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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Our family tradition is to wait until all the eggs are massively reduced after Easter and then buy loads and have an egg hunt.

Nothing beats a picnic/BBQ in the park! Even if it is under a few golf umbrellas!

Always always an Easter Egg hunt on Easter morning - dependent upon the weather this may take place indoors or in the garden or a bit of both! The Easter weekend is also Easter cake making weekend. Always an Easter family meal on Easter Sunday.

We have an Easter egg hunt in the morning, a nice family lunch and then we go for a walk on the local fells and we each take an egg so we can roll it down a short slope.

When I was young, my family would travel to stay with my grandparents every year at Easter. My grandfather would provide an Easter egg hunt with clues that would send us racing around the house until we found the magical chocolate at the end.

Ever since my children were old enough to read, I created a similar hunt for them. The clues have become more cryptic year-on-year as they have grown.

This year, for the first time, my twelve year old son has decided he wants to create an Easter egg hunt for Mum and Dad. I can't wait for it to be my turn to race around the house again!

We have a massive Easter Egg hunt for all our friends with children, followed by cake & drinks. We have a big garden and orchard and you can set off 60 children without them tripping over each other.
It's a bit of a mammoth event with puzzles, hundreds of small eggs and if the weather allows it egg & spoon races. It takes about a month to prepare for.
This year is extra special as it's also my baby's 1st birthday so I will be adding a birthday cake to the cake table.

I buy my ds some craft bits to do, nothing much just a couple of bits from Poundland. We also do a Easter egg hunt for him and a nice roast dinner.

My son's birthday always coincides with Easter so we always through a birthday party for him with friends and family and also combine this with an easter egg hunt for all the children.
Last year we cranked it up a notch and all the children had to solve riddles to find each egg, which was then labelled with the name of that child. There were 15 clues and eggs to find!
The whole house and garden was alive with children laughing, screaming and trying to figure out our cryptic clues....even the younger ones got involved!
I'm not sure we can go to that level this year, but there will definately be an easter egg hunt for sure!

We don't make a big thing of chocolate eggs and Easter egg hunts - by the time Easter Sunday comes round DC have already been given several eggs by school, holiday club etc. Sadly receiving eggs doesn't have the same excitement as it did when we were children.

We do use the long weekend though to meet up with a group of family and friends for a couple of nights. It tends to be the same group each year and has become a lovely tradition and in most cases the only time we see each other.

We do a little chocolate Easter egg hunt every year.

We like to go to Wales and get some beach time. And eggs of course.

My parents never did Easter egg hunts so I am setting up new traditions now with DD. She is a bit young for chocolate so we decorate egg shaped cards together and then take turns putting them around the room for the others to find.

I don't have any traditions from my childhood expect decorating eggs for school competitions. But ds is only just 3 and we are doing an easter egg hunt with his grandparents and some easter crafts and we will be having brunch with them. I'll be working but we can do some egg decorating together too. Maybe try to make some.of his favourite book characters. Just family time.

As a child we never did anything for Easter, so this is all new to me and we've had to figure it out and make our own traditions up! We now leave a note for the Easter bunny and wake up to an Easter Egg hunt in the garden. And of course we have chocolate for breakfast!!

Easter should be more about spending time with family and friends and not how many Easter eggs a child can accumulate. Like Christmas it's so. Commercialised now that it's more about how much money supermarkets make. I am planning on a sweet Hunt for my children and their cousins on Easter Sunday, which they really love!

Easter egg hunts at National Trust properties and a big roast dinner.

I like to do the baking, traditional hot cross buns and simnel cake and to decorate Easter bonnets. I also like to make Easter cards and gifts. My hubby is brilliant at doing egg hunts, with written cryptic clues that lead to a tiny egg and another clue before the last one reveals a lovely big egg or easter gift.

We always decorate our home with home made bunting and we hang painted eggs on willow branches in our living room to create an Easter display! I always make homemade Easter cards with my children as well as Easter nest cakes and decorated chick/bunny shaped biscuits too!

It's not really an event here - when we were growing up it was a rather sombre weekend and the legacy of our childhood kind of lives on with our own family now. Somewhere down the line it's been mega commercialised and I'm not sure I buy into it at all.

I guess the only traditions in our house are food related. Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday and Easter Sunday lunch - with lamb, minted new potatoes and spring veggies - simple but very effective .

Easter is always a large family get together starting with an Easter Egg Hunt having a lovely lunch finishing off with a brisk walk over the hills

The only Easter traditions that have been consistent in our house have been:

1. DIY
2. Eat the Easter eggs early and have to buy more.
3. Wish you'd bought more.

We treat Easter in a very similar way to Christmas, except the Easter Bunny comes into the dining room, rather than the living room. Each DC writes their name on a piece of paper and puts it on the dining room table ready for the EB coming at midnight. On Easter Sunday they run down as excited as can be for their tower of eggy treats. Apart from Christmas day , this is the only day of the year I let them have chocolate for breakfast.

I'm still sulking with Cadburys as I was chosen years ago to be a tater a never got my stash of chocolate.

Dh hides the eggs. Usually by taping them in some very off places (the ceiling, under chairs). We usually do a national trust hunt over the holidays.

We always go away somewhere warm to make the most of the bank holidays!

we have a walk over the meadows, then back home for the easter egg hunt and then a nice family meal, followed by far too much chocolate and board games