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

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JustineBMumsnet · 29/03/2017 09:57

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!

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DoItTooJulia · 10/04/2017 07:49

As our family becaomes bigger and less likely to be in the same place at the same time, we have a new Easter tradition.

We have Christmas dinner on Easter Sunday! Not just a roast but the whole hog-crackers, pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce, food in serving bowls, gravy in jugs, the LOT. And we all sit round the table. That we we might just manage a festive meal with most of the family there at some point in the course of the year. The only difference is the pudding-chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate!

Falconhoof1 · 10/04/2017 08:16

Kids do an egg hunt in the morning and get far too much chocolate from grandparents! It usually lasts for ages though and i steal quite a lot!

Bellroyd · 10/04/2017 08:38

In our family, we promote the real meaning of Easter. With due respect to Cadbury and others, this isn't about chocolate eggs.

allibaby · 10/04/2017 08:54

We like to try and organise an egg hunt for the little ones and weather permitting we usually all go to the local park for the boiled egg painting and rolling down the hill competition.

SOEMUM · 10/04/2017 09:42

No Easter Bunny in our house - somehow an Easter tradition has evolved where a (slightly curt) text message is received from the Easter Badger telling the kids they could go and hunt for their Easter goodies. He leaves sherbet as well as chocolate eggs. He's edgy, but fun.

Epilepticmummy · 10/04/2017 10:46

We start the day by doing an Easter egg hunt some eggs are chocolate some are plastic with treats, we then have the family over for a gorgeous lamb roastGrin

Dangermouse80 · 10/04/2017 11:53

No traditions as yet but looking forward to first egg hunt this year as this is the first year ds will understand Easter.

caffeineandcalpol · 10/04/2017 12:44

I LOVE Easter ! It's my absolute favourite time of year. We do Easter crafts leading up to the Sunday, then I set my alarm early and set up an Easter hunt, it's all over, inside and out, my family will be round later for a meal and a get together. My daughter was born on Easter Sunday which was wonderful, and although it falls on a different day each year it's still a fabulous memory

mclarkie · 10/04/2017 14:16

I always bake a family sized Simnel cake at Easter

MillyVanilli222 · 10/04/2017 15:53

We always have an Easter Egg Hunt in the morning, although they're not allowed to eat them until after Sunday Lunch with all the family!

Hygellig · 10/04/2017 16:28

The only tradition we have is hot cross buns on Good Friday and then a chocolate egg hunt in the garden on Easter Sunday. Nothing very unusual!

bertdynamite · 10/04/2017 16:35

We have jarpy (not sure of the spelling?) eggs on Good Friday with hot cross buns. Then fish and chips for lunch from the chip shop. Other plans will be weather dependent.

lucyanntrevelyan · 10/04/2017 17:15

easter egg hunt in the garden - I am still asked to hide mini foil wrapped eggs now when they are nearly teenagers. Lots of chocolate on Sunday but not before - we are allowed chocolate for breakfast on this one day of the year.

NicHay · 10/04/2017 19:44

We decorate an easter tree and have an easter egg hunt with one or two small gifts as well as easter eggs

slithytove · 10/04/2017 19:48

I grew up abroad, so literally nothing.
However with our kids we are introducing some fun little things - we do an Easter egg hunt around our house with plastic eggs we fill with treats. We also go and find a hill on a nice day and do an Easter egg roll - where we pretend to be the Easter eggs.
Might try a lamb dinner this year, why not!

Caelaj07 · 10/04/2017 22:27

We have an Easter egg hunt in the morning at my parent in laws with breakfast and then we go have tea later with my mum

stoopido · 10/04/2017 23:15

Only if they tell me why they have changed the ingredients in their chocolate? Tastes vile now!

jamielmdjs · 10/04/2017 23:35

the boys love spending an afternoon in the kitchen 'baking' Easter nests. It's messy, it's fun and we end up making an obscene amount of them.

Megansmumsie · 11/04/2017 00:01

Easter was never really a big event in our house growing up, nobody was particularly religious but when i had our daughter- who is religious as it goes, i wanted to feel like Easter had passed through our house.

We always decorate for Easter- not religiously- bunting, lots of chicks and baskets filled with brightly coloured eggs. My daughter and i have made an Easter bonnet every year since she was two- that's our own little tradition, just me and her.

rhinosuze · 11/04/2017 07:32

Just an egg hunt and roast dinner, quite simple but always look forward to it

Dothbutternoparsnips · 11/04/2017 07:49

Massive Easter egg hunt. Then we always go to a coffee morning where the whole community goes. The rest of the day spent in a chocolate coma before sitting down to a big Easter dinner late afternoon. It's always lamb. Pudding this year will be a big pavlova. I take Easter almost as seriously as Christmas. I've got all my decorations ready to decorate the house on Thursday.

Loftzilla · 11/04/2017 08:51

Egg hunting is relatively new in our family, introduced by my granddaughter who, when presented with eggs and Easter chocolate gifts, asked for them to be hidden! So now it's what we do!

Mozarmstrong · 11/04/2017 09:43

Hot cross buns a nice Easter egg family sit down then cheeky glass of wine why not its a lovely long weekend and well deserved by everyone

bubbleybooboo · 11/04/2017 10:26

Where we live theres a small grassed area in the middle of all the houses (they go round the grassed area in a triangle). Every year parents on the streets round the triangle get together and decorate it all with bunting and we do an easter egg hunt with the children. They have baskets and clues and theres special eggs with chicks in and even some with a note in with a prize. Its a lovely community morning get together and everyone gets involved. Its so nice to see all the happy smiling faces.

wef1984 · 11/04/2017 10:36

We love an Easter hunt in the garden, it's so much fun watching the children running about trying to find them.