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Originally Posted by alanX
In America, "easter egg hunts" are among the main activities that go on during Easter.
They are usually organized by adults for smaller children. All the adults scatter plastic eggs around (they have candy and other prizes and stuff inside of them) All the children get together, (usually in a large open area, like a churchyard or something) and they have to find the eggs.
Is this in other countries? Or just America? I've never heard of it happening in other countries. But Easter here also has the same religious meaning.
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I got this from wikipedia
'For Orthodox Christians, the Easter egg is much more than a celebration of the ending of the fast, it is a declaration of the Resurrection of Jesus. Traditionally, Orthodox Easter eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ, shed on the Cross, and the hard shell of the egg symbolized the sealed Tomb of Christ—the cracking of which symbolized his resurrection from the dead.'
I guess that is why we use real eggs. I never won lol Also, people go down a table in the church... for luck I think
Very different to America though.