Short version:
Easter eggs come from the fact that chickens lay eggs over Lent, but Catholics don't (or at least didn't) eat them until Lent ended…on Easter…when they would have a ton of eggs just laying around.
The Easter bunny has various origin theories, with the most likely one being that hares come out of their holes in spring…around Easter.
Bonus round:
Easter is called Pascha or some variation thereof in every European language except English, so there's no way the word came from 'Ishtar,' a Babylonian goddess whose worship died out centuries before Christ was born (some people are really retarded). Easter is named after Eostre-monath, monath being old English for 'month,' Eostre-monath being the month Easter was in. Eostre being a goddess is nothing but a guess made by a monk in the 9th(?) century.
Also, Halloween isn't pagan. Pretty much everything people peg on the pagans is from medieval Catholicism (except Jack-o-Lanterns).
Most of the idiocy of Christian holidays being pagan comes from anti-Catholic pamphlet written by an American Protestant in 19th century America (as an American Protestant, I disavow) in an effort to have the Catholic calendar purged.
Is the Easter Bunny pagan?
Hunter Wilson
Gavin Nelson
That’s actually interesting, I knew about the eggs but not the bunny stuff