How do you celebrate Easter? I saw the thread about Easter outfits (which are so adorable!!) and it made me wonder. I'm assuming Easter egg hunts and baskets are probably a give-in? 
What about big family dinners? Just curious!
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Big Easter Egg hunt and we get together with the family.
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We will dye eggs for fun and go over to SIL/BIL's house....she is religious and always hosts an Easter lunch and egg hunt for little kids
I dyed eggs for fun when I was younger.
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Easter egg hunt, Easter baskets and usually a later lunch with family at my mom or grandma's house.
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Non-religious with highly religious family, so they usually do a big lunch or dinner that we can go to. They used to always do an easter egg hunt, but not sure if they do anymore. We'll do a small one at home for LO, and maybe look into something in the community. I can remember that FedEx used to do a huge one for employees' families when I was little (my mom worked for them), and I loved it. Since they'll get the religious explanation for it from my family, we might try to incorporate some of the historical fertility aspects too, so they can get different perspectives. I'm sure my family would love for us to go to an Easter service too (they've stopped pressuring us, but I expect once LO is here/older, that'll come back), but I doubt we ever will.
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We drive out to an island right outside of town. It has a little beach ... we have a family picnic (just DH, DD, and I). It's been our tradition since moving to Oregon.
When I was younger, we just did an egg hunt, and a dinner. No church or anything, but everyone still dressed up.
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I wouldn't say we're "non-Christians," but as an extended family I would definitely consider us "non-religious."
We plan to get together, and celebrate the pagan, "bunny" side of Easter (decorating eggs, baskets, egg hunt, etc.). Oh and there will be ham, there's always ham
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We don't do a big dinner but we do Easter baskets and an egg hunt.
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We don't mark it at all. DH usually insists on a chocolate egg the week after when they're all reduced but that's the nearest we get!
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We do egg hunts and baskets and we used to do an Easter dinner but not any more.
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We don't do anything at all. It's just another day.
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We usually just exchange chocolate eggs with family. Now that LO's here a few people give her an egg and that's all.
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We are Jewish so we don't celebrate Easter in any way. We've got Passover to focus on at that time of year!
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I don't really understand this question... We're Jewish so, we don't do anything for Easter. If you are non-Christian, why would you? Is it because of other family that is Christian, and you view this as a family event?
My dad and grandparents are Catholic, so when I was little, we would have an egg hunt at my grandparents' house after they went to church. I don't remember my parents ever saying this, or it being a big deal, but I always somehow knew that Easter was something my grandparents celebrated but we didn't - and part of sharing in their special holiday was doing an egg hunt with them.
If a larger family dynamic like this isn't your reason for celebrating, I would be very curious to learn why other non-Christian families are doing things like egg hunts or dying eggs if anyone is willing to explain further. ETA: I don't mean to be rude, I'm curious. Because we're Jewish in a VERY Christian state, this comes up for pretty much every holiday. Also, to clarify, we are always happy to attend other families' holiday events, and we invite our friends to our holiday events....so we would go to a friend's house for an egg hunt if invited, but we wouldn't do one on our own.
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We usually celebrate with our religious family! Easter dinner at my mom's. Not sure what we will do this year. There are usually Easter egg hunts in the park near us so we may do that.
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@MrsLonghorn: We celebrate Easter, like Christmas, as a secular holiday too. I don't see egg hunts as a Christian activity, just like Santa and a decorated tree isn't historically Christian either. ETA: We celebrate Easter as a celebration of Spring.
We get together with family and paint eggs with LO, and then she does an Easter egg hunt and she receives Easter baskets from grandparents and family. We also have a big, formal Easter dinner which is usually themed to some sort of food (i.e., Italian food one year, middle Eastern food one year, etc.)
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@MrsLonghorn: Over here it is also a secular holiday now - much like Christmas. The shops are full of Easter cards, eggs etc.
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@autumnlove: Oh and of course egg dyeing! I forgot to put that in my post! I loved doing that as a kid!
I think we'll try it out this year with C and see if it fascinates him as an almost 2 year old. @Torchwood: My parents never took me to a big community egg hunt as a kid and I was always sad about that although we always had one at home with extended family, too. I definitely want to find one for our kids.
@littlejoy: Ok, the beach and Oregon Coast?! You win! I'm jealous.
@BadgerMom: Sorry, I was going to put non-religious in my title but felt like that was too narrow a term -- I didn't mean to word that poorly.
Hooray for ham! Us too!@Cherrybee: @lamariniere: Would you ever participate in egg hunts or baskets when your kids are old enough to ask about them?
@danda: I've been to many Passover Seders/celebrations. Always a really special service and get together.
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@coopsmama: Actually, it's Sauvie Island ... a little island right by Portland. If my husband had his way, we would totally do the coast. It's magical!!
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@MrsLonghorn: I would guess non-Christians might celebrate the non-religious aspects of the holidays just like they do at Christmatime because it's fun, provides memories, allows for celebration of spring or winter or what have you?
@yoursilverlining: I love the themed meal idea! I would love to incorporate that in my own home. I haven't had middle Eastern food since I moved from LA and your comment makes me miss it.
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@littlejoy: Oh fun! I know where that is!
(I have lots of family in Portland.)
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Me, my MIL, and my BIL all have April birthdays, so the family all comes down for Easter for a long weekend. We have egg hunts, baskets, and a big lunch on my MIL's fancy china. And birthday cakes
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@coopsmama: Other than maybe eating a chocolate bunny, I don't plan on ever doing the traditional Easter stuff. For my kids, it's normal NOT to have those things. We also don't do Santa -- I'm a major grinch.
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@coopsmama: They're not really a thing here but yes I would get involved if someone had organised something. "Easter bonnet competition" is a thing here..... but we don't really spend time in places where these things might take place eg churches, community centres.
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@lamariniere: Gotcha. That makes sense!
@Cherrybee: An Easter bonnet competition!? I'm always surprised how different things are here vs in England! (My cousins live there.) I think an Easter bonnet competition sounds so old fashioned and that makes it really cool!
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My and DH's families are all Catholic, so even though we are not religious, we do it all except going to mass. Easter baskets, family dinner(s), and when LO is older, we will do Easter egg hunts. We use Easter and Christmas as an excuse to get together with family, eat alot, and have fun.
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We don't do anything, but if we lived close to family we'd probably get together for dinner and do an egg hunt or something.
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@coopsmama: No worries, didn't take offense! I just wanted to clarify incase I wasn't the opinion you were looking for
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Nonreligious here and we eat cadbury creme eggs and I make matzoh ball soup! We culturally were both raised part Jewish, part Christian so we like to keep the fun cultural parts of holidays. We also decorate our Christmas tree in blue silver and white and light hannukah candles as well!
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Egg hunt and small gifts as a kid, which was always fun! Now that everyone is older we just do a big family dinner, and there's usually some booze involved.
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I'm jewish so we don't celebrate Easter in any way. Passover on the other hand is a big deal to us!
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We got LO an "Easter" basket last year and we had an "egg hunt." She was 15 months and not walking so really it was just us helping her walk on grass. There wasn't even anything in her eggs (nor was there anything in her basket but grass). Not sure if we'll do anything this year unless there's a big family event.
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This year, I'm going to celebrate by eating matzo for a week, good times!
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Generally only with clearance candy in the days afterwards.
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We are not religious and we still have Easter dinner, make a basket, get the girls a cute outfit (though not church dressy). We also do a egg hunt of our own that was a tradition for DH growing up. His dad woud hide eggs all over the house. In crazy places like in the lampshade, ceiling fan etc. we're continuing the tradition.
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It's a secular celebration for us as well. Easter basket, egg hunt, maybe a dinner with my family, but we don't go to any of the Stations of the Cross or do any kind of religious observations on that weekend.
There's a house in my town that does an egg tree, it's decorated with about 1000 plastic eggs. That could be something else to mark the season.
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It is a big deal in Australia even to the non religious. We get a 4 day weekend and Good Friday is one of the only days all year that nothing is open. We usually go up to DH grandparents for lunch and of course there are a lot of chocolate eggs. It is turning into another gift occasion where people give their children actual gifts as well which I think is a little over the top.
I think I will try dying eggs and then hiding them for LO this year since since no chocolate for her.
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Well Easter and Passover overlap this year, so Seder!
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Well, we are Christian but don't celebrate religiously. We don't go to church and stuff. So we take E egg hunting and we go to a big family dinner and do a family egg hunt and there are presents and candy. We sit around outside and sip beer-it's the beginning of spring!!
This year, E's birthday lands ON Easter so I'm bringing a bunny cake and it'll be a dual celebration! I can't decide between the layered pastel cake or the swirly one, and I want to try my hand at fondant bunnies and carrots on top
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I mean... I celebrate is as Easter? I don't know. We get together with family, hide eggs, do baskets, eat, and play cards just like any other holiday. We just don't go to church or talk about Jesus.
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