Cartoon Easter Bunny

What a cracking way to celebrate Easter: Couple decorate their front yard with ...

A couple have created a cracking Easter display in their front garden - using more than 30,000 broken EGG SHELLS.

Ron and Betty Manolio, have spent weeks meticulously painting the eggshells and designing their eggs-trodinary display.

The couple, from Lyndhurst, Ohio, have created the Easter display on their front lawn every year since 1957 - featuring a huge eggshell cross, Easter bunny and various other cartoon characters.

Betty, 77, said: 'We love decorating our house for Easter - it brings so much joy to the families who live nearby.

'Our first displays were very small - only using a couple of hundred egg shells - but every year, more and more people come to visit to see what we've done, so we keep having to make it bigger and better.

'Our children loved the displays when they were young, and come home every year to help set them up now.

'We just like doing something that brings so much joy to others - and it keeps us busy now we are retired too.'

The idea came from Ron's mother, who used to paint a dozen egg shells and hang them on a bush in her garden every year.

When Ron and Betty married in 1953, they decided to go one better, and construct a crucifix out of eggs.

The couple now need so many eggshells for their ever-growing display that they have had to call in a local restaurant - which is happy to donate unwanted eggshells.

Betty said: 'Ron and I go along to the restaurant early nearly every morning between Thanksgiving and Easter.

'We remove the eggs, which are used by the restaurant, and keep the shells for ourselves.

'We never throw away the shells after Easter - we carefully pack them away in boxes of 250, sorted by colour, and store them in our basement for next year.

'But as you'd expect, there's often a lot of breakages, and as our displays get bigger and bigger every year, we need lots of new shells every year.

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