Question of the Week (April 10 -16) -- Easter/ Spring

[JazzyCat]

Question of the week!

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Here is this week's question:
What is your favorite Easter tradition? If you do not celebrate Easter, or do not have any traditions, what is a favorite spring time activity?

I look forward to hearing from you all.


When I was in high school, my mom would hide my Easter basket. She posted a clue on my door to let me know where to find the next clue. It was so much fun and I had to figure things out. I held on to those clues well into adulthood, and even though I have since gotten rid of them, I do remember a handful of them. This is a tradition that I want to pass on to my children either for Easter or some other occasion.

Also, I have always loved looking for eggs. When I was young, we still looked for the hardboiled ones that we had colored. There was always one that was especially hard to find. It felt great to be the one to find that one! And we could not do anything else until it was found. I am thinking it was a good trick to keep us occupied for awhile.

I know I am posting an Easter question early, but I am selfishly hoping to get some great ideas to try out for this Easter! Thanks in advance everyone!

[commandermack]

Yeah, my family hasn't done easter egg hunting since i was maybe 7. I use to like that. After that we just did dinners at the grandparents till my grandmother passed, then it was kinda a lost tradition as well. Since then the tradition we have is to go the the stores the Monday after and candy dive. lol.

[JazzyCat]

I remember when I lived right behind a Target when I was in my 20s. I loved going there the day after holidays to buy candy cheap! Boy did I stock up. MMmmmmm, candy!

Oh yeah, I need to buy some Peeps too. Those and Whoppers (candy, not BK) are very Eastery to me. I know they sell Peeps for other holidays now too, but it is not the same. I used to get a huge carton of Whoppers in my Easter baskets. And for some reason, that is the only time of year I got them as a kid. To this day, I do not buy them unless it is near Easter time.

[commandermack]

Easter just requires me to indulge in the cadbury... I gotsta have my cadbury. Oh oh oh, and Brach's Marshmallow Sugar Eggs... They really are an acquired taste.

[sodafett]

I love to hide the eggs and also participate int he hunts, but I have not gotten a chance to do what I REALLY want to do, hide eggs with gps coordinates and give people a list to find them. No real traditions here, not since I was a kid.

[Seir]

I haven't celebrated Easter since... elementary school, I think. And it was just the egg hunt and not much else.

As for spring activities...
Well, most people I know are always busy. After all, spring means AP/IB exams. I'd like to start a new spring tradition to get people to relax a bit and take a break from studying, though. xD I live in a place with pretty good weather, so maybe it's time to take [these] for a spin. I need to put them to good use anyway, since I went through the trouble of making them. o A o

[Blaize]

Chocolate...... Mmmmmm.....

xx

[commandermack]

OMG seir, getting ready for some Massive Ninja Pirate Zombie Role-Playing tournament or something, sheesh.

[Cowboy]

I don't celebrate easter. But it seems like searching for the eggs would be fun

[commandermack]

throwing them is more fun.

[JazzyCat]

Now that I think about it, some countries do some interesting things for Easter! When I lived in Sweden and was taking my Swedish class, I had friends from all over the world. One friend's family would throw flour and water on each other on Easter. She was from Spain, but I do not think this was a Spanish tradition. In Sweden, Little girls dress up as witches and knock on people's doors for candy. (Think "trick-or-treating)
I do not remember any of the other traditions right now, but we had a great conversation one day at lunch!

[commandermack]

The target Godiva ad so close to easter is evil Gobb, EVIL!

[Right2Wrong2000]

Waking up every morning to find our Easter Baskets as kids. The hunt was always as good as what was in the basket!

[Fizzbin]

I have to agree about the chocolate. My favorite part of Easter was the chocolate bunnies. I don't think I could eat an entire chocolate bunny nowadays.

I also like Cadbury creme eggs.

But for some reason I never liked Peeps. Even when I was a kid, I thought they were too sweet.

[commandermack]

well, peeps are sugar on sugar fluff. Too much sugar, if you catch my gist, sugar.

[sallyfox]

Smarties ( like mm's) in a big egg.

Still get myself one every easter

Always takes me back 6................

[JazzyCat]

Smarties are also like M&Ms in Sweden. In the US, Smarties are not a chocolate candy though. Funny!

I do not like the traditional Cadbury Eggs, but I like the caramel ones. Those were not usually in my Easter baskets, but I know I always liked the commercials.

[commandermack]

Who couldn't like a cadbury egg commercial, becock.