[tiamat]

There were old Roman (and other ) springtime holidays that had to do with fertility...Eating eggs was considered lucky for any woman trying to conceive at this time of year. A lot of the time the eggs were colored red to symbolize the sun, blood, life....the Greeks still do the red eggs.

The rest of us like other colors as well.

And BUNNIES are famous for... well.... you know! ;-)

I think bonnets are simply because after a long , drab, winter, people want a bit of color to celebrate spring!

A lot of these pagan traditions got co-opted into our modern Easter traditions.... they are simply fun "extras" nowadays.


Does this help?

[CindyDawg]

Yesterday my little grandsons and I colored eggs. I had 2 1/2 dozen, minus 1 (my husband got to them first:'). Anyway I told them the Story and drew pictures on the eggs and then after colored and it showed the oldest would repeat the lesson back to me. It was fun and Christian :')