Let's Celebrate Easter!
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An Easter Festival
WELCOME to the place where you can find ideas and resources as you prepare for the Easter Holiday, a time when you can enjoy fun and meaningful Easter activities with your friends and family. On this site you can discover the Easter Origin and also where and when the Easter Festival was started. There are so many stories and chocolate versions of eggs, chicks, bunnies etc, around at this time of the year, but do you know why we celebrate Easter?
In preparation for making this season a special time for all your friends and family to remember, there are Easter resources to aid your Easter activities and plenty of Easter crafts that you can make or buy to ensure this holiday is that extra bit special. There are lots of ways to celebrate, such as getting out your paints, brushes, lace and beads and decorating some eggs and hanging them up or simply suspending on cotton from the ceiling. A basket of colourfully decorated eggs lying on coloured, shredded paper also looks very attractive. If the eggs have been hard-boiled, then on Easter Sunday morning they can be added to an assortment of small chocoate ones and scattered around the garden or house (but not left in the sun) and the children can be given a basket each to collect whatever they can find. Some might believe that the Easter Bunny left them! Then there is the traditional food, depending on where you live. In England, it is usually roast lamb with mint sauce and new potatoes for dinner and a fruit cake covered with marzipan, known as Simnel cake for tea on Easter Day (get your FREE Recipe below). Whatever you do, let it be a meaningful time and have fun!
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Easter Origin
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Easter Crafts
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- Printable Kids Easter Activities For Children At Home Or School. Includes Word Puzzles, Mazes, Easter Games, Math Worksheets, Coloring Pages, Easter Cards And More. Fun, Educational Activities Perfect For Teachers, Parents And Grandparents.
Easter Quotes
Just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life. Romans 6v4
(for the Easter Story in the Bible, see John 19 & 20)
Some Easter History
Did you know these facts about Easter?
The Easter Bunny came into the Easter celebrations as a pre-christian fertilitiy lore, because it was considered a symbol of fertility during the time of celebrating new life that the christian message teaches. It was first discovered in German writings in the 1500s. The first edible bunny was made of pastry and sugar. It was introduced to American folklore by German settlers in Pennslyvania Dutch country in the 1700s. The children would use their caps and bonnets to make nests in their homes, barns or gardens and believe with great excitement that if they had been good the Easter Bunny would leave some eggs in their nest.
Easter eggs were long used in Pagan times as symbols of fertility and the life that sprang forth on the earth after Winter. As christianity embraced the western world, the same symbol was used to remind people of the spiritual rebirth brought about by the death and resurrection of Christ. Easter eggs have been decorated and given as gifts for many centuries. At one time they were popularly given to servants at Easter. Even during the Middle Ages, Edward 1 allowed funds in his accounts in 1290 for the decorating of eggs as Easter gifts. These delicious creme eggs are made to look like real eggs on the inside!
Easter Holiday Traditions
Which would you find most interesting?
Each country has their own way of celebrating Easter that becomes a part of their own heritage. Take a look at these lovely books that inform us about Easter Traditions and Festivals and make us more aware of what it's all about. You will then be better informed to answer your children's questions. A great aid in talking about deeper, meaningful topics. Helpful ideas also for all your creativity that can express itself in the Easter season.
We Celebrate Easter (Holidays and Festivals) by Bobbie Kalman
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The Easter Story Big Book (Festival Stories) by Anita Ganeri
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First Festivals: Easter: Crafts, Stories, Facts by Lois Rock
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Your Free Recipe For Simnel Cake
Everyone will love this cake!
- Serves: 12
This cake was originally made when servants had a rare day-off to visit their mother's on Mother's Day. It was later made for Easter instead.
Ingredients
- 175g softened butter
- 250g plain flour
- 1 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Finely grated zest of 1 unwaxed lemon
- 100g halved glace cherries
- 50g chopped mixed candied peel
- 175g sultanas
- 175g raisins
- 125g currants
- 175g golden caster sugar
- 4 medium eggs
- 3 tbsp milk
- Icing sugar (to dust)
- 200g almond paste
- For the decoration- Icing sugar (to dust)
- Yellow food colouring
- 350g almond paste
- 1 tbsp warmed apricot jam
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 150C/fan130C/gas 2. Grease and line a 20cm round deep cake tin with a double thickness of baking paper.
2. Sift the flour, nutmeg, cinnamon and a pinch of salt into a bowl. Stir in the zest, cherries, peel, sultanas, raisins and currants.
3. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs, adding a little extra flour if the mixture begins to curdle. Add the flour and fruit mix and milk and mix to a soft dropping consistency. Spread just over half of the mixture in the tin.
4. On a surface dusted with icing sugar, roll out 200g almond paste to a 19cm circle. Place on top of the mixture in the tin. Spoon in the rest of the mixture. Level the top and make a slight dent in the centre. Bake for 2 3/4 hours, or until golden and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin.
5. For the decoration, dust the work surface with icing sugar. Knead a little yellow colouring into 350g almond paste, then cut off 50g and set aside. Roll out the remainder into a 20cm circle. Brush the top of the cake with the jam and put the almond paste on top. Crimp the edges.
6. Take the remaining almond paste and divide into 5 pieces. Dust your hands with icing sugar and roll each piece into an egg shape. Arrange on the cake. Alternatively, place a pile of small Easter eggs in the centre.
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aesta1
Apr 15, 2012 @ 6:25 am | delete
- What an enjoyable lens. I learned more about Easter.
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Susan52
Apr 1, 2011 @ 9:20 am | delete
- I really enjoyed this page about Easter. The cake looks and sounds delicious! Returning the lensroll to my Easter Desserts lens, as well as to my Resurrection Cookies and Easter Bonnets lenses. I hope you have a very blessed Easter!
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puzzlemaker
Apr 1, 2010 @ 7:54 am | delete
- I do love Easter and all that goes with it. My thoughts of Easter are always accompanied by the song "Was it a Morning Like This" - it just plays in my mind and gets me all choked up. We also enjoy dyeing eggs.
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OhMe Mar 12, 2010 @ 1:49 pm | delete
- Thank you for these wonderful Easter ideas and resources. Lensrolling to Easter Event in Pendleton SC.
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RinchenChodron
Sep 7, 2009 @ 10:17 am | delete
- I usually celebrate Summer Solstice not Easter per-se - great well written and balanced lens.
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