Easter with kids ᐅ Ideas for a great Easter celebration

The meaning of the Easter festival

A world full of bunnies, chicks, lambs and little sheep: Next to Christmas, Easter is probably the most popular holiday for children and parents. The oldest Christian festival commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ and shares the joy over the new beginning of life with all celebrants. Today, in the Easter celebration above all the symbolism, with Easter eggs, Easter bunnies and Easter lamb, play a major role. They also, with different meanings, recall the origin of the festival in Christianity.

Planning Easter: Tips for a relaxed Easter

Preparation is essential – the same applies to Easter. So that you have a relaxed Easter with your children, we have gathered the most important preparation points for the Easter festival for you. Get started right away and plan with the following schedule perfect Easter holidays for your family:

Create a rough timetable for the Easter holidays – talk to your kids about it and ask them what they'd like!
Decide on the Easter meal and choose suitable recipes.
Think about which Easter decorations you would like to make this year.
Prepare a shopping list.

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Finding Easter gifts

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Easter without gifts is hardly conceivable. Your children are probably already very excited months before Easter, about what the Easter bunny will bring them. In addition to colorful Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies, smaller gifts such as stuffed animals or games are particularly popular. At Easter, the gifts should not be too large, because that would only overwhelm your kids alongside all the things there are to discover.

However, there is no fixed number of gifts. How many gifts you give your little ones, you should decide based on your gut feeling and past experience. The fewer gifts, the more meaningful the small presents are. So you can weigh whether you want many small delights or to fulfill a heartfelt wish. In both cases, your children will surely be delighted.

With siblings, it can quickly give the impression that the brother or sister received the nicer gift. Even if your kids cannot tell the material value, that doesn't make the gift situation any easier. Here it is advisable to fulfill a heartfelt wish for each child. That way you ensure that the significance of the present jealousy among siblingsdampens or even drowns it out.

Easter rituals to suit your taste

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Blowing out and painting Easter eggs, baking together, the well-known egg hunt or the big Easter bonfire – there are many different Easter rituals, which families observe annually at Easter. You have surely already created your own rituals that you happily repeat every year and now continue with your children.

Whether traditional, modern or something new now and then – you decide how you celebrate your holidays! We've gathered the most popular Easter rituals for you.

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Easter baking with children

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A a hearty breakfast simply belongs at Easter. Colorful Easter eggs, sweet pancakes and a fluffy braided yeast loaf shaped like a bunny – such a colorful breakfast probably only happens at Easter. It will surely make every child's heart light up. And you as parents get your share of enjoyment too!

The best part: You can use the blown-out contents of the eggs you paint at Easter for your Easter breakfast. That way you don't have to throw anything away! However, the Easter breakfast is mainly about one thing: The Being together as a family. Enjoy your sweet treats and the time together, during which you experience lovely moments, reminisce in a cozy gathering and discuss the Easter customs.

Besides breakfast, there are also great Easter recipes for children. From bunny-shaped pancakes to yeast-dough Easter bunnies to savory snacks – the possibilities are endless! Check out our recipes and get inspired to make Easter a culinary experience for the whole family!

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Easter craft ideas with children

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Shared craft projects are among the most popular indoor activities that fill your Easter program. Whether dreamy Easter twigs, funny Easter bunny bags or personal Easter greetings packaged in creative Easter cards – there are countless craft ideas you can do together with your children.

For the Easter crafts in primary school are particularly well-suited to simple projects such as window pictures with Easter bunnies. These can easily be made with the help of stencils and bring a cheerful springtime atmosphere into the classroom. Also making wooden Easter bunnies is a great activity where children can express their creativity.

In kindergarten, Easter motifs for painting are very popular. Simple templates of eggs, bunnies or chicks can be painted and decorated to their heart's content by the little ones. For the Easter crafting in kindergarten are also suitable projects with natural materials, such as an Easter wreath made of straw and moss.

We have put together for you a colorful overview that you can use as a guide and to inspire your own creative ideas. So get out the craft supplies and let's go!

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Creative Easter games with children

Easter and Easter games with children belong together! Children love to play, let off steam and get enough exercise. With the right games you can also make that possible during the Easter holidays! We present to you great Easter game ideas for indoors and outdoors that promote play and learning fun even during the Easter season!

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