Easter is the epitome of Spring, bright colors and general merriment. If you are tired of the typical traditions for this holiday, maybe it’s time to mix it up and alter them a bit. Here are 3 Non-traditional Easter traditions:

1. Egg Decorating Competition

Instead of decorating all of the eggs in the brightest pastel dyes you can find, let everyone take one egg and do a one of a kind design, then choose a winner. This way, instead of filling your house with pinks, blues, yellows, and bright greens, you could have American flag eggs, a Barbie themed egg, and whatever else your kiddos can think of!

2. Bunny Baking

Easter is usually a time when there is lots of baking. This year instead of a regular cake, maybe try making bunny cupcakes. Decorate each one to look like a bunny rabbit and make the flavor, carrot cake, of course. Another take on this cupcake design is just doing a carrot patch, so the root of the carrot is coming out of the cupcake surrounded by chocolate “dirt” with Oreo bits, and the inside is filled with orange icing where the “carrot” would be underground. Both of these make for really cute cupcakes that I would assume taste delicious.

3. Capture the Easter Egg

If you are hanging with older kids this Easter, upgrade the typical Easter egg hunt, for an Easter take on capture the flag. I would recommend using plastic eggs, or this might get messy. If you want an easier version, you could use an entire basket of Easter eggs for your “flag” which might be easier to find. It all depends on how much of a challenge you want!

These are just three ideas, but there are countless ways to mix up Easter traditions to make them a little more unique and keep things interesting every year!