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 boil and decorate eggs to race down the hill at a local beauty spot. I have a metal wall art tree and at Easter I hang pretty eggs and those carrot chocolates from it and we always have at least one egg hunt.

I also give Lidl chocolate lollies to my class.

An easter egg hunt and then going out for a family lunch together

We always like to start the Easter weekend with an Easter egg hunt and then on Easter Sunday all the family sits down to a nice Lamb roast dinner

Making hot cross buns

I will hide the kids Easter eggs round the house, later on they will roll the boiled eggs they painted on Easter Saturday down a hill.

My daughter has just started nursery at a Catholic school and they have already started with Easter themed activities, but also learning the real reason why we celebrate Easter. I am also Catholic so we do go to Church on Easter Sunday, which I have always done but the main reason we like Easter like everyone else is the Chocolate! We do an Easter egg hunt, visit family and write Easter cards to family, and a lovely Lamb roast dinner for Easter Dinner! Can't wait! :)

Depending on the weather we might have a nice family day out or have a nice roast lunch and dinner

easter Sunday is also my birthday this year so we are going out for a family dinner with DH's family and then we'll see my parents a week later for a belated egg hunt with the kids. I have to say easter means more to me than DH because I grew up vaguely religious - he just likes the long weekend

A time to relax and enjoy quality time with the family

No traditions here but we went to the National Hunt Cadbury egg hunt last year and that was fab so will be doing it again this year.

This year I have promised myself to set some new traditions so I am going to be doing our own hunt in some way (yet to decide), and some baking too.

We use Good Friday as a day to get lots of jobs done (last year, it was papering DS's room)
Saturday, we do something fun as a family (pre-DC it was a spa day, nowadays it is a day out somewhere equally nowhere near as fun)
Sunday, a family meal with my parents, siblings and grandparents and lots of lazing around.
Monday, we go to the beach or the park to burn off as much energy as possible. This year, I'm taking my Mum and sisters to see Wicked so looking forward to that

Easter Egg Hunt after the church service on Easter Sunday followed by rolling our eggs down the stairs and then hopefully, weather permitting, a lovely family stroll x

Forgot to say (most important part ) is the Easter Vigil on Saturday evening. We do go to the Good Friday masses as we are Catholic, but we have been less strict about that while the DC are so young. They are too quiet for two toddlers!

Lots and lots of chocolate! :)

Family, good food and good drink. And perhaps some chocolate eggs.

We just spend lots of time together as a family, have an Easter Egg hunt and decorate some eggs. ANd eat lots and lots of chocolate!

Easter for us is spending a nice long weekend together, sometimes we go away or some day trips to the beach. When DCs were younger we had easter egg hunts.

Saturday before Easter we're going egg rolling with the neighbours. All the kids are going to decorate their boiled eggs and roll them along the green in front of the houses.

Easter Sunday is for family though. We'll go to church in the morning and then catch up with the rest of the family at my parents. My mum loves to host parties and even one of her simple buffets means we'll be stuffed.

Eggs for breakfast, boiled for DH and me and chocolate ones for the children.
Followed by a long walk whilst the lamb dinner is in the oven.
Mmmmm I'm hungry now

We have a tradition where the kids have an Easter hunt around our house and garden where they have to find those little fluffy toy chicks. When they find them all they get a prize - normally a small chocolate item and a craft set or puzzle to keep them busy!

We also do craft activities and a day trip to a local farm to see the new lambs and piglets.

We tend to go out somewhere if the weather is good, nice to do some outdoor activities or have a meal out somewhere different.

Take the kids local city farms. Show the animals that we use a livestock from chicken, cows, horses. This is useful education missing from curriculum.

We love Easter weekend, 4 fab days to spend quality time together as a family.

This year it's likely to involve an Easter Egg Hunt, a couple of meals out with family & friends, lots of play time with the DC, and of course some chocolate consumption!

We usually go somewhere nice (although not necessarily warm!) like the beach or the local forests for a picnic.

We do a mini Easter egg hunt in the garden with dd and she usually gets an outdoor toy for Easter.
She has a winter birthday so items like bikes/skates etc wouldn't get used, so we save presents like that for Easter.
This year she is getting her first big bike! Exciting stuff. We'll maybe take her to Millport to cycle around the island of Cumbrae to find a nice spot for our picnic this year.

No eggs in our household. Just plastic eggs and balloons that get painted. Why you ask? Because the last time we got real eggs out they were thrown against the window, newly painted walls and found one egg in the toilet lol.