No one could imagine that this Easter 2020 we would spend at home. Vacation plans are over, looking for accommodation, visiting relatives or going out to see processions, this year #yomequedoencasa. We want to propose you some ideas you can do these days with your children.
Whether you are religious or not, the reality is that these festivals are part of our culture with their dishes, traditions, and sayings. Here You have how to explain to the children what Easter is. And you know, even if you don't go out on Palm Sunday, tradition says that you have to release something to have good luck.
Take advantage of Easter to cook
Easter has its own traditional dishes. In this confinement you can take the opportunity to spend time in the kitchen. You will be transmitting to your sons and daughters the value of the products made at home. I still remember how my mother's kitchen smelled when this time came, of cod stew, fritters, torrijas (which in my house are made of honey), pestiños ... and how we are in confinement, in the afternoon to exercise in the living room.
A curiosity for pregnant and lactating mothers. The torrijas had nothing to do with an Easter meal, but were used to favor the recovery of women after childbirth.
And how can it happen to me! The Chocolate easter egg. There are very simple and fun recipes for children to make, and the most important thing is that you have to decorate it and hide it. And in this story the Easter bunny must also appear. This animal is in charge of bringing the good news of the Resurrection of Christ, but that will be at the end of the week.
Easter crafts
Holy Week is celebrated in many ways throughout Spain. There are the processions of Seville, Malaga or Valladolid ... and I don't want to get into an eggplant about which ones are more beautiful. In all cities and towns there are processions. There are also other things such as the Palmas in Elche, the Tamborradas of Bajo Aragón and Albacete, and many other forms.
If I tell you about all this, it is because any celebration carries its own trades, and traditionss. So in these days of confinement you can take the opportunity to make a palm, even with paper and cardboard and hang it on the balcony. Make wax flowers, dress the dolls as if they were virgins, or even the most and the most daring to paint or make a step or a throne in the area where you live out of plasticine or other material. There is also quite a blog with cutout templates on the subject.
In this section of crafts, we could include a representation of the Passion of Christ, yes, you should be in the house enough. Or watch movies on the subject and even have a discussion among the teenagers in the house.
Follow the other Holy Weeks online
All the new technologies. They are going to give us the opportunity to see and experience Holy Week in a different way.
Most dioceses will transmit the Stations of the Cross by some means (it will be possible to follow Twitter), the offices and the liturgies that have to do with these dates. Who knows if you can't take the opportunity to get closer to all of them.
Also, in the cities with more tradition of processions, some of the processions of other years will be broadcast again through the social media y Youtube. And special activities have been planned. For example, the Almería Brotherhoods have proposed a children's drawing contest on Instagram.
Another recommendation that we give you is to take the opportunity to see how Holy Week is celebrated in other cities, a kind of virtual tourist tour. And we no longer speak only of Spain, but of places like Rome, Jerusalem or San Pedro de Cutud in the Philippines. Although in all these places public demonstrations have been suspended and they are still in confinement, you can take the opportunity to see how other years are celebrated.