What Easter traditions did you have as a child?

[FrannyandZooey]

We used to hard boil eggs then decorate them (with felt tip pens, etc). A small competition to see whose was the best. Then out to local hillside to roll them down - whoever could roll their egg the furthest without cracking it was the winner.

Grandmas gave us paste eggs, my parents got us a chocolate orange each as they were better value for money.

Hmmmmm not exactly wonderful childhood memories!

This is NQC's:

We do 'strings'. The easter bunny leaves trails of yarn through the house, different colours for different children, with various treats on them. A small amount of chocolate (lindt mini eggs this year) and lots of little toys, left throughout the house.

What's a paste egg?

none really

paste egg - hard boiled and dyed somehow - can't remember TBH

A Thorntons Egg with our names on - when Thorntons was dead special and the used thick icing!
And then to sicken ourselves eating chocolate the whole day and have it for breakfast on the Monday

Easter egg hunt in the garden
Boiled eggs decorated with flowers and died with onion skins
Mini-garden on a plate with open tomb on table

only thing we had was we had egg on easter sunday..have been doing easter egg hunts with DC[well Ds this will be DD1 first year]

1 Easter egg on the Sunday from my parents. Followed by envy at my friends who had hundreds. That's it really.

"Mini-garden on a plate with open tomb on table"
What the heck???

I am not feeling the love for Easter on this thread, you know chaps

come on, do we like NQC's strings? They are really cool

I know ... as I wrote that I though, actually, that's rather strange...

I was thinking it might be something we made up becuase we liked making mini-gardens, but actually, it was 'proper' tradition - passed down from my dad's mum. The idea is obviously Garden of Gethsemene (sp??) but looks oddly like an English spring garden. We used to make a little tomb/cave out of stones, with one stone rolled away from the entrance.

I should also say, we weren't a really religious family - occassion Cof E only...

But yes, agree that NQCs is rather nicer

Oh bunny I rather like it actually

I have always been very into the idea of mini gardens (Milly Molly Mandy made one you see)

A small scale model of the Garden of Gethsemane is not to be trifled with

We did the easter bunny - he always visited when I was a child. My mum is originally German, so I always assumed it was a German tradition. After we got back from church, we had to go out of the living room, and my mum would lay a trails of small eggs for each of the children, leading to a larger egg/eggs at the end, hidden somewhere, behind the curtain, under a table, whatever. We're doing it with the DCs.

And yes F&Z, little gardens are inordinately satisfying, aren't they? We used to do them for the village fruit & veg show too. I don't like to boast but I do have two first prize certificates...

Worryingly, this is starting to ring a few bells... bits of moss, stones, stealing petals from my mum's garden to make the flowers..... Oh dear...

Bunnyp

oh just total

not so much the certificates but that you had a proper village show JUST LIKE MMM

Jackie, lovely!

Peaches Maclean - ohhh, come here, am I not the only wierdo garden maker?? Lovely.

Sorry F&Z - never a big MMM girl, so missing some of the significance... but it was quite cool - if you like big marrows that actually aren't THAT big and looking at lots of jam that you aren' t allowed to eat...

eating chocolate for breakfast - one creme egg to start & as much choc as i could get away with before my mum intervened

We tried to eat ours without mammy seeing that they actually had no back on them My sister & I used to open them, split them in half, eat the back off them & make them look like they had never been touched!!!! lol

In fact, the other day when my parents were here mam was asking me if I had ate the back of my kids easter eggs!!