100 Fun Facts About Easter Trivia for Kids

Which animal is said to bring Easter eggs to children?

He is also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare, and sometimes wears clothes.

The Easter Bunny story first came from which country?

German Lutherans started it, and German settlers took it to America.

Long ago, the Easter Hare had the same job as which other holiday visitor?

He judged whether children had been good or naughty.

Besides eggs, what else does the Easter Bunny bring to children?

He brings them to children's homes, a bit like Santa on Christmas Eve.

What is the game where children search for hidden Easter eggs called?

The eggs can be real dyed eggs, plastic eggs full of candy, or foil-wrapped chocolate.

What do children usually collect their eggs in during a hunt?

Prizes may go to whoever finds the most, the biggest, or the smallest egg.

Which famous person, some believe, organised the first Easter egg hunts?

He suggested men hide eggs in the garden for their wives and children to find.

In this Easter game, what do players do to their eggs to see whose goes farthest?

The winner is usually whoever rolls farthest or fastest.

What is egg rolling down grassy hills called in the United Kingdom?

It has been going on for hundreds of years, and now chocolate eggs are often used.

According to an old Lancashire legend, what would witches do with broken eggshells?

So the shells had to be crushed up carefully after the egg roll.

How were eggs traditionally coloured for rolling in England?

The onion skins gave the shells a mottled golden look.

Where in Washington, D.C. is the big Easter Egg Roll held every year?

It is for children aged 13 and younger, with their parents.

What do children push their eggs with at the White House Egg Roll?

It is a race through the grass.

Which president brought the Egg Roll to the White House lawn in 1878?

Children, including his own, asked him to after Congress banned egg rolling at the Capitol.

Why did Congress ban egg rolling at the Capitol in 1876?

The law made it illegal to use the Capitol grounds as a playground.

Which first lady is said, in legend, to have started the egg roll in 1814?

Eggs were being rolled at the Capitol by 1855 and at the White House by 1860.

Which day of the week is the White House Egg Roll held on?

Easter Monday is a public holiday in more than 50 countries.

What is another name for a decorated Easter egg?

Pascha is another name for Easter.

What is the oldest way of making an Easter egg?

It is still the way it is done in much of Central and Eastern Europe.

What colour did early Christians traditionally dye Easter eggs?

Many Orthodox Christians still dye their eggs red today.

Eggs are an old symbol of what?

At Easter they also stand for the empty tomb.

What is often used instead of a real hen's egg at Easter?

Plastic eggs filled with candy are popular too.

How old are the oldest decorated eggs found in Africa?

They were engraved ostrich eggs.

Which country decorates public wells and fountains with Easter eggs?

They are called Osterbrunnen and stay decorated for weeks.

Which country's beautifully patterned wax-decorated eggs are called pysanky?

The pysanka is one of Ukraine's national symbols.

In Poland, decorated eggs are shared at the family table before which meal?

It is a symbol of friendship, like sharing the Christmas wafer.

In the game of egg tapping, what are players trying to do?

Cheaters have been caught using eggs with marble or cement inside.

Where are the world egg-jarping championships held every Easter Sunday?

They have run at Peterlee since 1983.

In the old egg dance, where eggs lie on the floor while people dance, what is the goal?

Eggs are laid on the ground and dancers weave between them.

In an egg-and-spoon race, what must you do?

It is a favourite at school sports days along with the sack race.

What is a baby chicken called?

Fluffy yellow ones are an Easter favourite.

What is a baby bunny called?

Kit is short for kitten.

What is a father bunny called?

A mother rabbit is a doe.

What is a mother bunny called?

The word comes from Old English.

Why are a bunny's back legs longer than its front legs?

They can also deliver a powerful kick if the rabbit is caught.

What do bunnies often do while they sleep?

They stay alert because they are prey animals.

How many babies are usually in one litter of bunnies?

They are born hairless and blind in burrows.

What is a group of bunnies' underground home called?

European rabbits dig burrows that join up into big warrens.

Which is the only continent with no bunnies?

The European rabbit has been introduced everywhere else.

How are baby bunnies born?

Baby hares, on the other hand, are born furry and ready to move.

What is a hare less than a year old called?

A group of hares can be called a husk or a down.

What do a hare's big ears help it do?

They also make hares excellent at hearing danger.

Chickens were tamed from which wild bird?

That was about 8,000 years ago in Southeast Asia.

About how many eggs can a laying hen produce in a year?

Wild junglefowl lay only about a dozen a year.

What is a chicken called in Australia and New Zealand?

It is an informal word.

Which bird lays the largest egg of any living bird?

It weighs about 1.5 kilograms.

Which bird lays the smallest egg?

It weighs about half a gram.

What do some baby birds use to crack open their eggshell?

It is a temporary bump on the beak that falls off later.

Why does an eggshell have tiny holes in it?

The shell keeps dirt and unwanted liquid out at the same time.

Birds that nest in trees usually lay eggs of which colour?

Birds nesting on the ground usually lay speckled eggs for camouflage.

A robin's blue egg colour comes from which kind of thing?

The pigment is called biliverdin.

Which bird lays up to 17 eggs in one nest?

A condor lays just one.

What is a baby sheep called?

A mother is a ewe and a father is a ram.

What is a group of sheep called?

There are about 1.2 billion sheep in the world.

What is a sheep's woolly coat called?

It is harvested by shearing and is the most used animal fibre.

How many stages are in a butterfly's life cycle?

Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly.

What is a butterfly called while it is a larva?

It feeds on the leaves the egg was laid on.

What does the larva turn into before it becomes a butterfly?

When it is ready, the skin splits and the butterfly climbs out.

Which butterfly is famous for migrating long distances?

The painted lady does too.

On the March equinox, day and night are each about how long?

After that the days keep getting longer until the summer solstice.

When it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?

In Australia the spring months are September, October and November.

Which three months are spring in the United States and the United Kingdom?

In Ireland spring is often February, March and April.

The equinox that starts spring in the north usually falls on which March date?

It can be as early as March 19 or as late as March 21.

On the equinox, where does the Sun rise?

About 12 hours later it sets straight west.

What holiday does Easter celebrate for Christians?

It is also called Pascha or Resurrection Sunday.

Is Easter on the same day every year?

It depends on the Moon, which is why it can be in March or April.

Easter comes on the Sunday after the full moon that follows what?

That rule was agreed at a big church meeting in the year 325.

Which flower traditionally decorates churches at Easter?

It is a symbol of new life.

The word Easter may come from the name of what?

Bede wrote that April was once called Ēostre's month.

What is the day one week before Easter, when people carry branches, called?

It remembers Jesus riding into Jerusalem while crowds waved palm branches.

How many days long is Lent, the season before Easter?

Many people give up sweets for Lent and enjoy them again at Easter.

What do many people eat on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent begins?

It is also called Pancake Day and Mardi Gras.

How many weeks does the Easter season last, ending on Pentecost?

Pentecost is the 50th day after Easter Sunday.

What shape is marked on top of the spiced buns eaten on Good Friday?

They are spiced buns with raisins, traditionally eaten on Good Friday.

According to English folklore, a hot cross bun baked on Good Friday would do what?

Sailors even took them to sea for luck.

How much did hot cross buns cost in the old street cry from 1733?

The line later became the nursery rhyme 'Hot Cross Buns'.

How many marzipan balls usually sit on top of a simnel cake?

They stand for the twelve apostles minus Judas.

What are Peeps made of?

They come shaped as chicks, bunnies and other animals.

Which company has made Peeps since 1953?

It was founded in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania by Sam Born.

Peeps used to be sold under which other company's name?

Rodda Easter Peeps were on sale in Pennsylvania as early as 1948.

What is inside a Cadbury Creme Egg?

It is meant to look like the white and yolk of a soft-boiled egg.

Which company's name was on the Cadbury Creme Egg when it first came out in 1963?

It got the Cadbury name in 1971.

Most chocolate bunnies are what on the inside?

Two moulds are filled and joined to make the hollow shape.

Where were chocolate bunny moulds probably first made?

They were brought to America and became a household tradition by the 1920s.

Why did jelly beans become an Easter candy in the 1930s?

President Ronald Reagan later made them his favourite treat.

Which US president loved jelly beans?

They were said to be his favourite treat.

What is inside a Kinder Surprise egg?

The capsule is yellow to look like a yolk.

Kinder Surprise copies an Easter tradition from which country?

Grown-ups there give children big chocolate eggs with toys inside.

About how many Kinder Surprise eggs had been sold by 2016?

They have been made by Ferrero since 1974.

In Australia, which animal is sold in chocolate instead of a bunny?

Bilbies are endangered, and the chocolate helps raise money to protect them.

Who wrote the story 'Billy the Aussie Easter Bilby' in 1968?

Rose-Marie Dusting's story helped people care about saving the bilby.

Fabergé eggs were made as Easter presents for which country's royal family?

They were jewelled eggs made in Saint Petersburg from 1885.

About how many Fabergé eggs were made in the tsars' time?

61 of them are known to survive.

What is an Easter bonnet?

Wearing new clothes at Easter is an old tradition.

Which New York street is famous for its Easter parade?

In 1947 it drew more than a million people.

In Sweden, children dress up as what during the Easter holidays?

The legend says witches fly off on brooms the Thursday before Easter and come back on Easter.

Where do some families hang Easter eggs to make an Easter egg tree?

They are called Easter egg trees.

In Greece, what do people use to dye Easter eggs?

They do it on the Thursday before Easter.

What is often put in the bottom of an Easter hamper to make it look like a nest?

Real or artificial straw does the job.

What is Peeps' slogan about when you can buy them?

They now come out for Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day too.