What are your Easter traditions? Religious mostly, but also secular. I'd really like to make it the worshipful holiday that it should be.
Our ward does a community/neighborhood easter egg hunt every year. I'm on the activities committee. It's a huge undertaking. We'll probably do about 4,000 eggs this year. Most everything is donated. We collect the eggs back after the kids get the candy out, and add to them every year. The youth help fill the eggs the Wednesday before. We try and have a kite-flying, sack lunch party after, but most people take off once they get their loot. It's a lot of work, but a fun time.
At home, we do Bunny Day on Saturday (same day as the egg hunt) and Sunday is all about the Atonement, but I'm still looking for good ways to help us all internalize that part of it.
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Hmm... we do the Easter egg hunt in our backyard. As the kids get older, they get fewer but better hidden eggs. It's color coded, too, so if you find just a regular say, pastel, egg and you're not one of the little kids, you can't take it. You have to go find "your" camo eggs or whatever it is that year. I think I'll continue this tradition even if they come home as adults... let them find one special egg with a $100 bill in it or something.
The Ressurrection is usually the topic of FHE and Sunday dinner.
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Whatever you decide to do will be more impressive than my traditions, Jen. (Hey, you're really question girl right now. Planning on revamping your family? )
The kids search for Easter eggs on Sunday, and we eat a nice meal on china of ham and funeral potatoes and various other foodstuffs, including some wonderful dessert that I've made the effort to go out and buy.
That's about it.
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They might not look it, but bunnies can really take care of themselves.
Let's see: 1) deviled eggs. That's really the only way my family liked hard-boiled eggs.
2) Stand in the middle of the room. Take a bag of candy and open one side. Hold onto the other side and spin around. Candy flies everywhere. Easiest candy hiding you'll ever do.
Otherwise, when I finally get kids I'll have to make up new traditions. Being almost 40 with no kids, my tradition has become: trying to remember that it's Easter so that I don't look stupid when I ask at church why everyone happened to dress up that day. :P
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