What's the connection between the Easter bunny and Easter eggs? I've never understood that. So I went searching on the web.
It says that "rabbits are said to be a symbol of fruitfulness and fertility." Duh. That's an understatement. I guess if you look at it that way, there would be a connection between rabbits and eggs, which are "considered a symbol of rebirth." Pretty much, if you're going to reproduce nearly anything, you have to have an egg of some kind.
As far as the rabbit actually laying the eggs, it says "It is believed that the idea of an egg-laying rabbit came to America in the 1700's through immigrants from Germany." That really seems like a stretch, but here's the explanation. See if you can follow the logic:
The German and Amish legends were most likely rooted in European folklore about hares' eggs which seems to have been a confusion between hares raising their young at ground level and the finding of plovers' nests nearby, abandoned by the adult birds to distract predators. Hares use a hollow called a form rather than a burrow. Lapwings nest on the same sort of ground, and their nests look very similar to hare forms. So in the Spring, eggs would be found in what looked like hare forms, giving rise to the belief that the hare laid eggs in the spring.
And just for your further pondering pleasure, why is the Easter bunny almost always white?