Share your favorite thing about Easter for a $25 Fandango gift card!

THANK YOU EVERYONE! We have reached our quota of 100 posts. We are reviewing current submissions to make sure they are qualified. You will be notified via email if you were one of the qualifying participants. Thanks for participating! Even if you are not in the first 100 submissions, you are welcome to continue submitting your posts, and we will share all of them with the team at Universal Pictures.

SocialMoms and Universal Pictures have teamed up to introduce a fun, new blogging program that asks you to share what is your favorite thing about Easter (candy, family time, Easter Egg Hunts, etc). Spring is here! Flowers are beginning to bloom, the weather is starting to get warmer, and the Easter bunny is on his way. What do you teach your children about your favorite traditions of Easter? Do you love visits from the Easter bunny? Does the Easter bunny come to your home with shiny, colorful eggs full of jelly beans set out for an Easter egg hunt? Do you love to dye eggs with the children? Do you like to plan a special Easter lunch with the entire family? Do you love all the Easter candy that comes out this time of year? Do you think the best part of Easter is buying a new Easter bonnet and special holiday dress to celebrate? What is your favorite part of Easter? We’re looking forward to all your creative ideas and posts.

We're looking for quality over speed, so please read on.

Share what is your favorite thing about Easter in a thoughtful, original essay post of at least 400 original words. We want to hear all about your favorite Easter traditions!

How it works:
We are looking for one hundred creative, original and authentic submissions of high quality. Create an original post on your blog, in 400 words or more (using your own words), about what is your favorite thing about Easter. Include a thoughtful introduction, original content within the body of your post, and a conclusion. Check your spelling and grammar. You must also include the disclosure statement that is below in your post and install the campaign widget in the sidebar of your blog. Then follow the rest of the requirements below. We will review every post and select the first 100 qualifying submissions to receive a $25 Fandango gift card!

Highlights from your posts, tweets and tips will be collected and featured on http://hopthemovie.socialmoms.com, and distributed across the web for all to see. The blogging program starts on March 28, 2011 and the submission window closes at 11:59pm PST on April 26, 2011. We will contact the qualifying bloggers on or about May 3, 2011. Full terms and conditions are posted for your review at http://hopthemovie.socialmoms.com/terms

Rewards for Participating:
The first 100 qualifying participants will receive a $25 Fandango gift card! See Terms and Conditions

Requirements:
To participate, we ask that you:

1. Create an original blog post on your blog, in 400 words or more, sharing "what is your favorite thing about Easter?" Please include a thoughtful introduction and conclusion in addition to the main body of your essay. Give it plenty of thought, and include content that your readers would like to hear about and can connect with! Short or poorly written posts will not be accepted. Copying and pasting does not count. Blank posts submitted to create a blog link on the discussion page will be disqualified. Don't copy another blogger's post or ideas. Plagiarism is grounds for immediate disqualification.

2. Participants must include the following disclosure as a footnote of their post:
“I wrote this blog post while participating in the SocialMoms and Hop blogging program, for a gift card worth $25. For more information on how you can participate, click here.” (make sure you link to http://hopthemovie.socialmoms.com/about)

3. Install the campaign widget in the side bar of your blog.
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4. Log on to your Twitter account, www.twitter.com, and send a tweet including a link to your blog post with the hashtag #HOPParty.

5. Return to www.SocialMoms.com and post a comment on this discussion page in the comments section below, including an active link to your blog post and a direct link to your Twitter tweet. (You can click on the date/time link below your tweet to get the direct link to your tweet.)

Eligibility:
No purchase required to participate. You must be a legal resident of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, have a personal blog and be a registered user of the www.socialmoms.com and www.twitter.com websites to participate and at least 18 years of age or older at time of submission. See Terms and Conditions. Please see SocialMoms FAQs for more information on blogging programs.

About Hop:
Blending state of the art animation with live action, Hop is a comedy about E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand), the teenage son of the Easter Bunny. On the eve of taking over the family business, E.B. leaves for Hollywood in pursuit of his dream of becoming a drummer. Once there, he encounters Fred (James Marsden of the X-Men series, Enchanted), recently fired and determined to pull his life together. Feigning injury, E.B. persuades Fred to take him in, and Fred finds himself living with the world’s worst houseguest. Back on Easter Island, the Easter Bunny’s second in command, an oversized chick named Carlos, seizes E.B.’s disappearance as an opportunity to plot a coup. Ultimately, Fred and E.B. are Easter’s only hope and they find themselves returning to Easter Island, locked in an epic battle to save the beloved holiday. The film is helmed by Tim Hill, director of the blockbuster Alvin and the Chipmunks and produced by Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me).

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Permalink Reply by Caren Haug on March 28, 2011 at 11:45am

Here's mine:

Blog: http://livingononeincome.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-favorite-thing-abo...

Twitter, with hashtag: http://twitter.com/PinchingAbe/status/52440111610212352

Word count: yes, greater than 400

Widget: universal permanent widget on right side bar

Disclosure: very bottom

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Summer Flood on March 28, 2011 at 12:01pm

Fun! Thank you!

Here's my post: http://www.amomlessordinary.com/2011/03/these-are-a-few-of-my-favor...

Here's my tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/summerflood/status/52444911605260288

And the widget link doesn't seem to be working?? But I've got the rotating widget installed :)

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Permalink Reply by Emmi L. on March 28, 2011 at 12:05pm

post:http://mommys-freetime.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-i-love-easter.html

all-in-one widget installed

disclosure included

tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/MommysFreeTime/status/52445671508279296

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Permalink Reply by Lori Bolden on March 28, 2011 at 12:25pm

Here's my post, along with disclosure: http://theadventuresofmommyb.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-favorite-thing...

I have tried to install the widget but get an error message but installed the Mars Needs Mom one b/c I think thats the correct one when playing around with the url

My tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/SemiCrunchyMomB/status/52451190377684993