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 go to Sunrise church service outdoors and then have a traditional family ham dinner with a Easter egg hunt for the grandkids after we eat.
Sounds like a wonderful tradition! Thanks for sharing with us, Janet!
Well – I’m not Christian, so not really. But I do enjoy eating all of the Easter candy – especially Cadbury Creme Eggs and Cadbury Caramel Eggs 🙂
A tradition my children started when they were young is they would re-hide their eggs from the Easter Bunny so when their grandma (who they call Me-Mom) would come over they would have her do the hunt and share their candy with her.
Me-Mom is now 82 and my children are 23 and 21 and they still continue to do this and LOVE it! So do we!!!
How sweet!🥰❤️ I love that they still do this each year with their Me-Mom. Thanks for sharing how your family celebrates!
My child loves easter. We go every year to see the easter bunny and look forward to the local easter egg hunts in town. It is a magical time.
My family goes through the Resurrection Eggs ( plastic eggs with items that correlate with Biblical retelling of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection). While made to help younger kids learn my teenagers still enjoy using them to recount Jesus’ resurrection.
Always attend church service. When kids were little we would come home and have an Easter egg hunt and usually hid their baskets too. Then off to the 1st family dinner of the day and another Easter egg hunt. 2nd meal of the day was in the evening. Kids usually received candy of course, and a summer outfit and toy from the Easter bunny. Now that they are young adults living on their own, the bunny gives toilet paper, cleaning supplies, and candy! I will be honest to say that my kids will say that their best Easter was during 2020 when it was just our family chillin’ at home with a dinner. The most important thing is just being together <3
We go all out, church, hosting family and anyone who has no where else to be for ham and all the sides, an an egg hunt (sometimes in the mud or snow but mostly it works out). Our fam loves any excuse to celebrate and host people. Our home may not be fancy but we love a pile of shoes by our front door and a crowded table full of the ones we love!
Huge Easter egg hunt and a big dinner that ham and deviled eggs are a must along with scratch carrot cake
YES! We enjoy deviled eggs and carrot cake each year too! Thanks for taking a moment to comment! Happy Easter!
Hey guys! Over the years we always have done some sort of egg hunt- whether public event or hiding eggs around house/outside. Always done Easter type basket- this year fishing theme so a tackle box filled w/fishing bait and gummy worms/fish. Not to forget the homemade Easter dinner to bring the day to a end.
We do boiled eggs together and Romanian cozonac.
Our tradition hasn’t changed too much from when we were little….it just includes my Littles and a bit of adult fun! We have Easter Bunny fun for my kids in the morning at our house. Then we head over to my parents where she still creates beautiful Easter baskets for my brothers and I even though we are adults. (My mother…she’s everything you could ever wish for. ❤️) While everyone is saying there hellos I scurry like the Easter Bunny and hide her basket in some crazy outside spot. Then we have duel Easter egg pick ups. One for the kids and one for the adults. The kids behaviors are much more Easter appropriate, compared to the linebackers that suddenly appear fighting for the adult eggs! 😆 After those events we all crack open our prizes and laugh at our silliness. We finish off the day with an Italian Easter dinner and fall asleep with so many wonderful memories! Happy Easter everyone!
What a great way to spend the Easter Holiday, Jenette! Sounds like a blast and I love that the adults are included in on the fun too! 🙌❤️ SO cool!
Family tradition for decades is church Sunday morning, Easter egg hunt at church and then come home for Easter brunch. Family and friends all join us. For the past 5 years we have added a glow in the dark Easter Egg hunt on Saturday in our basement with all of the lights off. The grandkids love searching for eggs with their flashlights and the dog doesn’t bother the eggs. New traditions with old ones.
We gather with extended family on the day before Easter. We play easter themed games (with the previous year’s winners creating the games and prizes). We eat tons of food and enjoy each other’s company. Easter and Thanksgiving are the 2 holidays we gather with my siblings and their children (which is close to 40 people). It is something I look forward to each year. Then on Easter Sunday, my family of 5 goes to church and we plan a meal of our favorites. Even though everyone is older, the Easter bunny hides baskets which is always fun to watch everyone hunt them down. We then engage in some activity (such as bowling or an Escape Room) or we just hang out and play games or cards.
We pick flowers and make Easter nests with them 🌸
On Easter morning they have surprises in their nests that they made.
Of course Easter starts with the Easter Vigil Mass! We always have Easter brunch, which includes eggplant parm., frittata’s, stromboli, ham and Italian potato salad. For dessert always Italian ricotta pie. When I was younger all my aunts would have a contest and my uncles would vote. Let’s just say it was always rigged but so many laughs. I always make Easter bread which means I get up at 5:30 since it rises 3 times. We never eat it at our meal but everyone takes some home and it is great for a late night snack, toasted with butter! The family has certainly gotten smaller but we still enjoy all our traditions!
Easter changed for me when I became a single mom- but in many ways, it became more meaningful. My daughter and I started our own traditions back in 2023: baking cookies, decorating eggs, having a little egg hunt of our own, and ending the day by snuggling up and watching “Peter Rabbit” together. She brings the magic back to every holiday. Even when life feels heavy, I choose to show up with joy. I hope these moments become memories she cherishes—and maybe one day, shares with her own children.🙂
We start the day with sunrise easter mass. We then head to my in laws for early dinner, followed by an Easter egg hunt at my parents’ house and late dinner. Needless to say we end the day with full bellies!
We no longer live in an area that offers a sunrise service to celebrate the Son rising, but we went to the one at the Lincoln Memorial in DC for my son’s first Easter! Now, we do an egg hunt with some family friends, celebrate at church and with a big lunch with family!
Whan all our kids were younger we would have an Easter egg hunt at grandmoms. Now that they are older, I miss this part of the tradition. Someday hopefully there will be grandchildren to bring this back. We gather as a family at our mom’s house and have Easter dinner. After we enjoy playing games and just fellowshipping. Another tradition that I have is I make homemade peanut butter eggs and coconut eggs for the whole family. I even put their names on the eggs. Everyone can’t wait for them!
For the last 5 years, we’ve shared Easter with two families that we adore. Fun games with the teens, adults and lots of friendship!
Always A new spring Easter dress and new shoes for church on Easter morning! My mom did this for me as a child and I continued with my daughter. And an Easter basket filled with yummy Easter candies and small toys, money in eggs, and now that she is in her 20s-it’s something bigger that she has been needing or wanting. Easter baskets are so fun to make!
Ham dinner with all the fixings is a perfect Easter meal!
When I was a child, my family was fortunate enough that my great-grandparents were still around and the entire family would gather at their home to celebrate Easter. They’d both grown up on farms, so our meal always included veggies they’d grown themselves and canned or frozen the summer before. As the family grew, the table got longer and longer so everyone could be together in the same space. My great-grandma always had a small Easter basket for each of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was my great-grandpa’s second wife, but you’d never know by the way that she always treated everyone like her direct family. Thanks for bringing up that memory. It’s been decades since they’ve been around, but their legacy lives on in all of us.
We always do an egg hunt with a little twist. There is one big egg per kid that is hidden very well and they have to find that egg to get their baskets 🙂
We make the Bunny Cake where you cut a round cake to make the ears and bow/tie and then a second round cake for the face. We let all the kids/grandkids decorate it with jelly beans, licorice, etc. We also make egg salad out of the easter eggs that were dyed and then we watch the movie “The 10 Commandments”
Every year when kids were smaller we would always do an Easter hunt in the house and then in the yard and then go to some Easter eggs hunts thru the church best memories ever with the girls, miss them being small
We have an Easter tradition where we hide our daughter’s Easter basket and provide a treasure map with clues in different locations in order to find it. One year we wrapped it in a garbage bag and buried it in the garden.
Our family is all about traditions, large group gatherings. Since we’re now the next generation we try to carry on traditions from growing up in a large family. Every Easter we dye the eggs & the large group cracks each others, whoever’s egg doesn’t crack will have good luck for the year ahead. Always fun when someone new joins the family, they get a kick out of this tradition. Happy Easter everyone, and thank you HIP2Save for all you do all year!!
Getting dressed up in new clothes to go to church and celebrate with our church family! It is such a sweet day of celebration! Praising God that Jesus is alive! It’s just the best day with family and friends.
We usually take the younger kids for Easter egg hunts, while the older kids volunteer at a local charity. At the end, we all meet up for a special family outing. Easter meal has continue throughout the years as a way for our family to connect.
Easter is always a fun holiday for my family. We usually go to church and then head to my parents for dinner and an egg hunt. This year is especially exciting because Easter falls on my birthday! I love seeing all the kiddos run around hunting for eggs and then playing Five Crowns with family afterwards.
our Easter tradition starts well before Easter. We have gone to the same local church Easter egg hunt every year since my kids were born and they are now 12 and 14. I have a picture from every year. We used to do church on Sunday but now our church offers a Monday night service which we have been doing for several years.
Go to Church have family over for dinner I make a bunny cake we hide eggs and have a money egg also take pictures of course
I’m an adult (36) with a family of my own. But my mom still hides Easter baskets for my sister, me, and (now) my husband to find. There are clues in eggs left on the dining room table and its a literal hunt!
Don’t worry; the grandson, still too young to join the hunt, is taken care of as well!
Thanks Mom!
We have a tradition of a night-time Easter egg hunt! 🌙 My husband started it when our girls grew out of the traditional egg hunt. We wear headlamps and hunt in the dark. It’s also a scavenger hunt. This year, we had our 2 daughters, our son-in-law and our daughter’s fiancé,( who asked out blessing to marry our daughter at our hunt!) He plans to ask her this year at the Ky Derby!🐎
We have the grandkids plant special Easter Bunny seeds (jelly beans) in clay pots about a month before Easter. Then their Aunt and I make lollipop trees in their pots .They get their blooming pots on Easter morning and then enjoy a 200 egg hunt.We enjoy a big Easter lunch and decorate eggs after.
Every year my sister’s and I with the kids who are available go to my dad’s (my dad is deceased now) and mom’s volunteer fire company for there all you can eat pancakes breakfast, They also have a basket raffle.
Once my kids were able to read, we started doing a scavenger hunt to find their Easter baskets, and still do it as high schoolers. Rather than hunt for eggs, we just hide the whole basket! It’s fun for them to run around the house in the morning and I don’t have to hide as many things (or get up early!).
Now that my kids are older, we do a glow in the dark egg hunt outside Saturday night. They love it.
My favorite traditions on Easter are hiding eggs and baskets for my kids and going to my Moms for dinner. We do another egg hunt there with cousins and it’s always so much fun.
I make a special Easter basket for my great granddaughter, I hide eggs filled with treats and then one special egg that holds money ( like a silver dollar or a Kennedy half dollar), my Mom did that for the grand kids when she was alive so I’m trying to do the same tradition, since I’m the only child of my Mom left us to go to heaven, I still remember the excitement in her house such a joyful occassion, after a brunch with Ham and her special sauce for the Ham.
Our traditions are to attend Mass on Easter, have an egg hunt and a nice family dinner together. We also love to take a picture by a giant Easter basket that is in our local park. Happy Easter everyone!
We do the last supper on the evening of the Passover.
We have always had an egg hunt, sometimes even as a birthday party/celebration b/c my son’s birthday often falls around Easter. Our sweet dog’s ‘gotcha day’ is also Easter, so we celebrate her as well. This year we will do it more so b/c she has terminal cancer and we only have a short time to celebrate her and love on her. She’ll always be our Easter baby.
We hide baskets, have an easter egg hunt and enjoy a ham and homemade mac and cheese dinner!
We start out with church, then have a huge family lunch before an egg hunt. Instead of making baskets, we make Easter nests out of flowers and stash the chocolate in there.
This year we are combining two traditions. My family will come over and we’ll spend the day making pierogi. Everyone will leave with pierogi and fun Easter memories.
We always go to church and then do an Easter egg hunt at home
Bunny bark. Thanks, Hip2save! And happy Easter!
You’re very welcome! Happy Easter! 🐇🧺🐣❤️
My mom has a lamb cake mold that was my great grandma’s. She has made it every year for my whole life. We also always have an Easter egg hunt with my nieces and nephews using plastic eggs with prizes inside. My brother has golden eggs he hides super well with cash in them. The kids always love that!
Our new Easter Tradition is to get together and make spring snackle boxes with all the kids. We each bring a variety of fun spring/easter snacks. Kids pick what they like to fill the spaces in their boxes. They we have an egg hunt. So much fun!