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[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!

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We do an egg hunt where there is a big egg hidden for each person to find, with clues, around the house and garden. We then have a bonus round for the small eggs: lots of small eggs are scattered on the lawn. Each player is blindfolded, led to somewhere on the lawn, and then has to find five eggs, while everyone else gives hints. The youngest goes first so there are more for them to find, but they still only get five. (We tried everyone doing this at once, but it got a bit out of hand, so we decided one person at a time was safer!)

We like to go out as a family on Good Friday to an activity farm or house and gardens we take a picnic which always includes Hot X Buns on Easter sunday the children have a chocolate egg hunt in the morning , outside in the garden if the weathers good. Then we have all the family over for a big roast dinner which is usually Lamb and the finale is our family Easter pudding made with hot cross buns, apricot jam and vanilla custard and baked . . It's delicious then the afternoon is spend playing games like charades or card games

Meal -
We always get all the family together for a big meal. It's usually a BBQ even if the weathers not great! We have lots of salads, bread & sausages & burgers. They'll always be a couple of cakes & treats for the kids.

Gifting -
If I'm visiting family instead, I always take flowers - usually daffodils 😀
All the family buys choc eggs for each & the kids end up with far too much!

Activities
We always have an Easter egg hunt in the garden, whatever the weather :)
All the cousins come & join in & sometimes the Easter bunny leaves clues. in the run up to Easter we try & do lots of craft activities with the kids. We always make an Easter bonnet for school - my daughter has an Easter bonnet parade every year.
Sometimes we have an Easter tree to decorate! It's usually some nice twigs in a jar decorated with little eggs & bunnies.

I love Easter. It's spring, the weathers getting warmer, baby animals are being born & there's always loads of chocolate.

We will have a family party

I love Easter, we have the whole family over for a roast lamb lunch. Then a little Easter egg hunt, and it's not unknown for me to fill a chick Pinata with chocolates. I buy lots of daffodils to cheer the house up and fill bowls with mini -eggs and just have a lovely relaxed time. I
I can't help myself going OTT at any celebration so I buy Easter crackers, just for fun and put little bunnies and chicks on the table, just from the Pound shop. Anything that makes life that bit more fun is good with me.

Easter is a huge celebration here. All of the extended family get together for a meal (about 20+ people) this is usually chicken with rice, pasta, cream sauce and vegetables. For dessert there are home made cakes which everyone brings to share, the main one being a lamb shaped sponge cake.
After eating there is a present hunt (think christmas time amount of presents for children hidden around the garden) All of the family go outside to watch this and help the smaller children if they need it. The presents are all gathered together in 2 large wooden carts and distributed out amongst them once all collected. Largest presents have name tags but small token gifts and chocolates are just split betwen the families.
We do not have chocolate Easter eggs, but coloured hard boiled eggs eaten with salt.
The afternoon is then spent playing with new toys and playing family board games and cards. Then a pretzel sandwich evening meal (each pretzel is large enough to feed about 10 people).
It is a lovely day and I look forward to it every year!

Two months away. Far too early.

A road lamb dinner with all the trimmings - and of course some easter eggs to share.

We will be doing an Easter egg hunt with all the family!

We aren't religious so we don't do much, the easter bunny just hides eggs for the kids and leaves empty buckets ready to collect them in

Last year we left a carrot out the night before I think there was a bit of confusion between Christmas and easter

We always make chocolate nests and put mini eggs in them, because we will use any excuse to make Krispy cakes!

Easter egg hunt, easter nest cakes and more chocolate than you can possibly eat!

daffodils are always bought In the house.
lamb dinner most definitely.
no gifting needed.maybe a box of chocs to share but not really.
or when the kids are you we might take eggs for all.
look for national trust egg hunts or local ones.there are som great family fun days out there.
paint eggs
make easter biccies.
cupcakes.
give good old cadburys eggs.
in a bowl have crème eggs and other assortments on the table for all at home and visitor to share.
often a nice breakie.bagels salmon etc.
lots of craftie bits.make paper daffs.easter cards for the g-parents. little baskets to hold egg etc.

We colour Easter Eggs the day before and always have and early morning Easter egg hunt while the oven is filled with a honey glazed ham for the family dinner.

We usually do an egg hunt in the garden, stocking up on the little individually wrapped chocolate eggs from Lidl.

This year we're going up north for a few days, and will spend some family time in the woods and on the beach.

we spend the day at my in laws and have an easter egg hunt if the weather is nice, if not then we'll do it indoors. They cook up a roast and then we all exchange easter eggs.

We have (usually more than one) Easter egg hunt, with loads of chocolate!
Then I often make an Easter cake and Easter bonnets for the kids. It's usually lots of fun!

Easter Saturday - meet up with grandparents, take a picnic of of nice breads/meat/cheeses and go to the seaside. Icecream for dessert.
Easter Sunday - we make a stainglass picture for my sons window as the mornings are getting lighter so a nice start to celebrate and let in Spring. Lunch is roast lamb but with hallumi, cous cous and med veg, then egg hunt to blow of cobwebs. Evening we just have a chocfest and film

We always go to visit my parents. Easter Sunday morning features:
Step 1) lock the dog in the kitchen
Step 2) DF and DM put bunny ears on and hop around the garden distributing chocolate eggs while we distract dog and children and get them dressed in more or less respectable clothes
Step 3) children are given their ten year old baskets and run round the gardens frantically trying to beat each other to the most eggs. Adults take photos.
Step 4) the children dispute over who got the most eggs briefly before descending into a sugar and cocoa induced haze
Step 5) all the adults go out and sweep the grounds for missed chocolate before letting the dog out
Step 6) Blessed peace
Step 7 (much later that afternoon)) I make a Victoria Sandwich cake with any surplus chocolate melted into the middle and eat it warm with cream.

I should point out that my children are in their teens and my parents are in their late seventies. But you're never too old for Easter egg hunts.

We celebrate by getting the family together, young and old, and doing various fun activities which involve eating lots of chocolate & hot cross buns, decorating egg shells and going on Easter egg hunts.
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We love Easter as much as we love Christmas.

Usually we have the family round for a meal, nothing too fancy as I'm not a great cook!

I love having lots of spring flowers in the house, daffodils and tulips.

We love Easter eggs but I try to ration how much the DCs have and steer relatives to choosing them a toy instead.

I do an easter egg hunt round the house for DH and the children (he enjoys it nearly as much as them). Sometimes I get creative and do clues too.

We have roast lamb on easter Sunday and we usually see the in laws sometime over that weekend.

We would normally get together as a family at my sisters house and have a family meal but this year I will be with friends in Kenya. I will have to play the part of the Easter Bunny as we are leaving for the airport so that on our return on Easter Monday it looks like the Bunny has been in and left a few chocolate surprises.

We always have LOADS of Easter Egg hunts! We have plastic eggs that we can pop small chocolate eggs, or sweets inside, and we hide them all over the garden (or inside if it's raining!). It's such a fun tradition that the children look forward to.

We also make chocolate nests using cereal, melted chocolate and little chocolate eggs.

I decided to be different this year, and instead of giving easter eggs to friends and family, I have bought Easter scented pencils! They look so fun and will last a lot longer than chocolate eggs.

Our easter tradition is putting 13 marzipan balls on the simnel cake as my great grandma felt sorry for Judas and felt he should be represented by a marzipan ball! We are still doing it generations later!

Easter is basically a chocolate fest and the children love the Easter theme of the chocolates. The adults love the Easter food and a leg of lamb with mint sauce and fresh veg is an excuse to get everyone together.