Does your family have any Easter traditions?

[Valzed]

When I was but a wee one waaayyyyyy back in the 1970s my mom made me a Bunny Cake for Easter. As I grew older I started helping her and we even came up with two different versions - a full body version & a head only version. When I had my son we continued the tradition for him. Even though my son is grown now we still like to get together to decorate the Bunny Cake. Last year my mom couldn't join us as our state was in lockdown. This year she quarantined for 2 weeks so she could join us last night. Tonight she's coming back to join us for Easter dinner.

Does your family have any Easter traditions?

Here's our Bunny Cake for this year:

 

[JellyBeans]

for as long as I can remember my mum has made us an 'easter garden' - little squares of fake grass covered with mini eggs, little wrapped bunnies + those little fluffy chicks and other pompom animals. even now me and my sisters are 18 and 16 she still does it, although it was slightly different this year (she usually arranges it in the night for us to wake up to, but now we have cats no way can we risk them helping themselves to a share of it lmao). it's super cute and I hope to keep it going in the future!
also that cake looks so good

 

[Valzed]

for as long as I can remember my mum has made us an 'easter garden' - little squares of fake grass covered with mini eggs, little wrapped bunnies + those little fluffy chicks and other pompom animals. even now me and my sisters are 18 and 16 she still does it, although it was slightly different this year (she usually arranges it in the night for us to wake up to, but now we have cats no way can we risk them helping themselves to a share of it lmao). it's super cute and I hope to keep it going in the future!
also that cake looks so good

Those Easter Gardens sound heckin' cute! What a unique way to present Easter treats! We used to do the normal "Easter Basket" when my son was younger. Now we buy a couple of really good chocolate bunnies and a mixed bag of Easter chocolates. We don't keep as much candy on hand as we used to. We're fostering a kitty this year so I understand how the setting out of holiday treats can be hindered by nosey kittehs. lol! I hope you're family keeps this tradition going!

 

[deana]

When I was a kid we would do an easter egg hunt every year and at our easter dinner my grandma would always make deviled eggs but dyed cute easter colours with food colouring

Haven't done a proper easter celebration in a few years though unfortunately

 

[Furrton]

This is super cute. One thing I wish my family had more of is cool traditions like this!

 

[Croconaw]

It’s just another day for me. I’m not religious at all.

 

[Antonio]

 

[DinosaurDumpster]

I live in a christian household so I guess that says a lot. ...lot.

Each year me and my siblings get one easter basket with assorted items in it. this year it was a bunch of girly hair products i won't use (dysphoriaaaa). it used to be where we found our own basket and we'd hunt for eggs, but over the years my parents just got more and more lazy. sometimes we have a basket, sometimes we dont and we're given money instead. sometimes we hunt for eggs for the money.

 

[BluebearL]

I come from a religious family, so Easter is important in my family. We read the bible together or go to a church service and pray as a family. My Mum and I have had a long tradition of decorating large chocolate eggs in cake boxes with a really nice icing and by making our own edible garden around it with little caterpillars etc. Even though I have long since moved out and grown-up, we still meet up and do it every year whilst watching movies because why not?! We give them to our friends and family, it's just a bit of fun really. On Good Friday beforehand, all of us like to bake our own hot-cross buns from an heirloom recipe that my Dad had passed down onto us- they take a couple of days to make but it is soooo worth it! I think that is about it for traditions for me?

 

[lemoncrossing]

Despite coming from (and still living with) a religious family, we actually don’t do anything for Easter. It’s always just another day

 

[Valzed]

When I was a kid we would do an easter egg hunt every year and at our easter dinner my grandma would always make deviled eggs but dyed cute easter colours with food colouring

Haven't done a proper easter celebration in a few years though unfortunately

We did egg hunts for my son. The dyed deviled eggs sound both yummy and super cute!

I'm sorry you haven't really celebrate Easter the last few years.

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This is super cute. One thing I wish my family had more of is cool traditions like this!

Thank you! The one good thing about traditions is yo can always start them whenever you'd like.

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It’s just another day for me. I’m not religious at all.

You don't have to be religious to celebrate Easter. In fact in Pagan traditions the rabbit celebrates fertility and the eggs the new born babies in Spring.

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Enjoy the TBT.

 

[oak]

I've always had a turkey dinner with my family for Easter but other then that my parents weren't big into the holiday when I was a kid. Now that I've moved out my mom has given me a little rabbit figurine/statue each year to put on my mantel cause she knows I collect them, if that counts.

 

[Valzed]

I live in a christian household so I guess that says a lot. ...lot.

Each year me and my siblings get one easter basket with assorted items in it. this year it was a bunch of girly hair products i won't use (dysphoriaaaa). it used to be where we found our own basket and we'd hunt for eggs, but over the years my parents just got more and more lazy. sometimes we have a basket, sometimes we dont and we're given money instead. sometimes we hunt for eggs for the money.

My husband was raised in a super Christian household so I do understand. The first year he helped us make the Bunny Cake he felt weird because his family had no traditions like that. Now he loves helping & understands it's more about family time together than anything religious.

I'm sorry your Easter traditions seem to be falling by the wayside. Sometimes when kids stop believing in the Easter Bunny parents let Easter traditions go.

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I come from a religious family, so Easter is important in my family. We read the bible together or go to a church service and pray as a family. My Mum and I have had a long tradition of decorating large chocolate eggs in cake boxes with a really nice icing and by making our own edible garden around it with little caterpillars etc. Even though I have long since moved out and grown-up, we still meet up and do it every year whilst watching movies because why not?! We give them to our friends and family, it's just a bit of fun really. On Good Friday beforehand, all of us like to bake our own hot-cross buns from an heirloom recipe that my Dad had passed down onto us- they take a couple of days to make but it is soooo worth it! I think that is about it for traditions for me?

Those sound like wonderful traditions! Being together as a family is what makes holidays special. The decorated chocolate eggs sound amazing! I think it's great that you still get together with your family to still decorate and hang out. You're still making memories and that's what counts. I've always wanted to try hot cross buns. They sound delicious! How cool is it that you use a recipe that's bee handed down through the family?!

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Despite coming from (and still living with) a religious family, we actually don’t do anything for Easter. It’s always just another day

I'm sorry you don't really celebrate Easter. Not every family does. For some it's just not as special as other holidays.

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I've always had a turkey dinner with my family for Easter but other then that my parents weren't big into the holiday when I was a kid. Now that I've moved out my mom has given me a little rabbit figurine/statue each year to put on my mantel cause she knows I collect them, if that counts.

Turley for Easter sounds awesome! We always have ham. (I personally enjoy turkey more but I'm always out voted.) I know not every family celebrates Easter. I think it's sweet that your Mom & you have a tradition going now. The figurines must all look cute together.

 

[Blueskyy]

My parents always get me a chocolate bunny with like $10 bucks taped into it. We usually go to my aunt’s house. We still did this year but we sat outside and ordered pizza. It was casual and nice. That was yesterday. I actually didn’t
have any plans today!

 

[LadyDestani]

My family hasn't really had any traditions since I was a child. When I was young, we always went shopping every year before Easter to get me and my brother Easter outfits to wear to church. The day before Easter we dyed eggs and left them out as a snack for the Easter Bunny. On Easter Sunday, we woke up to Easter baskets filled with candy, then we went to church. After church, things varied. Sometimes we would have a big Easter lunch with my grandparents. Sometimes my dad's extended family would host an Easter Egg Hunt for us kids. Sometimes we just went home and my brother and I hid eggs around the house for each other.

After I was about 10 or 11, all of those things stopped, though. I had learned that the Easter Bunny wasn't real and my mom and brother were both facing physical and mental health issues. My family stopped going to church. My grandfather got really sick and then passed away. So everything just changed around that time.

Now that I'm an adult with no children of my own, my only Easter tradition is buying some type of Cadbury chocolate eggs every year because they are my favorite. I do sometimes buy toys or treats for my fur babies on Easter, though. But I'm not always consistent about it.

 

[~Kilza~]

We don't have any Easter traditions in my family, it's just another day. That said, there were a couple of years when I was a kid where my parents would hide some Easter goodies outside for us to find, but that tradition didn't last very long, lol

 

[Xara]

my family and i aren’t religious so we don’t really celebrate easter much. however, we always make sure to have a nice dinner every year and my parents usually wind up bringing a few easter treats home.

 

[Shawna]

We don't really celebrate Easter anymore. Me, my dad, and my brother are not religious, and me and my brother are too old for Easter eggs and baskets. However, on the evening before Easter, me and my brother did get some stuff: We got some chocolate, I got the two Story of Seasons games for the Switch (FOMT and POOT), and my brother got a Dallas Cowboys jersey. We also got Bush's Chicken (which I didn't eat) and Jack-In-The-Box for dinner. ^_^
As for the day of Easter this year, we didn't do much. I just played the SoS games and we had burgers and hotdogs for dinner.

 

[Burumun]

It's varied from year to year. My family isn't really religious, so I've mainly just gotten Easter baskets. There were a few years where it was just my mom and I on Easter, since my step-dad is a pilot and usually was on duty, so we would always get sushi, lol. Then my brothers were born, and once they got older, we went to my step-grandparents' for Easter, which meant a more involved celebration, including going to the Easter service (I stayed home), everyone hunting for their individual Easter basket, having more Easter foods, etc.

 

[ting1984]

I'm religious and come from a religious family, but my own family didn't really teach much about Easter or do anything around it. The older I get, the more I now know that my parents didn't really understand much about the faith, other than look at it as a source of emotional comfort; they never really knew much about the Bible or theology, which is why they got so carried away with bizarre End Times theories and didn't seem to understand or teach much else.

Anyway, the Lutheran church I go to now is liturgical, and so Good Friday and Easter have much more done around it. For Christians, the most important part of the faith is that Jesus is resurrected, so it's of even greater significance than Christmas. If Jesus had merely been just born in a modest little manger, taught some nice principles, and didn't die and rise again to save us, then so what. So Easter is much more important to me now that I understand more about the faith and see it as more than just emotions or End Times prophecies.