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Easter in Great Britain

Easter is an important spring festival in Great Britain that is celebrated with various religious and secular traditions. It always falls on a Sunday and common symbols of Easter include eggs, hot cross buns, chocolate bunnies, and decorated palm branches. Popular activities include church services on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, egg hunts and egg rolling games on Easter Sunday, and wearing festive hats in Easter bonnet parades.

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Easter in Great Britain

Easter is an important spring festival in Great Britain that is celebrated with various religious and secular traditions. It always falls on a Sunday and common symbols of Easter include eggs, hot cross buns, chocolate bunnies, and decorated palm branches. Popular activities include church services on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, egg hunts and egg rolling games on Easter Sunday, and wearing festive hats in Easter bonnet parades.

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Easter 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
symbols and
interesting traditions
on this day.
Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday is the last Sunday of Lent and first day of Holy
Week in Christian churches. It falls on the Sunday before Easter
and is always a movable feast. Palm Sunday is often celebrated
with processions and distribution of blessed palm leaves.
Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday is the day during Holy


Week that commemorates the Washing of the Feet (Maundy)
and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles.
Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday in the United Kingdom features the


monarch offering Maundy money, also known as
Royal Maundy, to selected senior citizens – one man
and one woman for each year of the monarch's age.
The monarch presents each man and woman with a
red and white purse during the service.
Good Friday

Good Friday is a religious public holiday in the UK.


It is the last Friday before Easter. It is the day when
Christians commemorate the death of Jesus on the cross.
All churches in different parts of the country have
special services.
Hot Cross Buns

On Good Friday people eat hot cross buns.


These are small loaves bread of sweet bread
with fruit and spices and they have a cross on
top. They are best when you eat them hot.
Easter decorations outside
Children and parents make a
very nice decoration. They
put branches in a vase and
hang eggs on them.
Easter Egg Hunt

On Easter Sunday morning children look for the eggs. It's


a very exciting Easter egg hunt. For this reason, chocolate
bunnies and Easter eggs are very popular in Great Britain.
Children have a basket to collect their eggs.
Easter Egg Rolling

Another Easter tradition is egg rolling. People


decorate eggs with different colors. They take the
eggs on the top of the hill and eggs roll down. The
first egg to get to the bottom of the hill, is the winner.
The symbols of Easter
Cross
Palms
Easter Eggs

English children like coloring and decorating


eggs for Easter. Eggs are very important
because they mean spring and new life.
Easter Chocolate Eggs
Easter Bunny

The symbol of Easter is an Easter


bunny, a happy rabbit with a basket
of chocolate eggs.
Chocolate Easter Bunny
Easter Bonnet Parade

At Easter people used to


wear special hats. They are
called bonnets. The bonnets
are always new. In some
British primary schools they
organize an ‘Easter bonnet
parade’ where the best
bonnet wins a prize.
Easter Cards
Easter dishes
Easter souvenirs

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