Does Your Family Have Fun Easter Traditions? Here’s What Our Team and Readers Say…
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🚨 April’s Monthly Giveaway Question:
Does your family have any fun Easter traditions? Hiding Easter baskets, Easter egg hunt, or something unconventional? Have these traditions continued as your kids got older?
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Here’s what our Hip team shared about their Easter Traditions:
“We go to church on Easter Sunday, followed by dinner with family with lots of good food, and usually put on a little Easter Egg hunt for the kids. Above is a family picture from last Easter. Both my parents passed away in 2021 so it’s important for me and my sisters to be together for holidays with our families.” – Melinda
“We dye and decorate eggs the day before Easter. Easter morning we do Easter baskets and then make-your-own yogurt sundaes (complete with waffle bowls). Afterward, we hunt for Easter eggs in the yard or inside (weather permitting). The kids are growing up way too fast, but I am keeping up with the Easter bunny traditions until they all move out! The things they get in their baskets have changed over the years, but the Easter Bunny still focuses on toys and candy. For the Easter egg hunt, we always do Rewards (similar to this Target one) where the kids get prizes beyond just candy and toys. They are a huge hit and the boys always end up trading, and it’s so fun!” – Jenna
“For the past 10 years, I’ve been ‘hopping’ onto work on Easter to hunt down the best deals for readers and cover the Newsletter and Facebook, so my Easter might look a little different. But we still keep things ‘egg-stra’ special – we order dinner and relax out back if the weather is nice. I’ll sometimes snag myself a little something sweet too because every bunny deserves a treat on Easter! And even though my kiddos aren’t little ‘peeps’ anymore, they still get Easter baskets.” – Cass
“This made me go down Easter memory lane. I loved dressing the kids and doing egg hunts when they were little and I still love to decorate! Easter will look different this year as our son isn’t coming home from college but I am having a family member build him a basket. We are looking forward to trying this fancy ham from Snake River Farms. I am hosting my mom and brother’s family and we’ll do an egg hunt for his kids. One thing I love is my friend invites me to her family tradition of an egg decorating contest. Lily and I have won over the years for her spa day one and my Simpsons eggs. They have a traveling trophy and it’s serious stuff.” – Lina
“I love Easter. It looks a bit different each year, depending on if my parents are in town and if my brother’s family is free. We typically do brunch or a late lunch together. We always do an egg hunt and the kids have been obsessed with the ‘glow in the dark’ hunts lately so we do those in the evening! I tend to fill the eggs with small toys and just a few candies, the baskets tend to be the main candy vessel that way I can get each kiddo what they like best. The rest of the basket tends to be small gifts, crafts, etc. In terms of aging out, I will probably continue to do baskets for the foreseeable future. I have no plans to stop as they get older, like Jenna said the items just change a bit. I have friends who give their older kiddos one egg on Easter with cash inside, too. Haha!” – Monica
“We’ve always kept Easter pretty simple in our home, but we’re always sure to gather with extended family for brunch. We do baskets for the kids and I’m very intentional about what I put in them, filling them with useful and practical things and a few small extras (I try to keep each basket at around $50) because ultimately the stuff isn’t what it’s all about for us. It’s always nice when my kids don’t have school and we get a break from sports so we try to make the most of a long weekend together by doing something fun.” – Sara
“How do I have young adult kids already?! 😭 My son Ayden just turned 20 (TWENTY!!), and I seriously don’t know how that happened. Even though my boys don’t live at home anymore, I still say you’re never too old for an Easter basket. 🐰💛 I’ll be doing a little ding-dong-ditch delivery 😆 — the Easter Bunny is showing up at their doors with surprise baskets! I even grabbed a couple of those snackle boxes from Target and filled them with all their favorite treats. 🐣🍫” -Collin
Happy Easter from all of us at Hip2Save, we love and appreciate you all. ❤️
We do church, a family lunch with a ham and sides, and an egg hunt.. All the kids in our family are growing too fast but they usually still like to hide the eggs for the adults to hunt as a fun twist! Up until recent years we always dyed eggs too… during covid I couldn’t see my nephew so we finally dyed our Easter eggs around Halloween! 😉 Better late than never!
We go to church and then to a restaurant with our extended families. When they were small, an egg hunt for the kids after the restaurant. I have teenagers now but I still make a basket for them each year with goodies according to their ages, jelly beans & their favorite candy. And for the baskets each year, I try to pick a theme with things I know they’ll love but are useful too.
Aww that sounds so special, Jacie! 🥰 Love that you’ve kept the basket tradition going—even as teens! 💕
I create an Easter Basket scavenger hunt every year for my 2 kiddos. If they want their baskets, they have to find them first! 🙂 I have been doing it since they were 2 & 5 years old (they are now 16 and 19). They each get one clue to start and they have to solve a puzzle or answer a riddle to find the location of the next clue. It started out as pictures when they were little and has gotten progressively harder each year. I put a lot thought into it and they still look forward to it as Easter draws closer. I know someday they will do the same for my grandchildren too. I love creating traditions and memories.
I love this idea! What a few tradition and I love that you still do it even as they have gotten older. <3
We have a Passover meal with our friends, just us 2 families. We enjoy foods that were eaten at that time. With my siblings and their kids, we also started playing Brave Bunny. The Passover meal is spiritually uplifting, and the Brave Bunny game is super fun for kids (and for adults to watch).
What is the Brave Bunny game? I’m so curious!
We enjoy church in the morning and easter dinner with family.
Easter egg hunts have always been a tradition for my family. We had them for my children when they were young and now my grandchildren have them!
We do Easter baskets in the morning with breakfast at home. Then we travel to both grandparents home with an Easter egg hunt at the last stop.
We celebrate something each day starting with Palm Sunday until Easter. We usually do a little lesson, activity, or game and treat each day to be with one another. On Easter we have baskets that are a different theme each year. One year it was new swim suits, sandals and pool toys, another year it was new church outfits and a family game. We have also done movie night baskets with favorite treats, a movie, and stuffies and a craft themed one as well. When it comes to the egg hunt we have a big range of ages (1-17) so I try to make it fair. We hide all the eggs and then when it is time to go out they are given 1 egg and that is their color for the hunt. The little ones we hide that color easier and the older ones have to really work for it! This way no one is sad because someone got more than someone else. We then have a family dinner and in addition to ham, I like to have lamb as well and all the other normal stuff. Easter is one of our favorites as a family!
Before going to church, we would hide the kids’ Easter baskets somewhere in the living areas of the house. I would also take cotton balls and shred them with my hands to look like bunny tail “fuzz” and scatter that in a path down the stairs from the bedrooms. After church, we would usually get together at home with family for brunch/dinner and lots of candy eating!
Aww—love the bunny tail fuzz idea, Susan! Such a special and fun touch! 🐰 Sounds like a wonderful day with family!
We celebrate Jesus’ resurrection by going to church, having dinner with some family and a little egg hunt for the kids.