I love traditions. They are my favorite and I love that anything can be one if you just keep doing it every year, month, or week! ☺️One of my favorite traditions in the world was spending time at my Grandma’s during Lent to celebrate Easter with my siblings and three cousins. I’m the eldest of the six of us and was still able to dye and hunt for eggs with them when I was in college!
When Grandma passed away in 2015, it killed me that my goddaughter–who was only 9 at the time–wouldn’t get as many of those Easter memories. As the youngest of the six cousins, Brooke was still so little! So in honor of our Grandma Bev, Brooke has been coming over to dye and hunt for eggs with me since our first Easter without our matriarch.
Little Brooke and Grandma Bev. 
We always make Grandma an egg. 💕
How to Make Easter Egg Traditions Fun for Older Kids
Brooke is 13 now and I love having one-on-one time with her. I’ve worked hard to keep our Easter traditions fun enough that she looks forward to them each spring! Here’s how I do that…
1. Make egg dyeing fancy and creative.
At Grandma’s, we always had your standard egg dyeing kit from Target or Walmart and white crayons to customize eggs before dyeing them. I never tired of dyeing those eggs! Nor did anyone else. Over the past couple years, I make sure to grab a regular and specialty dye kit. This year, we had fancy, glittered eggs! Last year, we made some eggs marbled and shimmery.
2. Make the hunt tricky.
I have my roomie help me hide the eggs—he’s really good at finding sneaky spots! It took Brooke 16 minutes this year to complete her hunt (with some hot/cold hints from me) and I was proud of that length of time. One tip is to look UP to find some great hiding spots. Eggs hidden in the upper folds of our curtains and behind our bamboo blinds went over well! I also like to tuck eggs in the foliage of houseplants and under lampshades. At Grandma’s, we all had our own color of eggs to look for and eggs were hidden based on our age! For example, my brother had blue eggs only hidden on the top floor and hidden well as he was older like me. It was an awesome way to do an egg hunt for a larger group.
3. Stuff the eggs with good stuff.
I’ve had to customize my eggs by cutting holes in them to fit some of the sample size cosmetics and nail polishes, but it’s so worth it! The picture below shows off Brooke’s eggs contents. She loves beauty products, so I really try to include her interests in her little eggs (I don’t have the big ones). This year, she scored nail polishes, a pretty bracelet, face masks, scrunchies, a beauty blender, Cadbury and Reese’s eggs, a mini bottle of toner, and under $5 worth of dollars and quarters. I have so much fun watching her open them all up! 💕
Do you have any special Easter traditions? I’d love to hear your fun ideas for such a special time. As a kid, we always had pretty dresses for Easter! And we still attend Easter church, of course. ✝️HE is (almost) risen, indeed! Hoppy Easter!