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 love having easter egg hunts, first at Grandmas', then at ours!

We're going down to Cornwall to see my best friend who moved in September with her sister. Planning on going to the great Eden egg hunt followed by a roast dinner cooked by her partner.

Normally we have a roast on Easter Sunday, but this year is my husband's 40th birthday, so we're all going out for a family meal on the Saturday (14 of us!!). On the Sunday we'll probably have something low key and lots of chocolate Easter Eggs

I always bake on maundy Thursday - the same Easter biscuits I've made since I was in junior school, chocolate krispie cakes topped with mini eggs with the children, and this year nigellas chocolate cloud cake.

Saturday will be a usual day, and on Sunday we do an Easter egg hunt round the garden and usually have a family Sunday lunch of roast lamb. Hopefully have a nice afternoon out in the sunshine afterwards

My son stays with his dad in Holland every Easter these days. So I like to start the day with soft boiled eggs, a big pot of tea and fresh croissants, and spend a lot of time under the duvet, catching up on some reading and enjoying not having to do anything or go anywhere.

We will be having a family lunch followed by an Easter Egg hunt in the garden.

Roast lamb and chocolate... Perfection!

We have a big family celebration, four generations get together for a roast dinner. Easter eggs of course and some hot cross buns freshly baked by my husband. Bliss.

Always include a craft activity to let your creative side out. We had an Easter Bonnet Family Competition last year.

I love Easter, we put up an Easter tree a couple of weeks before in the living room to start feeling festive.

Having a 4 day weekend is great to have time to catch up with lots of family, as well as enjoy days and walks out. My mum often cooks a roast for us all.

We often make Easter nests. As for the suggestion of leftover chocolate...um, what's that?!

We'll have an easter egg hunt for all the family

we have a family get together, with a big buffet tea. sandwiches, cakes and games

We have always just had a family meal with a vase of daffodils in remembrance of someone special growing up.
Over ten years ago I started doing Easter egg hunts with my gorgeous nephew. Ds and dd just want chocolate....they like baking so this year we are going to attempt a chocolate gingerbread house covered in sweets and those shredded wheat nest things that I have not eaten since primary school.
I'm hosting this year so I hope the sun is out....because then it will be BBQ and wine time rather than another sit down Christmas dinner.
We are off to the theatre with extended family too over Easter weekend to see a children's show, we have 2 parties booked in and I'm having a night out with some old friends I haven't seen in two years.

Easter is my favourite time of year. Spring is here, the snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils are up, the days are longer, the garden begins to bloom and we get 4 days off work. We have the best local eggs in novelty egg cups collected over the years, we go to church, have roast lamb for dinner and the neighbours do an Egg hunt round their huge garden. When I was wee my brother and I would paint hard boiled eggs and roll them down a local hill.

We go to the Easter Vigil at Church on the Saturday night, then spend Easter Sunday together, enjoying a lovely Sunday dinnner and lots of chocolate!

We are on our holibobs where we plan to do lots of activities, swimming, archery, water zorbing and fishing

My kids love making masks. Bunnies and chickens. Lots of fun for them. I love docorating table and make different every year. I love my house decorated and tasty food...no dieting for few days. :)

We always have a family roast dinner on Easter Sunday. I bake some Easter goodies due to family allergies so everyone can eat the same things. We always have a few Easter Eggs but when the DC were small I always gave them the choice of an Easter Egg or an Easter present as they got given so many - they usually chose an Easter present.

We usually have some sort of lunch with the extended family but I don't know if that's happening this year. If not, we'll celebrate at home with hot cross buns and chocolate eggs.

When I was little we used to paint eggs that we would later eat. It was a lot of fun but now I only like chocolate eggs! :) My mum and dad used to hide our Easter egg at home, usually in the same places as last year!

Breakfast is usually hot cross buns.
Kids receive their Easter eggs and we do a hunt and bonnet compition we have a lamb roast and head out to the fun fair.. Easter is my fave holiday has been since I was a kid myself.

Easter egg hunt with lots of eggs, visit all the family and a family meal later on.

Go away for the weekend and possibly do an egg hunt at some point, somewhere different every year. Just relax though mostly and don't overly do anything special

Lamb roast dinner
Egg hunt while the dog finds them before the kids
would love some other ideas though
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Easter tradition for us is a easter egg hunt for the kids in the garden. I hide them all with clues. Its brilliant and they get so excited. :)

We usually go away to Anglesey at Easter in our motorhome. We hide mini Easter eggs around the motorhome for the boys to find. It's great fun and we sometimes find a surprise one that's been missed later on during our holiday.