24 Ways to Celebrate the Triduum and Easter
If you have other ways that you celebrate these days with your family, let us know what they are in the comments below!
- Get eggs, blow out the insides, and wash them, dry them, paint them, string them, and hang them on a tree.
- Organize an Easter Egg hunt for your younger siblings with special clues.
- 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.
- Learn how to make chocolates. (or chocolate-covered fruit, such as this recipe: https://www.modgnews.com/4194/blogs/blog-the-masterchef/)
- Memorize the Regina Coeli
- Read the Easter narrative in the Gospel
- Buy sheets of wax, cut out Easter shapes, and press them onto candles.
- Write “Alleluia” on a large piece of cardboard, decorate it, and hang it up somewhere in your house where everyone can see
- Learn an Easter Hymn, like Jesus Christ is Risen Today!
- Make Resurrection Cookies on Holy Saturday and eat them on Easter Sunday!
- Pray in front of a planned parenthood on Good Friday
- Make a cross or crown of thorns out of your palms from Palm Sunday
- Make a model of an empty tomb
- Crochet, sew, or make lambs out of felt in honor of the Lamb of God!
- Learn to chant the Regina Caeli
- Paint tall white candles
- Keep vigil at seven Churches on Holy Thursday
- Go on a sunrise hike on Easter morning. Read the Gospel once you’re at the top!
- Hide your Easter baskets so you have an ‘Easter basket’ hunt
- Keep a vigil at your church from 12-3pm on Good Friday
- Have a “Passover Dinner” on Holy Thursday
- Color in coloring pages depicting the Easter story and stick them in the windows – they’ll be like your own stained glass windows!
- Make a lamb cake (or a butter lamb!)
- Light your baptismal candle on Easter morning