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8 Ways to Celebrate Easter Away from Home

Juliette Sebock Student Contributor, Gettysburg College
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Gettysburg chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

If Spring Break doesn’t line up with Easter weekend, it may be too much to ask to go home for Easter.  Here are some ways to celebrate regardless!

1.  Care packages

If you can get your family on board, have them send you a basket-like care package of your favourite jelly beans, chocolates, etc.!  

 

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2.  Have an egg hunt with your friends!

Grab some dollar store plastic eggs and hide them around your dorm, the nearest quad, or wherever you can!  Even better?  Get your favourite club (or local HC chapter!) involved and make it a group event!  

 

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3.  Go to church.  

For many, Easter Mass is a treasured childhood memory.  If it’s your thing, go to your local church on Easter Sunday!  

 

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4.  Eat lots of candy.  

You’re sad that you aren’t at home. You’re surrounded by peeps and Reeses eggs.  What better excuse to indulge?  

 

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5.  Dye eggs.  

Grab your friends and take over the dorm kitchen for a night.   Worried about animal rights?  Check out this cruelty-free version!

 

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6.  Pop in an Easter movie.  

Or stream it, whatever.  Whether you’re catching up with the Easter Beagle or Peter Cottontail, you can find all sorts of childhood favourites to rediscover.  

 

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7.  Grab an extra-fancy meal.  

Restaurants tend to have all sorts of Easter dinner specials.  Why not grab a reservation for you and your pals? 

 

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8.  Call your family.  

Chances are, as much as you miss your family, they miss you at least as much.  Give your parents, grandparents, or aunts and uncles a call, or even Skype in on the festivities!

 

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Juliette Sebock

Gettysburg '18

Juliette Sebock, Founder: Jules founded the Gettysburg College chapter of Her Campus in Fall 2015 and served as Campus Correspondent until graduating in Spring 2018.

Juliette graduated from Gettysburg College in 2018 with an English major and History/Civil War Era Studies/Public History triple minors. In addition to HC, she was a member of the Spring 2017 class of Advanced Studies in England and of various organizations including Eta Sigma Phi, Dance Ensemble, and Poetry Circle.

She has published a poetry chapbook titled Mistakes Were Made, available on Amazon and Goodreads, and she has poems forthcoming in several literary magazines. She is also the editor-in-chief of Nightingale & Sparrow Magazine and runs the lifestyle blog, For the Sake of Good Taste. For more information, visit https://juliettesebock.com.