What are your Easter traditions?

[Lzybonessah]

Egg hunt on Sunday morning or pm?
Do your kids see you hide them? (I.e - know you put them there and not a bunny).

I'm big into making Christmas special for my children but don't really do much around Easter or try and hide the fact I've bought all the chocolate eggs. Interested to hear what others do.

Back in the day I used to hide the eggs around the house and leave ‘cryptic’ clues saying where the next egg was.

We hid the eggs, bunnies and other bits everywhere either in the garden or the house and DD searched with an empty basket.

I am German and in my childhood the large eggs were for adults, filled with praline, children got other chocolate so we never got into the habit of buying large eggs. DD got them sometimes from friends, her childminder or at activities but she was allowed to eat them when she got them.

DD also got a small gift, £10ish.

Wrapped lindt type Eggs hidden around the garden by the Easter bunny, big eggs form part of the hunt too. Roast for lunch. That's it really!

Buy reduced easter eggs a few days later and go into a chocolate induced coma.

We go egg rolling.

I live on my own and still make pace eggs every Easter. I use onion skins - red and brown and put flowers in to make more of a pattern.

We have an Easter tree that the kids love decorating. Put it up a week or so before Easter. Have collected some lovely Easter decorations over the years.

We have a big roast with family and also an egg hunt. Kids find little plastic eggs filled with sweets and small eggs. They aren't bothered about the big eggs but very excited about finding the little plastic eggs (have had those years too!).

I go to church, on Maundy Thursday and Easter Sunday, at least. Would not miss it.

Easter Bunny hides papier mache and tin eggs filled with different kinds of mini eggs all over the house and leaves cryptic clues for the DC to decipher. DC hide small eggs (eg creme eggs) in the garden for the adults to hunt for. I bake a simnel cake and we have a roast for lunch. We do all of this on Easter Sunday. DC absolutely love it!

Church, back to my parents for an egg hunt and roast.

Many years ago I held an Easter egg hunt for some local children in my garden. We're surrounded by farmland and the field behind is full of lambs. The kids were hunting in the long grass at the bottom of the garden, when a little girl marched up to her mother (whom I was chatting to) and said, "Mammy, what is this??" We both froze on horror at the realisation that she was holding a severed lambs head. It must have been deposited by a fox or a crow into our garden.

Ten years later and our Easter tradition is an Easter egg hunt, with a special prize for whoever finds the toy lambs head in the grass.

When kids were small we would take them to a national trust place for an egg hunt or when a bit older set up a treasure hunt with clues, now they are adults, so Easter is a chocolate egg and dinner

My Gran used to make us pace eggs but I never learned how she got the flower pattern on them. I can’t see anything on Google on how to do it, do you put a flower on before the onion skin?

I never buy Easter eggs for my kids, I do buy for my friend's and neighbours kids. My kids do receive lots of Easter chocolate from family and friends. I don't like have Easter eggs leftovers in December like now we still have boxes of chocolate and biscuits from Christmas .
I love decorating Easter eggs with my daughter and of course going to church.

I don’t. I buy my children a few eggs and let them scoff the lot. I used to do an egg hunt but they’re teens now. I cook a roast. When I was little we’d always go on holiday with my grandparents and my gran would cook a huge roast.

2 adults and a daft dog here, no young children at home now, so we have some sort of fish on Good Friday, usually fish fingers, then a lamb roast with all the usual sides, and share an Easter Egg in the afternoon/evening. Pretty much the same as I did as a child. Always enjoy Easter weekend as it feels like the true start of Spring!🌼

Planning a freshly baked continental breakfast

We will have a little easter egg hunt for the DC after that and then we’ve booked Sunday lunch at our fave pub.

Really really looking forward to it.

For a few years I made Easter aprons for DD, ranging from a basic cross-back painting apron all the way to a broderie anglaise bibbed pinafore which she wore in the school play as Mary Poppins. I mostly used quilting cotton which is colourful and easy to sew.
We used to bake on Thursdays so it was Monday Tuesday Wednesday Bunday and I’ve kept the one I made with “Bunday” in cross stitch across the pocket.
Nice memories.
Japanese aprons are a thing nowadays.

I do it with primrose flowers held against the shell with onion skins wrapped in newspaper and toed up. Boil as normal, then carefully take all the wrappings off, and you have an egg died by the skins with the imprint of the flower on it.

Tied up- no toes are used at any time 😅

My spelling has totally gone out of the window tonight - dyed not died!!

Thank you so much for your reply. I hope your toes are healthy and don’t die 😂

decorate eggs - we've used lots of different methods from dying & crayon resist to tissues to just drawing with wax crayons when they eggs are still hot

we used to roll eggs which everyone loved but I feel too guilty of the food waste now (although the foxes in the woods must be sad😂) so we're looking for another method - one friend does papier mache eggs & filledwith chocolates so you throw to get the chocolate out but that only really works in a garden.

Big treasure hunt for eggs & (far more importantly) a new book - it's evolved over the years to keep the teens happy so is escape room type challenges

a lovely big walk ( used to fit in with the egg rolling)

Holy Week meditations, lead the all age reflective service on Good Friday (this wasn't a tradition when DC were small, but as I now work for our church and enjoy the challenge of an all age reflective service it has become so!) Hot cross buns on Good Friday, home made if I have the energy and inclination. Lots of baking over the weekend including spiced biscuits, simnel cake and fairy cakes with nests piped on the top and choc eggs to decorate. Don't do egg hunts any more as the DC are adults, but they do get an egg and some extra chocolate. Church on Easter Sunday, decorate the Easter tree (twigs from the garden with handsewn felt eggs and bought ones, and handmade Easter bunting). Big roast dinner, lamb and all the trimmings, having invited students and young adults from church who are not going home for Easter to join us. Probably a board game or 2 in the afternoon, and definitely red wine.

They get an Easter egg, a chocolate bunny a book and maybe a seasonal gift like sunhat/skipping rope and a craft type gift laid out on the dining table. Then an egg hunt (the mini foil ones in the garden with neighbours, one parent distracts the kids while the other hides, not that I think anyone actually believes in the Easter bunny. Then we make Easter nests or rice Krispy cakes with the egg hunt chocolate, and we plant some seeds too. Usually have a lamb roast at home or a grandparents. Don't do anything traditional on any of the other bank holidays.