Share your Easter celebrations with Lidl to win vouchers NOW CLOSED

[AmeliaMumsnet]

With Easter fast approaching, Lidl would love to hear how you celebrate!

Meal - do you get the family together over a huge feast? If so is it the traditional lamb roast or do you embrace spring with a BBQ or something completely different?

Gifting - if you got out of cooking and are visiting family instead, do you take flowers – maybe lovely spring daffodils or a favourite wine for the chef? And let's not forget chocolate - are you into fancy eggs, chocolate animals or do you manage to keep Easter sweet free?

Activities - How do you keep your DC entertained during the run up to Easter? Do you do an Easter egg hunt? Do you bake something special or decorate eggs or do particular arts and crafts?

So share your Easter celebrations on this thread, and everyone who posts below will be entered into a prize draw where five winners will each get £50 to spend in Lidl.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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The Easter bunny leaves a sparkly trail round the garden to help the littlies find the eggs.

We do not follow religion, so for us Easter is about holidays, quality time, nice food and chocolate! Easter is more about the start of spring! Probably the main part of Easter is the epic struggle to not eat too much!

As atheists I don't celebrate Easter but I still use the excuse to eat lots of chocolate!

I live backing on to woodlands so we hide easter eggs in the woods for the kids (of any ages) to find

We paint eggs and make cookies topped with Easter eggs. We also try to get outside and walk in the countryside together, playing hide and seek and do a little Easter egg hunt

We have my parents over for dinner. Usually we have chicken or turkey though as my daughter won't eat lamb

We have a roast just immediate family. Not as much fun now as children are teenagers and don't want to do an Easter egg hunt . They still want the eggs though 😊.

Despite the varying ages of the children, Easter always starts with an Easter egg hunt. The little ones still have their easter eggs and the older ones get a slightly larger present. Then the wider family all sit down to a lovely, Sunday dinner.

The family usually comes to my house. I buy some nice flowers and decorate them with eggshells and little yellow chicks. At lunchtime we have a nice buffet and after that the grandchildren will go looking for Easter eggs that I've hidden..

We are off to New York - cannot wait - so no Easter Eggs this year, but an American Adventure instead. Might just manage some chocolate with the kids thou!

Easter Sunday we go on an Easter egg hunt then I will cook a big roast dinner for all the family :)

I buy some Easter crafts for my ds and will organise a egg hunt at home for him and his cousins.
There are often Easter events in our borough so will go along to them and visit family. The week after Easter we are on holiday so looking forward to that!

Easter egg hunt in the nearby countryside on ponies is the usual plan for then a beach walk and picnic later in the day

Lets hope its fine weather for the garden Easter Egg Hunt

We normally have an egg hunt on the saturday and then a family roast dinner on the Sunday

I adore Cadburys mini eggs - I think ill make an indulgent chocolate cake topped with a chocolate ganache and mini eggs with the kids. That's about it for us.

We had a lovely family roast dinner on Easter Sunday and the rest of the weekend is mostly eating eggs and watching movies on tv!

Last year I spent Easter in hospital heavily pregnant with DTs so, as our first Easter as parents we have decided to go all out!
DTs will have just turned one so we are having messy play and making some handmade Easter cards for their grandparents and great/grandparents (this will be me drawing out cards and covering their little hands in face paint and letting them smoosh their hands all over the place).
We will also be doing similar with hard boiled eggs.

On Easter Sunday we are having all the family over for a big roast dinner, finished off with a homemade Easter cake (not decided what yet) but will definitely have little yellow fluffy chicks on.
Will also do some rice crispy cakes with mini eggs on the top

Last year I must have eaten 8-10 Easter eggs to myself in my large pregnant state so this year I will be stepping away from the chocolate and letting everyone else indulge.

Ultimately though none of that really matters, I just want a day with all my family all together, not all sat with each other but ignoring one another and sat glued to phones. A proper family day!

we have an Easter Egg Hunt followed by a family meal and if the weather i ok we have a walk over the meadows

A lovely family dinner :)

We always did an egg hunt when ours were little followed by a big family roast dinner. When I was a child my mum always hung small eggs on forsythia branches in a vase which I've done on occasion but never really got into. I remember her disappearing in the dark every year just before Easter and returning with armfuls of forsythia that she'd pinched from a bush nearby (not from someone's garden- at least I don't think so!!)

We don't really celebrate Easter that much (not in the traditional religious sense anyway.)

We usually just go to the in-laws for lunch and eat chocolate. :)

We will be having a roast dinner and then an easter egg hunt all over the garden.

Easter Bunny always visits and leaves eggs for my son to search round house for, if weather is good would like to get out and about a bit, we would have a veggie friendly roast meal together or maybe round my best friends.

Church on Good Friday morning, followed by a Walk of Witness. Then all of the Christians in the area get together for coffee and Hot Cross Buns provided by [not Lidl but] Aldi.