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 have a big family gathering in a local beauty spot if the weather is nice and do our own easter egg hunt for all the kids.

The national trust egg hunts were always really good when my dc were little. Recently we usually do lots of DIY! Decorating an egg and finding somewhere to roll it used to feature quite heavily, chocolate is more important now. Still do an Easter bunny egg trail in the garden though!

We will be all at my dads for Easter dinner and there will be egg rolling, egg painting and hunt the eggs in the garden

We will do a little Easter egg hunt with clues, and make some cakes/biscuits. Might do a roast but I'm not sure.

Big family meal every year and my DM always cooks a roast, with Lamb of course! Then we go for a nice walk and maybe stop off at the pub on the way back for a drink or two!

In the run up to Easter, I do some arts and crafts with my two toddlers - usually decorating a bonnet (complete with fluffy chicks!) and some Easter cards. We also have Easter shaped cookie cutters (rabbits, chicks, eggs) so we make a nice batch or two and decorate.

On Easter Sunday we have an egg hunt in our house, and they have a basket each to fill with hollow chocolate eggs, and one larger one each. We then go to my parent's house for dinner, and another egg hunt but with those mini-sized eggs, and if it's nice weather it'll be in the garden. All of the children and grandchildren join in, and it's a very fun day. Family members then exchange some eggs too - lots of chocolate!

Lastly, I like to tell my children the Easter story, just so they don't grow up thinking it's just about chocolate! Plus I love telling the original stories of celebrations before I tuck them up into bed.

We usually organise an egg hunt where we leave clues around the house and my little girl finds a small chocolate egg every time she solves a clue. She thinks the Easter bunny has left them. Some years she has written a letter to the Easter bunny which he has to reply to!

My DCs will be with their Dad so this will be the first Easter I've done without them. DP and I will probably take advantage of the long weekend to binge on Netflix, then do our own Easter celebrations all together the following weekend comprising the usual roast lamb, egg hunt and afternoon chocolate coma ritual.

Easter Bunny leaving a trail of eggs with clues for my son, who`s now 15, and still looking forward to it this year!

I love seeing all the extended family and eating chocolate for breakfast on Easter Sunday :)

All of the family get together for a big lunch (cooked by my Mum - a super cook!) on Easter Sunday, which is always good fun.

There are no young children in the family, so no egg hunts or fun crafts/bakes anymore, sadly. I used to love making Easter nests as a child, but to be honest it was just a great excuse to eat melted chocolate and (more than my fair of) Mini Eggs :)

a perfect weekend would be all the family together for a family meal and an easter egg hunt in the garden for everyone.

we love to go and visit our friends who have a farm. We plan a huge eater egg hunt for the children and if we're extra lucky with the timings of easter, we get to help with the lambing too :-)

We all go out for a family meal, otherwise I cook a mean roast lamb ...

We've just finished an 'easter tree' - lots of lovely fresh branches in a vase and decorated with salt dough decorations. The Decs are in shapes that represent spring (bunnies, eggs, ducks), we spent a day making them, a day painting them, a day covering them in glitter and I tied them up last night. It's pretty good considering a 2yr old was involved!

We are doing an easter egg hunt in the garden (hopefully). We've also invited some friends round for easter themed dinner; asparagus and aoili, roast lamb, and simnel cake (that we've made and I've been feeding with brandy!). The kids will make easter choc nests and easter crafts while we get merry on prosecco !

We're not religious but I'm really embracing the idea of spring this yr!

Time at the caravan with hot cross buns in the morning followed by plenty of chocolate!

its lovely to be together as one big happy family,relaxing and having a lovely sunday roast

Trip to DGPs for traditional Easter Egg hunt in their garden - we've got pictures of the DC every year with the same little wicker baskets, now looking teeny tiny in their hulking great almost-teenage hands. We then eat roast lamb, and a few days later when we're home we have the ceremonial baking of the Left Over Chocolate Egg Victoria Sponge, which is my favourite bit (DS can take or leave chocolate so there's always loads to be used up).

I can't believe noone's said egg rolling! We always paint hard boiled eggs on Easter Saturday and then go and roll them down the hill on Easter Sunday morning. Then back home for roast lamb and rhubarb fool, Easter egg hunt in the garden and finally Easter tea - a big sponge cake covered in chicks and mini eggs and cornflake nests. I can't wait!

Big family get together with a roast for lunch

Me and my husband do an Easter egg hunt for the children in the morning, Followed by pancakes for breakfast and then dvd night with our Easter eggs and order take away.

We love Easter as much as the children ?

My DS birthday often falls at Easter so it's either all about the eggs (including an egg hunt) or it's about his birthday which means a party.

we spend it together with our extended family.

Good quality family time for us and depending on the weather, walks in the country, board games and films.

It's nice just to have a long weekend off work!