Easter is celebrated all around the world but every country has its own unique way of celebrating. For example, in Canada and the United States, the Easter bunny and egg hunts are popular. You will find below 10 Easter Traditions Around The Word to share with your family!

Families gather together and enjoy decorating the boiled eggs all different colours before hiding them for the kids to search for with their baskets in hand. Chocolate bunnies are also a big part of celebrating Easter in the Canada and the U.S. but in other parts of the world, things are very different.

Here are 10 of the most well-known Easter traditions around the world!

1. In Sweden, kids dress up as Easter witches and visit their neighbours where they trade their drawings and paintings for sweet treats the days leading up to Easter Sunday.
2. In Germany, they decorate Easter eggs and hang them on the trees throughout the towns.
3. In Bermuda, people celebrate by eating codfish cakes and hot cross buns and on Good Friday, they fly homemade kites.
4. In Haux, France, the people gather together and make a giant omelet that is large enough to feed a thousand people. On Easter Monday, they serve it in the main town square for all the townspeople to eat.
5. In Norway, the people gather together to read crime novels known as Paaskekrimmen and some watch crime shows on TV.
6. In Europe, they have Easter Fires, which are big bonfires they light on Easter Sunday and Monday.
7. In Poland, they practice the tradition of Smingus-Dyngus in which the boys go around on Easter Monday and try to pour buckets of water on other people.
8. In Israel, many people walk the path Jesus walked on the day he was crucified on Good Friday and on Easter Sunday they go to the Garden Tomb for a church service.
9. In the Czech Republic, the men use whips they make themselves out of willow branches and decorate with ribbon to spank the women in an effort the transfer the vitality and fertility of the tree to the women.
10. In Hungary, the boys go around and sprinkle water, cologne or perfume over the heads of the young women and then ask them for a kiss.

As you can see, the world is full of unique Easter traditions. If you’re traveling to a difficult country during this holiday, you may want to do a little research first. This way, you’ll know to expect while you’re there so you’re not caught off guard.

Many of us remember the fun of decorating eggs on Easter and participating in Easter egg hunts. They were a part of many happy childhoods. As children get older, they may not be as interested in these types of things. If they’ve outgrown Easter baskets and egg hunts, here are some other ideas for you.

Here are 3 ideas on how to celebrate Easter with older children!

1. Cook an Easter/Passover dinner together

This is a great time to spend some time together in the kitchen. You could teach your children to prepare the traditional items you make every year like a turkey meal, or you could make up an entirely new dinner for yourself this year. It’s as much about the time together as it is about the food itself.

2. Attend a church service together

Older children will typically get more out of a church service than younger children who get restless and bored. Your older child might really appreciate the message that is shared at an Easter service and it’s also a chance for you to bond. You can spend some time together afterwards and discuss the service and how you feel about it.

3. Hide eggs for younger kids

This is a great one, whether you’re doing your own Easter egg hunt at home or helping with a hosted one at a church or a park. If your older children are too old to participate in the hunt themselves, they might still enjoy making the fun for the little ones. If you do it together, it’s also a good chance to talk and bond.

These are just a few ideas on how to celebrate Easter with older children. Don’t limit yourself to this list. You can use these ideas to help you think of some ideas of your own.

If you’re not able to go out for an Easter egg hunt this year, you can do one yourself at home. In fact, a lot of families do this in addition to a formal Easter Egg Hunt because they have more control over it, it allows smaller children to get a fair shot, and it can be great fun for all of the family. Here’s how to organize a backyard Easter egg hunt!

Backyard Easter Egg Hunt

Before long the Easter Bunny will be hopping down the bunny trail, hiding eggs for excited boys and girls to find. Avoid Easter egg hunt pitfalls like hunting chaos, melting chocolate, unsportsmanlike conduct and disappointed kiddos, by planning ahead and incorporating a few of these simple ideas and tips into your backyard Easter egg hunt festivities.

Know how many children with be participating.

Before you can properly prepare for your Easter egg hunt, you need to know how many children are going to be there so you can make it fun for everyone. Once you know the number of kids coming, you can pick a number of eggs each child will be ‘allowed’ to find. If you have 10 kids coming, you might want to let them each find 15 or 20 eggs, but if you have a larger crowd — 20 or more kids — you might want to stick with 10 eggs apiece. Giving kids a limit on the number they can find helps keep it ‘fair’ for smaller kids. Older kids should be encouraged to let younger kids find ‘easier’ eggs. Another idea if you’re super organized and have a lot of kids is to colour-code eggs- certain age group kids can find certain colours. (Little kids only get the yellow eggs! etc)

Buy or make your Easter eggs

Buying plastic eggs is a great option because you can fill them with candy or treats, you save the time of cooking and decorating and there is no mess to clean up. You can also make your own Breakable Chocolate Egg to hide Easter treats and chocolates.

Stuffing the Easter Eggs

Bored with the traditional jelly beans and chocolate eggs that seem to melt as the eggs lay in wait in the warm sun? These days supermarkets stock a huge variety of Easter candy individually wrapped for convenience and cleanliness. Consumers can purchase everything from gummy bunnies and egg-shaped gumballs to mini egg-shaped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and M&Ms and more. Opt for the non-chocolate varieties of candy, if your Easter egg hunt will take place outdoors in a warm climate.

Better yet, parents interested in cutting back on their child’s sugar intake can find a variety of Easter-themed trinkets like stickers, tattoos, bouncy balls, etc. designed specifically in size for the popular plastic eggs at party stores and discount retailers like Wal-Mart and Target to fill their eggs with instead.

If you’d like to “fill” your eggs with larger items like stuffed animals or sand toys, assign the prizes a number and then fill the plastic eggs with a slip of paper with a number on it. At the end of the hunt, children can take their numbers and redeem them for the corresponding prize. This is a great way to cut back on the waste of useless trinkets that will probably just end up in the trash in a day or two.

Hide your Easter eggs

Once you have your eggs, you need to prepare them for hiding, then work out a plan to where you will hide the eggs. You want good hiding spots but you also want it to be safe so avoid any dangerous areas or objects.

If you’re going to have both young and old children participating, consider making zones so you can hide the eggs based on the age groups. You want the younger children to have a chance to get eggs and you want it to feel like more of a challenge for the older ones as well.

Evening the Easter Egg Hunt Playing Field

At every Easter egg hunt, there always seems to be one, two or five kids that are bit more competitive than the others, resulting in a few kids going home with most or all of the coveted Easter eggs. Hunt organizers can avoid this pitfall in a few ways.

1. If your Easter egg hunt caters to a large group of children, divide the “hunting grounds” up into age groups so that children only hunt for eggs with other children around their same age. It’s much easier for a two-year-old to enjoy the Easter egg hunt and take home a nice haul of eggs if they don’t have to compete with an 8-year-old.

2. Another way to instil fairness into your Easter egg hunt is to assign the children an egg cap. In other words, allow each child to collect ten eggs. Once they have found ten eggs, the hunt ceases for them. That way each child goes home with the same amount of eggs. Another twist on this is to number the eggs and have each child search for the eggs with the number (or colour if you choose) they are assigned.

Backyard Easter Egg Hunt Ideas

• Hide a couple of golden eggs and fill these extra special eggs with an extra special prize such as a gift card or dollar bill.
• Planning an Easter egg hunt for older children or teens? Make the Easter egg hunt more challenging by holding it at night. Once darkness sets, arm kids with a flashlight and begin the hunt.
• Fill eggs with coins, and then let kids go to a “store” you’ve set up where they can buy items of their choosing with the money they’ve found.

Organizing a thrilling and successful backyard egg hunt, doesn’t take a lot of time or money, just a little know-how and imagination. With these simple steps, you can have your own Easter egg hunt in your backyard. It’s fun, it’s easy, and everyone will make memories to last a long time.

How do you organize a backyard Easter egg hunt? Do you have an Easter egg hunt inside instead?

Many people want to spend holidays with their families and Easter is no exception. For many, this is a religious holiday but even if you don’t celebrate it that way, you will find that people still like to enjoy time with their families. Here are five ways to celebrate Easter as a family!

Ideas to Celebrate Easter

These are special ideas for celebrating easter with the family!

1. Have a nice dinner

Holidays bring people together and dinners are a great way to celebrate. Easter Dinner is also a traditional way that many people celebrate Easter and Passover.

2. Read or tell Easter stories

This is great for children but even adults can enjoy it. Gather round and read or tell stories about Easter.

3. Understand all the history and background of Easter

What happened at the first Easter? What are the religious backgrounds of Easter? And, what is the Pagan history of Easter? A great way to celebrate the holiday is to understand its origins and the true meaning of Easter.

4. Participate in traditional customs

Decorating Easter eggs, attending a religious service, or having a traditional dinner with family are all some ways to honour traditional Easter customs.

5. Plant seeds

Growing plant or flower seeds will not only teach children how nature works, but also the power of a new life which will result in having pride in themselves for creating such a life. Make it simply by filling eggshell halves with soil in an egg carton. Plant 2 or 3 flower/plant seeds or even just grass in each one and cover with soil. Water the potting mixture lightly with a spray bottle and place in front of a sunny window. Water them lightly with a spray bottle or tap water when the soil feels dry.

With these different ways to celebrate Easter, you can begin planning the best Easter celebration for your family.

Do you want to add to our list? What do you do to celebrate Easter as a family? Comment your ideas for celebrating Easter!