1. Include Resurrection Eggs in your baskets or egg hunt.
2. Make Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday
3. Grow your own grass in Easter baskets
4. Make a Jelly Bean Prayer Jar to give away to a friend.
5. Make your Own Soft Pretzels. Did you know pretzels were originally designed to represent arms crossed in prayer?
6. Make Resurrection Rolls.
7. Host an Easter Party for Neighbors.
For more ideas, check out A Week of Devotions and Activities from Christianity Today
What are some of your favorite and most meaningful Easter traditions?
Thanks for the ideas! Can’t wait to give away those jelly bean jars!
I just wrote about this a few days ago on my blog, too! One of the things I mentioned, that we like to do, is recount the events of Easter week, even the passover meal. It makes for a great learning experience!
Jaime @ Like a Bubbling Brook
Great ideas! We also always make “Easter Story Cookies” – the ones that tell the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection with scripture related to each ingredient of the recipe. Have you ever made them?
The children beat the pecans just as He was beaten by the soldiers, the vinegar is poured and tasted by the kids just as He was offered vinegar on the cross, etc. The best part is the kids put the cookies in the oven, then have to seal the oven and wait until morning to eat them – just as Jesus was left in the tomb and His disciples were devastated to leave Him. In the morning, the meringue cookies are hollow – the empty tomb because He is ALIVE!
This year we have spent time reading the bible a lot in prep. We made our own resurection eggs, easter story cookies as above, had a passover meal (and made our own matzoh), colouring sheets and lots of talking together about why it’s so important! Had lots of other plans we didn’t get to… next year!!!
Hi Angela! This is the first time I’ve visited your blog! It looks wonderful! I’ve been thinking a lot this year about how I want to create meaningful traditions for our holidays as well! I recently posted a blog post about the traditions we did this year for Easter. Its fun to hear other’s ideas. Next, I have to work on our Christmas traditions and get that going so that I’m more prepared for Christmas this year! Anyways, I’d love if you stopped by my site at https://theartisanhome.org! Some of our ideas this year were:
-Good Friday tea party with freshly baked hot cross buns and reading the passion story from The Beginners Bible
-attending Good Friday and Easter Sunday services
-helping my husband decorate the church for Easter Sunday
-baking paska bread (a traditional Eastern European bread meant to symbolize the Resurrection)
-an Easter egg hunt
-an Easter feast with my extended family
Here is another post I wrote on Easter in Scotland! We had some really fun ideas to share with everyone! Lots of visual props and inspiration for a meaningful celebration and remembrance! 🙂
https://theartisanhome.org/?p=654