What do you do on Easter Sunday with older children?

[ThirtysomethingMummy]

I was wondering what others do on Easter Sunday? We have always done a roast dinner and egg hunt but my 10 and 11 year olds no longer want to do this!
we’d like to start some new traditions and wondered what others do with older children?!

We’ve always done nothing. Not sure this needs to be complicated. Family lunch covers what’s needed. And maybe an Easter egg but we don’t bother generally.

That's quite a surreal Easter you have, with your moving indoor hands, your roast lamp and your hat buns!

Just let them amuse themselves while you cook dinner or relax?

Since when was it the responsibility of parents to plan all-singing-all-dancing entertainment for children to mark every occasion?

We used to all go to the NT Easter egg hunt and all do it

It’s just another day for us with a bit of chocolate. If they don’t want to do an egg hunt that’s fine. No need to replace it with something else Easter themed. Just go for a walk, bike ride, picnic, play board games…whatever you would normally do on a Sunday.

I'm with family and we have 15, 14, 10 and 9 year olds in the house
We doing a hunt and a roast
Though unless you're religious it's just another day isn't it

Due to complicated extended family dynamics currently, we are mixing it up this year. Our children will still do an Egg hunt this morning but then we are going for a day out. A request has been made for a K Pop McDonald's breakfast on the way there and we will eat out this evening before coming home. Probably not a roast - it'll likely be Middle Eastern or burger from our favourite burger place in the city.

We did many many egg hunts over the years with cousins. Now early twenties they don’t even want an egg, would rather have the monetary equivalent so have just transferred them a fiver each 😆
Happy Easter!

Alas my 15 and 12 year olds have still requested an egg hunt 😫

Something you / they like to make the most of the long weekend? Special meal? Quiz? Board games? A walk? A movie? An Easter gift in lieu of chocolate if they don’t like it? Egg blowing? Easter baking?

I can’t stop laughing at this Dali-esque nightmare Easter

Normal Sunday with extra chocolate here too. We have had family gatherings in past Easters and sometimes been on holiday but today is a quiet one - ds16 working, my mum isn’t well but we’ll pop over to see her, and ds20 has asked for an egg hunt (!!) so we’ll do that when ds2 gets home from work, and have our roast then.

14y old DD has gone off to athletics training as normal, I was surprised it was still on but they have competitions coming up so it’s business as usual. 16y old DS is still in bed, but he’ll be out on his usual 15km long run this afternoon. They have eggs and we have roast lamb for dinner.

Never done an egg hunt when I was growing up, nor the Easter bunny, my parents just did a roast and that was it. After the age of nine my parents bought a caravan and from then on until I was mid teens we were away travelling over Easter

I’ve never bothered with Easter with my own kids. When they were younger I used to drag them round National Trust Easter egg hunt events which they were meh about as it was so busy.

now that two have left home and the youngest two are 15 and 18, well ones still sleeping as she’s recovering from a hen do and the 15 year old is just pottering about. I am doing a roast, beef not lamb as we hate lamb but that is really it. We don’t go mad on eggs either, one each.

Yes, I was chuckling as I read it. 😁

My sons are 17 and 20 . So far today they have cleaned out the fridge for me. We are now building Lego, drinking tea and eating the Easter eggs 🥚 ❤️ this afternoon we are all cooking a roast dinner 🤤

I have a 25 yr old and a 24 yr old. We took the dog out for a walk together. We have a family tradition of doing egg rolling so we made the eggs last night and then rolled them down a steep hill near us (my son always wins 😂 - person whose egg stays in tact the furthest wins. Dog clears up all the broken egg!). Went to a cafe near steep hill for a slice of cake and now we are back home and will do a roast beef for dinner

I can't imagine teenagers getting excited about an egg hunt. At that age they can buy themselves chocolate all day long. It seems sort of infantile to be doing egg hunts over the age of 10. The ops kids seem normal to me.

I’m just grateful despite their ages and hormones mine still find the fun and aren’t try hard joyless bores. Life is too short to be self conscious about being ‘infantile’.

First thing my 14 yo DS said when he woke up this morning was ‘have I missed the egg hunt?!’

I knew my post would attract the "Oh my 20 year old loves nothing more than an egg hunt", i guess this being mn there's all sorts on here.
In my world, no teenagers are interested in an egg hunt with their parents and id worry if they were but hey, we're all different..

@JacknDiane come on then, why would you worry? Let’s hear what’s so catastrophically awful about teenagers still finding the fun in something? Are you one of those that thinks teenagers are just being teenagers if they are rioting in Clapham, self harming and drinking cider in a car park at 2am?

Same

My 22 year old DS has come down from his university city for our traditional Easter Picnic.

What’s strange about a teenager enjoying spending time with their parents?