Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating Jesus' resurrection that incorporates many pagan traditions. It is marked by decorated eggs, eating chocolate eggs, sending cards, and having two weeks of school holidays. Christians attend church services and have special meals, while children enjoy egg hunts, baking, and other Easter-themed activities at school.

1. EASTER
TRADITIONS

2. Easter is a joyful spring festival which celebrates
the rebirth of Jesus. Christians and many other
people around the world celebrate Easter every
year.
Pagan traditions give us the English word "Easter"
which comes from the word "Eostre".
The English word Easter comes from
the Anglo – Saxon name for the month of April,
which was known as "Eostremonath"

3. EASTER EGGS
• Easter is the oldest and most important Christian
festival.
• Every Easter family and friends give each other
Easter eggs to celebrate new life.
• Around 80 million chocolate eggs are eaten
every year in England.
• Eggs are given on Easter Sunday.

4. In Britain children have two weeks off school
when it is Easter. They finish school a few
days before the Easter weekend.

5. EASTER IN SCHOOL
At school, children
often make chocolate
Easter nests.
The younger
students
make Easter
bonnets.
They also paint
hard-boiled or
hollow eggs.

6. DYED AND DECORATED
EASTER EGGS

7. EASTER CARDS
• Every Easter, family and
friends send Easter cards .

8. • It is the Friday before
Easter Sunday (Easter Day).
• On Good Friday, Christians remember
the day when Jesus was crucified on a
cross.

9. It is traditional to eat
warm 'hot cross buns' on
Good Friday .
The cross on top of the
buns symbolizes and
reminds Christians
Jesus’s death on the
cross.
They are a rich, spiced
teacake.
Normally you eat them
with butter or jam and
you can have them hot or
cold.

10. On Easter Sunday (Easter Day) Christians gather
together on a hill to watch the sun rise.

11. Then it’s breakfast
with the family.
Boiled eggs are
traditionally served at
breakfast. After
breakfast people go
to church for a service
to celebrate Jesus
rising from the dead.

12. • In the UK Roast lamb
is the traditional meat
for the main meal on
Easter Day. It is
served with mint
sauce and
vegetables.

13. In America, they prefer roasted ham instead

14. In the UK, traditional
Easter pudding is
custard tarts.

15. EASTER CAKES
Simnel Cake is a fruit cake with marzipan on top and it
is decorated with 11 marzipan balls representing the 12
apostles minus Judas.
This is eaten on Easter Sunday.

16. You can also have
other Easter cakes
such as chocolate
cakes.

17. EASTER BISCUITS
• These biscuits are
eaten on Easter
Sunday.
• They have spices,
currants and
sometimes grated
lemon rind.

18. EASTER EGGS
Or small
, Come in all sizes...very big.

19. American love to eat
marshmellow “Peeps” at Easter

20. EASTER CHOCOLATES

21. EASTER ANIMALS
The Easter Rabbit brings eggs, but it
depends if you have been good or
naughty.
It is lucky to see a
lamb at Easter.
Lambs also
symbolise Spring.
The chick and duckling
symbolise new life and
Spring.

22. The tradition is that the
Easter Bunny paints the
eggs and hides them in
the house or in the
garden.
Then children go with
their baskets and look for
the eggs.
Children find the eggs
and eat them.

23. EGG ROLLING is very popular in England
and is an EASTER MONDAY tradition.
Hard-boiled eggs
are rolled down a
hill.
Or pushed in the
grass with a
wooden spoon.

24. THE FAMOUS EGG ROLL ON THE
WHITE HOUSE LAWN