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Summary

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3 : Introduction
4 - 5 : Easter in FRANCE
6 - 7 : Easter in ITALY
8 - 9 : Easter in ROMANIA
10 -11 : Easter in LITHUANIA
12 - 13 : Easter in GREECE
14 - 15 : Easter in SWEDEN
16 - 17 : Our collaborative Easter trees
18 : Conclusion

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Introduction

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Easter in Europe! Every year, Europeans celebrate Easter. However,
how does each country celebrate Easter? What are the differences ? What are the similarities?

120 kindergarten students from 6 European countries (Italy, Greece, Lithuania, Sweden, Romania and France) discussed this tradition in their country.

This book presents the answers to the questions we asked ourselves. It also represents the fruit of collaborative work, during several months, on the European eTwinning platform.

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Easter in France

In France, during Easter:

- We have charity actions
- We participate to egg hunt
- Children and adults eat chocolate eggs
- We visit our family and share a meal with them
- Many people attend church to celebrate Easter

Easter in our school and classroom!

- We made some crafts
- It is also the beginning of Springs, so we decorated our windows and our corridor with butterflies, peacocks and colorful decorations
- We participated to a charity picnic organised for solidarity with the people from Ukraine
- We had a school party after Easter

We participated to the Easter project! Here is our Easter tree finished!

ITALY

In Italy, during Easter:

- We visit our families and have a lunch together with traditional foods;
- Many families have small trips on tourist sites, because schools are closed for 1 week;
- Many people can go to the church to celebrate Easter;
- In some families they are used to paint eggs and bring them to church during a celebration, and after they eat these eggs;
- Children (but not only!) eats chocolate eggs and receive a small present, that is inside these eggs.

Easter in our school and classroom!

We’ve read some EASTER bunny stories and created a beautifull garland with egg shape, using different kind of paper…a gift for our families!
Spring is arrived! We decorated our school: we observed and drew branches and different flowers;
we went for a walk near school, in the middle of field of cherry trees;
our town Vignola is famous in Italy for cherries. In the Easter period, we celebrate them in a ‘‘Flowering Festival’’, with a parade of masked floats;
this year our school realized a collection of school supplies and toys for solidarity for children that are arriving in our town from Ukraine.
We participate to the Easter etwinning Project! Here is our branch!

ROMANIA

In Roumania there is tradition of painting eggs, the exact name in roumanian sound “ încondeiere “ (eggs decoration ), the technique consists in drawing some roumanian folk motifs with wax.
On Easter day people go to church and then visit their family to serve the traditional Easter meal.
At the beginning of the meal there is the custom of beating painted Easter eggs, as a traditional dishes are served lamb and a cake (something like a sweet bread ) called “cozonac “.
There is also a tradition for children to receive chocolate eggs, chocolate bunnies or other sweets as gift from the Easter Bunny .