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.

Just me & teen ds

Lie-ins and general relaxing
Having friends over
Cycling on the common
Easter eggs

Then he'll go to his dad's for a week and I'll spring clean. 🤗

When they were young we did the Easter egg hunt, Easter basket with chocolates, a book, and something for outdoors in the hope of better weather. Roast dinner.

We still decorate and have a roast dinner, and if I see something small I think they’d like I put it in a small basket with some Lindt lamb chocolates, or suchlike.

We give the kids Easter eggs. That's it. It's not really a big deal for us (or anyone I know).

I ask everyone not to buy me eggs because I am trying to lose weight.

They still buy me eggs and I eat them all.

I never buy eggs for anyone.

Plastic eggs hidden throughout the house overnight. Dc has always known that we do the hiding, but the eggs still have to be placed overnight because the game is that the Easter bunny hides them while we sleep. It’s just what we did growing up so it’s what we do now, except that we didn’t actually tell dc that the Easter bunny was real.

Non-religious family:

We bring up the Easter books, put a few decorations up 2-3 days before

We dye a whole bunch of eggs as a family the day before

The kids do an egg hunt in our yard (plastic eggs with chocolates/jelly beans etc in them) with their Easter baskets

Family come to us for brunch

Kids eat chocolates -hopefully it will be nice so we can go for a walk

I will likely put on the Easter Parade at some point

That's it really. Mine are 11yrs and 13yrs now and still want to do the same . In the past we did spring crafts before and/or on the day but that has sort of fallen away tbh.

We hide coloured real eggs and mini Lindt rabbits in garden.
Then eat the eggs with homemade hot cross buns for breakfast

We do an Easter egg hunt in the house but it's like hide and seek. The kids (they're 11+16 and still insist we do this) hide in the bathroom whilst DH and I hide lots of small eggs around the house then they seek. The eldest used to get more eggs as she was faster so now one does upstairs and the other one downstairs, DH and I give hints to make sure they are all found. We have a dog so need to make sure none are found by her.

That's it really, I don't really go in for special foods but I don't mind the odd hot cross bun. The DC will have chocolate most of the day.

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

As above!

DS2 thinks a bunny hides the eggs even though no one had ever mentioned the bunny. DS1 never did.

Forgot to mention my mum puts up an Easter branch sometimes with little wooden eggs. (I think the tradition is German, we're not German she just loves decorating)

With our nieces, we once blindfolded them and pretended that the Bunny hid the eggs right in front of them. They loved this so much, that we do it most years in the afternoon, even though they are now older. They sit in the middle of the garden with their baskets ready, we make them swear that they can't see, and we give them each a piece of carrot to hold out for the Bunny. They have to keep very quiet and listen, as the Bunny has a bell in his tail. (Part of the fun for us is watching them twitch with excitement as the Bunny keeps them waiting for just a little bit longer each time! )

They hear the Bunny moving about with enormous leaps, sometimes right over their heads, and they try to feed him their carrot. (They have to stay in their chairs, and the Bunny will bite off the carrot.). After hiding the eggs, the Bunny talks to them in a squeaky voice, and tells them which colour eggs are for which child, and the bigger ones have their names on. They have to count to thirty to give the Bunny time to get away before we take their blindfolds off. The smaller eggs are scattered over the lawn, and the bigger ones are likely to be hidden in bushes.

And yes, they know the Bunny is pretend, but they look forward to this game every year, and once or twice, they have brought a friend.

Does anyone hide eggs in the garden overnight? We always do them in the morning as worried some animal might eat them, but maybe they wouldn’t! Might try some this year if it doesn’t rain 😅

Proper home baked hot cross buns for Good Friday.

Easter eve service with fire on Saturday evening.

Sunday is more church(!) and an egg hunt with clues either outside or indoors in the case of rain. When they were little the egg hunt often used to take place before church which was excruciating for the knackered adults. Then there would be another egg hunt at church in the vicarage garden. (I used to be the poor loon running it and doing some mad craft or music activity to occupy the hunters who've found their quota already). Teens now so we just sing in the choir now instead.

Champagne with Sunday lunch.

Big walk on a hill Easter Monday or visit family.

I decorate an Easter tree most years. Sometimes we dye eggs with flower patterns. One lockdown year I made hulking teenagers paint eggs which generated much huffing but beautiful photos I can treasure as a memory of fake insta-worthy Easter perfection.

This year there might be simnel cake as I've accrued a load of leave and going to try to take some of it.

I wouldn't leave out personally. MIL who is a germ phobe wraps hers in cling film before hiding so you could try that I guess

None - am I missing out?!

Does anyone hide eggs in the garden overnight? We always do them in the morning as worried some animal might eat them

I always put them out sometime in the morning as I'm worried about bugs, animals, the elements. My husband distracts the kids and I head out to do my Easter Bunny duties

We would never dream of down playing Passover amongst the Jewish community so is right to try and 'evert' Christian celebration to something more non religous.? I think some of societies views on Easter and Christianity in general is marked a little by Christianity's prominence in some of the more debatable periods of our history.

I certainly feel have the right for people to celebrate Easter in the manner they do wish but so think there should be care about attempts to remove Easter of its Christian nature entirely.