt caramel make a very bougie Easter dessert for just $4! Each one is decorated differently, so they'll look great once you spread 'em out on a themed charcuterie board or dessert plate.

Southern Grove Easter Springtime Trail Mix

This super-sweet trail mix leans into the Easter spirit with plenty of chocolate pieces and salty components. It boasts a nice and balanced flavor profile that you can totally enjoy leading up to Easter Sunday yourself or simply sprinkle into your loved ones' Easter baskets!

Emporium Selection Raspberry & White Chocolate Wensleydale Cheese

We've never been more convinced to try a 'sweet' cheese before, but this egg-shaped one from Aldi looks pretty dang good. According to the grocer, it's infused with raspberries and white chocolate for a "burst of sweetness in every bite." They recommend eating it with crackers, cured meats, and dried fruits, so it'd be a stunning Easter basket stuffer for the charcuterie fanatic in your life or a unique addition to your own snacky plans!

Clancy's Carrot Cake Flavored Kettle Corn

Kettle corn is already so freakin' yummy, but when you work in a carrot cake flavor, it gets even better. Plus, it's undeniably seasonal for Eastertime – any snack lover will definitely go nuts for this Aldi find (us included)!

Annie's Springtime Yummy Bunnies & Cheddar Pasta

Mac and cheese can totally be an Easter treat, and this $1.44 box proves it! Souped up with 4 fun themed pasta shapes and a flavorful cheese sauce made without artificial flavors and colors, the whole fam will enjoy eating this for lunch or dinner as we approach Easter Sunday.

Merci Easter European Chocolates

Filled with the "finest assortment" of European chocolates, this Easter-themed box of goodies contains 20 chocolatey, snackable sticks fixed with 8 standout flavors, like hazelnut almond and marzipan. We recommend handing out a few of 'em per each Easter basket you're putting together so everyone gets a taste!

Baker's Corner Carrot Cake Pancake Mix

Easter brunch is calling! Now you can have a fancy feast right at home (and for way less $ than your average brunch spot) with this $4carrot cake-flavored pancake mix. We're drooling already! This would make an epic Easter basket stuffer alongside a cute Easter-themed spatula set and a bottle of maple syrup.

1. "ABCs" Egg Hunt

First, if you have younger ones, you can turn your Easter egg hunt into a learning experience with an added playful challenge. All you have to do is hide 26 eggs, each of which is labeled with a different letter.

Then, give your kiddo a checklist to mark off each letter as they find it. Not only will this activity help you actually remember how many eggs you hide this year, but it'll reinforce letter recognition in a fun, hands-on way. As an extra bonus, you can even tuck a small prize inside the eggs to match their corresponding letters!

2. Color-Coded Egg Hunt

Now, if you have multiple children who battle to find all the Easter eggs each year, then you know that things can get chaotic and tense. To say goodbye to sibling squabbles, simply assign each kid a specific egg color and matching basket.

If you have two sons, for instance, hide 20 green eggs and 20 blue eggs. They'll know exactly which eggs to search for, and everything will be kept fair since they'll each get to find the same number.

3. Glow In The Dark Hunt

There's obviously more to Easter than just the fun of egg-hunting. Nonetheless, for kids, it's often the most looked-forward-to portion of the day, and once it's over, it can be hard to keep them entertained or invested in the celebration.

But with a glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt, you can delay that! Just wait until the sun goes down to host a nighttime version of the tradition with the help of glow-in-the-dark paint or glow sticks inside plastic eggs. Your children will be looking forward to it all day (and probably stay on their best behavior as they wait to participate).

4. Advent Calendar Hunt

To extend the Easter fun even further, remember that you don't have to limit the festivities to just one day. Instead, spread the joy out with an Easter-themed countdown hunt!

Every day during the week leading up to Easter, hide one egg or goody bag that's filled with treats or tiny surprises. It will build anticipation in an adorable way that gets your kiddos super excited.

5. Traditional Egg Hunt: Simon Says Edition

Growing up, your family might've always put little chocolates or coins inside your Easter eggs. To infuse the tradition with some more action, consider including "Simon Says" and call it "Easter Bunny Says!"

Just place a piece of paper inside each egg that contains a fun instruction, such as "hop like a bunny" or "spin in a circle three times." It's a great way to keep the giggles going and expel some extra energy before the sugar craze hits.

6. Scavenger Hunt

For older kids (or even adults), take your Easter egg hunt up a notch by turning it into a scavenger hunt. Depending on where you're planning the hunt, like inside your home or in the backyard, come up with clues and riddles that correspond with hiding spots in that location.

It adds a puzzle-solving element that can be adapted for tweens, teens, and, again, the older folks who still want to get in on the fun.

7. Reward Hunt

Another smart idea to sweeten the whole deal is turning your Easter egg hunt into a mini reward system. Alongside the typical candy, tuck in notes that offer fun perks, like extra bedtime stories, a chore pass, or even a screen time coupon.

8. Easter Egg & Balloon Hunt

Finally, if you have a baby or toddler who isn't quite ready to participate in the conventional Easter egg hunt, all you have to do is incorporate some balloons to make the activity easier.

First, fill up some helium balloons and tie a chocolate egg to the bottom of each string. Then, you can let them bop around your home or backyard, serving as straightforward markers for your little ones to spot. Not to mention, what kid doesn't love a balloon?!

Does Joel die in episode 2?

Joel Miller (played by Pedro Pascal in the hit HBO show) dies in The Last of Us season 2, episode 2. "People are going to be upset. That's sometimes how good drama goes," executive producer Craig Mazin tellsUSA Today. "This was something that was always meant to happen. So much of the first season was, in a weird way, leading to this moment. And it's upsetting."

The horrifying moment comes after a blizzard — and some infected — put Abby, Joel, and Dina (Isabela Merced) on a collision course. After they rescue her from the aforementioned infected, Abby brings the two Jackson residents back to the lodge in the mountains where her group is hiding. Meanwhile Jackson, dealing with its own infected attack, burns in the distance.

Joel's anxious to return to town, but he's got bigger problems: Abby recognizes him as the man who killed her father (and wiped out the Firefly hospital) and, after putting Dina to sleep, Abby takes out five years' worth of anger and devastation on him with a golf club. Yeah. None of us can believe it either.

"that shattered me. forever ruined," one X user said, while another added, "the fact that Joel saw another kid in danger and didn't doubt in saving her.... dooming himself" with an Interstellar scene of Matthew McConaughey sobbing. Relatable.

But even more horrifying is when Ellie finds the lodge and bursts into the room. When she begs Joel to get up, there's a moment when you can see a beaten Joel start to lift himself up from the ground before Abby uses the now-broken golf club to kill him. I hope Ellie holds onto this moment and knows Joel was willing and able to do whatever it took to keep her safe!! I will scream about them forever!!

As Abby's group leaves, Ellie swears she'll kill them, and "you can't help but believe it is absolutely true," Craig says. There's a truly devastating shot of Ellie lying over Joel's body in the empty room that parallels her nursing him back to health at the end of season 1, episode 7 and I don't know if I'll ever get over it.

Why was Joel killed off?

In addition to being literal retribution for the death of Abby's father, Joel's death is a catalyst for Ellie's journey throughout the rest of the season as she grapples with revenge, grief, and anger. "Loss is kind of how this story functions, so this was largely preordained," Craig continues.

And yes, Pedro was aware of this devastating scene when he signed up for the life-changing role. "When I talked to Pedro the first time, I said, 'This is how this will go,'" Craig says. "I wanted him to know that we're not going to do this for seven seasons with you in that spot. We're going to do a season, and if it goes well and there's a second season, this will happen."

What happens to Ellie after Joel dies?

The trailer for the rest of The Last of Us season 2 shows that Ellie and Dina aren't giving up until they enact their own revenge on Abby and her group. The two women are headed for Seattle and they're up against infected, the militia, and everything else this post-apocalyptic world has to throw at them.

But even though Joel's gone for good, Pedro isn't. We're in for plenty of flashbacks that fill in those five years between seasons 1 and 2!

Tune into new episodes of The Last of Us season 2 on HBO and Max Sundays at 9 PM ET to see what happens next.