The document summarizes several Easter traditions including the Easter Bunny, Easter egg hunts, hot cross buns, and Morris dancing. It explains that according to tradition the Easter Bunny paints and hides eggs that children search for and eat. It also describes how children roll colored eggs on the lawn and eat hot cross buns, a spiced sweet bun, on Good Friday symbolizing Jesus' crucifixion. Additionally, it outlines that Morris dancing is a English folk dance performed by male and female dancers on Easter Sunday wearing bells and decorated hats.

1. EASTER TRADITIONS

2. The Easter Bunny or Easter Hare
• What do you know about the Easter
Bunny/Hare?

3. Easter Egg Hunt
• According to the tradition,
the Easter Bunny paints the eggs.
• It hides them in the house or
in the garden.
• Then children look for them.
• Children find the eggs and
eat them.

4. Easter Egg Hunt
• These are some pictures in which children
look for Easter eggs.

5. …and the hunt has started!

6. Easter Egg Roll
• Children roll eggs across a lawn or
down a hill with a long-handled spoon.

7. The famous Egg Roll on the
White House lawn

8. Egg Rolling

9. Hot Cross Buns
• They are small buns
with a spicy, sweet
and fruity flavour.
• People eat them on
Good Friday.
• The pastry cross on
the top symbolizes
the cross Jesus was
killed on.

10. In England street vendors used to shout “Hot
cross buns!” Their street cries became a
nursery rhyme.

11. Hot Cross Buns - Easter song
Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns!
One a-penny, two a-penny
Hot cross buns!
Give them to your daughters!
Give them to your sons!
One a-penny two a-penny
Hot cross buns!

12. Morris Dancers
• A Morris dance is a form of English folk dance
usually accompanied by music.
• Dancers may use handkerchiefs, wooden sticks
and hand clapping.
• They usually perform this dance on Easter Sunday.

13. Their clothes are usually white, with bells
below the knees, and black shoes. Their hats
are decorated with flowers.

14. Female Morris Dancers
• Athough it is almost exclusively a male form
of dance, women perform it as well.

15. Hope you enjoyed this cultural trip!
Επιμέλεια: Καθηγήτρια Αγγλικής Γλώσσας Παύλου Αθηνά - 11ο
Δ. Σ. Πειραιά