Christians celebrate Easter as a day to commemorate Christ's resurrection while in certain other cultures it is a day to welcome spring.
The celebrations all over the world normally include attending the mass and making Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, chocolates and buns. But there are also strange Easter traditions and weird customs followed during the celebrations in some countries.
For example in Greece Easter is known for multicolor-decorated eggs, but in Greece you will find only red color eggs. Greeks paint all their eggs only red and use these for making the Easter bread.
In Colombia, Colombians have strange dinner menu for the Easter day. Instead of chocolates and eggs, they dine on iguana, turtles and big rodents for the feast.
What family traditions do you have for Easter?
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Do you know how some other countries celebrate Easter?
I read in Switzerland, a traditional Easter children’s game is zwanzgerle. Two players, hard-boiled eggs, and coins are needed to play this game. Take turns throwing coins at your opponent’s egg from a short distance. If you miss, your opponent keeps the coin. If you hit your opponent’s egg, the egg and the coin are yours. The winner with the most coins wins the game.
ReplyDeleteShould we all bring an egg to school and try this on Thursday???
Miss B
It sounds really fun!!!
DeleteMaria
Sounds like a good idea I have no money though :C
DeleteHannah
Every christmas my dad, my little sister and I go down to FC and help out
ReplyDeleteGeorgia what is FC? I think you might need to explain this. Miss B
DeleteSorry guys let me restart Every Easter my dad, my little sister and I go down to fresh choice help out grab a drink and fill a bag of lollies!
DeleteGeorgia
Lucky and you probably get it free. Don't you.
DeleteHayley
I think it is a great tradition to help out on Christmas. I think It's a great way to give to the community.
DeleteDerek
sorry that was me
ReplyDeleteGeorgia
On Easter all our family come around and have brunch. Also we might have a Easter egg hunt.
ReplyDeleteIn some countries they have easter parades
Xavier
What sort of brunch do you have like what food and this year how many ester eggs do you want 5, 10, 50 or 100 me personal i would want 50
DeleteJosh
Really? What countries?
DeleteDerek
For Easter we usually get Easter eggs and sometimes a Easter hunt. But its just a time to catch up with family.
ReplyDeleteMiss B that game sounds like fun we should give it a go.
Hayley
It does sound fun but I have no coins :(.
DeleteJimmy
You mite want to get some coins off your mum or dad, grandparents
DeleteJosh
For Easter my family celibates by making cascarones. It's confetti squashed inside of an egg shell. Then you crack it above someone's head. This is a Mexican tradition, but I'm from Texas, which is the border from Mexico to America. I really enjoy this because it helps me to remember the country I was born in. It's also about Jesus because he rose from the grave on Easter
ReplyDeleteDerek
Finland may need a reminder that it’s Easter, not Halloween. Children often dress up as witches and wander the streets with broomsticks in the hunt for treats. The tradition is said to have come from the belief that witches would fly to Germany and cavort with Satan. Bonfires are meant to scare them away.
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My birthday is on Halloween.
DeleteDerek
In Europe, people light massive bonfires on hilltops and churchyards on Easter Eve. In Germany, all the school kids get 3 weeks off!
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In Holland they celibrates ester by making breakfast and lunch and brunch they then take it to there friends and famiy and they make a rich loaf of bread with rasins and nuts and marzipan and after lunch they have a egg hunt probbly the size of school and there a eggs everywhere
ReplyDeleteJosh
That would be really fun. But that Easter egg hunt would take a long while.
DeleteDerek
We celebrate Easter with my mum's side of the family, which is really fun because my aunty has a 5 and 7 year old that both believe in the easter bunny so all us kids get to have a huge easter hunt with a huge treat at the end. We usually still have chocolate about two months later!! :)
ReplyDeleteEmily
In my family we make hot cross buns on Good Friday and have an Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday mainly for my little sister.
ReplyDeleteIn Italy they exchange eggs and on Easter Sunday they have a breakfast of salami, eggs and a special cheesecake called 'columba'.
Jordana
In Italy they have big concerts and fun games
ReplyDeleteEmily
How other countries celebrate Easter.
ReplyDeleteIn Great Britian housewifes bake hot cross buns, buy new clothes and go to the local church and put their backs to them.
In Ireland people dance for cakes.
In Belguim kids make nests out of hay and put them in the grass for Easter to fill.
That is just a few.
Xavier
My family and I sometimes go down to visit my nana or she comes up. She lives in Cheiviot I know not many people know where this is it's a little place between Kiakoura and christchurch I always look forward to seeing my nan but I hate the long trip it takes 5-6 hours to get their but it's worth it.
ReplyDeleteAnd i always enjoy about how other people celebrate things.
Laura
I have two traditions for Easter. The second one is on the Thursday before Easter I go to church to celibate the last supper. I do this to remember Jesus.
ReplyDeleteDerek
in italy a preist blesses the easter eggs before the holidays
ReplyDeleteTahlia
Why do they do that? (capital letter with a full stop.)
DeleteDerek
I read that in Canada they have a massive festival and the streets there are covered with colourful, bright lights on Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday!
ReplyDeleteLauren