This year I'll start a tradition.

This is really quite typical of me. Really it is. I blast along in life, always as busy as a squirrel storing nuts for Winter. Sometimes I’m sure my children think their mother is really just a blur across the screen! And then suddenly it’s here – whether it be Christmas, Easter, Winter, Spring, Halloween or Birthdays, they always seem to creep up on me with no warning and all my plans of spending time with the kids creating our own family traditions fade into the bustle.

Well this Easter we’re here. We’re not going anywhere. The grandparents are coming to stay and it’s forecast to rain. So I’ve decided that before the weekend starts, I’m going to stock up on a few supplies and put a whole lot of effort into creating some Easter traditions.

Now I’m not talking making our own Easter Egg molds or baking hot cross buns (I’ve never really mastered the whole yeast, rising, proofing magic required for great buns) but I am talking about a few simple projects. The first will be Lorelei’s little Easter Carrot Treats which we posted a few days ago. They look amazing and will be really quite simple for the kids (and quite forgiving if we don’t get it perfect first time around).

The second project we’re going to undertake will be painted boiled eggs. I figure it’s a great way to get the kids involved, fill in a half day and then have enough eggs for a massive potato & egg salad for Easter Sunday lunch. So tomorrow I’ll stock up on wax crayons, food colouring, tiny paint brushes and loads of eggs. I will search for the whitest eggs I can find, although I actually can’t remember the last time I saw a really white egg – is this a free range thing? We’ll boil them all up, and we’ll sit at the kitchen bench. No. 1 son will no doubt have Easter Eggs with lego characters fighting all over them and the little girls will have flowers, fairies and stars but the bottom line is, the final product doesn’t really matter – it’s the process that will create the tradition.

I’ll take a deep breath of patience, add a huge dollop of ‘it doesn’t matter what they look like’ and we’ll all have some fun creating a basket full of Easter Eggs. And if it’s a fine, sunny day on Easter Sunday we’ll find the nearest grassy hill and roll them all down, laughing all the way. And hopefully the kids will have a great time, they’ll remember it fondly and they’ll want to do it all over again next year.

What Easter traditions do you still have from your childhood? Or have you created your own traditions since you’ve had kids?

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91 Comments

- - mom468317 said
  - 11 Nov 2020
    12:08 am
Traditions are important as it ensures you as a family unit can have something to share together

- - mom462038 said
  - 30 Apr 2020
    9:55 am
It’s funny, I didn’t realise we actually didn’t have any family traditions for celebrations until I had my own kids. And we had them all plus a few we made up!

- - mom81879 said
  - 25 Nov 2019
    9:41 am
I hope you all had the best Easter! We didn’t have any traditions when I was a kid. We had a few for our kids when they came along

- - june11 said
  - 01 May 2016
    6:24 pm
We were given small easter eggs, not medium or big. I distinctly remember one year I was given a new reading lamp in my bedroom. It had no light globe in it. In its place was the small Easter Egg. A light globe was put in it later. We often received a book or new clothes – something practical we needed.
We still have chuckle about the fact that Nana reckoned chocolate was bad for our teeth. What she gave us was the ones made from icing sugar. They were hard and more like to break our teeth and potential tooth decay than just the risk of tooth decay from chocolate ones. The icing ones were so pretty I didn’t really like breaking them. In fact I kept one whole- still in its cellophane for a few years. Eventually it lost its fresh colours and got tossed out….after 2 or 3 years.

- - mom81879 said
  - 23 Nov 2015
    7:34 pm
We didn’t have any Easter traditions when I was a kid. We didn’t even have shop bought Easter eggs, they weren’t good value for money, so mum made our eggs or we had blocks of chocolate. So all the traditions we did with our kids were created by us

- - mom94378 said
  - 14 Nov 2015
    10:26 pm
These family traditions are fantastic – kudos to you.

- - dannsbuild said
  - 23 Sep 2015
    1:08 pm
That was an interesting article! Thanks for sharing!

- - matildaspice said
  - 12 Jan 2015
    3:16 pm
It’s great that you want to make special traditions for your kids.

- - mom94125 said
  - 06 Jan 2015
    1:39 am
i think that i would like lego eggs lol

- - rachkap said
  - 05 Aug 2014
    3:32 am
I started a CHRISTMAS TRADITION
We play “Tinsel Twister” where we tied our arms and legs together with long lengths of tinsel and proceed to play regular twister!!! It’s hilarious!

- - skbou said
  - 26 Jul 2014
    9:16 pm
Hot cross buns for brekkie & an Easter egg hunt

- - mom57522 said
  - 29 May 2014
    10:08 pm
Every easter we paint eggs and have an Easter egg hunt.

- - kazh said
  - 22 May 2014
    10:48 pm
I wish we’d had more traditions when I was a kid. My kids will probably think the opposite

- - no1ladydj said
  - 03 May 2014
    12:11 am
We have Hot Cross Buns for breakfast on Good Friday, then we go to the Meadows Easter Fair, which is about 1/2 hour’s drive from Adelaide. It’s our Good Friday tradition, and has been for years. We spend Easter Saturday paining and decorating boiled eggs, then on Easter Sunday, we have our Easter Egg Hunt.

- - kylesnova said
  - 15 Apr 2014
    11:56 pm
Easter egg hunt, attending the dawn service at church and warm hot cross buns for breakfast.

- - mle00 said
  - 28 Mar 2014
    12:13 am
I am looking forward to starting some traditions with our daughter, we already have an awesome hunt we do each year but my son spends the rest of the year looking for eggs in trees!

- - angel_mon said
  - 27 Mar 2014
    1:00 am
we dont have any real traditions but your article has got me thinking

- - rainbownerds said
  - 09 Mar 2014
    11:07 pm
Easter is coming very soon

- - linda197 said
  - 15 Feb 2014
    6:11 am
Oh the link no longer works for the easter carrot treats! I was thinking can I be this organised thinking about easter already! Love the idea about decorating boiled eggs and then using them is a salad! Our tradition is easter egg hunt we use the plastic eggs that you can pick up from most supermarkets or discount shops at easter and place a little toys inside ( you can use hair ties/ you can pick up small sea creatures or dinosaurs once you start thinking there are loads of things that you can get).When our little one gets bigger we are hopefully going to leave clues as to where his chocolate egg is hidden).

- - yyon4699 said
  - 26 Jan 2014
    12:00 pm
enjoyed so much reading this