Easter Decor Traditions

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Easter is one of the oldest and religious holidays in the year calendar that is why it plays a big role in public life of almost every country. This holiday reflects the idea of the victory of life over death. Notwithstanding the date difference between Christians of different branches it still preserves the same importance and almost the same traditions of celebration. It is very good that usually Easter is scheduled in spring, when everything is in blossom: people use flowers to decorate churches and houses, festive boards and rooms. By the way, alongside strong religious customs of the holiday, there are also typical features of decorations during Easter celebrations varying from country to country.

In the United Kingdom, for example, the religious side of the holiday is much adhered, that is why the most of decorations might be seen around and in churches, which are beautified with branches of trees with swollen buds, daffodils, and painted eggs. Eggstravaganza or egg search is a popular game among children, which makes them to look for the eggs, painted during previous week. In addition, Easter bunny is a core character, which brings up these colored eggs in the morning, according to the legend. That is why Easter art, comprised with drawing bunnies and ornamenting eggs, is also the consistent part of Easter décor.
On the contrary, Australia's people do not appreciate Easter bunny very much (as far as you know the sad history of rabbits' invasion, which killed other animal species on the continent). That is why it was replaced by Australian bilby, a rabbit-eared bandicoot. In Australia, as elsewhere in the world, Easter eggs are very popular - chocolate or sugar.
Ukraine and Bulgaria are true preservers of painting traditions, which are famous for beautifully colored eggs. Moreover, there is a tradition of making a little fight with eggs: the winner is the person, whose egg was less cracked.
Easter in northern Europe is both religious and pagan holiday, because at the same time the fest indicates coming of spring and rebirth of nature. Residents in Sweden decorate their homes with Easter colors - yellow, green and white. In their houses yellow chicks, wearing green and white fancy feathers, are put. Easter eggs are even made of cardboard, and large and nice sweet is placed into each of them. There are usually some fireworks, as in ancient times there was a belief that noise scares the devil and witches, banishing them to spell.

Maria Kruk, an author for Fontsy.com