In our family four of us are Jewish - me (big bro) and my 2 siblings and my dad. We are also Christian and go to church. So we celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah (we call it Chrismukkah) and also Easter and Passover (Eastover!). This year we did Eastover in lockdown. This involved the Passover meal when we remember the Jewish people were once slaves in Egypt. We put wine drops on our napkins which represent the ten plagues which are disease in cattle, locusts, river of blood, frogs, lice, boils, flies, hail, darkness and the angel of death. There is a special Seder plate and we use it to put the symbols of what we eat on it - parsley which we dip in salt water to represent tears, horseradish to show the bitterness of slavery, lamb bone which represents the passover lamb, boiled egg for the temple sacrifice, charoset (mix of nuts, grated apple, pear, wine) to represent the cement the slaves had to build with, matzo crackers to show that the slaves had to rush out and did't have time to wait for the bread to rise.
I (big brother) also made up an Easter egg hunt for my family and I put one of the clues up a tree in the garden and my dad got stuck! I hid the chocolate eggs in the chicken coop and made a coordinate map to show where the treasure was. Little brother made an Easter garden which shows the cave where Jesus was put after he died. We put it in the front garden with a sign that said HAPPY EASTER!
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