Easter holiday in Derby

Description:

Easter is a religious celebration and one of the greatest feasts of the year, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and ends the Lent period. There’s no fixed date for the occasion as it’s the first Sunday of every full moon following the spring equinox.

People celebrate Easter in different ways. Some take it as a celebration, welcoming new life or season and others take this as an opportunity for a holiday. Here are some of the traditions that mark Easter in England.

Easter Eggs:

Eggs on Easter represent a new life is born in Christianity. Before chocolate eggs were popular on Easter, people gave egg gifts carved from wood or precious stones along time ago.

Apart from chocolate eggs, being a tradition for Easter, people also paint boiled eggs with bright colours to represent the sunshine for the new spring season and rolling them down the hill representing the stone rolling from Christ's tomb.

Easter Bunny:

The history of Easter bunny began from rabbits being similar with hares which were a symbol of the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring Eostre and symbolise rebirth of nature following winter.

But Christians changed the symbol from hare to bunnys as they’re more rabbits than hares. It’s now a tradition of the Easter bunny to leave a basket of treats with Easter eggs and chocolates or parents hiding eggs for their kids to find.

Easter Bonnets:

For Christians it involves buying a new piece of clothing to church on Easter morning and making an item like a hat and enter it into the Easter bonnet competition.

Finally, here are Easter events in Derby you can enjoy during the Easter period.

Easter Trail at Calke Abbey Ticknall, Derby from 02 April to 04 April 2010

Good Friday service at Derby Cathedral on 02 April 2010 at 7:00pm.

Easter Eggstravaganza at Chatsworth HouseBakewell Derbyshire on 02 April 2010. Join over the Easter weekend for family entertainment, tantalising Easter egg trails and all kinds of 'egg-citing' activities throughout the house, garden and farmyard.

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Easter Funday at Hardwick Park Centre Hardwick Hall Derbyshire from the 02 April to 04 April 2010 at 11:00 till 4:00pm. Chocolate prize for all entrants.

Easter Egg hunt at Matlock Bath Gulliver's Kingdom Derby. As well as all the normal rides and attractions you will be able to enjoy lots of Easter Activities around the site.

This is not exhaustive, if you have any ideas or comments please drop them in we will include them