Easter traditions and symbols in Great Britain Easter

Easter traditions and symbols in Great Britain

Easter is a very important festival in Great Britain. Easter day is always on Sunday and it is in spring. The wish for this day is “Happy Easter”. There are many funny symbols and interesting traditions on this day.

EASTER BUNNY The symbol of Easter is an Easter Bunny, a happy rabbit with a basket of chocolate eggs. He brings these eggs to children on Easter Sunday.

Easter egg hunt On Easter Sunday morning kids go out and look for the eggs. It’s a very exciting egg hunt.

CHOCOLATE For these reason chocolate bunnies are very popular in Great Britain , but chocolate eggs, too.

Easter basket Kids take a basket to collect their eggs during the Easter egg hunt.

Egg painting English children like coloring and decorating eggs for Easter. Eggs are very important because they mean spring and new life.

Easter egg tree Kids and parents make a very nice decoration: they put branches in a vase and hang eggs on them

EASTER BONNET At Easter people use to wear special hats. They are called bonnets. The bonnets are always new. In some British primary schools they organise an “Easter bonnet Parade” where the best bonnet wins a prize.

MAUNDY THURSDAY In Britain , the Thursday before Easter Sunday, the Queen goes to Westminster Abbey and she gives money to some poor people.

Good Friday and “Hot cross buns” On this day people eat “Hot Cross Buns”. These are small loaves of sweet bread with fruit and spices and they have a cross on top. They are best hot.

Easter egg rolling Another Easter tradition is “eggrolling”. People decorate eggs with different colours, then they take the eggs to the top of a hill and the eggs roll down. The first egg to get to the foot of the hill, is the winner.

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