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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DD is only 2 so we haven't had the opportunity to start traditions yet. However I have bought half a dozen of those smarties chicks with the sweets inside which I will be hiding around the house with a photo of where the next one is so that she can have a mini hunt. I've also bought a load of Easter craft activities to do but honestly I don't think she's aware of Easter at all

As a child I'd always get summer sandals and a new dress for Easter. I've carried this on with new shoes and clothes for my children.

It used to be everyone stuffing their faces with chocolate but since Mondelez has taken over Cadburys and other chocolate in this country - they have stuffed it with palm oil which not only makes it taste of shit but the growing of palm oil is systematically destroying orangutan habitat. Shame on you.

I guess you were jealous because our chocolate tasted good and American chocolate tastes of vomit. If no-one believes me try a Hershey Bar.

I walk past Poundworld every week watching the unsold piles of Cadbury's going higher and higher. It makes me happy.

Have a nice Easter.

Good Friday I make chocolate hot x buns for children service at church
The kids get to do lots fun activities and love it.Sunday the girls have flowers weave into hair for Easter service.an egg hunt happens after service and as my youngest now dairy free its plastic eggs fill with sweets for her to find so isn't left out (any chance you can do this at national trust sites please?)
Home for lunch and an egg hunt.if nice we go out and do egg rolling at our favoured hill

As a child I had new knickers at Easter (and xmas) to wear for church

I love Easter! Mainly because my whole family gets together. I get to see all my sisters and all our children have an Easter egg hunt with a picnic.
Me and my daughter always make rice crispie nests and we always eat the mini eggs 😳

National Trust egg hunts for us for the last five years. Nyman's in Sussex was the best so far. Great way to get kids into history.

We've adopted a local (Finnish) tradition that on Palm Sunday DD dresses up as a witch (cute colourful witches not Halloweeny type witches, wearing shawls and face painted freckles on the cheeks) and goes round neighbouring houses handing out decorated pussy willow sticks in exchange for sweets or money. She has to say a rhyme when handing over the sticks that wishes good health and fortune/driving away evil spirits for the home for the coming year.

We also grow grass from seeds in a little pot, I guess to think about new growth in Springtime.

I grew up with an Easter egg hunt with rhyming couplet clues to where the next egg could be found. Cue lots of running around the house and garden trying to find not only my eggs, but my two brothers also!! Happy days and a tradition I very much want to replicate!

My mum and me always decorated an Easter bonnet together, made shredded wheat nest cakes (with mini eggs of course) and had an Easter egg hunt. My daughter is 21 months now so she's old enough this easter to start the tradition and I am super excited!!

We always do an egg hunt - can't wait! - and usually paint an egg and roll it down a hill. Dd was hilariously baffled by this behaviour at three!

We used to go to a farm and see the lambs being born around Easter. No local farms offering that currently but we might go to Richmond Park and see if we can spot some baby deer. We usually get up early and take a breakfast picnic to watch the sun come up, read the Easter story, and then do an egg hunt later in the day with a few of DCs friends.
MrsFrTed - Love the bonfire idea! We might steal that this year :)

We don't have any big traditions yet as my daughter is only 2 but we try and buy a couple of Easter books- some 'fun' ones and some with the story of Easter so that she can learn about the season in an age appropriate way.

We always do an Easter egg hunt in the garden & this is the second year in a row we are coming to Cadbury World on Good Friday🍫🍫🍫🍫
My girls love it & are complete chocoholics!

Ours usually isn't a big event: sometimes we go away for the weekend so the DC get their eggs after. We usually hide them, then take them out to the garden to be rolled and then eaten.

We do an egg hunt too, have some bits in to make a bonnet. My daughter will have an egg and something to keep from us as she gets so much from everyone else! And then I have to help her eat all the chocolate ;)

Children's church service in good Friday. Easter Sunday wake up to an egg hunt with clues from the Easter bunny with a basket of goodies each at the end. Hot cross buns for breakfast then round to granny's house for a roast lamb dinner with extended family and another egg hunt in the garden. Home to watch hop and stuff our faces. Eater Monday big spring clean of the house

Big family roast dinner - usually MIL will do an egg hunt for the grandchildren. It's a lot like Christmas but without gifts!

We always paint boiled eggs bright colours and then roll them down the hill. It's something my Mum did as a little girl, and now we do it too!

We also eat a LOT of chocolate and have a LOT of easter egg hunts in the garden!!

Easter Egg hunts were not something we did growing up. We went to mass, visited our granny and were given a chocolate egg. But as an adult, I'm no church goer so we do the Easter Egg hunt in the garden and then enjoy a great big roast dinner altogether

We celebrate Easter from Shrove Tuesday, we put a big emphasis on paying it back during Lent till Pentecost. Even if making cards to send to people that really appreciate them, making cakes & cookies, sharing them with the community. This year we're doing something new, which should be exciting, choosing a charity to buy stuff that they can use to make a difference. We like to think about those who are without, no just money, but without friends, family, all sorts. So Easter Cards, with no apparent religious message, just a token of love and support.

Some may question it, but I think it's a valuable life lesson you can't take things for granted and you should be grateful with what you have. I always say do your prayers, whether they do or not I don't know. But we prayed together when the London tragedy happened, praying for victims, those who helped. It makes them aware of all the people involved in helping people. It also educates them that there's a lot of jobs that involve self sacrifice.

Some Good Friday's we'll go on the Witness March at midday, which the children love as it usually means getting given chocolate in the morning.

Now both are getting older, we talk about themes from the bible, but in the context of today. So forgiveness, being nice and friendly etc. Giving up your time to help others, which can just be visiting an elderly person with a cake which the children love.

So in brief, using from Lent to Pentecost to think about what makes a community.

Tradition from my childhood was decorating eggs - blown and super hard boiled - then hanging them up around the house. Planning to do this with my dc when they're old enough. Oldest dc is only 2 but planning starting our own tradition of an Easter egg hunt this year...

Easter egg hunt of course!

A big family roast dinner. This is the first year the older child will be able to do an egg hunt properly so we are looking forward to that becoming a tradition too.

We always do an Easter tree - lots of branches from the garden in a huge vase with some glass egg decorations and those fluffy chicks. It's love,y when the branches are in bud and then the leaves come out over the Easter weekend - though that does depend on how early Easter is that year.

Then chocolate eggs of course! We have friends over at some point - but one gloriously sunny year, we all went for a big picnic and needed up eating hot cross buns on the beach on good Friday - happy days!

My parents always did an egg hunt for me and my younger brother. I can't wait to start that tradition with my son. He'll be 14 months this year so I think I'll put some plastic eggs on the lawn and give him an Easter basket to collect them in.