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Easter Writing Prompts

The egg hunt, the Bunny's job, dyed eggs and the basket, the family table and the holiday in church.

Easter Writing Prompts

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  1. What does the Easter Bunny do in August? Write one ordinary Tuesday.Angle: a hobby, a chore, and one thing it is already planning for next spring.
  2. The grown-ups keep talking after the Easter meal and the afternoon gets long. Write what the kids invent to do.Angle: a game with leftover eggs, a fort, a plan that almost works.
  3. Tell the Easter egg hunt as the grown-up on the porch who knows where every egg is.Angle: they are not allowed to point. Write what their face gives away.

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The egg hunt 13

  • A confetti egg turns up in the Easter egg hunt. Write the second before it breaks and the second after. Fact: a cascarón is a dried, hollow egg stuffed with confetti, its hole closed with tissue paper.
  • An older kid is too old for the Easter egg hunt this year and hides the eggs instead. Write the morning from their side. First line: I hid them where I would have looked first.
  • Before the Easter egg hunt someone counts the eggs, and after it the count is one short. Write the search. Angle: say who notices, who shrugs, and where it turns up.
  • Describe an Easter egg hunt using only what you can hear. Fact: some eggs are made to beep or click so that children who cannot see well can hunt them.
  • In July someone finds a plastic egg left over from the Easter egg hunt. Write the discovery. Angle: say where it was all that time and what is still inside.
  • The littlest hunter at the Easter egg hunt finds one egg and stops to open it while everyone else runs. Write that minute. Angle: what is inside matters less than how carefully it gets opened.
  • Tell the Easter egg hunt as the grown-up on the porch who knows where every egg is. Angle: they are not allowed to point. Write what their face gives away.
  • This year the Easter egg hunt is indoors, in a small apartment. Write the hiding places. Fact: eggs for a hunt may be hidden both indoors and outdoors.
  • Two cousins reach the same Easter egg at the same second. Write what happens next. Angle: nobody cries, and the ending surprises both of them.
  • Walk a reader through an Easter egg hunt from the back door, naming every hiding place in order. Angle: the drainpipe, the flowerpot, the fork of the tree, the boot on the step.
  • Write an Easter egg hunt from the side of the one egg nobody finds. First line: By noon the shouting had moved to the other side of the yard.
  • Write an Easter egg hunt with clues: four short riddles, each one leading to the next egg. First line: I have a mouth and never eat; look where the letters and I both meet.
  • Write the rules of an Easter egg hunt so that the smallest hunter and the fastest one both have a fair chance. Fact: prizes may go for the most eggs collected, or for the largest or the smallest egg.

The Easter Bunny 13

  • A child asks how a rabbit can bring eggs at all. Write the Easter Bunny's answer. Fact: an old belief in Europe held that hares laid eggs.
  • At dawn the Easter Bunny meets an ordinary hare in a garden, one with a basket and one without. Write what they say. Fact: hares were a common sight in spring gardens, which may be how the egg story began.
  • Children once made nests for the Easter Bunny in their caps and bonnets. Write a child checking the cap at sunrise. Fact: the legend said the Easter hare left colored eggs in nests that children made in caps and bonnets.
  • The Easter Bunny keeps a notebook on every yard it visits. Write the page about a yard you know well. Angle: the best hiding spots, the gate that squeaks, the cat that watches.
  • The Easter Bunny needs a helper for one night. Write the job interview. Angle: three questions the Bunny asks, and the one answer that gets you hired.
  • German families brought the story of the Easter hare to Pennsylvania long ago. Write a child there hearing it for the first time. Fact: German immigrants in Pennsylvania told their children the tale in the 1700s.
  • In its first stories the Easter Bunny decided whether children had been good. Write it making up its mind about a child who was mostly good. Fact: the Easter hare began as a judge of children's behavior at the start of the Easter season.
  • In the oldest stories the Easter Bunny was a hare. Write the hare explaining the difference to a rabbit. Fact: the German name, Osterhase, means Easter hare; Hase is a hare, not a rabbit.
  • It is the Easter Bunny's first year on the job. Write the night everything is new. First line: Nobody had told me how heavy a basket gets by the second street.
  • Pack the Easter Bunny's basket in writing, one layer at a time, so that nothing breaks. Fact: in the legend the basket holds colored eggs, candy and sometimes toys.
  • Send the Easter Bunny a letter with three questions you have always wanted answered. First line: Dear Easter Bunny, first of all, where do you get the eggs?
  • What does the Easter Bunny do in August? Write one ordinary Tuesday. Angle: a hobby, a chore, and one thing it is already planning for next spring.
  • Write the Easter Bunny's to-do list for the night before Easter. Fact: in the legend the Bunny brings its eggs to children's homes on the night before the holiday.

Dyed eggs and the basket 13

  • An Easter basket lined with straw looks like a nest. Write the basket as a bird on the windowsill sees it. Fact: baskets may be filled with real or artificial straw to resemble a bird's nest.
  • Describe the one Easter egg you decorated that came out exactly as you planned, or the one that did not. Angle: tell what you meant to do, then what the dye did.
  • In Germany people hang Easter eggs on trees and bushes. Write the morning a bare tree gets its eggs. Fact: in Germany eggs decorate trees and bushes as Easter egg trees.
  • In Ukraine, Easter eggs called pysanky are decorated with wax. Write someone drawing on an egg for the first time. Fact: the name comes from a verb meaning to write; the designs are written on in beeswax.
  • Keep a dyed Easter egg's diary: three short entries, from the carton to the basket. First line: Day one. Twelve of us, all white, all nervous.
  • List what is in your perfect Easter basket, then cross out one thing and say why. Angle: five things; the one you cross out goes to someone else.
  • Many American cities hold an Easter parade. Write the hat you would wear in it and how you built it. Fact: Easter parades, festive strolling processions, are held in many American cities.
  • Onion skins turn an Easter egg brown and beet juice turns it pink. Write someone trying it for the first time. Fact: eggs boiled with onion peel come out brown, and beet juice dyes them pink.
  • Somebody lays out Easter clothes the night before. Write who chose them and who would have chosen something else. Angle: stiff shoes, a hat, a collar that itches by ten o'clock.
  • Someone presses a leaf against an Easter egg before dyeing it and peels it off after. Write the unwrapping. Fact: a leaf fixed to the shell before dyeing leaves its pattern on the egg.
  • Write the argument over the last chocolate egg in an Easter basket, and how it is settled fairly. Angle: someone suggests a rule; someone else finds the gap in it.
  • Write the kitchen table on the night your family dyes Easter eggs: the cups, the spoons, the waiting. Angle: say which color goes first and whose fingers stay blue until Tuesday.
  • You wake on Easter morning before anyone else in the house. Write the first ten minutes. First line: The basket was not where it had been last year.

The family table 13

  • A guest who has never been to an Easter meal comes to yours. Write what you explain and what you cannot. Angle: why the eggs are colored, why there is a rabbit, why that one dish.
  • A hot cross bun is a spiced fruit bun with a cross on top. Write someone tasting one for the first time, the Friday before Easter. Fact: hot cross buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday in a number of countries.
  • A relative you see only at Easter sits across from you. Write three things you want to ask. Angle: one question is easy, one is funny, one you have been saving.
  • After the Easter meal the cousins roll eggs down the hill behind the house. Write the race. Fact: in the United Kingdom and Germany children traditionally rolled eggs down hillsides at Easter.
  • At some Easter tables two people knock their eggs together and the shell that holds wins. Write the final round. Fact: in egg tapping the winner is the holder of the last egg left unbroken.
  • Describe your family's Easter table before anyone sits down: every dish, and who made which. Angle: start at one end and go around; stop at the dish that is there every year.
  • The grown-ups keep talking after the Easter meal and the afternoon gets long. Write what the kids invent to do. Angle: a game with leftover eggs, a fort, a plan that almost works.
  • The kids' table at Easter has its own rules. Write them down. First line: Rule one: nobody tells the big table what happens here.
  • Lamb is the Easter dish in many countries. Write the one food that means Easter in your home, and the first bite of it. Fact: lamb is eaten at Easter in many countries.
  • One dish on your family's Easter table has no written recipe. Write someone learning it by watching. Angle: a handful, a pinch, until it looks right.
  • Someone at the Easter table tells the same story every year. Write the story, and what the listeners do while it is told. Angle: who mouths the ending, who passes the rolls, who hears it for the first time.
  • Write the cleanup after the Easter meal: who washes, who dries, who disappears. First line: My aunt washed as if the plates had insulted her.
  • Write the Easter meal from under the table, as the youngest cousin sees it. First line: Eleven pairs of shoes, and only two of them stayed still.

The holiday in church 13

  • Easter can come as early as March 22 or as late as April 25. Write a letter of complaint to the calendar, and its reply. Fact: in Western churches Easter always falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25.
  • Easter falls on a different date each year. Write the rule as directions a friend could follow. Fact: Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, a calculated full moon on or after March 21.
  • In many countries the Monday after Easter is a day off. Write what you would do with an Easter Monday. Fact: Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays in many countries.
  • In Orthodox churches Easter eggs are dyed red. Write a basket of them, and the child who asks why. Fact: Orthodox tradition has red Easter eggs, and their shell is read as the closed tomb.
  • In some churches people cover a bare cross with fresh flowers at Easter. Write the flower you would bring, and where it grew. Fact: in flowering the cross, worshippers place flowers on a bare wooden cross at Easter.
  • In some churches the Easter service begins in the dark and one candle lights the next. Write the light moving down a row. Fact: the Easter Vigil, held the night before, uses symbols of light, candles and water.
  • Lilies stand at the front of many churches at Easter. Describe walking in, by smell alone. Fact: the Easter lily traditionally decorates churches on Easter Day and for the rest of the season.
  • Many people give something up for the forty days before Easter. Write about going without one thing and getting it back. Fact: Lent is a 40-day period before Easter, and many people give up sweets for it.
  • On Easter some people greet each other with a set phrase and a set reply. Write about a greeting your own family or friends always use. Fact: in some traditions Easter services begin with a spoken greeting and its response.
  • Some churches hold an Easter service outdoors at sunrise. Write the ten minutes before the sun comes up. Fact: Easter sunrise services are held in the open, where the sunrise can be seen.
  • Two friends find that their churches keep Easter on different Sundays. Write them comparing calendars. Fact: Orthodox churches base the Easter rule on the Julian calendar, so their date can differ.
  • The week before Easter is called Holy Week. Write about a week in your own life that led up to one big day. Fact: Holy Week, the last week before Easter, begins on Palm Sunday.
  • Write Easter Sunday at a church from the back row, as someone who is there for the first time. Angle: what you see, when people stand, who smiles at you, what you do not understand yet.

How it works

These Easter writing prompts keep to what belongs to the day and to nothing else in spring. More than half carry a fact under them, a custom or the date rule, read in the articles named below the list.

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Easter bunny writing prompts

Thirteen prompts treat the Bunny as someone with a job: a helper to interview, a basket to pack, a first year at work. The facts under them come from the old German story, in which the animal was a hare and children left nests for it in their caps.

Easter writing prompts with eggs

Two groups are about eggs. The hunt has the egg nobody finds and a hunt told by ear. Dyed eggs has onion-skin brown, leaf prints and the wax-written eggs of Ukraine.

  • For an egg hunt, write the hiding before the finding. The hider knows things the hunters do not.
  • A church prompt works for any writer: describe what a first-time visitor would see and hear.

Questions and answers

What is a good Easter writing prompt for kids?

Keep a dyed egg's diary in three short entries, from the carton to the basket. Or write down the rules of the kids' table, starting with rule one: nobody tells the big table what happens here.

What are some fun Easter writing prompts?

A letter of complaint to the calendar about a holiday that will not stay put, with the calendar's reply. Or the argument over the last chocolate egg in the basket, and how it is settled fairly.

Why is Easter on a different date every year?

It follows the moon. Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, a calculated full moon on or after March 21, so in Western churches it falls between March 22 and April 25.

Can I print these Easter writing prompts?

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