Anyone have any Easter Traditions they would like to share?

Sara

We set up an Easter egg hunt for our girls the night before (using the plastic eggs with goodies inside). It's fun to watch them search for them.

Then we go to church on Easter day and then off to my fil's for afternoon Easter dinner.

I hate to admit that last year we forgot to color the eggs. Let's hope that's not my Easter Tradition. Usually I take my daughter to several Church related Easter Egg Hunts and then hide some at home too. She gets a homemade basket with a little candy and lots of other stuff, like a cd, book, hair clips, etc. We do dress up for Easter but its usually in what someone else wore the year before and we were given or bought second hand. Of course, I eat those marshmallow peeps until I am sick of them.

We hide goodies for the kids in the morning. We go to my grandmas for her annual Easter weenie roast. :yucky:

Why oh why couldn't I have been born into a normal family that eats ham for Easter. lol

We get in our best Sunday clothes. My better half always gets me a pretty orchid corsage. We go to church, then to brunch, then to see the rest of the family for supper. My children get baskets. We don't hide them. Havnt done an egg hunt in ages. We color them some years. This year my daughter just saying she wants lil scoops. rofl

Countrymom I have to ask what a weenie roast is all about.

Malika

I was thinking of an Easter pinata. :) Ideally, it would be better with a larger family than we have. hehe But I think this could be something fun for us. We're such a new family, we haven't started many traditions yet, and our families are all pretty far away.

Sara

Originally posted by smnoel
I was thinking of an Easter pinata. :) Ideally, it would be better with a larger family than we have. hehe But I think this could be something fun for us. We're such a new family, we haven't started many traditions yet, and our families are all pretty far away.

Sara

Adding more. I am looking for patterns that I could make myself, but came across some already made. Not badly priced at $8.95.
I got this idea when Chelle was showing me a paper mache craft she was thinking of making.

Sara

:bump: for more ideas.

I put out a pile of odd stuff for Easter Egg decorating and let them cut, paste, and glue away.......
Fun foam, feathers, construction paper, string, tiny bits of fake fur, dried pods and such from potpouri,
They have make and assortment of animals, creatures, aliens, ect........ It's hours of fun !!!!!!!!!!
They stand well if glued to fun foam feet .......

We do the same has Chelle does. We put goodies in the pastic Easter eggs and hide them. I always make sure that there are a cpecific number of colors and each kid has to find xx amount of colored eggs. They were asking me again if we were going to do that this year.

I use to also get them a stuffed toy but they aren't interested in stuffed toys anymore (YAHOO!!) so don't get them any now.

For Michael, we purchase him batteries - and let me tell you he knows exactly what those are for. :eek: In fact, he often thinks his favorite toy (his keyboard) has dead batteries as soon as he sees knew ones. He'll bring the keyboard and want me to put in new ones right away.

We then get dressed and go to church. On the way home, we stop for lunch.

I use to buy all kinds of candy and hide it for them, but I am trying to get away from all the candy because I seem to be the one that ends up eating most of it. My little one gets to hyper eating it. I think I will try and get some small items like small toys and books and stuff like that instead of candy. We also color eggs and then go for dinner at my mom's house. We do the ham, sweet potatoes, corn, and stuff like that. This is the first holiday since Memorial day last year that My dh is home with us and has the day off. Can't wait.