Creating Meaningful Family Traditions
Build traditions that keep the Savior at the center of your Easter celebrations and bring your family closer to Him year after year.
Holy Week Family Devotional
Set aside 10–15 minutes each evening during Holy Week to read the day's scripture as a family. Light a candle, turn off devices, and let each family member share what they felt. By Easter Sunday, you will have walked through the entire final week together.
Resurrection Eggs
Fill 12 plastic eggs with small items that represent parts of the Easter story: a small piece of bread (Last Supper), a nail (Crucifixion), a stone (the tomb), and an empty egg (the Resurrection). Open one each day or all together on Easter morning while reading the scriptures.
Letters to the Savior
Invite each family member to write a personal letter to the Savior expressing gratitude for His sacrifice. These can be read aloud Easter morning or kept private. Save them and read them again in future years to see how your testimonies have grown.
Easter Week Meals with Meaning
Assign a theme to each dinner during Holy Week tied to the day's events. For example, serve bread and grape juice on Thursday to remember the Last Supper. Use mealtime to discuss the day's scriptures and their meaning for your family.
Easter Music Nights
Spend an evening during Holy Week listening to or singing Easter hymns together. Play recordings from the Tabernacle Choir, watch a musical devotional on BYUtv, or let family members perform their own musical numbers. Music invites the Spirit powerfully.
Resurrection Garden
Create a small garden scene in a pot or tray using soil, moss, small flowers, and stones. Build a miniature empty tomb from rocks. This living reminder of the Resurrection stays in your home all season and can become a teaching tool for children.
Easter Service Challenge
Choose one act of Christlike service for each day of Holy Week. These can be simple—delivering cookies to a neighbor, writing thank-you notes, visiting someone who is lonely, or helping with a community project. Track your family's acts of love on a poster.
Easter Testimony Meeting
Before Easter dinner or after church, gather your family for an informal testimony meeting. Invite grandparents, extended family, or close friends to join. Let each person share what they know and feel about the Savior and His Resurrection.
Easter Morning Sunrise Moment
Wake up early on Easter morning and step outside together as a family to watch the sunrise. Read Matthew 28:1–6 aloud as the sun comes up. This simple, beautiful tradition connects your family to the women who came to the empty tomb “as it began to dawn.”