Family traditions are a great way to create lasting memories for your children. As a child, I loved holidays, dressing up, special food and treats. Now having 2 little kids, I hope, we’ll make our own family traditions.
As Easter is just round the corner, I thought I’d list a few fun Easter activities that we follow as a family.
Here are 7 fun and family-friendly Easter celebrating traditions.
1 Decorating Easter Eggs
When I was a child, the eggs were coloured using natural colours, e.g. brown onion skin. Nowadays, we can also use lots of other different ways to colour eggs. I like the idea of using whipping cream or shaving cream and food colour.
Also, you could decorate your Easter eggs with glitter or stickers, or simply just paint little faces on them!
2. Easter crafts
Me and kids love doing some easy crafts. I like to look up for some Easter crafts ideas on Pinterest. I saved all of the ideas in my Easter folder that you can check out here.
Easter is a symbol of spring and because of that we do all different styles of crafts and drawings that include spring – spring flowers, Easter eggs, bunnies, sheep, chickens, carrots!
3. Baking Easter treats
Our Easter tradition is to bake a carrot cake. We are also planning to bake these traditional Easter biscuits.
Other Easter baking ideas:
Easy White Chocolate Nest Cakes
4. Easter Egg Hunt
What’s an Easter party if there’s no Easter Egg Hunt? If the weather is going to be nice, we will have a little Easter Egg Hunt in our garden, and if not, then it will be at home. We will be using colourful plastic eggs (that we can use again next year) filled with 1 small chocolate egg inside. You can also place pieces of puzzle or other little things in the plastic eggs. I’ll be hiding a few bigger chocolate eggs and chocolate bunnies in our garden (or house) for the kids too.
5. Easter tree
This is an old tradition for me. My mum would always decorate the table with a few spring twigs in the vase a week or so before Easter. Me and my brother would also add a few simple decorative bits.
As you can see in the photo above, my son is helping me to arrange our Easter tree this year. It’s great fun for kids!
6. Easter/spring books
I love getting books about the change of the season from the library. This year, as libraries are shut, we’ll see what books we already have at home or maybe will try to order some online. I found a few good ideas about spring books here.
7. Easter decorating
As a family we have a tradition to decorate the house for the new season. We’ll be having an Easter bunting, Easter table centre piece (with the Easter tree) and spring flowers.
So here are our family Easter traditions. What about you? Do you celebrate Easter? What do you like doing on Easter Sunday?
Yes to all of this. My kids are older now so we have less crafting going on but my son is going to bake hot cross buns for the first time today. However, you’re never too old for an Easter egg hunt so we’ll definitely be doing that on Sunday!
To be honest, we have not even done our Easter decorations, we usually have done it by now, but I am going to get my kids to be doing some crafts and baking from tomorrow so that we get our home ready and beautiful
I think many of us are going to be celebrating Easter a little differently this year. So these are some great ideas! Thanks for the tips!
Am I allowed to feel smug that we have managed to do all of these this year? We dint normally but lockdown has made me creative! They are all fun and easy to do, aren’t they?
Yep – we now have the time to do these all – silver lining of the lockdown. Great tips, I especially love the baking.
These are some great and really fun Easter traditions. We are definitely doing an Easter Egg hunt but I think we may bake some Easter treats too.
We try to have some fun at easter, my eldest is baking over the weekend, and if the weather holds out we will be doing some activities in the garden.
Love it – we’re doing lots of baking ❤️ Easter weekend means I finally get a break from working from home with both kids too! I’m a freelance Web designer and virtual assistant so there’s been no break for me! 😂
We have decorated the apple tree in the garden and will be doing an easter egg hunt tomorrow
We definitely bake a lot at Easter too! And I used to love decorating eggs 🙂
Fab suggestions! We don’t really have many traditions apart from an egg hunt and we usually take part in the local egg hunt in the park followed by the easter bonnet parade (which unfortunately got cancelled this year). I love the idea of decorating the house for Easter though!