1. EASTER VOCABULARY AND FRENCH TRADITIONS
LES PÂQUES
EASTER VOCABULARY AND FRENCH TRADITIONS

2. VOCABULARY Easter = Les Pâques (f.) Happy Easter! = Joyeuses Pâques!
Easter Bunny = Le lapin de Pâques
Easter Bells= les cloches de Pâques 
Easter Basket = le panier de Pâques
Easter Eggs = les oeufs de Pâques
Easter Monday = Le lundi de Pâques
To hide (eggs) = cacher (les oeufs)

3. VOCABULARY Religious = religieux Church = l’ église
Palm Sunday = les Rameaux
Day off = Jour de congé
Candy = les bonbons
Games = les jeux
Spring = le printemps

4. Easter Bells
In France, les oeufs de Pâques (Easter eggs) aren’t brought by the Easter bunny, but by the Easter Bells (les cloches de Pâques)
Parents tell children that the church bells leave the cathedrals to go to Rome to visit the Pope on Maundy Thursday, and when they return on Easter they bring eggs and candy back with them.
The bells drop these goodies on their way back to church so children have to find them.

5. Easter Bells Song Cloches de Pâques, cloches de Pâques
Bon voyage à Rome
Revenez et m’apportez
Des oeufs et des bonbons
Easter Bells, Easter Bells
Fly away to Rome
When you return back home bring me
Some eggs and some candy

6. Easter Monday
Post Easter festivities that used to be a week long celebration are now just on the Monday following Easter
Not all countries celebrate this holiday but they do in France
Some Easter Monday events include
Egg rolling competitions
Dousing people with water (holy water)

7. MORE VOCABULARY Tulip = la tulipe Daffodil = la jonquille
Lily = le lis
Chicken = la poule
Lamb = l’agneau
To find = trouver
To look for = chercher