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When Jesus entered Jerusalem on what is now celebrated as Palm Sunday, he was riding atop this animal.
What is a donkey?
Traditionally, entering the city on a donkey symbolizes arrival in peace.
What fictional bunny of song comes “hoppin’ down the bunny trail?”
Who is Peter Cottontail?
“Here Comes Peter Cottontail” was written in 1949 by Steve Nelson and Walter E. Rollins who also penned “Frosty the Snowman.”
Much like on Valentine’s Day, this type of candy is most popular on Easter. 32. ($200)
What is Chocolate.
About 70% of Easter candy purchased is chocolate.
Children of all ages love to participate in this annual event where their hunting skills are tested.
What is an Easter egg hunt?
This term refers to an amount of money saved for the future.
What is a nest egg?
Christians commemorate this famous meal on Maundy Thursday.
What is the Last Supper of Jesus?
The word Maundy originates from the Latin word mandatum and refers to the command to love one another.
This cloth toy rabbit longs to become “real” through the love of his owner.
What is the Velveteen Rabbit? Forgotten for a time in favor of shinier toys, the Velveteen Rabbit becomes the boy’s favorite toy after he provides lasting comfort during a long illness. Because of this love, the bunny becomes real and hops away to join other rabbits in the forest. 9.
Easter is the second-biggest candy holiday followed by this fall holiday.
What is Halloween?
Christmas and Valentine’s Day come in third and fourth in candy sales.
This New York City Easter Sunday tradition dates to the mid-1800s, when the upper crust of society strolled along Fifth Avenue after Easter services, showing off their new spring outfits and hats.
What is the Easter parade?
This tradition was even more popular after the release of the 1948 film Easter Parade, starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland.
If you do this you are encouraging or urging someone to do something.
What is “egg on”?
This term is a variant of edge, so to “egg someone on” is to edge or urge them forward. Both egg and edge come from the Old Norse word eddja.
Judas traded this many pieces of silver for the life of Jesus.
What is 30?
This is mentioned in Matthew 26:15.
This fictional rabbit gets his name from his habit of repeatedly tapping his left hind foot.
Who is Thumper?
Thumper is introduced in the Disney film Bambi.
This part of a chocolate bunny is most popular to eat first.
What are the ears?
Nearly 76% of Canadians think the ears of a chocolate bunny should be the first to be eaten.
This meat, with roots in Passover celebrations, is also a traditional Easter food.
What is lamb?
Christians refer to Jesus as the “Lamb of God.”
This saying is another way to express embarrassment or humiliation.
What is “to have egg on one’s face”?
The origin of this phrase is thought to have come from the practice of audiences tossing rotten vegetable and eggs at actors after unpopular performances in the late 1800s. Said actors would then actually have had egg on their faces.
This woman was the first person to see the risen Christ.
Who is Mary Magdalene?
This mischievous young rabbit with a taste for fresh veggies gets into Mr. McGregor’s garden.
Who is Peter Rabbit?
Beatrix Potter self-published her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, in 1901 after it was rejected by several publishers. It has since been translated into 36 languages, sold 45 million copies, and is one of the best-selling books in history.
Sixteen billion jelly beans are produced each Easter season, and this flavor is most popular. .
What is cinnamon?
Black licorice flavor is the second-most popular flavor.
For Christians, these white flowers that decorate homes and churches at Easter symbolize the purity of Christ.
What are Easter/White lilies?
This saying tells someone to not risk losing everything by having only one plan and depend entirely on it for success.
What is “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket“?
This saying comes from an old proverb, most likely Spanish or Italian. It warns away from gathering all your hens’ eggs into one basket because if you drop that basket, you might lose all the eggs.
Alice follows this fictional bunny down the rabbit hole into Wonderland.
Who is the White Rabbit?
The White Rabbit appears at the very beginning of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, staring at his watch and muttering to himself the famous words, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!”
This symbolic candy, introduced in Germany in the early 1800s, is the oldest traditional Easter candy.
What is a chocolate Easter egg?
Chocolate eggs were made because the German Easter Bunny, called Osterhase, would lay the eggs given to children. Eggs were also a symbol of good luck and new life.
These sweet breads marked with a Christian symbol are traditionally eaten during Lent, particularly on Good Friday.
What are hot cross buns?
It is said that a 12th-century monk who baked the rolls on Good Friday was the first to mark them with a cross.
This is another way to say you are behaving or speaking in a cautious manner to avoid upsetting someone who is easily upset.
What is “walking on eggshells”?
This phrase came into use in the 1800s and replaced the phrase “walking on eggs,” from the 1700s. Both refer to the fact that eggshells are easily broken.