Printable Trivia Easter-Egg Fillers

Can you guess which holiday is ranked second after Hallowe'en for feasting on chocolate and candies? Easter! It's no wonder, with gummy chicks and jelly beans hidden in dozens of eggs, and chocolate bunnies, springing at you from Easter baskets. A delightful time for lovers of sweets, including our family.

But more than sweets, our family loves the Easter hunt. When all our pockets and baskets are full of candies—more candies than one would even want to eat, really—we still want to look for more eggs. So we try to find alternative fillings for them. This year I decided to add some fun notes into our eggs. They consist of little facts about Easter around the world and can give kids a glimpse at this holiday in different parts of the world.

While preparing these notes, I have learned quite a few new ways to celebrate Easter!

Have a peek:

1. In the old days people ate a lot of pretzels before and during Easter. They were easy to make during the Lent, using only water and flour, and on Easter morning they were hidden, just like eggs are hidden today.

2. Bermudians celebrate Easter by flying colourful, handmade kites. These traditional hexagonal kites are very airworthy, holding the world records for the duration and altitude of flight.

3. Norway has one of the most unusual Easter traditions. In this country, Easter break is high time for reading crime stories and detective novels! TV and radio channels produce new series, and there are even crime stories printed on milk cartons. 

Altogether, there are nine notes with Easter trivia that kids can enjoy! Print all of them on one letter-sized sheet of paper, cut them out, and that's nine eggs spoken for. (Click the image below for a PDF.)

If children get interested in some ideas, later you can research them together: what a Bermudian kite looks like or how to make pretzels. And who knows, maybe your family will want to try some of these traditions out and make kites or pretzels as well. Weather permitting, we would love to fly a kite in the field behind our backyard this Easter!