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April has absolutely flown by this month I think. I am enjoying the kids school holidays, being able to relax and rest with them has been bliss. The excitement of the Easter bunny coming in the next few day’s is just so delightful to watch, I love their innocence.
Easter traditions and decorations
We don’t have too many:
- Have lunch or dinner with extended family
- Do easter crafts and make yummy chocolate goodies
- We hide the kids Easter eggs outside in the garden
- I puff talcum powder spots all over the lawn like rabbit foot prints so the kids follow the trail to find the hidden eggs
the footprints and a very toothless smile
gorgeous decorations
craft activities to do during the holidays $2.99 from Woolworths
Egg painting
Colouring in
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we head up to the inlaws beautiful farm garden where the easter bunny has hidden all the eggs outside with one big one each with the kids names on it….the number of kids gets bigger every year!! 12 already for this sunday!
We had one I started quite by accident:
We were soooooo broke when the kids were little and I just got tired of mooching of parents and in-laws for Christmas & special occasions I decided to do a cheaper version of separate eggs for everyone on – My Easter Cake – it is basically a moist chocolate cake (double quantity) sliced in half inch layers very carefully and drizzle each layer with ganache, stack layers then top with ganache/frosting, use a contrasting chocolate e.g. milk & white to grate and construct a nest for a handful of small choc eggs.
I didn’t expect that it would get requested the following year…
I was also fortunate enough to have Easter lillies (crocus) growing nearby, I love them and remember them from my childhood in my Grandad’s garden.
I love the Easter bunny footprints – they are so cute!
Easter traditions in our home are laying out a basket for the easter bunny (and a carrot/glass of milk) making easter craft in the leadup to easter and lots of yummy easter cooking. I always make a roast on Easter Sunday, however, this year Im going to have to do so on Monday. I hope you all have a wonderful Easter xo
I don’t have any traditions here now, other than a long lunch with my in-laws, but I love the egg hunt (as an adult, too, yep!) and I loved making chocolate nests filled with mini eggs, and I love the hiding of eggs… I think I need to reinstate a few of these!
A super long relaxed lunch is a great way to spend the day, have fun!!
We have a Good Friday lunch with My mother in law. We always give the kids Pj’s and some Easter eggs near their bed. Then first thing in the morning we go on an Easter egg hunt. We eat chocolate for breakfast. We have a BBQ for lunch on Easter Sunday
Fish on Good Friday,Cooked Breakfast with family on Easter Sunday.
Always,always an Egg Hunt to see what the Easter Bunny hid. And since my son has been around, we have to put out a singing Easter Bunny, who sings about different coloured eggs, to the tune of It’s a Wonderful World
Easter traditions in our are an Easter cake but it is getting harder to find a good quality chocolate chicken.
The cake is round with a hollow in the middle the cake is covered in toasted coconut(representing the nest for the chicken). We all help make the cake and the eggs that decorate the cake/
ooh wow, that sounds so good, I would love to see a photo of it when it’s finished 😉
Sadly our Easter traditions have slipped as our household has got busier! We always hide the eggs and spend the day together with some family……….. but again they are all busy too and live away so sometimes getting together can be a challenge. This year though I am hoping to plan some more ‘advanced’ easter locating activities for the kids now that they can work together (Master 9 and Miss 6 – being shadowed by Master 3). Happy Easter to you all. Thank you ‘Organised Housewife’ for always having easily accessible stuff for me to rely on……. (Enjoy being the bunny everyone!)
Easter Bunny leaves footprints in our house and eggs at the end of your bed. He also has a little bucket for you to find easter eggs he has hidden in the backyard. EB also leave a pair of PJ’s to let you know winter is on it’s way.
Easter Friday we have a big seafood cook up, Saturday is a normal day, Easter Sunday- eggs for breakfast! Chocolate or real ones… up to you
we always do the family lunch at the inlaws on Easter Sunday with an easter egg hunt, and of course the kids have their own eggs to open in the morning at home. We never eat meat on Good Friday. That’s pretty much it, no other traditions. I try to do Easter Crafts with the kids. One new tradition we started last year which I think I found from a reader on here (don’t hold me to that) is, we sprinkle the jelly beans on the back lawn, and in the morning lollypops have grown. The kids love it, and have been asking for it this year. So I am now making more work for myself by searching for different sized lollypops
thats brilliant I love the jelly beans growing into lollipops I’m doing that
First and foremost we always go to Church on Easter Friday and Easter Sunday to encourage our children to be part of the celebrations that Easter is all about. We watch Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ sometime over the weekend. I’m all for Easter egg hunts on Sunday morning but we just want our children to understand what they are celebrating…No Jesus…no Easter!! Jesus death and resurrection is the most significant event in the Christian calendar and we also share with the kids that the eggs represent ‘New Life’….which is exactly what we are offered through Jesus if we accept Him into our life. What a wonderful time Easter is and there is nothing as good as Easter egg chocolate, happy kids and family fun!
Love traditions, although my family is young, so we’re establishing ours. We always had bunny footprints growing up too, and when we were camping, though, we’d make nests for the Easter eggs from twigs etc. This year am thinking of having an Easter egg pinata- I made one already as a test. Have also been doing a lot of Easter craft – including baking hot cross (and nought) buns, Easter bonnets (paper mache like an egg), and decorating eggs. Hope your family has a lovely Easter x
Our tradition growing up was Hot Cross Buns on Friday (no other time of the year – only on Good Friday!), decorate an egg on Saturday and then Sunday morning we rolled our eggs down a hill – whether it be our back garden, the street or a nearby park. The ‘winner’ was the one who’s egg didn’t break – (or the egg that went the furtherest before breaking!) and then they got to boil their egg for breakfast and also got dibs on the largest egg found in the Easter Egg hunt. Looking back, I think the dog fared best of all getting so many broken raw eggs for breakfast!
Just saw the easer bunny foot prints the kids are in side playing, so i’m going to have some fun with the powder!!
We lived in North queensland where hiding eggs outside ends in a melted mess, so we used the plastic eggs and each child had a colour to make it fair as the children we toddlers to teens. The older ones were more of a follow the clues inside and the babies were easy to see. This helps keep everyone involved. We also do the lolly pops and treats for easter bunny. We do all the normal food traditions and I have continued a tradition my aunty and uncle use to do as they we’re not well off so they always made fresh marshmallow bunnys they were great… I have been making then for work, neighbors and friends my sister do the school friends I have 100 for work and about 50 others to do this weekend. Always a big hit and very low cost
We take over our court of nine houses and “hide” about 3,000 plastic eggs filled with candy and treats. Our hunt is the day before Easter so that families can attend church and be with family on Easter itself. Last year we had about 120 people attend (no one gets taken off the guest list!) and with this year being our 20th anniversary – it’s going to be epic! We thought the hunt would die out as the kids got older, but they never got tired of it (they’re now 23 and 24)! And now, we’ve got second generation hunters!!! I start getting e-mails in February confirming that we’ll be having our hunt. We ask each family to donate a bag of individually wrapped candy for each child attending and we have a HUGE egg stuffing party the night before the hunt. It is our favorite holiday tradition! Oh – the Easter Bunny makes an appearance each year – no idea where he finds the time, but the pictures are just precious!