24 Ways to Celebrate the Triduum and Easter

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If you have other ways that you celebrate these days with your family, let us know what they are in the comments below!

  1. Get eggs, blow out the insides, and wash them, dry them, paint them, string them, and hang them on a tree.
  2. Organize an Easter Egg hunt for your younger siblings with special clues.
  3. Make an Easter garden by making clay figures of Jesus, Mary, an angel, a Roman Soldier, and any other figures from the Passion that you wish. Also make a tomb and a cross (this can be from clay or from sticks). Get a baking tray, cover it with tin foil, and put some sand on top. Cover it with small plants, twigs, and leaves, and arrange your tomb and clay figures in it. On Good Friday, put the clay figure of Jesus in the tomb, and take him out on Easter Sunday.
  4. Learn how to make chocolates. (or chocolate-covered fruit, such as this recipe: https://www.modgnews.com/4194/blogs/blog-the-masterchef/)
  5. Memorize the Regina Coeli
  6. Read the Easter narrative in the Gospel
  7. Buy sheets of wax, cut out Easter shapes, and press them onto candles.
  8. Write “Alleluia” on a large piece of cardboard, decorate it, and hang it up somewhere in your house where everyone can see
  9. Learn an Easter Hymn, like Jesus Christ is Risen Today!
  10. Make Resurrection Cookies on Holy Saturday and eat them on Easter Sunday!
  11. Pray in front of a planned parenthood on Good Friday
  12. Make a cross or crown of thorns out of your palms from Palm Sunday
  13. Make a model of an empty tomb
  14. Crochet, sew, or make lambs out of felt in honor of the Lamb of God!
  15. Learn to chant the Regina Caeli
  16. Paint tall white candles
  17. Keep vigil at seven Churches on Holy Thursday
  18. Go on a sunrise hike on Easter morning. Read the Gospel once you’re at the top!
  19. Hide your Easter baskets so you have an ‘Easter basket’ hunt
  20. Keep a vigil at your church from 12-3pm on Good Friday
  21. Have a “Passover Dinner” on Holy Thursday
  22. Color in coloring pages depicting the Easter story and stick them in the windows – they’ll be like your own stained glass windows!
  23. Make a lamb cake (or a butter lamb!)
  24. Light your baptismal candle on Easter morning