Best Easter Morning Routine: How To Make Easter Morning Special

How to make Easter morning special? With an Easter morning routine! An Easter morning routine is a normal morning routine, but the catch is that it is specifically adjusted and created to suit this upcoming Easter Sunday 2024. The first part of the routine is plus or minus 20 minutes of peaceful time spent by yourself before going downstairs to your family. The second part of the routine begins as you prepare Easter activities with your family, brunch and other things you need to do as you host your family. The whole point is to make Easter morning special.

Why should you be interested in this routine?

1. To make Easter Sunday mornings more special, slow, enjoyable and less chaotic
2. Family holidays like Christmas and Easter can be chaotic. When hosting, you do a billion things at once, and you are being pulled in every direction from cleaning, cooking, wrapping presents, decorating the table etc. Practicing a morning routine helps you start your day slowly, peacefully and with intention before the busy day begins.
3. This is a perfect way to spend time with God – just the two of you. 
4. Read your Bible and devotions, journal in your prayer book and pray. Read God’s word, listen to what he has to say, and speak to him. Starting your day with the Lord will do wonders for you.
5. The morning routine helps you take time to slow down, sit and think about why you celebrate Easter, and what it means to you. It’s a time to assess your reasons if they are true or not. Are you celebrating Easter because it’s trendy and everyone, or do you want to carry on family traditions and create your traditions?
6. This is also a way to just take a breath and breathe. Don’t be in such a rush
7. This morning routine is also a good way to make sure you’re good and ready before you start waking up the kids and getting them ready.
8. Get inspiration as to how to make Easter Sunday more special. Maybe it’s been dull the last couple of years.

How to make Easter morning more special?

Part 1

Prep the night before

One of the main reasons why you are going to need to plan the night before Easter morning is that it helps you figure out how you want your Easter morning and the rest of the day to look. This will give you an idea of the morning routine ideas to choose from

To help with your planning on the evening before, here are some things to consider:

1. What do you want to do, or accomplish alone before you spend time with your family? Maybe you want to spend time with God alone, journal, get a workout done, go for a walk, do your skincare and get ready. Whatever it is, this is going to help you determine which morning routine ideas to include in your Easter morning routine.
2. Lay out everything you need. This could be clothes, church outfits for you and your kids, gym wear, cutlery, dishes, table décor etc. In the morning, there’s not much thought into it and less effort for you. This saves a chunk of time, and now you have more time to do more important and productive things.
3. Clean the house the night before. Wash the dishes and put them away. Sweep and tidy up the house. Take out the trash and have a clean dustbin. Waking up to a clean house makes such a big difference by running things smoothly. Wake up to a peace of mind
4. Think of what you have for breakfast. This is extremely helpful if you have small kids. Kids wake up hungry, which can make them cranky. If you know what you going to eat for breakfast it will help you prep it the night before (if it needs overnight prepping)
5. Think about what else overwhelms you about Easter morning so you have a plan ahead of how you are going to execute this to make it less stressful.

Wake up early and make your bed

Wake up bright and early perhaps 30 minutes than you normally would. This gives you more time to complete your morning routine and begin your day. I feel like that is what these special holidays need sometimes – more time to be present, to prepare, spend time with family. So give yourself that treat. When you wake up, start by making your bed. This task gets you going in the morning because you won’t be tempted to sneak back into bed. It makes your room clean, plus it clears your mind and makes you feel good because you have achieved one thing in your day so far.

Brush your teeth and drink a glass of water

Once that is done you can go ahead and brush your teeth. You can use these 7 step routine for teeth cleaning which shares the proper techniques of brushing your teeth. Then you going to want to go ahead and drink your first glass of water. You have been sleeping all night possibly no water breaks in between so in the morning, our bodies are naturally dehydrated. Treat yourself to a glass of water to hydrate your body.

Morning devotions and prayer

As you start your day include your morning routine with a bible verse and prayer to God. This allows your day to be already included with God. Ask for protection over your day. Show some gratitude – and thank him for the blessings you have. Use this morning to spend time with God. Seek his word and his voice.

Shower and get ready

Indulge in self-care this morning with a shower morning routine. This will leave you clean, smelling fresh and in a boosted mood. Step it up a notch and include your skincare morning routine in the shower as well. This is a great hack for parents to shower first and take care of themselves before they are pulled in every direction when needed to help get the kids ready for the day. After a shower throw on some clean casual clothes. I wouldn’t recommend you put on your best Easter outfit of your day just yet because there are things to prepare. This helps it to not get dirty or wrinkled.

Part 2

Begin prep for fun Easter activities

If you are a parent, then this is an essential step in the routine because kids love Easter games and activities. Use this time while they are asleep to set up any games and activities that they will participate in. This includes:

1. Hiding the Easter eggs around the house for the Easter egg hunt.
2. Setting up Easter egg baskets for the hunt, so the kids have something to put them on once found.
3. Put name labels on the baskets so there is no confusion about whose basket is it among the kids. The personal details hold a nice touch and make it extra special for the kids.
4. Prepare Easter gift baskets, and place them nicely on a table to make a beautiful presentation for the kids to wake up to.
5. Set a play area for someone in the house where the kids can colour in Easter colouring books, play with playdough etc. This is a great hack to make the house clean by allowing kids to untidy one part of the house instead of having the freedom to roam around the whole house.

Prepare breakfast

Since you have prepped the night before, this step should go easier. It’s just a matter of heating up or cooking something super easy and quick like eggs. While one is making breakfast, the other could be setting the table, and washing dishes. Preferably do this step before family members and kids are awake so it’s less crowded in the kitchen.

Additional things to add to the routine

The fun doesn’t have to stop there. Here is a checklist of things to do next that can make your Easter morning with your family special:

• Wake the kids up. Make sure their teeth are brushed and beds are made
• Let the kids enjoy the Easter activities prepared.
• One activities are done, dish up breakfast and enjoy it as a family.
• Have a no-phone zone during breakfast time so everyone can be present
• Use breakfast time to explain to the kids what Easter is, and why we celebrating
• After breakfast have dishes washed and the table cleared and cleaned
• Get everyone ready including the kids and where your Easter Sunday outfits
• Take family pictures to capture the day and the beautiful family time
• Attend Easter morning service

Now you know how to make your Easter morning special with an Easter morning routine. This routine will help you begin your day with peace, intention and with God. It allows you to prep by giving you prepping ideas so in the morning it’s less chaotic and more enjoyable and easier for you. It also adds fun to Easter activities.