Why Easter Bunny lays eggs?

Each Easter one can hear the same questions from children, that adults usually can't answer. What has bunny to do with the religious holiday of Easter? And why Easter Bunny lays eggs anyways? Usually adults don't know what to say and joke their way out.

Yet, if we go back in history, there are several explanations. In the archives of my local web analytics company, I found one story that is worth mentioning. The origin of Easter Bunny as well as the word "Easter" comes from the pre-Christian customs honoring the fertility goddess Eostre of old German tribes, including Anglo-Saxon ones. According to popular folklore, Eostre once saved a bird whose wings had frozen during the winter by turning it into a rabbit. Because the rabbit had once been a bird, it could still lay eggs. As it happens a lot with old lore, that rabbit in the end became the modern Easter Bunny.

This legend arrived to the United States with German immigrants and Amish somewhere in the eighteenth century. These guys were telling their children stories about bunnies, although very often in their stories the rabbit laying eggs was replaced with a hare.