Secular Easter Celebrations

Of all the main festivals in the Christian calendar, Easter is perhaps the least celebrated if one is not religious. However, even if you are not Christian, you and your family can enjoy Easter celebrations by using the opportunistic holidays that co-incide with Easter and putting your own twist on how to observe the holiday.

Easter is a time traditionally associated with the spring – the coming of new life, birth and hope. Many secular Easter celebrations focus on this aspect of the holiday. While it may not seem particularly celebratory, many people like to take the opportunity to ‘spring clean’ during their Easter break from work or studies – as this sets things to rights prior to the summer, when one will hopefully be having too much fun to worry about housework. If done with the right approach, you can make spring cleaning feel part of the Easter celebrations – a joint family fun activity, that does not necessarily need to just be based on cleaning. Why not try painting a room in the house, fresh for summer – and good fun for children unoccupied by school?

Other non-religious Easter celebrations include family get togethers. The holiday is almost like Christmas, but without the blatant consumerism that surrounds that holiday. Instead, use the opportunity to visit – and be visited by – your nearest and dearest, without the pressures that Christmas inevitably brings.

One of the most famous Easter celebrations is egg rolling. Allow your children to paint their own hard boiled eggs, then waste a few pleasant hours seeing who can get theirs to roll the furthest. Cheap, hassle-free, enjoyable and fun – Easter doesn’t need to be just for those who celebrate the Christian festival.