How to Make Easter Traditions

Maybe you already have family traditions for Easter, but are thinking about changing things up a bit. Or maybe your family doesn't have any traditions at all and you'd like to start a new one. Either way, Easter is the perfect time to make memories and have fun as a family.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Decorate Easter eggs as a family the day before the big holiday. Set everything out and be sure to have a few different Easter egg kits and lots of stickers and crayons for the kids to get creative. Help them to make personalized Easter eggs for everyone in the family.

2. Make Easter baskets to carry the eggs. Get each person in the family a big, colorful basket and buy different kinds of ribbons, stickers, colored grass, and artificial flowers. Let the kids design their own baskets and then work together to design mom and dad's.

3. Go to church as a family on Easter Sunday, or invite the extended family over for the holiday. Have a big Easter egg hunt and get everybody involved.

4. Fill up a few packages of plastic Easter eggs with small toys, candy, and money and add those to the already decorated real eggs for the egg hunt.

5. Ask the teenaged kids and young adults to go out and hide the eggs all over the yard. Make sure there are easy ones for the little kids and well hidden eggs for the older kids to find. Have the kids use their own Easter baskets to collect the eggs.

6. Count the eggs after the hunt and give the child with the most eggs a small prize like a big chocolate bunny. Give small consolation prizes like Easter pencils or jelly beans to the other kids.

7. Re-hide the eggs and go for another round or two if the kids are having fun, and be sure that they adults are outside watching the hunt and cheering the kids on.

Resources

• Ideas and activities.
• Easter ideas.
• Easter traditions and origins.