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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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A special meal for the family and an egg hunt for the kids. I'm going to try and make waster more craft based than chocolate based, so painting eggs, making bonnets. I'll see how that goes...

We always have hot cross buns and then a homemade fish pie on Good Friday followed by a big family BBQ on the Saturday and then Easter Sunday is always a big family roast followed by lots of chocolates!!!

We love Easter Sunday. We start With church which is always a jolly one, then back for an Easter Egg hunt around the house or garden if its nice weather. Lunch is normally turkey, we buy a reduced one after Christmas and freeze it. A walk after lunch is always on the cards, followed by family TV and chocolate!

We buy hot cross buns, cream eggs and Easter Eggs.

Apart from that not much else! Maybe time to get inspired and get some new traditions.

My mother in law has taken to buying little Lindt animals so we can do a treasure hunt with the kids, which goes down brilliantly. Last year they cooperated so the younger cousin who was with us got plenty of help. We try not to have too much extra chocolate but it seems it's inevitable!

Church is a huge part of Holy Week and Easter for us, and we're lucky that there are usually things on which are good for the kids to engage with. And I always bake an Easter cake.

we'll be having sunday lunch following by Grandad's epic annual easter egg hunt - better than christmas - we love it!

The Easter Bunny is very modern and much prefers to give a new outfit for Easter which the kids get on Good Friday. As well as a new outfit they also get a small chocolate bunny or egg. Within the family we have agreed they can have money, an item of clothing, a book, a toy, a dvd etc but no chocolate for Easter - we have been doing this since H was a baby following one year D getting over 20 Easter Eggs which was a ridiculous amount!

Easter Sunday we do an easter egg hunt - if its nice in the garden but if its not nice in the house. The easter eggs are small plastic toy eggs and once they have found them all they will each have a big easter egg which they can have a bit off each day until its gone.

Easter Monday we spend with family - we normally have a big family roast dinner and play board games, do puzzle, colour and craft activities.

We will also be decorating paper plates for the easter bunny, making easter bonnets for school (am i the only one who hates this???) and doing lots of spring related craft activities. And the kids will also do a very basic version of the easter story with sunday school which will lead to the usual fun questions (last year it coincided with one of our dogs sadly dying and for a few days D kept asking if he was going to come out of the ground after 3 days!!!)

I usually just limit it to a chocolate egg but DS1 is now at school so I'll be interested to see what sort of things they get up to.

We have an annual Easter Bonnet making contest, Here we are preparing our entries last Easter

We do an Easter egg hunt and I've done the local Easter bunny fun run with the DC the last couple of years. We don't have any special Easter meal or anything, but will usually try to use the long weekend to try and catch up with family, so there may be a family meal, but it's as likely to be a curry as a roast dinner. We do eat a lot of hot cross buns though.

Getting the whole family together this year for a change - and it will be a chocolate free event!

Get together with ILs and BIL's family.
Treasure hunts at home to find Easter baskets
Sometimes a local egg hunt but it's so over busy that people are running trying to hide egas under your feet.
Now kids are older enough, hope to blow eggs for an easter tree and dye some hard boiled ones.

Easter weekend there's a fun fair every year not too far from where we live.We always hope for a nice dry day over the weekend to go,stop off at a local pub for a nice lunch then off to the fair where my daughter will drag me on the rides,we both love the waltzers though.Easter Sunday will make a nice lamb dinner with plenty of mint sauce,and my daughter will eat plenty of chocolate cos she,s just like her chocoholic mum lol.

We buy the goodies for the children/grandchildren, ,distribute them a couple of days early .THEN WE HIDE UP. great

Not a lot up to now, bought reduced eggs when the day was gone but that was about it. But will do a trail for DS this year as he's old enough to enjoy it.

We normally buy a few Easter kits from pound land and I hide cheap eggs in the garden (sometimes with clues) I save the more expensive eggs as a prize each. I like to make Easter cakes but we don't tend to have a big dinner. I might do a roast but nothing special. I like to look about at any local activities going on for free in the holidays such as events put on by the local council like arts and crafts at the library. We do get invited to church services as I live in a small village and the school do an Easter service there and I like to go along.

I do not know yet what our plans are for Easter, looking forward to a week off with our DCs. Still got a couple of months for inspiration.

Hi,we usually go for a long family walk around one of our local nature reserves,spring is such a lovely time to see new growth etc and have a catch up with each other..It's always followed by a nice home roast with all the trimmings and a good pud!

We enjoy a roast dinner with easter themed desserts. I enjoy putting together an egg hunt for the kids and writing cryptic(ish) clues! I like little fair trade dark chocolate eggs for me

When I was growing up, our local farm used to have open "lambing" sessions where kids could come and watch the lambs being born. Didn't always fall right on Easter weekend but it's always what I associate with Easter in my mind. Not much chance of it now we're in London but if the weather's nice we usually go to Richmond Park on Easter Saturday to see the baby deer instead, sometimes do an egg hunt, and get dinner at one of the local pubs after.

Easter egg hunt followed by Christmas dinner at Easter. Yum

Easter egg hunt then drinks in the evening.

we dont celebrate easter as such but we do LOVE taking part in the school easter egg and bonnett competitions.

we exchange eggs with our friends who celebrate easter

and lastly we do lots of crafts at home and do lots of chocolate egg eating.

We don't cook anything special, just a normal meal. We buy an Easter egg for our children and my niece. If the weather is dry we will hide Lindt bears and bunnies in the garden (bears easy to reach for the 6 year old and the bunnies better hidden for the 17 year old) and in wet weather we hide them in the living room.

We have an Easter egg hunt with friends and neighbours. The fun is making up the questions and clues and doing all the hiding without being caught by the children. They've had lots of fun over the years and the older ones enjoy it too.