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AmeliaMumsnet · 17/02/2017 10:21

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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prettybird · 25/02/2017 08:53

When ds was younger, we would have a brunch with friends and family around. We'd start with an Easter Egg hunt out in the back garden.

Then we'd have a brunch of kedgeree (Nigella Lawson's adaptation with salmon/trout and coriander which is lovely and colourful), American pancakes, hot cross buns (sometimes homemade), fruit. The table would be decorated with colourful marbled hard boiled eggs, which the kids would then take outside to roll down slopes.

I also take pleasure in vases of flowers cut from the garden: depending on when Easter is, daffodils, forsythia, alliums. I might supplement with a few bunches of bought tulips.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 25/02/2017 11:01

All the children get a big egg each. We meet up with all the extended family for a meal, and more eggs for the children! and a long walk if weather permits. It's not a huge celebration in our house.

Mehfruittea · 25/02/2017 11:21

Every year we do an Easter egg hunt in the garden. We use plastic eggs and fill them with treats and small toys. One year, when DS was 3 and I wanted to limit chocolate, I put jigsaw puzzle pieces in the eggs. DS had to find each egg and then build the jigsaw. He could see how many eggs were left to find by looking at the jigsaw puzzle. He loved it! This year we will on holiday in a very hot climate. I shall be packing the plastic eggs and some ideas.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 25/02/2017 21:24

If I'm at home with my parents, then it's usually fresh baked hot cross buns on Good Friday. Then on Easter Sunday, Church in the morning, followed by a roast and simnel cake.

The afternoon will probably involve chocolate and films on TV or getting outside somewhere depending on the weather.

MTBMummy · 25/02/2017 21:59

We used to visit my mum every year, she'd do a huge lamb roast and have special eggs waiting for my sister and I (we were both well into our 30's) we'd always bring a huge bunch of daffs. since she passed away I now do the roast, and DD (7) will pick me a bunch of daffs and tulips from the garden, it takes her a good hour to arrange it to her liking, but she feels really involved in the process of Easter lunch.

We amuse the DC's with the standard Easter egg hunt, with the first clue waiting outside their bedroom door (I think DH is grateful we now have kids as I used to make him hunt for his eggs)

DD will make a few eggs for her close friends the weeks before Easter, it's a very serious business designing what each friend likes, and we'll drop them off at each friend on the Saturday before.

ILikeThatSong123 · 26/02/2017 06:29

Easter is just a break from work and school for us. So we use Eeaster break just like any other holiday. Although I arrange egg hunt in the house leading to dd finding a lovely box of chocolate and a gift. She also gets chocolates from school, after - school club, neighbours, family friends etc as well, which is far too much and I think it's madness. Chocolate binge. We end up throwing away some of the chocolate. Some of the chocolate taste vile anyway, smelling like farmyard and tasting like ordinary sugar. So it's not that special to me and we don't make a big deal of it apart from doing some museum trip or theatre etc, purely because it's holiday just like any other holiday.

JulesJules · 26/02/2017 09:38

We go to my parents house, Mum does a treasure hunt with lots of little presents and chocolate for the children. We take flowers and chocolate or champagne, but we don't do adult Easter eggs. We just get a large dark chocolate Lindt bunny each for the children.
It's a lovely family day.

lifelongfrugaleer · 26/02/2017 10:52

with being married to a member of the emergency services bank holidays are difficult. We tend to be very fluid with our Easter plans - we do try and get leave to go away though.
Whether or not ive been on my own its always and Easter egg hunt on the Sunday.
Also we dye eggs using onion skins and roll them on the Monday - this is something i did with my grandparents and we are passing it down to my DC.
Easter is all about family to us and the religious aspect - not the over commercialisation.
Food wise - fish on good Friday (and church), roast chicken usually on Easter Sunday - only i like lamb.

HopefulHamster · 26/02/2017 11:25

For my family, Easter is all about the festival of chocolate. We normally have a small egg hunt :)

vickyors · 26/02/2017 14:48

We do craft at church in the a day before Easter
On the day we don't do eggs, as my other half is allergic to childcare, but we do have poached eggs on toast. Church, then go to my folks and see all the family for the afternoon, with a family egg hunt!

sosotalk · 26/02/2017 19:27

We always make Easter hats - fun craft activity and the kids love it!

sealight123 · 26/02/2017 20:30

We normally do some Easter baking and Easter eggs hunt around the house. This year will be our first year with our 2 new pups, so are going to go to a large outdoor (dog friendly) Easter egg hunt! :)

littledinaco · 26/02/2017 20:34

Hot cross buns for breakfast.
Easter egg hunt.
Big roast dinner.
Lots of chocolate, lots of wine!

theshooglypeg · 27/02/2017 05:44

Usually we'll go to our local National Trust venue, they always have good egg hunts. Then my DH's family will often have us for lunch, or sometimes we do a picnic. No gifts other than chocolate eggs!

Susangilley7 · 27/02/2017 09:08

We have a roast dinner, chicken or lamb and all the family are with us, including our lovely grandchildren. After lunch we have an Egg Hunt in the garden. Looking for the eggs that the Easter Bunny has dropped! Tea is served with Simnell cake and little chocolate eggs.

MycatsaPirate · 27/02/2017 13:24

Easter egg hunt in the house and garden (if the weather is good).

Even DD1 takes part although she's at uni now so it will be DD2 on her own unless I do one for DP as well.

Then we just sit around eating chocolate and maybe have roast lamb for dinner.

I don't go in for the gifting thing at all.

awindup · 27/02/2017 13:24

My son is now 17 and I'm a single parent. There will be an Easter egg but we don't do cards in our house however we will maybe watch a movie on TV together. When he was younger and I was still married will you still have Easter eggs and then maybe try and go out for the day together and enjoy the spring sunshine, maybe feed some ducks or just walk down the park.

littlepooch · 27/02/2017 14:42

We get together with my family for a roast on the Sunday. Always have an Easter egg each too - my mum still buys me and my sister and our husbands an Easter egg each. DD is still very young but my plan when she is older is to do an Easter egg hunt for her and her cousin in the garden and have the Easter bunny bring her a small egg.

I love all the spring flowers too around Easter so make sure to buy myself a bunch to brighten the house up :)

rachelmi · 27/02/2017 14:44

Easter egg hunt in the garden and a family roast meal!

thekiwibex · 27/02/2017 15:03

Eating lots of chocolate and (hopefully!) having a BBQ.

sophiefouldsx · 27/02/2017 17:24

Easter egg hunt and to make some chocolate nests with mini eggs! I think secretly I look forward to Easter more than my daughter! :-)

Wombletor · 27/02/2017 17:32

We love celebrating easter. We have hot cross buns and fish on good Friday. We go to church on easter Sunday, wherever we are, so if we're on holiday we'll find a service to go to. And we always have roast lamb for dinner. We make an easter tree every year from branches we collect in the woods and decorate it with easter deccies we've collected over the years. We also do an egg hunt in our garden. Its almost as lovely as Xmas :-)

welshmardymum · 27/02/2017 19:47

We try and be outdoorsy on Easter weekend regardless of the weather - it could be all day outside walking and picnicking or 30 mins wrapped up in waterproofs before dashing home.
I try and do some crafty thing with my girls - often buying kits to make easter bookmarks or masks but mostly I bake with them - we always make a simnel cake and they help put the marzipan apostles on the top (I always have too look up how many!) and we make easter buns. One of my daughters is intolerant of dairy so I always try and make her something special so shes not left out!

hungryhungryhippos · 27/02/2017 21:21

We always have an Easter egg hunt in the garden and get all the family together to share a cup of tea and cake

sofieellis · 28/02/2017 11:43

I love Easter. DH and I grew up in religious families, so it was a big tradition. Dinner varies, depending on what meat everyone fancies, but we do a huge roast dinner (Quorn for me, meat for everyone else). We also buy Easter cakes and chocolates.

When the kids were little there were lots of Easter Eggs, toys, new clothes and an egg hunt. Nowadays, the older two are more likely to get a small egg and a bottle of something! DS3 still likes lots of chocolate.

Looking forward to my pancakes tonight and that makes me excited for my Easter Egg as well!