Easter holiday in a holiday home: 4 cosy activities for the

whole family

1. Plan an Easter egg hunt

It is that time of year when the Easter Bunny stops by and leaves Easter eggs in the garden for sweet children and playful souls alike. At the holiday home, the children can run straight out into the garden and explore entirely new surroundings. Wake up and begin the hunt for the Bunny’s Easter eggs, which we all know we parents definitely did not rush around frantically looking for at the local shop the day before.

2. Pick spring flowers in nature

After rain comes sunshine, and little by little the spring flowers begin to appear in forests and holiday home gardens alike. That can only mean one thing: spring is on its way. Head out into the spring sunshine and pick daffodils for the Easter table, let the children gather snowdrops for traditional Easter letters, or simply take inspiration from whatever signs of spring are beginning to emerge from the ground. In Denmark, you are allowed to pick wild flowers in all public places and along roadside verges. Just remember to leave the roots in the ground so they can bloom again next year.

3. Read Easter stories

Holiday time is reading time - and what better moment to learn a little more about nature while watching it blossom right outside your window. Put the screens away, curl up on the sofa to the sound of the crackling wood burner, and enjoy Eric Carle’s story of metamorphosis in ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. You can also enjoy the beautiful illustrations in ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ by Beatrix Potter, or take a trip down memory lane with Astrid Lindgren’s ‘The Children of Noisy Village’, where Lisa, Bosse and all the other children celebrate Easter and play all day long in Småland.

4. Host an unconventional Easter lunch

Leave the formal traditions at home and bring the family together in the holiday home with nature just outside the door. In April, Danish nature offers wild garlic, mushrooms and dandelions, which you can use to add flavour to your Easter lunch – especially if you know where to look. If the weather is on your side, you can even light the fire pit and celebrate Easter Sunday with food cooked over the fire and a small schnapps under the open sky.

From the Easter table in the garden, it’s only a short step to nature’s own pantry. Together with foraging expert Nina Fay Christensen, we guide you through the Danish countryside’s own gourmet ingredients — read the article and find inspiration for your next foraging trip.