30 Ways To Celebrate Easter Like Your Grandparents

Chances are, your gram and gramps were part of the choir or band for church services or the local Easter parade.

The flowers are symbolic of the Easter season. Nowadays, you can order them potted, complete with a pretty stained-glass cross, from 1800flowers.com.

There's a reason we're still dyeing Easter eggs today: Our predecessors passed down the fun activity at Eastertime. Just look at actress Harriet Hilliard Nelson of the TV show Ozzie and Harriet helping her sons (future singer Ricky Nelson and future director David Nelson) in this old photograph.

Some things (such as chocolate) never get old. These traditional Easter treats go way back to the 1800s.

Whether they hosted a casual brunch party or the traditional Easter dinner, our elders understood the importance of gathering around the table.

Instead of television, your grandparents probably turned to this instrument for more interactive entertainment.

We're talking traditional Easter dishes like ham or lamb chops, deviled eggs, and carrots.

Again, some things never change. Here, the kids from the film series Our Gang celebrate outside.

Easter hunts aren't the only games to play on Easter! Back in the day, your grandparents probably swapped Easter eggs for marbles, as the young English boys are doing here, or played "Tap the Egg." Also known as "egg-knocking" or "egg-tapping," the traditional Easter game involves tapping your hard-boiled egg against other players' in an attempt to break theirs but keep yours intact.

The White House is known for its annual competition, but variations on the practice of egg rolling have been done around the world.

Your parents probably have memories of waking up with wonderment on Easter morning. That's thanks to Easter baskets (probably homemade) that a certain bunny filled with candy.

For example, the pysanka is the old Ukrainian tradition of adding ornate designs to eggs using beeswax. Meanwhile, those in Florence light fireworks, children in Finland dress up and beg for chocolate eggs, and people in Poland have playful water fights, to name just a few Easter customs.

This is the one non-negotiable Easter tradition. There should always be Easter cake. And if your grandma is anything like ours, her Easter dessert is usually in the shape of a lamb—thanks to the cake mold reserved for the special occasion.

The long Easter weekend is a perfect time to show you care for your community. Take a cue from these Boy Scouts, who used the holiday as an opportunity to clear litter from the woods in 1981.

Jesus is said to have risen on Easter Sunday, so it's fitting that many make time to visit cemeteries on the special holiday.

Above all, the thing our grandparents probably did better than anybody else is appreciate each other and savor the moment.