Easter on a budget

[noobiechickenlady]

Oh, you guys could do some crafts together.

I remember my mom making these for church. String eggs.

Take a balloon and partially blow it up, so it's roughly egg shaped. Mix 1/2 cup regular white glue with 1/2 cup warm water & soak some string or yarn in it. Gently wrap the ballon with string, going in different directions but leaving some space. You want the string to overlap in several places. Press where they overlap to make sure they stick together well. Let it dry until its hard, then pop the balloon and pull it out through one of the spaces.

You can cut a window, glue lace or ribbon around the opening, or you can design a window right into the string.

 

[patandchickens]

I just think it is bizarre how everything has become this big comsumer fiesta in recent decades.

If you want REAL Easter, go to church and maybe take a walk and talk about what it means for Jesus to have given his life for the salvation of mankind (yes, this is me saying that; I may not be Christian now, but was raised very Catholic and think it is appalling how the religious basis has fallen out of the holiday).

If you want a consumer easter, buy a sack o' jellybeans or a couple GOOD chocolate eggs for the kids, dye some eggs, go for a walk as a family, and have a good time.

JMHO,

Pat, who helped the kids hang plastic eggs on a tree out front yesterday, and will buy a sack o' jellybeans; but who also got really p*ssed off when Harry came home from school Monday singing all sorts of stupid Easter Bunny songs, and sat him down and reminded him of the ACTUAL meaning of the holiday

 

[ORChick]

I don't have children, and have only one nephew. When he was about 7 we were all at my parent's house for Easter morning. His parents took him for a little walk while grandparents, auntie, and uncles hid some colored, hard boiled eggs. He had a blast hunting for them all, and then insisted that everybody who had hidden eggs go for a walk so that he and his parents could hide them all again - for us! Cute kid

When I was little my parents also hid eggs, maybe a few were chocolate. Our baskets weren't filled with "stuff", in fact they were empty until we had filled them with our found eggs. We did help with the coloring of the eggs, but I don't remember much else going on - though my mother did always cook a nice ham or lamb dinner.

 

[sufficientforme]

I agree with the "reason for the holiday" however I buy my kids gifts year round for no reason at all. I like to do that for them, spoiled, YES. I do not spend a lot of money I like to call my gifts "a gesture not a statement". We too read an Easter book and talk about how thankful we are for His sacrifice and that He rose again. We also go to church on Sunday. I just thought she wanted cheap basket suggestions

 

[On Our own]

We're pagan, so we celebrate Ostara. The date has already passed for us so we do a secular bit on Easter sunday so the kids don't feel left out.

But, we focus on it being spring! We have small baskets, not too much candy, they get enough of that that we still have Halloween candy to work on!!! I usually throw in the cheap play sets, but I also usually get them peat pots and seeds and they get new gardening gloves. (Little hands grow so fast!) Then we dye eggs, sometimes we make the balloon eggs and we create little scenes inside them! We get out the bird houses and clean them all up and put them back up.

We also start "waking up" the garden. It is about the fun and the family.

 

[farmerlor]

We're pagan, so we celebrate Ostara. The date has already passed for us so we do a secular bit on Easter sunday so the kids don't feel left out.

But, we focus on it being spring! We have small baskets, not too much candy, they get enough of that that we still have Halloween candy to work on!!! I usually throw in the cheap play sets, but I also usually get them peat pots and seeds and they get new gardening gloves. (Little hands grow so fast!) Then we dye eggs, sometimes we make the balloon eggs and we create little scenes inside them! We get out the bird houses and clean them all up and put them back up.

We also start "waking up" the garden. It is about the fun and the family.

Pagan here too so we will be planting seeds while I tell them the Ostara story.

 

[Dace]

What is Ostara??

 

[farmerlor]

What is Ostara??

Eostra, Eostre or Ostara are all names for the Pagan celebration of spring, rebirth, and fertility. This celebration with it's accompanying symbols like the egg and new flowers is the origin of Easter.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

A tradition that I like, that started when my mom bought me a little Easter gift when I was in college actually, is making rice crispy treats. I crave them this time of year, when it starts to look spring like . . . otherwise I never eat them. They aren't that expensive to make.

 

[On Our own]

What is Ostara??

Eostra, Eostre or Ostara are all names for the Pagan celebration of spring, rebirth, and fertility. This celebration with it's accompanying symbols like the egg and new flowers is the origin of Easter.

It has always cracked me up how few people have ever stopped to wonder why Easter is celebrated on the first sunday, after the first full moon after the spring equinox.......