🐣 Easter weekend checklist

Four days, usually with everyone at home and half the shops shut. Plan the food and one outdoor thing; the rest of the weekend fills itself.

35 items

1. Before the weekend
2. Check who is coming and for which days
3. Check shop opening hours over the four days
4. Big shop, covering the closed days
5. Order the joint or centrepiece if you want a specific one
6. Chocolate and eggs, hidden from adults too
7. Book anything popular — a table, a garden, an attraction
8. Food
9. One main meal, planned properly
10. Hot cross buns
11. Bread and milk for four days
12. Something for a picnic, in case the weather holds
13. A vegetarian option that is not an afterthought
14. Simnel cake or a pudding
15. Eggs for decorating, hard-boiled
16. The egg hunt
17. Count the eggs and write down the numberUncounted eggs are found in July, by a lawnmower or a dog.
18. One colour or wrapper per child if ages differ
19. Hide some at toddler height and some at adult
20. A basket or bag each
21. A rule about how much can be eaten now
22. A wet-weather version indoors
23. Sweep the garden afterwards for the ones nobody found
24. Things to do
25. One thing outdoors, whatever the weather
26. Decorate eggs with the children
27. A long walk on one of the days
28. Something for teenagers that is not an egg hunt
29. A film for the wet afternoon
30. While everyone is here
31. The garden job that needs two people
32. Clocks and smoke alarm batteries, if they are due
33. A photograph of everyone
34. Sort the winter coats out of the hall
35. Put the garden furniture out