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3. EASTER AT SCHOOL
Children in KS1 (4-7) take part in an Easter
Bonnet Parade. They make the bonnets at
home with their parents then bring them in for
the parade. There are prizes given for 1st, 2nd
and 3rd places.

4. Children in KS2 (7-11) take part in an egg
decorating competition. They do these at
home with their parents and then bring them
into school to be judged. Prizes are given for
1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

5. EASTER EGGS
On Easter Sunday, we give chocolate Easter Eggs to each
other as gifts. This symbolises the beginning of new life. Lots
of children take part in Easter Egg hunts within their local
communities in the weeks leading up to Easter or on Easter
weekend itself.

6. EASTER WEEKEND
In England, we have a national holiday for Easter
weekend. Most people have time off work and school on
Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday.
Lots of people like to spend this time with their families.

7. EASTER FOOD
Traditionally we eat fish instead of meat on Good
Friday. We also eat Hot Cross Buns, which are a
sweet, spicy and fruity bread bun. The pastry cross
on top of the buns symbolises and reminds Christians
of the cross that Jesus was killed on.
They used to be sold by street vendors who would
sing a song about them as they sold them.
‘Hot cross buns, hot cross buns
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns’

8. On Easter Sunday, we also have trEadAitioSnTaEl fRoo dFs OthaOt arDe
shared amongst families;
Boiled eggs are traditionally served for breakfast.
A roast lamb dinner is cooked as the main meal of the day.
A simnel cake is baked and shared for tea.

10. Easter is a time of celebration in the Catholic
Church. It is the end of Lent.
The week before Easter Sunday is known as Holy
Week, where the crucifixion of Jesus is remembered
on Good Friday and special Ceremonies take
place.
We start with Ash Wednesday which is a fast day
and then we have forty days of fasting known
as Lent until Easter Sunday.
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11. The Friday before Easter Sunday is called Good
Friday. This is the day we remember that Jesus died on
the cross. We don't eat meat on this day and no alcohol
is allowed.
Easter Sunday is a celebration because we remember
that Jesus rose from the dead. Also on this day we have
non religious customs such as the Easter bunny and
giving chocolate eggs. All school children are off school
for 2 weeks at Easter. The Monday after Easter Sunday is
a public holiday.
The date of Easter Sunday changes every year but it is
always Forty days after Lent.

15. CHOCOLATE EGGS
Easter is an important time of year it celebrates
Jesus resurrection. Chocolate egg’s represent the
bolder of the cave that Jesus lade in pace was
shaped like a ester egg.
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17. On Easter we lave a basket by
the door and we go to bed in the
morning you go and get the
basket and normally its filled with
chocolate egg’s.
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20. PALM SUNDAY
Sunday before Easter Sunday, begins Holy Week in Poland. Willow branches or
handmade bouquets are taken to church instead of palm leaves on this day.
Handmade Easter palms can be purchased at Easter markets in Poland.
Poland, Palm Sunday is known as Niedziela Palmowa which marks the beginning of
Holy Week known as Kwietna or Wierzbna. People around the world bring palms to
church to be blessed. But palm trees are not indigenous to Poland so, instead, the
faithful bring greenery found in the fields. Others bring posies made of pussy willows,
the first buds to appear in Poland, and a plant considered to love life because it
grows in the worst conditions.
And in other regions of Poland, Easter palms, known as Palma
Wielkanocna or Palemka Wielkanocna or palemki (little palms), are made of
branches of arborvitae, spruce, boxwood, and yew. Since flowers are not yet in
bloom, artificial ones made from tissue and crepe paper are fastened to the branch.
Sometimes, flowers that have been dried from the previous summer are attached
and colorful ribbons festoon the "palms" that can reach the length of your elbow or
as high as a 12-story building!
Palm Competitions
Every year, palm competitions take place throughout Poland. Two notable ones are
held in Łyse in the Kurpie region, and in the village of Lipnica Murowana, southwest
of Krakòw.
The village of Łyse holds a contest for the tallest and most beautiful palm. People
from all over the region work hard for the forty days of Lent to make their entries.
The palms in Lipnica Murowana are so tall, they cannot be carried upright and are
transported to the main square or church yard by several men who hoist them up so
they stand on end.

25. SMINGUS DYNGUS
The festival is traditionally celebrated by boys throwing water over
girls they like and spanking them with pussy willows. Boys would sneak
into girls' homes at daybreak on Easter Monday and throw containers
of water over them while they were still in bed.
After all the water had been thrown, the screaming girls would often
be dragged to a nearby river or pond for another drenching.
Sometimes a girl would be carried out, still in her bed, before both
bed and girl were thrown into the water together. Particularly
attractive girls could expect to be soaked repeatedly during the day.

30. Little witches
Back in the day, evil spirits and witches were believed to roam around
the country, doing mischief on the Saturday before Easter.
Nowadays, Finnish children reinterpret this old belief by wearing old and
oversized clothes and headscarves, painting freckles and rosy cheeks on
their faces, and whisking birch twigs decorated with feathers and crepe
paper. They will knock at your door, cast a good spell on you and kindly
ask you to put some candy or money into a copper pot they carry
around. In exchange, you’ll get one of their decorated twigs.
This tradition is performed on Palm Sunday by children from Orthodox
families in Southeast Finland, and on Holy Saturday by kids from the
Lutheran families of Western Finland.

31. Before Easter children in Finland decorate pussy willow twigs in
schools and at homes and plant rye grass in pots.
Traditional Finnish Easter dessert is MÄMMI with cream and
sugar. Children also decorate Easter eggs.

35. • The Spanish word for 'Easter' is Pascua and in Catalan it
is Pasqua..
The fasting period of forty days that leads up to Easter is
called Lent. Lent is called La Cuaresma.
• The seven days leading up to Easter Sunday are called
Holy Week, or La Semana Santa. All over Spain, it is a
week of spectacular street processions (procesiones).

36. • The first day of La Semana Santa is Palm Sunday (el
Domingo de Ramos.)
The word ramos means 'bouquets' and 'branches.'
• On the morning of el Domingo de Ramos, most Spanish
people go to church to celebrate the day when Jesús
rode into Jerusalén and was welcomed by the people
laying palm leaves on the ground in front of Him.
In Spain, when you go to church on Palm Sunday you
carry a palm branch or an olive branch.

37. • Boys carry a plain branch and girls carry one that has
been decorated with ribbons and sweets. The
branches are then blessed by the priest.
• During La Semana Santa, starting on el Domingo de
Ramos, Spanish towns have street parades every
day. In the processions, people carry and follow floats,
known as pasos. On the floats, there are statues of
Jesus and Virgin Mary. The floats are beautifully
decorated with flowers, gold, silver, candles and fine
fabrics.

38. • On el Jueves Santo, (Maundy Thursday), in the town of
Verges, in Catalonia, there is a very famous event
every year. It is a skeleton dance!
It is called La Dansa de la Mort. Two adults and three
children dress up in skeleton costumes and dance to a
drum beat.

39. • A popular cake of celebration to eat on Easter Day is
called La Mona de Pascua. It is decorated with
coloured feathers and big chocolate figurines.
Cake shops compete to see who can make the most
impressive monas to place in their shop windows!
Nowadays, the monas are so ambitious and wonderful,
that they even talk about them on the television
news! Some monas look like sculptures carved out of
chocolate.
Traditionally, godparents give una mona to their
godchild as a gift for Easter Day.

40. • On Easter Monday, families like to go out for the day, to
parks or to the countryside, where they have a picnic.
They make sure to take una mona with them. For this
reason, Easter Monday in Spain is very often called el
día de la mona.

42. EASTER RECIPES IN PORTUGAL
The cake is traditionally known by folklore represent an offer
on Easter godparents to their godchildren.
Formerly the folklore that was offered was a sweet
sourdough bread, this is the reason for the name of this
cake. Currently offer up other gifts to folklore, folklore but
the cake will continue to be called folklore. There are many
different recipes, from region to region.

43. TRADITIONAL FOLAR
PASTA
250 ml of warm milk
2 teaspoons (tsp ) baking powder
1 egg
110 g of sugar
570g flour T65
1 tablespoon ( coffee) fennel powder
1 tablespoon ( coffee) ground cinnamon
100g softened butter or margarine
DECORATION
Eggs cooked in onion peel
1 egg ( pincelar.
PREPARATION
Boil the eggs in water with onion skins and salt. Drain and reserve.
In a bowl place the softened margarine, sugar, egg and beat. Add cinnamon and fennel,
yeast and warm milk. Beat with wooden spoon or electric mixer.
Add the flour with a wooden spoon.
Remove the dough, which will be soft, and reserve a piece for decoration.
On floured stone mold a ball with the mass of folklore. winding down the sides and inside,
making the surface smooth.
One flour baking tray lined with parchment paper and shape the folklore. With hand make a pit
in the center for the eggs. Place the eggs causing pressure to bury.
Making rolls with the reserved dough. Divide each roll half and make a cross over each egg.
Brush with beaten egg and let rest 15 min. while the oven heats.
Bring to a preheated oven at 180 º C for 30 - 35min.
Remove and cool on a network.

44. FOLAR THE ALGARVE
Ingredients for folklore :
560 gr plain flour
25g fresh yeast
juice 1 orange
75 dl warm milk
35 gr of melted lard
85 gr of melted margarine
1/5 cup brandy
3 tbsp (tablespoons) brown sugar
1 teaspoon (tsp) fennel powder
1 teaspoon (tsp) cinnamon
1 egg
qb salt
Ingredients for the layers in the middle: brown sugar, cinnamon, honey, and margarine
Preparation:
Place in a bowl the salt, flour, opens a hole in the middle and put up fresh yeast previously dissolved in warm milk. The
margarine and lard should be softened. Join all the other ingredients.
Mix all ingredients, knead well, pulling the dough from the outside in (knead 10 minutes)
When the dough is soft , without taking your hands is good.
Cover the dough with a cloth and let stand 1 hour until doubled in volume.
Roll out the dough with the rolling pin, forming a rectangle of thin.
Brush the dough with a generous layer of melted margarine.
Sprinkle with a generous layer of sugar and cinnamon to taste. (Must be enough to get the layers)
Spread 5 tablespoons (soup) honey.
Fold the dough (folding the sides of the rectangle to the middle)
Brush again with butter and sprinkle with enough sugar and cinnamon.
Roll the rectangle, like a pie without squeezing.
Grease with butter a high and narrow shape without hole.
Place the bottom of the pieces form of margarine and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon (this will form the caramel on the
outside).
Cover and let stand 30 minutes.
Go to the hot oven (190o), about 30-40 minutes.
After unmolding ready

45. CABRITO Baked
1 Kid with about 4 Kg clean fur.
2 onions chopped.
150g smoked bacon cut into small pieces.
6 garlic cloves.
6 spoons (soup) of oil.
2 spoons (soup) of lard.
2 dl white wine.
3 spoons (tea) of paprika.
3 Bay leaves.
Salt and pepper.
Dried parsley chopped.
Nutmeg.
1 Chilli
q.b. thyme
Tread the garlic cloves in mortar. After trampled, put in a large bowl. Add the onions, coarse
salt to taste, pepper, bacon. Add the paprika, olive oil, bay leaves matches lard, white wine,
nutmeg and chili. Wrap it in order to make a paste.
Bar whole goat with this folder, also inside. The kid is 12 hours with this folder. Put the lamb in a
roasting pan clay, add a strand of white wine and a little olive oil, add the thyme, going to the
hot oven . Occasionally, check basting the meat with the sauce itself being formed in the
background. Reduce the heat and cool with white wine. Broil the kid well.
Serve with sautéed or baked potatoes in the oven, rice and greens .

47. On Easter Sunday, people give
Chocolate Eggs to one another.

48. Families have a big breakfast with "salame" (sausage), eggs, a
special cheese cake and a sweet cake with nuts and fruits,
called "Dove".

49. Children paint colourful pictures on egg shells and draw and
write Easter cards for their friends and family.
On Easter Monday, everybody goes out for a picnic or to visit
important cities of art as Assisi, Spello, Orvieto, Spoleto.....

51. After a long winter Easter in Germany is the first time to celebrate
outdoors for many families. The children are looking for Easter eggs in
the garden while the adults go for a walk and enjoy the mild spring
air. A variety of traditions and customs makes for fun activities around
the feast of Easter.
Easter Market (Ostermarkt)
A few weeks before Easter Sunday in Germany, you can also see in
many towns an Easter Market, called Ostermarkt in German, where
they sell decorated Easter eggs, chocolate eggs and bunnies,
spring ornaments and more Easter crafts. Germans love to
decorate their house and garden with Easter decoration. But be
careful about chocolate Easter eggs in Germany: many contain
alcohol and are not suitable for young kids.

52. Osterbaum
These Easter trees are either made of branches cut from
pussy willows or other flowering bushes or are small living
trees and bushes that are already planted around the
house.
In the case of the cut branches, they are usually brought in the house and
put in a vase to be decorated with hand painted wooden eggs, hollowed
out real eggs and little garlands. In the same way, the living trees and
bushes outside the house are also decorated with plastic, wooden or real
painted eggs and wreaths. It makes for a splash of colour in otherwise often
gray spring days, giving the towns and cities a more festive atmosphere.
Of course little Easter chocolate eggs are also left by the big Easter
Bunny (Osterhase) around bushes and trees for kids to find on Easter
Sunday. Another tradition introduced in North America by Germans
settlers.

53. Easter eggs
There are special eggs that are often given to celebrate
Easter or springtime. As such, Easter eggs are common
during the season of Eastertide. The oldest tradition is to
use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern
custom is to substitute chocolate eggs, or plastic eggs
filled with confectionery such as jelly beans. Eggs, in
general, were a traditional symbol of fertility, and rebirth.
In Christianity, for the celebration of Eastertide, Easter
eggs symbolize the empty tomb of Jesus: though an egg
appears to be like the stone of a tomb, a bird hatches
from it with life; similarly, the Easter egg, for Christians, is a
reminder that Jesus rose from the grave, and that those
who believe will also experience eternal life.

54. Easter bonfires
Many people gather around large
bonfires reaching several meters high
on the eve of Easter Sunday. Often the
wood of old Christmas trees is used for
this occasion.
This German custom is actually an old
pagan ritual dating back to before
Christ to symbolize the coming of
spring. Back then it was believed that
any home or field shone upon by the
light of the fire would be protected
from sickness and misfortune.

56.  Schools close for 2 weeks.
 The week before Easter Sunday is called
‘Holy Week’ and many people go to church
every evening. A lot of people fast during
this week.
 On Holy Wednesday people go to church
in the afternoon and the priest blesses them
with holy oil.

57.  People bake Easter cookies but don’t
eat them until the Resurrection.

58.  On Holy Thursday people boil eggs and paint them red. Again they
can’t eat them until Resurrection. Then they each choose an egg and
holding them they crack them against each other to see whose is the
hardest!

59.  On Good Friday, in the evening there is a religious procession in
each parish, and people follow holding lit candles.
 During the Holy week godparents buy their godchildren a special
Easter candle, a chocolate egg and a present.
 On Holy Saturday, at midnight we all go to church and celebrate
the Resurrection at midnight. Everyone lights a candle and the
children carry their special Easter candles. Later they usually have a
very late dinner with a special meat soup, called ‘magiritsa’.

60. On Easter Sunday families gather and celebrate Easter
eating meat, their Easter cookies and eggs. Many families
roast a lamb on a spit! Until lunchtime, people visit friends
and relatives.