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Anna and Clara describe Easter as a wonderful springtime celebration. A celebration that takes place in several countries around the world with widely differing traditions. For the sisters, Easter is all about ‘hygge’. A time of ‘hygge’ spent with their loved ones, a lovely Easter lunch, and homemade Easter decorations. During Easter, the daily chocolate intake increases, and more attention is paid to the letterbox in the hope of receiving lovely ‘gækkebreve’, also known as snowdrop letters. For Anna and Clara, Easter comes with a great number of traditions. But when is Easter exactly? Why do we celebrate Easter, and what do we serve at the yearly Easter lunch? Anna and Clara share their take on how Easter can be celebrated. The sisters hope to inspire you to fun Easter games and activities. You can also find inspiration for tasteful Easter dishes, which can be served at this year’s Easter lunch.

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Easter is a time to let creativity flow and pull somebody’s leg,

Anna explains with a big smile.

When is it time for Easter eggs, Easter lunch and true Easter ‘hygge’? This is a question the nephew often asks, when Christmas has passed. Anna and Clara do not always answer his question instantly, as Easter does not fall on a fixed date every year. Clara has looked deeper into when Easter is celebrated, and she has discovered that Easter Day always falls on a Sunday, thereof Easter Sunday. In the old days, Sunday was a holiday, and it was also believed that Jesus resurrected on a Sunday. Easter is always celebrated on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or just after the spring equinox. This is a little too complicated for Anna, who prefers checking her and Clara’s calendar when answering the nephew on when it is time to celebrate Easter.

Pure imagination

If you’ve decided on a theme, you can incorporate it in all the elements of the room to create a whole. Do not be afraid to think outside of the box and try some quirky things. “A child’s room should be filled with wonder and fantasy,” smiles Clara.

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Inspiration

Easter eggs filled with sweets

Anna is fond of decorating the sisters’ home with Easter eggs in all sorts of colours and sizes. Some are made of cardboard and paper, some are crocheted in yarn, and some are rustic concrete Easter eggs that are decorative on the outside and await a tasty surprise on the inside.

Make the lovely cemented Easter eggs yourself

Pure imagination

If you’ve decided on a theme, you can incorporate it in all the elements of the room to create a whole. Do not be afraid to think outside of the box and try some quirky things. “A child’s room should be filled with wonder and fantasy,” smiles Clara.

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Create a wonderful Easter table setting

When the sisters invite their loved ones for Easter lunch, they are fond of creating a lovely Easter table setting. If you are organising an Easter lunch for your loved ones at home, you may be looking for inspiration on how to set the table. “Yellow is the colour of Easter,” Anna believes, and it shows through the table decorations. Anna is particularly fond of picking lovely, yellow daffodils in the sisters’ garden and placing them in vases on the table. “Create a wonderful table setting with beautiful Easter flowers,” Anna says. When setting the Easter table, Anna puts a cloth on the table, preferably in a white or yellow colour, and adds matching linen napkins.

According to the song that Anna and Clara often sing with their loved ones, it is the Easter bunny that delivers the Easter eggs. They sing the song while searching for the hidden Easter eggs, and the song goes like this:

Hoppity, hoppity Easter Bunny,
Hoppity, hoppity Easter Bunny,
Hoppity, hoppity Easter Bunny,
Please come to visit?

With our basket we’ll go hunting,
In and out the Easter bunting,
Searching high, and searching low,
We hope we find our treasure!

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Party preparations

Homemade Easter decorations

When Easter is approaching, Anna and Clara go to their attic to find and bring down their box of Easter decorations. In the box, you find, among others, some lovely Easter eggs made of porcelain, some crocheted Easter eggs, and some lovely Easter chickens and bunnies made of yarn and carton.

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The sisters are particularly fond of placing Easter decorations on:

Spring twigs
Windowsills
Various shelves and tables

It is the homemade Easter decorations that take up the most space in the box. Anna believes that a combination of homemade and purchased Easter decorations brings a unique and personal touch to your home. Only after the box of Easter decorations has been emptied, the Easter spirit can truly settle.

Every year, more Easter decorations are added to Anna and Clara’s box, as new and homemade decorations are created during the Easter holidays. “Enjoy a creative moment with the little ones,” says Anna, as she thinks back on the many creative Easter moments spent with the nephew and nieces. Do you have a tradition of making homemade Easter decorations as well? If you are making more Easter decorations than you have room for, you might want to give them away as lovely gifts to your loved ones. When Anna and Clara are attending Easter lunches, Anna often brings two crocheted Easter chickens for the hostess, as well as a few Easter decoration templates for the little ones to immerse in.

Easter ornaments

The sisters would like to remind you that an egg can decorate your home in various ways. You can easily make these lovely Easter ornaments yourself.

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Easter basket

Anna is fond of small creative projects that requires having a flair for finish. If you are up for the task, you can create a wonderful weaved Easter basket using a paper bag, just as Anna’s.

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Homemade Easter ornaments are ideal and personal hostess gifts for the Easter lunch

Anna points out.

Pure imagination

If you’ve decided on a theme, you can incorporate it in all the elements of the room to create a whole. Do not be afraid to think outside of the box and try some quirky things. “A child’s room should be filled with wonder and fantasy,” smiles Clara.

When the sisters, nephew and nieces are blowing eggs, they blow and blow until all the egg whites and yolks have come out. After having blown out and prepared the eggs, they all enjoy spending some quality time together and painting lovely patterns on the white eggshells. Is egg blowing also a tradition in your home during Easter?

The method is quite simple, Anna and Clara believe, but the sisters remind you that patience is a virtue:

Poke holes in both ends of the egg by using a needle or a skewer. The holes should be large enough for a match to get through.
Blow or shake out all the insides of the egg.
Rinse the egg in warm soapy water, making sure you clean both the inside of the egg as well as the outside. Allow the egg to dry by making sure the bottom side is pointing down.
Once the egg is dry, you can paint and decorate it with watercolours, acrylic paint or markers.
Thread a string through the Easter egg, and hang it in your home.

If you wish to try egg blowing yourself, Clara reminds you to always scald the eggs before you start the egg blowing activity.

One of the many Easter traditions at Anna and Clara’s house is cutting out and sending ‘gækkebreve’, that is secret snowdrop letters, to their loved ones. “Sending ‘gækkebreve’ is a Danish tradition that dates back to the 1700s,” Clara explains. ‘Gækkebreve’ is a creative activity that can be done in the days leading up to Easter, where you gather around all sorts of coloured carton or paper and cut out lovely patterns.

On the decorative snowdrop letter, the sisters are fond of writing a little poem. In keeping with tradition, the snowdrop letter should be signed off with the number of dots corresponding to the number of letters in the sender’s name. Last year, Anna and Clara send a ‘gækkebrev’ with the following rhyme to their nephew:

Let these puzzling dots proclaim, every letter in our names

.... ... .....

After sending the letter, it did not take long before the nephew knocked on the sisters’ door carrying the snowdrop letter in his hand. He immediately guessed that the incredibly decorative and wonderfully cut ‘gækkebrev’ came from Anna and Clara. If you, as the sender of the ‘gækkebrev’, get revealed, the tradition says you must give the receiver a chocolate Easter egg. As usual, Anna and Clara were well-prepared, and the nephew was overwhelmed with excitement, when the sisters handed him a lovely Easter chocolate egg. “The whole idea of ‘gækkebreve’ is to fool your loved ones. To ‘drive gæk med dem’, so to speak,” Anna explains.

Pure imagination

If you’ve decided on a theme, you can incorporate it in all the elements of the room to create a whole. Do not be afraid to think outside of the box and try some quirky things. “A child’s room should be filled with wonder and fantasy,” smiles Clara.

According to the sisters, it depends on traditions and what you choose to pass on to the family. When Anna and Clara were children, hard-boiled eggs in mustard sauce, herring in curry sauce, and lamb chops were always presented on the table for Easter lunch. Are you looking for inspiration on tasty Danish Easter dishes that you can serve to the yearly Easter lunch?

Clara has gathered a small selection of traditional Danish Easter dishes that you can serve at this year’s Easter lunch: