Easter is the greatest and most important holiday for Ukrainians. On this holiday my family and I drive to the village. My grandmother and grandfather wait for us. My mother and father help our grandparents. My mother and grandmother always put such types of meat products as ham, smoked sausage, Paska, eggs, horseradish, dairy butter, salt in our baskets. At 1 o`clock a.m. we go to the church to consecrate the basket. After the church we have breakfast. There are 2 traditions in my family. The first tradition is egg tapping. The rule of the game is simple. One holds a hard-boiled egg and taps the egg of another participant with one's own egg intending to break the other's, without breaking one's own. The second tradition is us visiting our relatives. Every Easter we go to my grandmother and my grandfather, to the godparents and other relatives. Easter is a family holiday. I like it so much!

Sviatoslav Zhydyn

Artur Novakivskii

Easter in my family

I'd like to talk about my celebration Easter.

Easter is the most important holiday for Ukrainians. I celebrate this holiday with my family. On East we visit my grandparents. All family meets together there. My grandma prepares for our arrival. My mum makes Easter cake and traditional dishes. And my dad buys products and my sister helps my mum. Mum and grandma make up the basket. Then we go to church with our basket. After that we go to eat. I think this holiday is time when family is together. So, it's my favorite holiday.

-Christ is Risen!

-Truly Risen!

Danylo Shendyruk

Easter day

Easter is one of the most important holidays of the year. Usually this holiday is celebrated on one of Sundays in spring. Easter eggs and Easter cakes (or paskas) are the traditional symbols of the religious holiday. On Easter we attend church together with my family. We consecrate the holiday food in beautiful baskets. The tradition of egg painting is old . You can see painted eggs in every house for Easter holiday. Easter Sunday is a day of singing and eating. My family visit our friends and relatives and exchange Easter eggs. Traditions play a more important role in the life of the people. I think if we keep up our traditions, we will preserve national history and culture. I like to prepare for Easter with my family.

Every family has its own traditions. Easter is one of my favorite holidays.

Danylo Shendyruk

Happy Easter

Violetta Myroshnychenko

Our Easter

Easter is a great holiday. The whole world celebrates it.We are going to celebrate Easter on April the 19th this year.Before Easter my family usually cleans the house.We wash the curtains and clean the windows. We also do some garden work.My mom and my grandmothers bake Easter bread. My sister and I paint eggs and decorate Easter cakes.Then my mom prepares the Easter basket.We put Easter bread, painted eggs,some sausages,butter and some horseradish into the basket. We have the basket blessed in the church. On Easter Sunday we go to the church for a holy liturgy and after that we have festive breakfast together. I like the tradition when my cousins and I look for chocolate eggs and rabbits in the grass outside our house. I really like Easter because all my family gets together to celebrate this wonderful holiday.

Easter is the perfect holiday to make unforgettable memories. Every year my family is looking forward to it, and we try to do our best to prepare well for Easter. My mum always bakes Easter bread and cooks a lot of tasty food. She buys chocolate eggs and bunnies for my sister and for me. We decorate our house with Easter tree, chicks, lambs, hares and flowers. We also like painting eggs in different colors. On Sunday morning all my family goes to church for the service of God. After that, all the family gathers at the festive table and has breakfast. However, this year we are going to stay at home. We will try to spend together the whole day celebrating and playing games. If the weather is fine, mum will hide eggs from us and we will find them everywhere in the garden. Kate likes egg and spoon race game. I hope we’ll play it. We aren’t able to attend the annual Easter events in the town, but we’ll have plenty of fun at home. We are going to do everything from drawing bunny to playing Easter bingo. I think everybody must keep Easter traditions, stay at home and get a lot of fun.

Andrii Horishnyi