Easter: How to spend quality time with family, friends
Easter is more than just a holiday; it’s a beautiful opportunity to gather with loved ones, celebrate renewal and hope, and create lasting memories. Whether your family focuses on the
- By Yewande Fasan
Easter is more than just a holiday; it's a beautiful opportunity to gather with loved ones, celebrate renewal and hope, and create lasting memories. Whether your family focuses on the religious significance of the resurrection, the fun of spring traditions, or simply quality time together, this season invites connection, laughter, and gratitude.
Here's a practical guide to making Easter special, from preparation to winding down:
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1. Host a Creative Easter Egg Hunt: Turn the classic hunt into an exciting adventure that keeps everyone engaged. Hide plastic eggs filled with treats, small toys, notes of appreciation, or Bible verses. For variety, try a riddle hunt (clues inside eggs), a color-matching version, a glow-in-the-dark evening hunt, or a puzzle-piece hunt where collected pieces form a family picture afterward.
This activity encourages teamwork and gets everyone moving outdoors (or indoors if the weather isn't ideal).
2. Decorate Easter Eggs Together: Gather around the table with hard-boiled eggs, dyes, stickers, paints, or natural materials (like leaves or flowers for pressed designs). Make it multi-generational, grandparents can share old family techniques while kids get creative with glitter or markers.
This simple craft fosters conversation and produces beautiful keepsakes or decorations for the table.
3. Enjoy a Special Family Easter Meal: Prepare and share a festive meal as a team. Classic options include glazed ham, roast lamb, deviled eggs, spring vegetables, hot cross buns, and carrot cake or lemon desserts. Set a pretty table with fresh flowers and pastel touches. Involve everyone: kids can help set the table or make simple sides, while you use the time for gratitude or prayers if that fits your tradition. A shared meal creates warmth and connection.
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4. Play Outdoor Easter Games: Add energy with active games like egg-and-spoon races, bunny sack races, jelly bean toss, or a relay with decorated eggs. For gentler fun, organise an Easter bingo game or a scavenger hunt for spring items in the garden.
These games promote laughter, friendly competition, and plenty of movement, ideal for burning off some sugar from the baskets.
5. Create Crafts and Decorations as a Family: Spend time making an Easter egg tree, bunny-themed crafts, a festive wreath, or even a small resurrection garden (with soil, rocks, and a cross to symbolize the story). Or build an "Easter bunny house" using graham crackers and candy. Crafts are low-pressure, screen-free bonding time that results in decorations you can enjoy all weekend.
6. Reflect, Read, and Wind Down Together: Balance the fun with quieter moments: attend a sunrise service or church together, read Easter books or the resurrection story, watch a family-friendly Easter movie, or take a nature walk to appreciate spring blooms. End the day with a gratitude circle around the table or storytelling about favourite family memories. These reflective activities add depth and help everyone feel renewed.
Easter is ultimately about hope, love, and togetherness. Mix these ideas with your own traditions, keep things flexible, and focus on presence rather than perfection. You'll create memories that last far beyond the holiday.
