Easter Egg hunt, witches, treats and more!

Here in Sweden, we get a four day weekend for Easter! We've started the Easter tradition to have an Easter Egg hunt with the kids, just like I used to do as a kid. I hide both chocolate and painted eggs and maybe a rabbit or two and my daughter will search around with her basket (this year, she painted her rabbit basket). 

Quiet creative time for some Easter crafts.

Kids in Sweden also do an Easter egg hunt for Easter. Being a pandemic Easter again this year, we decided to stay close to home. Although, there were Easter egg hunts at different places around town, like the Tjolöholm Castle just outside the city.

Something a little different in Sweden is that kids dress up as witches and go door to door looking for treats (like on Halloween when kids Trick-or-treat!) These witches wear rags and old clothes with shawls on their heads and painted freckles and blush on their faces.

Photo credit from Time

This unique tradition is celebrated in Sweden and parts of Finland. It's origins are from an old belief that witches would fly to meet the Devil on the Thursday before Easter. Swedes light bonfires and set off fireworks to scare them away. We saw a few kids dressed up and my daughter said loudly, that she didn't want to dress up as a witch haha!

I made sure to stock up on some Easter crafts from Flying Tiger (it's Pandemic time and only a few are allowed in the store at a time).

There is always lots to choose from at Flying Tiger!

Can't forget the Traditional paper eggs!!

Kinder eggs are also fun to hide and play with afterwards!

Paper eggs are usually filled with candy but you can put whatever you want in them. Toddler loves to just open and close empty paper eggs ;)

In Sweden, it's also common to see an Easter tree, decorated with painted eggs, and feathers. 

A common Swedish Easter meal includes hard boiled eggs, pickled herring and Ham but we didn't actually have any of those this year. Although, it was just us for this Pandemic Easter, we still had a great one. For brunch, we made pancakes! One Vegan version and one Non-Vegan version. The kids and I did some baking and made a Vegan pumpkin pie and delish Turkey dinner! I also ordered an Easter dessert box from AweSum Cakes (see blog post) which we had for dessert! 

And I made sure to get a special Vegan chocolate treat for myself for the Egg hunt too! Instead of a chocolate bunny, it's a chocolate Hamster!

Happy Easter ("Glad Påsk" in Swedish) and remember, don't forget your snacks!