What Do You Do for Easter?

One thing that became a tradition was decorating a bunny cake. If you google "bunny cake" you will see examples. You can use a cake mix and two round cake pans. One layer is the body of the bunny. You make two cuts in the other layer to make the ears and a bow. Then place the bunny on foil covered cardboard and frost the entire thing.

When kids are really small, they can help decorate with candies, coconut, licorice strings, jelly beans, etc. As they get older, they can do more to help make the cake and decorate it.

My daughter is now grown and still makes a bunny cake every Easter season.

The Easter bunny comes while the kid's are sleeping, then we have our egg hunt, then church and family time. At family time we usually have a big lunch and another bigger egg hunt. Church is ALWAYS a must on Easter Sunday along with Palm Sunday.

Easter to us is a celebration of Spring and rebirth. We have an egg hunt first thing in the morning, if the weather is nice (we live in MN) it is outside. Then we've made a family tradition of going to the zoo to see the "farm babies" exhibit. We spend several hours there.

Our family is made up of some nonreligious and some other-than-christian religious, so we don't go to church on Easter. But the zoo is not crowded on Easter morning!

dye eggs and do the easter egg hunt/huge fair at the chuch, which wee don;t attend normally, then the day of go for a picnic or to the beach!

To me, Easter (as the easter rabbit) is relative a new thing as in Mexico we do celebrate but is just a Christian celebration without the rabbit.
But I must say it didn't took me long to adopt the rabbit, lol.
Who can resist to a cute rabbit that also gives you candy?!
Last year we went on a train were the Easter rabbit walk by for pictures and give candy and eggs, we also went to a petting farm.
This year we are going back to the petting farm but I am also looking for an egg hunt around here.

I am thinking of getting some plastic eggs and doing and easter egg hunt in the backyard, it remains to be seen if I pull it off! I was thinking of just putting a little chocolate or something in each egg, or maybe a little toy in some of them. We are going to my mom's for an Easter meal on Saturday and then Church on Sunday and I will give them Easter baskets on Sunday morning. I did find this awesome book with some craft ideas to make bunny ears out of construction paper and also to take a couple paper plates and make an Easter bunny out them, so if you want more details on how to do those crafts shoot me a PM and I will send you the directions on one or both. I think we are going to do both this week :D Happy Easter!

a facebook friend said he was going geo catching with easter eggs!!! perhaps a little scavenger hunt in the neighborhood (or friends and family) would be fun for them! we went camping and little ones hunted easter eggs on the camp ground.

Easter Sunday we go to church then hunt at the church also. Lunch perhaps one more egg hunt then back home.

This would be a two part answer!
First, I don't know if you go to church or not, but ours certainly has lots of activities for kids starting with Palm Sunday tomorrow. Because we're Episcopalian, we have services on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, but more adult than you might look for. A church in your area might have children's services during the week and especially on Easter Sunday. Since this is Holy Week, and all about the Resurrection, some service somewhere should be part of your Easter celebration.
As for more "fun" stuff, I always dyed eggs (you know, the old fashioned kind from chickens, NOT plastic) with the kids. Sometimes we used the packages from the grocery, sometimes just food coloring with vinegar to dye eggs. You can paint them, but maybe make when they're over. The Easter Bunny then came and hid them for the egg hunt Easter morning. We also made Jell-o eggs in the molds you can sometimes find from Jell-o (that would be the more concentrated form of gelatin that stays solid).
Baking special cookies or hot cross buns is also fun, and 4 is a good age help Mom cook. There is bound to be some activity somewhere in Houston (I live in Austin) like a neighborhood egg hunt or egg roll that you could go to. You don't say if they're girls or boys, but going to a craft store and getting a hat and decorating an Easter Bonnet is fun also.
Enjoy the holiday with them, but be sure to tell them the reason for it.
Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.

The Wed before, we are going to an Easter Eggstravaganza at our church (Pizza, Games, Egg Hunt). The Thursday before we'll dye eggs (1st time for both my 1.5 and 3.5 year old). Saturday before we'll go to a local egg hunt then on Easter, we go to Church with my parents (we all attend the same church). After that we're doing Easter brunch at my house this year (usually go to my parents). Baked ham, rolls, green bean casserole, hash brown casserole and strawberry pretzel dessert. Three hours later we'll meet my in laws and husband's family at the local Pizza Hut (tradition) and have Easter with them.