Easter traditions
This colorful activity involves using dyes, stickers, or wax to transform plain white shells into festive decorations.
What is dyeing/decorating easter eggs?
This long-eared creature is famous for hiding colorful eggs and leaving baskets full of treats for children to find on Easter morning.
Who is the Easter Bunny?
These small, bean-shaped sugar candies come in dozens of flavors, though cherry is usually the favorite.
What are jelly beans?
DOUBLE POINTS: In this classic holiday activity, children race around with baskets to find as many hidden eggs as possible.
What is an easter egg hunt?
This is the name for the Sunday exactly one week before Easter, commemorating Jesus' entry into Jerusalem.
What is Palm Sunday?
This popular Easter decoration is often hung on doors and made from spring flowers or greenery.
What is a wreath?
DOUBLE POINTS: While most people think of a bunny, this long-legged bird is the traditional egg-bringer in several European myths.
What is a stork?
This traditional English sweet bread, marked with a cross on top, is usually eaten on Good Friday.
What are hot cross buns?
This high-jumping activity is a popular backyard game where kids try to bounce like a rabbit in a large burlap bag.
What is the sack race?
DOUBLE POINTS: This traditional "Easter" flower is often white and symbolizes purity and grace.
What is a lily?
DOUBLE POINTS: In several countries, families prepare a special Easter soup made with ingredients like smoked meats, eggs, and horseradish — a dish often known by this traditional name.
What is white borscht?
In many stories, the Easter Bunny is said to live in a secret, underground world similar to the North Pole, often called this "Island."
What is Easter Island?
This specific brand’s "Peanut Butter Egg" is consistently ranked as the #1 most popular Easter candy in America.
What is Reese's?
This is the name of the "rare" egg—often spray-painted or made of metal—that contains the biggest prize and is the hardest to find in a hunt.
What is the golden egg?
This fuzzy, yellow "baby bird" is a popular symbol of Easter because it represents new life hatching in the spring.
What is a chick?
People in Bermuda fly colorful kites on this day before Easter Sunday.
What is Good Friday?
In Westphalia, Germany, this creature is said to bring the eggs.
What is a fox?
300 POINTS: Statistics show that 76% of people eat this part of a chocolate bunny first.
What are the ears?
To make an egg hunt truly "extreme," some organizers use this satellite-based technology, turning the hunt into a high-tech "Geocaching" event.
What is GPS?
This state is home to the city of Pella, famous for its massive "Tulip Time" festival held every spring. (HINT: This state is in the U.S.)
What is Iowa?
Rolling eggs down a hill is a tradition in several countries — and even happens each year on the lawn of this famous building.
What is the White house?
While the U.S. has a bunny, children in Switzerland are told their eggs are delivered by this specific bird.
What is the cuckoo?
These chocolate eggs, famous for their thick shells and gooey white-and-yellow "yolk" centers, were first made by a British company in 1971.
What are Cadbury Creme Eggs?
In 2007, the city of Winter Haven, Florida, broke a world record by hiding over 500,000 eggs for a single hunt. This is the official name of the theme park where this massive event took place.
What is Cypress Gardens?
Easter's date changes every year because it is always the first Sunday after the first full moon following this specific spring event.
What is the Spring Equinox?