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Family Easter traditions

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Piper22 · 04/04/2022 19:18

Hi all,

Could I please be cheeky and ask you all for your family Easter traditions? However big or small. I’m looking for inspiration!

Thanks Flowers Smile

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Furrbabymama87 · 04/04/2022 19:24

I always find Easter a really boring day. We don't do much apart from cooking a roast dinner ( lamb) and the kids gorging on chocolate.

Whatwouldnanado · 04/04/2022 19:27

I love Easter, it's like Christmas but more relaxed! Roast lamb and pavlova lunch or tea on Easter Sunday, latter usually involving egg butties, salads, quiche etc and chocolate marble cake made in a ring decorated with too much ganache and chocolate flake to look like a nest, little chocolate eggs in the middle. I decorate the house with daffodils and sprigs of Forsythia from the garden and do branch as an Easter tree hung with my collection of decorated eggs. We do clues for an egg hunt for the kids. Dh is great at blowing eggs so we sometimes do egg painting too.

PollyPutTheKettleOnKettleOn · 04/04/2022 19:28

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upinaballoon · 04/04/2022 19:33

Eating hot cross buns on Good Friday, not every day since Boxing Day, which is when the supermarkets wheel them out.

Pinchofnom · 04/04/2022 19:35

We tend to put on an Easter egg hunt for the DC and their friends on the Saturday.

Sunday we’ll have a decent breakfast - eggs Benedict, homemade granola, croissants etc.

Then we go for a long bike ride/hike and we have a late lunch usually with all of the trimmings and I’ll make a homemade cake and/or trifle with the help of the DC.

Then we tend to do crafts in the evenings or play board games.

Our Easter is all about the food ha!

Boscoforever · 04/04/2022 19:38

We do an Easter egg hunt in the garden. The kids are far too old for it, but it's a tradition now. Much to my teenager's disgust, they have to wear fluffy bunny ears and carry a small easter basket if they want the chocolate. The things they will do for a Lindt bunny Grin!

LouLou198 · 04/04/2022 19:38

I like Easter better than Christmas! No expectations to buy loads of gifts or visit distant relatives you only see once a year!
We tend to have a chippy tea on Good Friday. Saturday I will make Easter nest cakes with dc. Sunday is roast lamb and egg hunt for dc. After Sunday lunch we will watch a film ( usually Peter rabbit or Hop).
Monday mostly spent eating chocolate!

merryhouse · 04/04/2022 19:42

as a child: hot cross buns for breakfast on Good Friday. Now: hot cross buns mid-morning on Good Friday (nobody wants to get up early to make them)

as a child: an Easter Garden somewhere - between A4 and A3 size, essential ingredients three little mounds with crosses on and some form of cave-like structure with a stone in front, preferably covered with something green, and whatever flowers and pretty stones could be foraged

now: singing at two Hour At The Cross services (one in each church in the Benefice). Quick lunch and more hot cross buns between.

fish and chips for dinner on Good Friday

home-moulded Easter Eggs - when the boys were little they would help with making the ones for Daddy, grandparents and primary auntie

croissants and smoked salmon for Easter Sunday breakfast

as a child we donated one of our Easter Eggs at the Sunday service, but that doesn't happen any more because donations are all organised beforehand (imagine the hassle of sorting them all on the day!)

roast lamb for Easter Sunday dinner

sometimes a Simnel cake

Easterisoffeggstooexpensive · 04/04/2022 19:44

Fish in parsley sauce usually on Good Friday but having it this Sunday due to dc's work schedules.. Easter Sunday will be a big afternoon tea spread... Hopefully in the garden weather permitting!

Sleepdeprived921 · 04/04/2022 19:45

Thank you for starting this! Following for inspiration! Star

Easterisoffeggstooexpensive · 04/04/2022 19:47

Oh and I intend to buy the most cute ddog Easter bunny outfits for 2 of my ddogs!!
Grin

nutellingyou · 04/04/2022 20:08

We make a huge batch of hot cross buns to take to the Grandparents and then do an egg hunt there, though mine are getting a bit old for it now.
I usually put up a few pretty eggs hanging on my twiggy branches a few days before.
We also go for a beach day at some point during the Easter holidays.

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Piper22 · 04/04/2022 20:45

@Whatwouldnanado

I love Easter, it's like Christmas but more relaxed! Roast lamb and pavlova lunch or tea on Easter Sunday, latter usually involving egg butties, salads, quiche etc and chocolate marble cake made in a ring decorated with too much ganache and chocolate flake to look like a nest, little chocolate eggs in the middle. I decorate the house with daffodils and sprigs of Forsythia from the garden and do branch as an Easter tree hung with my collection of decorated eggs. We do clues for an egg hunt for the kids. Dh is great at blowing eggs so we sometimes do egg painting too.
@Whatwouldnanado this all just sounds delightful
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Piper22 · 04/04/2022 20:46

@Pinchofnom

We tend to put on an Easter egg hunt for the DC and their friends on the Saturday.

Sunday we’ll have a decent breakfast - eggs Benedict, homemade granola, croissants etc.

Then we go for a long bike ride/hike and we have a late lunch usually with all of the trimmings and I’ll make a homemade cake and/or trifle with the help of the DC.

Then we tend to do crafts in the evenings or play board games.

Our Easter is all about the food ha!

@Pinchofnom sounds so lovely
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Piper22 · 04/04/2022 20:47

@Boscoforever

We do an Easter egg hunt in the garden. The kids are far too old for it, but it's a tradition now. Much to my teenager's disgust, they have to wear fluffy bunny ears and carry a small easter basket if they want the chocolate. The things they will do for a Lindt bunny Grin!
@Boscoforever I bet they love it really!
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Piper22 · 04/04/2022 20:48

@LouLou198

I like Easter better than Christmas! No expectations to buy loads of gifts or visit distant relatives you only see once a year! We tend to have a chippy tea on Good Friday. Saturday I will make Easter nest cakes with dc. Sunday is roast lamb and egg hunt for dc. After Sunday lunch we will watch a film ( usually Peter rabbit or Hop). Monday mostly spent eating chocolate!
@LouLou198 sounds so cosy
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Piper22 · 04/04/2022 20:49

Hot cross buns seem to be somewhat of a theme Smile

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 04/04/2022 20:52

We have an egg hunt in the garden with plastic eggs (we lived in the Med for a while and you couldn't hide chocolate there, it would either melt or be covered in ants!). Some have little prizes... stuff like a little soft toy or a book.

reluctantbrit · 04/04/2022 21:14

Saturday we decorate a bunch of twigs with decorated eggs and wodden eggs.

Hot Cross Buns in the afternoon with tea.

Sunday we have an Easter Egg hunt, DD is 14 and very well knows that we hide the eggs but she still runs around the garden looking for chocolate. She gets a. small gift, a book or similar value.

Normally a lamb roast for lunch but we just had one last week so it may be a chicken instead.

More cake or hot cross buns in the afternoon. If the weather is nice we try and go for a walk.

MargaretThursday · 04/04/2022 21:18

The Easter Egg hunt.

They have one egg each and clues to find it. They vary between having to cooperate and each having an individual one. My favourite was sending them round the estate on their scooters for clues so we got 2 hours of bliss while they found the clues before heading back to find the eggs. They weren't so keen on that one!
I vary the clues between codes, cryptic clues, straight ones and occasionally things like pictures. They may have a theme (such as books they've read) or may be all different.

Last year they all did one trail for each other which worked quite well.

Laiste · 04/04/2022 21:25

I just do a normal roast on the sunday and DD does her crazy clue trail easter egg hunt.

Maybe i should include a few hot cross buns and a bit of choc nest making ...

longtompot · 04/04/2022 21:29

We have a Polish Easter breakfast which is lunch now as no one is ever at the hosts house in time for breakfast. We toast with a shot of some Polish spirit then have boiled eggs which have been coloured with onion skins and lots of Polish sausages and other foods. The eggs are then hidden in the garden by the adults and kids under 18 find them. We will then just hang out, eating & drinking

Thestoppedfan · 04/04/2022 21:29

Where we live it is tradition to go to the local park and roll your Easter eggs down the hill. It’s lovely and the park is always packed with families having fun. I didn’t realise it was unusual until I mentioned it at work (I commute) and everyone looked at me like I had 2 heads.

longtompot · 04/04/2022 21:30

@Thestoppedfan

Where we live it is tradition to go to the local park and roll your Easter eggs down the hill. It’s lovely and the park is always packed with families having fun. I didn’t realise it was unusual until I mentioned it at work (I commute) and everyone looked at me like I had 2 heads.
We used to do that when I was younger. It was great fun
Laiste · 04/04/2022 21:30

@MargaretThursday our clues get more cryptic and the trail gets more elaborate each year too.

I hide 15/20 of the little hollow tesco eggs all over the house/garden and leave a clue to where the next one is with each one. I don't know if it's just me but i have to concentrate REALLY hard to leave all the bits of paper in the right order or the trail wont work Grin