Tuesday, 30 March 2010

  • How Do You Celebrate Easter?

     

    I can't believe Easter is this Sunday! Where does the time go?

    Growing up, the week leading up to Easter was all about dying eggs, making baskets and practicing for our church's annual Resurrection Sunday play.

    Now that I'm older it really hasn't changed all that much, but now I no longer have to wear my Mary costume to church anymore. 

    I know not everyone celebrates Easter the same way, but I love incorporating Christian and secular traditions into our celebration. My family often fasts meat during Holy Week and attends Good Friday service together. We also love dying eggs together and also making baskets filled with fun treats for the little ones at church.

    Here are some DIY Easter projects I found around the web:



    Creative Easter Egg Dying and Decorating tutorial


    Easter Coloring Pages

    How does your family celebrate Easter? What religious and/or secular traditions do you like to follow?

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Comments (14)

  • Tiger11007@xanga

    We don't celebrate it anymore.
  • XxFireXboltxX@xanga

    We do eggs and Easter baskets...that's about it. Even though the whole purpose of Easter is religious and I am religious, we don't celebrate it that way. 
  • filtered_sunlight

    I'm not religious and I celebrate much the same way that FireXbolt does. We do eggs and baskets for the kids and a ham dinner. Pretty much all the holidays we celebrate are just because they're fun for the kids (and us, too...the hubs has been having a blast with the idea of also doing a "treasure hunt" along with the eggs).
  • cafengocmy@xanga

    Mass through Holy Week including Stations of the Cross
    Easter Vigil
    Easter Mass
  • averyswife@xanga

    We have a not-so-sunrise service at church and then an Easter breakfast and regular church services.  Then my husband's extended family all heads over to his cousin's house for an egg hunt and more food.


    Growing up we always drove up to Houston for Easter and went to church with my grandparents.


    I can't wait until my kids are old enough to dye eggs and do Easter crafts!!

  • Fairywife@xanga

    We don't celebrate it. Eggs, rabbits and Jesus doesn't make much sense to us. 
  • lonelystrangergirl@xanga

    with Passover.


    suck on that, bunnies!
  • careegroup@xanga

    Holy Week and Easter is my favorite (are my favorites?  Can't figure out the grammar for that.)  It is so full of meaning for me.  I love going to different worship services and I love teaching my children about the sacrifice of Jesus and his resurrection. 


    And, I love dying Easter Eggs and doing Easter baskets.  It was hard for me to decide how to incorporate that without secularizing a very important holiday, so I told my oldest son last year that the Easter Bunny was so excited and happy about Jesus rising from the dead that he leaves little boys and girls Easter Baskets.  I think it works (and parents who choose not to celebrate the religious aspect of Easter and instead celebrate the pagan one won't be offended by my child telling their children the Easter Bunny is fake).
  • Monalynn@xanga

    My boys are grown and the one with the kiddos moved out of town. =0( When they were here we dyed eggs, went to sunrise service, had brunch and an egg hunt at my house. I miss that! These are the same things we did when my boys were growing up and I made sure they understood that Easter was not all about the Easter bunny but about Christ'sresurrection. Hallelujah! I always made Resurrection Rolls for Easter breakfast. You can use a yeast roll mix. You form the dough around a marshmallow, roll the dough in butter then cinnamon sugar and bake as usual. When they are done the marshmallow has melted leaving the middle of the roll empty....just as the tomb was empty on Easter morning. A great way to share the Easter story with anyone. I still dye eggs and I still make Resurrection rolls and share them with my friends. 
  • shes_lump@xanga

    I'm not getting how people are "religious" and they don't celebrate Easter religiously. Like, I understand that anyone can technically "celebrate" Easter as in dying eggs and visiting the Easter bunny, which is fine. But I am not very religious and I still consider Easter one of the most emotional and religious holidays there is and I DO celebrate it religiously. 
  • RainDropPixie@xanga

    @shes_lump@xanga - Well, if you're Jewish/Islamic you celebrate Passover, not Easter. Pagans celebrate the Spring Equinox/Ostara (which was March 20th). Just because someone is religious, doesn't mean they're Christian. Not to mention Jehovah's Witnesses who don't celebrate any holidays, despite being Christian.

    @ topic: I celebrate the Spring Equinox, and then the typical secular stuff around Easter.

  • bluepillorredpill@xanga

    I Don't do Easter!


    @Tiger11007@xanga - anymore?  Why?
    @Fairywife@xanga - Yep!  lol

    @shes_lump@xanga - @RainDropPixie@xanga - funny you should mention the pagan origin!  Look at this  HERE.
  • Tiger11007@xanga

    @bluepillorredpill@xanga - My kids are now 20, 16 and 13 and they are no longer intersted in easter.
  • bluepillorredpill@xanga

    @Tiger11007@xanga - Oh, OK, that explains it.  lol

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