You can get him made out of chocolate or fluffy. Surrounding holidays or feasts, there are many symbols that represent the meaning of celebration.
Crosses represent death and torture.
Eggs and bunnies represent spring and potential life. History has jumbled pre-Christian and Christian practices and mixed them into tradition. The word Easter is derived from the word astre, the Anglo-Saxon name of a Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility. Her festival was celebrated on the vernal equinox. Traditions associated with the festival survive in the modern Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored eggs which were originally painted bright colors to represent bright colors of the sunlight and spring.