Easter is a very special holiday for our family. Celebrating Christ’s death and resurrection is a beautiful reminder of the most fundamental aspect of our faith. We also love the correlation of Easter with Spring and new life. From bunnies and chicks to flowers and trees, spring reminds us of a new beginning. Nothing is more important than the new life we receive through Christ’s death and resurrection.

We have celebrated Easter all around the world. It doesn’t matter where we celebrate, the reason is the same, but how can we keep some traditions the same for our family while traveling around the world? Here are a couple of ways we like to continue Easter traditions while living in different places.

Find Easter activities to participate in wherever you are

Easter is such a fun time of year for kids. There are Easter egg hunts, visits with bunnies, markets, crafts, and games all around. In some areas, you might have do more digging to find the activities, but I’ve always been able to find events and activities for our kids to participate in via Facebook groups, local websites, and neighborhood fliers.

For example, while living in Las Vegas, our neighborhood always hosted a huge Easter celebration in the park right across from our house. We were invited by neighbors right after we moved in when we had a newborn Emelia, and this amazing event became an important part of our Easter celebration every year. When we moved to Virginia, Easter events ranged from local park and farm events, to helicopter egg drops, to the White House Easter Egg Roll. We participated in as many events as we were able.

In Germany, Easter is celebrated throughout the weeks leading up to the holiday with Easter markets and spring celebrations. We also visited the Lindt chocolate museum in Cologne where their specialty is the chocolate bunny found in baskets around the world on Easter morning! It doesn’t matter where you live, there are always Easter activities for children to participate in.

Create new decorations and hang your past ones too!

Each year I search for new decorations we can purchase or make as a reminder of where we celebrated Easter that year. We always create an Easter tree and some years we make new eggs to hang or find other little decorations to include. In Germany, people all around the country hang eggs from the trees and bushes in their yards. Last year, Emelia and Philip helped me create window decorations with contact paper and tissue paper along with an Easter bunny banner for our mantle. We plan to hang those decorations in our new home again this year. My favorite decorations include those made with handprints or footprints. Make sure you write their ages on them to remember how little they once were!

We also have purchased Easter décor from different areas we’ve lived in. In Virginia, the White House Easter Eggs are available for purchase each year. In Germany, we bought several decorations that say “Frohe Ostern” to remember our Easters here.

Color Easter Eggs

Dyeing Easter eggs was always a tradition for my family growing up! We loved being creative and decorating all kinds of hard boiled eggs. My parents always used our decorated eggs along with plastic filled eggs for our family early morning egg hunt on Easter morning. This always went well until the year that we couldn’t find that one egg. It only took a few days for the stench to lead us to the very well-hidden egg!

As our kids get older, they’re both enjoying painting, dyeing, and coloring Easter eggs. In fact, they call hard boiled eggs “Easter eggs” year-round. I think my favorite part might be the colored egg salad that we get to enjoy the week after Easter! Wherever we are, dyeing Easter eggs has always been a favorite tradition for us!

Visit areas with Spring Flowers

Like I said before, one of my favorite parts of spring is the abundance of new life! I love spring flowers, and because Easter usually falls right after the perfect time for blooms, it’s a great time to get out and see gorgeous flowers! Even in Arizona and Las Vegas, the desert blooms! The cacti flowers open up and the desert looks so green! In the south, the azaleas are incredible this time of year.

In Washington, DC, there is not much that can compare to the Tidal Basin cherry blossoms in bloom. We enjoyed walking among the cherry blossoms on Easter Sunday last year while living in Virginia! In Texas, while visiting my sister, we visited a magnificent field of Texas bluebonnets in bloom right before Easter. I am continuously impressed with the flowers and gardens in Europe. From the tulip fields in the Netherlands to the flowering trees, wildflowers, and window boxes sprouting around the continent, they are all a welcome sight to the end of a long winter!

Find an Easter Sunday Service to attend

What Easter traditions have you incorporated into your family’s celebrations? Please share in the comments!