Candles – are burned through many Easter celebrations with candles often put out on Good Friday when Jesus died and re-lit on Easter Sunday when Jesus rises.
Festivals – Many
Easter Festivals are held around the world.
Decorating Easter eggs – Families enjoy
Decorating Easter eggs at Easter time.
Exchanging Easter eggs – Once an egg has been decorated people will often exchange them or give them as gifts to their friends and lovers.
Easter Egg hunts – Easter egg hunts are very popular in many countries.
Easter plays – Many churches, schools and associated groups practise and perform plays about the Easter story.
Feasts – Easter Sunday is a feast day. While children love the chocolate eggs and bunnies, many families have a cooked lunch.
Parades – Easter parades are common in many European countries. New York City holds one of the larger parades, down Fifth avenue, following Easter services.
Fires – Once again in Europe, huge bonfires are lit on hilltops and in churchyards on Easter Eve.
Hot Cross Buns – Everyone enjoys eating
Hot Cross Buns, especially on Good Friday.
Easter Bunny – The story goes that if children were good, the
Easter bunny would lay coloured eggs for them in a nest.
Easter Baskets – Originally children would leave out their hat or bonnet for the Easter bunny to leave eggs for them. Over the years, children often enjoy making their own basket to collect eggs with on Easter Sunday.
