Easter: what's the plan? Share your top Easter tips and traditions with Lidl and you could win one of five £50 vouchers. NOW CLOSED

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With the Easter long weekend fast approaching, we have been asked by the team at Lidl to find out your top tips and traditions for the bank holiday weekend.

Please share on this thread what makes a perfect Easter weekend for you and your family.

Do you celebrate with a big family get-together and meal? Or take it as a chance to catch on some long overdue jobs round the house and garden? Do you get all crafty in the run up with bonnets and cards? Or are you a baking goddess rustling up your own hot cross buns? And what do you do with any left over chocolate? Do you have family traditions which you have developed over the years - please share them here!

Add your comment and you'll be entered into a prize draw where five MNers will each win a £50 voucher for Lidl.

Please note that any comments posted on this thread may be used by Lidl in further marketing material (anonymously, of course)

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

we usually have a family meal and then the rest of the time is taken up with catching up on chores and if possible a bit of a rest in between.

we always have an easter egg hunt with the children.

We always get together as a family & have a sit down meal together & then an egg hunt afterwards! As for what to do with leftover chocolate - with us there's no such thing!

Spending quality time with my family, out doors if possible as Easter is often nice weather.

We usually hold our own Easter Egg hunt in the garden followed by a lovely roast diner - this year though we will have just got home from visiting our family in Yorks

No set plans or traditions here.
DH works shifts so he is more often working.

Make a little Easter gift like a felt egg for GCs. Make some hot cross buns on Friday and scoff them. GCs decorate eggs. DH goes and does sport on Sat and I make a Russian Easter cake. On Easter Sunday morning the grandchildren decorate it with little sweet eggs, chocolate bunnies and flowers. Then we all go to church and have an Easter Egg hunt followed by roast lamb and cake and lots of chocolate. Monday if it's sunny DH and I will do something in the garden or might go for a walk on the beach and stop by our fave cafe.

We will hide some small chocolate eggs in DDs room for her to find when she wakes up. Depending on the weather we would like to go for a nice walk too before heading to my Mums for a big family roast.

The closest thing we have to an Easter tradition is buying half price Easter eggs the day after!

Ours always loved the Easter Egg hunt and used to save their eggs to hide again for each other for days afterwards!
We were still finding strays weeks later!

we don't really have any plans we are just going to make the most of having a long weekend together as a family, few days out and maybe a carvery

We love to have everyone home for a big roast lamb dinner before eating our Easter eggs, usually whilst watching a fab movie or over a board game or two. If the weather is nice we might begin to smarten up the garden ready for the good weather.

Getting together with family, and a nice sunny walk (hopefully).

We start with an easter egg hunt to work up an appetite then it's a roast dinner with some easter eggs for dessert. Then we make some Easter crafts like egg covers and go geo-caching and put the easter crafts in there place

we paint eggs and go egg rolling, followed by a home cooked roast in the evening and tv :)

We always hard boil eggs and have fun decorating them. Then we all go to the local hill and have a little race. Roast lamb in the afternoon then the little ones get the green light to tuck into chocolate eggs. x

We like to spend time together, doing an egg hunt and having a roast. We go somewhere on the other days as well

getting together with my whole family, havingg hunts, an egg race with eggs decorated by us all, and other silly games and sometimes a pinata, and the best bit lunch :D all great fun i love easter

I have a wedding on the Saturday so hopefully the weather is good then nice Sunday dinner!!

dyeing eggs with food colouring

Family all together and have a nice family meal - laughter and memories

ive got the weekend off so family time with friends and family meal out

scoff tons of chocolate and pass out after lunch!

Easter is always special - we wake up have a little easter egg hunt . Then go to our local church being catholic its important for the children to know the real meaning of easter . After church its onto my mothers for a lovely Sunday lunch . Afterward we all eat our easter chocolate if we can fit it in . The sunday school have an easter bonnet parade it so special .

A family meal, with as many members as can make it. Hopefully the weather will allow a walk after lunch.

Easter eggs reserved for after lunch.