Easter Day plans and traditions

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What does everyone do for Easter each year? Church? Decorations? Easter baskets? Egg hunt? Is the hunt for fun/ for prizes? Special dinner? Trips? Just looking for inspiration really! I’m especially curious to know if others encourage their DC to believe in the Easter bunny and if so, how? I’ve recently seen plates for sale that are designed for leaving out carrots for the EB which surprised me!

Usually we have dippy eggs and soldiers for breakfast. We give the kids a small Easter basket from us (not from the Easter bunny) with some chocolate in and there’s an egg hunt round the garden, no prizes. Light lunch and then off to the local petting farm to feed the animals.

What do others do?

I do a treasure hunt around the house to lead to an Easter egg and some other small bits. Then we do a separate egg hunt in the garden.

We generally have an Easter party for the village which includes some crafts and another egg hunt.

Your traditions sound lovely, we do an egg hunt in the garden with one proper Easter egg for each child (the little eggs are just colourful plastic ones)

I don't really push the Easter Bunny thing but they do an egg hunt at school and at the end the bunny turns up so they do believe in him so we sort of just go along with it.

We'll usually go to church and then either get together with family for a roast at home or all go out somewhere together. In the lead up to Easter weekend we'll make some Easter type treats like chocolate nests with mini eggs etc.

I do love decorating and have had some lovely bits for a few years now, a carrot garland 🤣🤣, an Easter wreath for the door, some other little ornament type things, mostly bunny related.

Looking forward to hearing about other people's traditions.

We're normally at my dad's. DS and DN get their Easter eggs, we have a walk to the beach, a roast, then an Easter egg hunt.

I'd like to do some baking with them this year.

I remember blowing and decorating eggs with friends as a child.

My dds knownthe easter bunny isn't real (or atleast my 4yo does, 18m has no idea what's going on haha)

We're farmers and busy with lambing then but I do an easter egg hunt in the garden, we usually have loads of daffodils out then and the kids usually pick some for the table

I make a big lamb dinner and at some point over the weekend we'll do some easter baking and decorate some hard boiled eggs but depends when we can fit that in around sheep

Kids are older now, but alwyas an easter egg hunt in the graden. Colouring and rolling real eggs, lots of chocolate.
No church or anything religious, gruesome stuff is not welcome at such a lovely time.
Hot cross buns, easter tree, baking, and family over for lunch.

Easter egg hunt, Easter tree and a few other decorations, hot cross buns, visit family. No roast lamb as the DCs don't like it. No Easter Bunny.

We do very little. Didn't realise Easter was such a big thing. When my eldest was younger i would do a small egg hunt around the house for them but that's about it.

Church, lots of church (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil on Saturday and Easter Sunday)

Nice lunch, probably a roast, see family, maybe small egg hunt in the garden, eat chocolate and drink coffee as will have given both up for Lent!

Easter tree? Is it like a Christmas tree with Easter decorations on it?

We go to my mums for a roast and an Easter egg hunt.

The kids get a small egg, a medium egg and a large egg.

I see some people on fb laying out presents like Christmas. I refuse to do it because my two get loads during the year anyway. I'm not making Easter another expense.

Our Easter tree is some twigs in a vase which we have out all year round, at Christmas we put tiny baubles on it and at Easter we put tiny painted wooden eggs on it. We also have a string of crocheted Easter eggs (homemade) which gets hung on the fireplace.

Short story: church. Long story: every day from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday if possible.

I use forsythia or lilac branches from my garden. I decorate with wooden eggs and ribbons.
I have a friend from Germany- it's a big thing there they also decorate trees outside at Easter- I saw hers around 20 years ago and have been doing one since.

Only started going back to church last year so will go maundy Thursday to Easter Saturday this year again. Otherwise we get together with the side of the family we didn't see at Christmas for a roast dinner. Egg hunt for the kids and no Easter bunny. We generally get the kids a little gift because they have so much chocolate!

We have some Easter Dec's.
Easter bunny either brings some eggs or treasure hunt.
Some books or new tech games or dressing up dress ...

Posted too soon, lamb lunch.

We normally have a run up to Eater with crafts, making bonnets and different activities. Our Easter Day starts with clues in their bedroom that leads them around the house and garden to find Easter eggs that have been given by family members. They end up with around 20 big eggs each and lots of small eggs/sweets too. They know the Easter bunny isn’t real and that I make the clues up for them. After breakfast they open gifts (these tend to be from family members too and rarely do we add to them). If it’s a children’s service at church we go along to that then home and I cook Roast lamb. We normally have Easter eggs in the house until about September and have been known to have them on Christmas Day too. 🤣

When do you put the decorations up?

I'm going to get some for this year.

Morgan12

It's your Easter- put them up when you want!!