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Easter Traditions: Seven ways to add meaning to your family celebration
Family traditions connect us to past and future generations. They
provide meaning and connection, as well as a sense of ritual and
comfort. And they can create - and help to preserve - some of life's
most moving moments.
Easter traditions can help to usher in a season of love, rejuvenation,
and abundance. Here are seven ideas for sharing the sweetness of this
special season:
- Start a kindness wreath for your doorway. For the week of Easter, give
each family member 10 or more ribbons in bright spring colors. Each time
a family member reaches out to someone in kindness during the week, they
simply tie another ribbon onto the wreath.
- Ask your children to make a special drawing or a collage that depicts
what Easter means for them. After you display them during the Easter
season, scan them or take a photo and record the artwork in a special
journal or album for a treasured Easter keepsake.
- Create a Garden Journal. Cover a composition book with spring
patterned papers or photos/clippings of your favorite flowers. Document
the process of creating your family garden this year. Make sure to
include photos of your family members digging in the dirt. Record their
favorite flowers and their favorite part of working in the garden...and,
of course, lots of journaling and flower pressings.
- Fill an Easter basket with cheerful messages, handmade cards, or
simple gifts. Then leave the basket anonymously on a friend's doorstep.
- If you have young children, video- or audio-tape them singing a fun
seasonal song. Tapes of "Here comes peter cottontail" and "Little Bunny
Foo Foo" can make treasured mementos. Share the tapes with distant
family and friends.
- Make a quick and easy Easter mini-album. When it's time for your
Easter brunch or Easter dinner, give each guest a 6x6 sheet of cardstock
and ask them to handwrite a couple of special messages for the
holiday...perhaps ways they are feeling renewed or grateful in their
lives. Snap a photo of each guest and create a quick and simple 6x6
mini-album as a keepsake featuring one page for each guest (with their
photo and contribution.)
- Make some handmade Easter greeting cards to send to family and
friends. Or renew friendships by hostessing a card-making party where
each guest makes 5 to 10 friendship cards. Make a point to send out five
cards this spring to people with whom you would like to rejuvenate a
relationship.
This holiday, may you embrace and celebrate the beauty that comes into
our lives through our family and friends. (And enjoy lots of chocolate!)
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