Here’s how to pull off the perfect Easter Bunny delivery to keep the magic and mystery alive for your kids for another year.

It’s not easy being the Easter Bunny. Every year parents around the world get up early, hide chocolate eggs and try and recreate the magic of Easter for their children. But it’s not fool-proof. Many parents make classic mistakes that leave clues for the kids to easily figure out that the Easter Bunny is not real. Avoid these amateur mistakes with our fool-proof guide.

Here are 8 simple steps to being the perfect Easter Bunny. Follow each one and you can’t go wrong:

1. Draw Easter Bunny feet and cut them out

2. Buy the biggest container of talcum powder you can find

3. Create Easter Bunny footprints from street to house

4. Create footprints all the way to the front door

5. Hide chocolate eggs everywhere you can think off, but not too well

6. Prepare elaborate lies to explain why the Easter Bunny is real

7. Make sure not to buy the Easter eggs from the Easter bunny in front of the kids

8. Only allow the kids to eat one Easter egg for breakfast