Happy Easter – Part 2

No último post, deu para aprendermos um pouco mais sobre a Páscoa, lembram?

Hoje vamos falar de curiosidades ligadas a esse feriado. Leia as frases abaixo e complete-as com as palavras escondidas no caça-palavras abaixo. Boa sorte!

• The first Easter baskets were made to look like bird’s __________.
• The traditional act of painting __________ is called Pysanka.
• The custom of giving eggs at Easter time has been traced back to __________, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans, to whom the egg was a __________ of life.
• In ___________ times a festival of egg-throwing was held in church, during which the priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choir boys. It was then tossed from one choir boy to the next and whoever held the egg when the __________ struck 12 was the winner and retained the egg.
• Easter is now celebrated (in the words of the Book of Common Prayer) on the first __________ after the full moon which happens on or after March 21, the Spring Equinox.
• Easter Bonnets are a throw back to the days when the people denied themselves the pleasure of wearing fine angels for the duration of __________.
• Some Churches still keep up the old tradition of using ___________ – symbolic of eternal life – embroidered in red on white, or woven in straw, but most now prefer displays of flowers in the spring colours of green, __________ and white.
• Americans celebrate Easter with a large Easter egg __________ on the White House Lawn.
• Every year at Easter the Pope sends his ” Urbi et Orbi ” to the world.
• The date of Passover is variable as it is dependent on the phases of the __________, and thus Easter is also a movable ___________.

• Each Easter season, Americans buy more than 700 million Marshmallow Peeps, shaped like chicks, as well as Marshmallow Bunnies and Marshmallow Eggs, making them the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy.

• As many as 4.2 million Marshmallow Peeps, __________, and other shapes can be made each day.

• In 1953, it took 27 hours to create a Marshmallow Peep. Today it takes __________ minutes.

• Yellow Peeps are the most popular, followed by pink, __________, blue, and white.

• Hot cross __________ were among the earliest Easter treats, made by European monks and given to the poor during Lent.

• Pretzels were originally associated with Easter. The twists of a pretzel were thought to resemble ___________ crossed in prayer

Agora sai desse computador e vai comer um pouco de chocolate! Todo mundo merece um descansinho de vez enquando!