Happy Easter

We didn't start soon enough in our search for religious traditions for Easter. We want to balance it out with the Easter Bunny and help focus Easter on the true meaning. We have a great easter egg FHE that talks about the resurrection, but we want more. Any ideas friends??? We have found some ideas for next year, but would love some more suggestions. In my internet search I ran across some interesting facts. I was curious how the Easter Bunny came about and this is what I found.



- Easter is a pagan holiday. Starting from the goddess of Spring. Her name was Eastre, and she was a rabbit. Over time she was forgotten and through language changes it has become Easter, as we call it today. So in reality, the easter bunny is a woman:)

-The pagans passed eggs around to their neighbors as a symbol of bringing spring in. They would dip them in dyes, or wrap them in gold leaf foils. Not too far from what we do today.

-This spring holiday was the same time as the passover and resurrection. Coincidence???

-The early missionaries allowed the pagans to continue to live their customs like worshiping Eastre and spring in the hopes that they would soon forget them and fully devote themselves to Christianity. It didn't happen that way, and now we have both.

I love my cute kids!!