Simple Easter Traditions

Easter is my favorite holiday for several reasons! I hope some of these traditions help you make celebrating easter easy, fun and meaningful.

Traditional Easter Decorations

Simple easter decor creates a tangible connection to the spirit of Easter, and celebrate. Easter is a beautiful holiday and time of year that remind us of Christ’s resurrection & NEW LIFE! The resurrection signifies a spiritual rebirth, a “new life” and represents hope, forgiveness, and transformation.

Spring, with its budding branches, blossoming flowers and color, reflects this theme of renewal. I love to keep it simple creating an Easter atmosphere by bringing natural elements from outside into into my home… Fresh flowers, budding branches in a vase, fresh eggs in a basket on the counter, all reflect spring.

Add NEW LIFE as decor around your home! An easy Easter tradition is to simply place fresh flowers, and other symbols around the house. Spruce up your kitchen table, and house, with a bright tablecloth, fresh cut flowers, and a basket of colorful eggs! I love how spring blooms and eggs remind us of new LIFE, and that is what Easter is all about!

Easter Bread

This sourdough Italian easter bread is perfect for breakfast or brunch on Palm Sunday… Or any morning during the week leading up to Easter! It’s bright and colorful, festive and delicious!

Easter Brunches are a fun way to gather as friends, family and teams to enjoy the season! Use a colorful tablecloth, add some fresh flowers, and have everyone bring a dish to share.

Easter Dinner Traditions

We love to have a big family dinner on Easter. Everyone is invited, and usually, Grandparents come along with a few of our adult siblings and cousins!

Easter Ham is the traditional main dish around here, but Roast Beef and Boston Butt Roasts are really popular recipes for Easter dinners!

The kids have usually had too much sugar by dinner, so I like to make sure there’s plenty of veggie side dishes and protein to help balance things out! Some of my favorite sides to service for easter include fluffy sourdough rolls, a Berry Fruit Salad, a big Green Bean Casserole, Green Salad, a veggie & cheese tray, and of course mashed potatoes with homemade gravy!

Make Easter Dinner an event, by dressing up your table and counters with fresh flowers, colorful eggs, and linens!

The Week Leading Up To Easter

The week before Easter is called, Holy Week by many faiths. It’s easy to build up to Easter by sharing the things Jesus did with the kids for 5 minutes a day the week before!

Sunday: Make Easter special by remembering Him on Palm Sunday… The palms strewn in his path, and the palms of His hands! On Palm Sunday read the account of Jesus’s triumphal entry in (Matthew 21: 1-11) as a family. Look at pictures depicting the scene, like this one:

Monday read what Jesus did on that day when he cleansed the temple and healed the sick in Matthew 21:12-22. After that, visit a temple or cathedral and imagine what if must have felt like!

Tuesday read John 3:16 and John 10:10 about God’s LOVE for us!

Wednesday read about Jesus miracles and parables, like in Matthew 52. Or watch a good little film with the kids about them like this one.

Thursday (The Last Supper). Make lentil soup with flatbread, and grape or red juice to drink. While you’re eating, read about the last supper in Matthew 26:17-35. His suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane Matthew 26:36-46. His arrest and trial in Matthew 26:47-68.

Friday read about Jesus death in Matthew 27.

Saturday, Christ was in heaven and this is a good day to decorate Easter eggs!

Sunday (Easter morning) watch videos of Christ’s atonement & resurrection! There are many good ones, but we love this one. Another good video about what Christ has done is called, “Because of Him“!

After that, we like to attend Church! This Sunday we have Church online as Conference, and anyone can tune in. Easter Sunday is always special at church with Easter messages and music!

Easter Sunday Worship

Easter Sunday is the most important day on the Christian calendar… It marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ! It’s a moment to gather as friends and community, to sing praise, and reflect on the hope that comes from Christ’s victory over death! For our family, these celebrations are deeply rooted in cherished worship traditions, connecting us to our faith and the meaning of Easter.

Easter Sunday worship is more than just attending a service… It’s a tangible link to the generations of believers who have come before us… From the earliest followers of Christ to our own families today!

Easter Egg Hunt Traditions

One of the easy ways to make Easter traditions a piece of cake is coloring eggs! It’s a fun Easter tradition, and everyone LOVES decorating boiled easter eggs. You can do this as fancy or as simply as you like, and kids always love it! Grab one of the dye kits at your local grocery store, or use beet juice, turmeric, and dark greens with vinegar to dye your eggs!

If you have colorful real chicken eggs, skip the dying part all together and decorate boiled Easter eggs with glitter, stitchers, or markers!

In some countries, they hollow out eggs and decorate empty egg shell as a beautiful representation of the empty tomb and resurrection!

Easy Easter Egg Hunt Tradition

We do an Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday for the little kids. Our older kids like to fill plastic eggs with candy, and go hide all the real and candy eggs for the littles!

You can make this as simple as Hiding your decorated eggs, and candy around the house and yard. Give each kid a basket, and let them hunt for treasures! They are thrilled when they get to fill a basket with bright easter eggs and candy!

Or get a few friends together to have an Easter Egg Hunt… When it comes to celebrating, the more the merrier!

Keeping Easter Traditions Alive

These traditions, and countless others, serve as powerful reminders of the hope and transformative power of Christ! keeping these traditions celebrate the resurrection of Christ and strengthen our faith, passing down the legacy of Easter joy to future generations!

Watch the Sunrise or attend Sunrise Services: Several churches hold special Easter sunrise services, echoing the early morning discovery of the empty tomb. These services symbolize the dawn of a new life and the breaking of darkness with the light of Christ… So special!

Sing Special Hymns and Music: Easter hymns like “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today” and “Because He Lives” are especially meaningful when you sing them on Easter. Singing about the resurrection add a layer of musical beauty.

Communion or The Sacrament: Easter Sunday is a time to partake of the Bread and Water that represent Christ’s Blood and Body, remembering Christ’s sacrifice for us, and our effort to follow His perfect example.

Gospel Readings: Accounts of the resurrection from the Gospels, remind us of the history and significance of Easter and His resurrection.

“He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed!” Easter Sunday is the time to greet people with “He is Risen!” and they respond with, “he is Risen Indeed!” This traditional call and response are a powerful declaration of faith and remind us of the Easter message.

I hope these easy Easter traditions inspire you to create a meaningful Easter Tradition for your own family!!

And that you add some meaningful Easter traditions to your family for years to come.