Tell Cadbury about your family’s Easter traditions - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED

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With Easter fast approaching, Cadbury would like to hear about your family’s Easter traditions. Is there a tradition from your childhood that you’re passing on to the next generation? Or have you used your imagination to think up something that’s completely your own? Do you have a traditional family Easter lunch planned, or will you be spending the day working your way through your new chocolate egg stash? Is there a location you always like to visit over the long weekend? Perhaps your Easter Bunny devises egg hunts that could outfox even the wiliest of hunters?

Here’s what Cadbury has to say: “Easter is a really special time of the year where families come together and we believe Egg Hunts are the perfect ritual for the whole family to enjoy! We are really excited to hear about people’s Easter traditions and how they bring their families together during the Easter period”

Whatever your favourite family Easter traditions, share with Cadbury by the 12th April for a chance to win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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Extended family getting together, the kids really look forward to it.

we always hold our family bonnet decorating contest.Here we are last year preparing

My mum prides herself on her annual Easter egg hunt in her garden - she invites every child she knows and hundreds of chocolate eggs, toy bunnies, toy chicks and other small gifts are hidden. We tell the dc that their GM works for the Easter bunny. When we're at home for Easter we usually go to church on Easter Sunday and I sometimes go on a Good Friday.

Time with the family

Easter egg hunt

Lots of lovely food

Not too much chocolate

Not religious but I always like a good excuse to bake and entertain, so I'll bake a simnel cake (and I've even made home made hot cross buns some years!) and some fairy cakes, topped with pastel icing and mini eggs.

We'll have a brunch with kedgeree (Nigella's adaptation with trout and coriander rather than haddock and parsley which is very pretty) and American style pancakes. The table is decorated with a bowl of coloured marbled hard boiled eggs, w loch are then rolled in the garden.

Love easter,
Our little one has to follow the trail in the morning that the easter bunny has left she follows the egg trail all the way garden and house till she finda the easter basket filled with chocolate, crafts and small games.
We then have the day to do the activites that were left by said bunny and we have a huge sunday roast for dinner.
Followed by chill out evening with a good family film and of course chocolate to munch on.
Perfect

We love going back to my mums [she lives 150 miles away] and get together with all the family. My mum is a crafty woman and she always hides the eggs ready for when we arrive. My son loves going on egg hunts around her [much bigger then mine!] house :) Then when all the boys are together they have a fabulous time decorating eggs.

Usually visit a NT place on Good Friday to do an egg hunt (keep the kids busy as hubby has to work), always fish for tea that day. Easter Sunday finds that the Easter Bunny has been in the kids bedrooms overnight and left a couple of treats (not loads of chocolate though, a little bit plus say a new dvd/book.

Well, we do have a couple of 'normal' traditions including an Easter egg Hunt and weather permitting the first BBQ Alfresco Buffet of the year...BUT...we are lucky to live near the coast so we go on an Easter Flotsam & Jetsam Hunt - Beach-combing for things that we can bring home and use in an arty craft way.

We make chocolate nests, Simnel cake and Easter biscuits. Children get an egg but I've sometimes not bothered if other family members have bought them too many eggs. We also decorate an easter tree - a bundle of branches from the garden. We have sometimes done the NT egg hunt but to be honest, they're really busy so we give them a miss now!

We love all the traditional Easter traditions we paint our breakfast eggs the night before, then a nice traditional egg hunt followed by a family roast lamb dinner, and of course a Disney movie or two

I always do an easter egg hunt for my girls. I make up clues and then hide eggs around the home and every time they find an egg they will find the next clue. Then most of the time we will go to see family for dinner. Its always a special time with easter bonnet making and lots of chocolate

We hide the children's Easter chocolate in the garden and they go hunting for it

My mum always arranges an Easter egg hunt for my son. This year she is taking it particularly seriously and is providing him with clues, a map and a compass!

We do an egg hunt at my Dad's house every year followed by painting eggs and racing them launched from a egg releaser my Dad invented. It's all great fun until the smashed eggs start to pong a bit and we go inside for food :D

Always even with the older children do an egg hunt around the house. Easter bunny leaves a letter telling them what to look for - e.g. One creme egg, six chocolate coins, one large egg etc so no greedy piggy finding all the eggs in one go! Winner who completes their list first gets an extra prize. Then they eat chocolate for breakfast....

A lovely big family lunch, then a walk to the country park to roll eggs down the hill

When we were younger we always met up with my cousins and had an Easter Egg hunt at Granny and Grandads. They would be hidden all over the house and garden. Now with families so far apart I still enjoy hiding eggs for my three DC and we always get crafty making cards. I remember when I was young a Cadbury's Easter Egg would last for ages, now they tend to get eaten much quicker :)

We don't really have any Easter traditions other than eating lots of yummy Easter eggs!

I lived abroad for a long time in a country where Easter is a non event, but I organised egg hunts for my kids and their friends. We dyed boiled eggs and decorated them too. I am planning on doing the same this year again, and having a chocolate egg hunt and some games - egg and spoon races!

I usually host as have a big dining table. Roast dinner which I cook, dessert which 12yr old DD makes and other family members bring wine & nibbles.
I do an Easter egg hunt with cardboard eggs and then once they've found those they have to solve cryptic clues to find the whereabouts of their eggs. Each child gets different clues depending on age.
I also hold an Easter party for my DD friends every year which involves craft making of some kind, egg hunt & boiled eggs for lunch. Once eggs have been eaten they put cotton wool & cress seeds in and put a funny face on shell with googly eyes etc to take home. Every year I do different craft & change the hunt style a bit to mix things up as some children are the same each year!
Love Easter and always decorate the house with a white branched tree with eggs hanging off it, lots of yellow & green paper hangings & daffodils & tulips everywhere. Looks so fresh and bright.
I don't go mad on chocolate eggs. Just one biggish one for each DC but not grown ups.
We have bunnies too so they add to the Easter experience

Got to say Easter was never a big occasion when I was little. So I don't have much beyond giving of Easter eggs to pass onto dd. Easter Sunday we go to my mums for a roast or picky tea. Then the Monday its egg rolling in the park by us. So overall pretty unremarkable 😂😂

Egg hunt for my LO and a big family meal. And eggs for adults too!

Egg harping is a popular activity for us Northern folk. We hard boil lots of eggs and then have a competion which involves knocking your opponent's egg. The winner is the one whose egg survives.

Easter holds no religious meaning for us, we don't attend church.

We do decorate Easter hats, have an Easter egg hunt, and do some baby animal crafts. It's just about having fun, celebrating Spring.