Easter traditions?

I haver made bunny prints every year. You take an empty coffee can and cout out bunny prints out of the plastic top. Fill the coffee can with powder or epsom salts. Put an old pair of pantyhose over the top and secure with a rubberband. Place the plastic lid on and then proceed to stamp bunny prints wherever you think the easter bunny would go.
great way to make an ester egg hunt out of it.

ok, this is silly, but we always take pictures with plastic egg halves over our eyes. if you squint you can hold them there, kind of like a monocle-or whatever you call those eyepieces people used to wear. makes the funniest pics!

we do typical easter stuff...dye eggs, have a hunt...take tons of pictures, eat a lot:) most essential: having our family altogether. this year, it will be at our house. so, i think the hunt will be smaller...just in our courtyard, but there is something reallysweet about that. thanks for letting me share!

We do all the usual stuff, egg hunt, dyeing eggs, church, ham dinner, etc., but my favorite tradition is one that actually started with my husband's grandmother. Every year of their marriage (and they were married for 50+ years before he passed away!), he gave her a potted Easter lily on Easter morning. I just thought that was the loveliest tradition so I let my husband know in no uncertain terms when we wed that he would continue this tradition with me!!! LOL ;) We've had 7 wonderful years together so far... and there are 7 beautiful lilies that bloom in my garden every year. :)

We have always done the easter bunny thing on Saturday in our house (just too busy Sunday morning to enjoy the fun and get to Church on time.) Now that my girls are older, and they know all the "hiding" places I did this last year and they are asking again... Instead of hiding the treats inside. I hid them outside - at night ( I always use plastic eggs and fill them) sent them into the yard with flash lights and the hunt was on. Of course teh hidden golf balls and other odd things were a hoot! The eggs that glow in the dark are rather cool! Not quite as easy to get good photo's but sometimes you just have to live the moment.
Happy Easter all
Di

We make as many egg dishes as possible Easter weekend. Using the boiled eggs. Then we are all egg-ed out for the year. LOL.
We do the traditional baskets (always includes a new game) and egg hunts, we visit our families, and eat great food.
We buy the kids new PJ's for every holiday eve and they get a new outfit to wear for the holiday too.
Have a great Easter!!!

I make a scavenger hunt for my kids like my mom did for us. I give them a sheet of clues that they have to figure out to get their prizes. This is so much more fun than just handing them a basket. Plus it's fun to watch how they figure out their clues.

We do color Easter eggs...but we save about 3 to put on our Poruguese Sweet Bread Easter morning. My husband makes eggs a la goldenrod (eggs on toast)after the egg hunt. This is the first year we will have a child for Easter...but we've always loved traditions!

My aunt told me once that my grandmother put a small piece of cotton in the door, as if the bunny had caught his tail as he left our home. So I done this, in hornor of my grandmother. My grandson cried and cried and thought it was terrible. We had to go outside and check and see if he was still outside hurt. Some traditions are not meant to carry on. Happy Easter from Alabama.

Its fun to see what you all do. We here in OZ, have pancake breakfast on easter morning, and always have an easter egg hunt.
Easter weekend is strange time for us, as it signifies the loss of our first son. And thats hard at the times.
My birthday is at Easter this year too, so more to celebrate.
We usually have family and friends around, and eat seafood, and hang out.
And mostly we remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. The incredible Love that is outpoured from ONE HUGE sacrifice. The NEW life that we have been given, due to Jesus.
And that, above all else, is worthy of some celebration!
Happy Easter from OZ!

I saw a really fun looking idea in a Family Fun magazine. I'm thinking about trying it with my kids. You take a ball of yarn and tie one end to his bed and then create a maze by taking it around doorknobs or furniture. He has to follow and collect the yarn as he goes. It could go through as many rooms as you want. At the end of the yarn maze he would discover his Easter basket. If you think he would be upset waking up to the maze of yarn you could start it it another room and take the adventure with him. Have a blessed Easter!

Ali, one more fun thing to do, and we do this over Halloween, Create a Easter Basket Chain. Make up two or three small Easter Baskets. Then pick three neighbors. Third go to neighbors house. Fourth, ring the doorbell....and run like the wind! In your basket will be a letter explaining they have just been "tricked" or whatever you want to call it, and then they need to copy the letter and find 2 more people to "trick"...sort of like 6 degrees. It is a lot of fun!

Growing up my parents raised chickens. So our eggs were always brown. Then we dyed them with beets and other natural things...at the time I just wanted white eggs with the bright colors (like everybody else), but now I would love to have those eggs again...they were so beautiful! I think that no matter what you do for Easter (or any holiday) having a tradition that you do every year is the important part. It's the family traditions that I always look forward to.
My mom was big on decorations. Each holiday she would get out the special decorations for that particular holiday, and we would help her decorate. We didn't have much money so they were usually homemade or paper cut-outs to put on the wall; but I remember just loving the decorations.

We always dye our eggs on Good Friday, a tradition my mom started and I now do with my kids - we dye eggs even though no one in my family eats them! At 9 1/2 and 8 1/2 we still do an egg hint after church on Easter Sunday - they still beleive. Have a great holiday!

For the past several years, I've made "Bunny Bread" from a recipe in Quick Cooking magazine. It's really easy (make from a few loaves of frozen -- then thawed -- bread dough), and makes a great conversation piece on Easter Sunday. You hollow out the tummy, fill it with spinach or veggie dip, lay the bunny on a bed of leaf lettuce and surround him with cut veggies, and you've got a really cute addition to the table. We love it.
Here's a link to a recipe online (see photo at far right):
http://www.recipezaar.com/163034

hey there,
It's wonderful to read all the fun ideas. My little one is three, so in years past we haven't done a whole lot. But this year we have already gone through and talked about the "Resurrection Eggs". They have little symbols inside to explain the real story of Easter. It has a cool activity book that goes with it - with recipes, crafts, worksheets, etc. Each year we can get more in depth with the story of Easter. Plus, we will dye eggs. Dress up and attend Church. Then we will gather with friends and have lunch and an egg hunt with all the kids.
you can check out the Resurrection Eggs here: http://www.familylife.com/default.asp
I hope you all have a wonderful and BLESSED Easter.
Kelley

For Easter we set out baskets the night before and the Easter bunny fills them with a little bit of candy, and usually some crayons and a coloring book. A little toy and a kite. This year the Easter Bunny will be leaving everybody a new bike, and a helmet. We then go to Easter dinner at my grandpas, and he lives on a farm so we usually go for wagon rides with the tractor or horses. My kids also head to their dads grandparents house, where they take part in a "hunt" for their present. Each person has their own egg that they use every year, with a clue in it to where their present is.

We started a cool tradition when my husband was trying to bond with his teenage daughters.He came up with memory eggs--we put memories for the year in the eggs. The memories are written on strips on paper.(It is easier to do it on the computer and cut the strips). It is a neat way to talk about favorite memories and accomplishments. We have one person read their memories out loud and it is fun. We each take a turn reading our memories. We usually try to do about 8-10 memories. The conversations that follow are cool. My husband and I also have fun doing the memories for each other. Then you can put the strips on a scrapbook page.
This has become a favorite easter tradition:)
Jessica

Ali,
Our Easter traditions consist of going to have our picture taken with the Easter Bunny at the mall (I think it is the same ole bunny but oh so cute!). Grandma always buys Demi's new dress and shoes..and the cousins all dye eggs. This year we are making confetti eggs on Thursday which should be so much funny. We will attend church on Saturday evening this year. The Easter Bunny will hide our baskets and then it will be time to hunt for eggs outside. (Last year I forgot to turn off the water sprinkler so they were a little wet and the candy was soaked..haha) Then we go to my sister in laws mom's house to have a ham dinner and then all the big and little kids hunt for eggs. My mom has one big egg with the kids names on it with $$$ inside to find. Then they empty their baskets to see what is in the plastic eggs, they usually end up trading their candy! Usually the kids swim, cold or hot before our mid day dinner and after the "Big Hunt".
We are so blessed to have family and friends to share this day with every year!
PS - I love the fun stuff with Easter but really feel like Demi should know the reason for this holiday and what happen on this day with Jesus. So I will find a special way to share this with Demi maybe with a new book or coloring page.
Happy Easter to you and your family,
Diana

Since the kids have gotten older - we hide their baskets with clues. And they have to help each other solve the clues to find their baskets. A clue would be: So far you are doing great, but be careful, make no mistake, if you leave it running it forms a lake. Or It's cold and dark when I'm closed, I brighten up when I'm opened - What am I?