Easter is almost upon us, and although our original long weekend plans may be cancelled, there are plenty of ways to celebrate and keep yourself and the kids entertained from home. We have rounded up a few of our favourite Easter recipes, along with some fun kids crafts and activities for you to add to your Easter itinerary!

Easter Baking

Welcome all the sweet treats over the weekend with these delicious recipes!

Hot Cross Buns

Fill the house with the smell of freshly baked hot cross buns with Little & Friday’s crowd-pleasing recipe. Make sure you set a bit of time aside in the morning and work up a good appetite as you’ll be going back for seconds (and thirds) they are that tasty!

Homemade Easter Eggs

Hop into the kitchen with the kids and make your own Easter eggs - Whittaker's have shared a fun recipe to try at home which only require 2 ingredients; real eggs and chocolate. Find it here.

Once they have set, grab some paint and decorate the shells!

Easter Egg Rice Bubble Nest

Countdown have lots of quick and easy Easter recipes available on their website - we think this Easter Rocky Road is ideal for the kids to whip up without making too much of a mess!

Easter Crafts

To keep the little ones busy and for those young at heart, Easter crafts are the perfect activity to fill in the weekend.

Easter Colouring Competition

Daily Bread are running an Easter colouring in competition for kids! To enter simply pick up the drawing from any Daily Bread store, colour it in, fill in your details and pop it into a drop-box in one of the bakeries. Each week, Daily Bread will pick their five favourite entries to win a box of sourdough hot cross buns!

Sweet Treats  

Pop into Newmarket and receive a complimentary sweet treat.

Find Westfield Newmarket's House of Chocolate pop-up on Saturday 16 April to receive a complimentary sweet treat from luxury chocolate makers, The House of Chocolate.