Favorite Easter Traditions

[reiddb]

What are some of your favorite Easter traditions? Even down to the food you eat?

[oldbuddy]

My favorite Easter tradition is eating with family, it doesn't much matter what we eat, it's always good. I do love hard boiled eggs though.

[snuggleycutejc]

I love to shop for my Easter outfit, including the shoes. I love to eat Easter dinner, yep my friend dyes deviled eggs, I discovered a raisin gravy that you pour over the baked ham.   

[catchow]

I dont have kids so baskets and egg hunts we dont do. I enjoy eating great food with the family.

This year Ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, homemade rolls & butter, baked beans, cheesecake, deviled eggs and corn are on the menu

[Penwoir]

I don't have any favorite traditions from recent years, but I do recall when I was a young girl making an easter scene of the three crosses at Calvery which we all did at Sundayschool. I used moss to cover the ground and made a hill and then placed a cross made out of twigs on top of the hill. In the background was a cave entrance with a rock in front of it which was rolled to one side. I stuck on a few primroses outside the cave which for me, resembled new life. I so enjoyed making the easter scene that I remember it to this day.

[nguzman1]

Easter tradition is about having family over. Having nieces/nephews and kids decorate and do egg hunting. Having carne asada at a park.

[pkrahmer]

GROWing up I liked coloring eggs and having an Easter egg hunt. Now that my nieces and nephews are past the coloring  eggs and having egg hunts. I loving having easter dinner with all of them. I like traditional foods but am not a fan of lamb but I do love  ham. Every easter dinner must have something chocolate!

[vickysue]

I enjoying going to sunrise services, but our church will have it at 8 a.m. so that will be as close as I get.  Often we have had Easter with my family but this year they will be gone. so  who knows maybe we will just go for a drive and be by ourselves.  It is sometimes nice just  the peace and quite. Or I may have my stepfather  in . Who knows I guess I should decide here in the next couple of days.

[LaTashaS28]

I don't really have a favorite Easter Traditions except spending time with family.

[Penwoir]

Another favorite Easter tradition I recall from my childhood days was painting and decorating chicken eggs! We would make a tiny hole in one end of the egg, then the other end, and blow the egg out (so that the final masterpiece was a keeper and not a smelly ornament). We would then paint the egg, perhaps something scenic, perhaps a pretty pattern, some of the girls would bedazzle their eggs! Some of my friends made the eggs into little egg-men by attaching home-made shoes or eyeballs! I remember making mine into a a little chicken. I stuck on some real feathers - it looked really cute when I finished.

[ricdsm]

Going to Easter service together as a family has always been a big tradition for my family. 

[Sendmicheck]

Church service and spending time with family and friends.

[jkhanson]

My hometown always has a HUGE Easter Egg Hunt in the City Park.  When we were kids, the kids were allowed to ride the firetruck to the park.

I don't know the number of eggs the city hides in the park, but it is A LOT!  Eggs are everywhere.

They also paint 12 of them GOLD.  The lucky kids who find the golden eggs get their picture in the paper and a small prize.

[lmrbean]

We go to church Good Friday and Easter morning, color Easter eggs on Saturday, and have relatives over for dinner on Easter Sunday.

[wendy19]

My favorite Easter traditions are painting eggs with my children and planting new flowers to give thanks to the Goddess Ostara. I love watching the kids hunt for Easter eggs around the house and folling their treasure maps to find them. Cooking a big dinner with help from the kids. Then at the end of the day, the whole family sits down to a yummy meal and gives thanks to the new season.