easter activities in greece

21ST PRIMARY SCHOOL

LELA KARAGIANNH

ATHENS

We talked in class about Easter and how we celebrate it in different parts of Greece . Students surfed the net a created a powerpoint with their photos and some information to accompany them.

We dyed hard boiled eggs,decorated them and created our own Easter cards and candles. Recipes for homemade buns ,tsourekia, easter cookies and the typical easter food magiritsa are presented by our 5th and 6th Grade students who also made ,baked and ate tsourekia.

The days before the Holy Week the women bake small cookies , called Lazarakia. All the Holy Week we fast and we go to church in the evening. On Holy Thursday we bake the Easter Bread, tsourekia and dye the eggs red. On Holy Friday we decorate the epitaph with flowers and on Holy Saturday at midnight we go to church and we carry our candles to light them and carry home the Eternal Flame . On Easter Sunday we eat the lamp. In some places,like in Arcadia , people make hot air balloons by canes and paper and let them fly in the sky on Holy Saturday night. On the Greek island Chios ,the people make candles of cloth and light them at night

Dimitra ,Aris , Okan, Cathrine,John

The 5th grade students are working on Easter recipes