easter traditions. latinka, bulgaria ka2
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“Erasmus+” KA2 Strategic Partnerships for the
school education project : “Puppets mission:
childhood without borders“ 2014-2016
Lazarus Saturday
Lazar’s day is the day before Palm Sunday
(Tzvetnitza). It is an Eastern Orthodox holiday. The
young girls called„lazarki“ gather flowers which they
braid into hoops for the Tzvetnitza holiday (on the
next day).
The young girls are dressed in
national traditional garbs. They sing
Lazarus songs and bless for health
and happiness. We give them eggs
which they will paint for Easter.
On this day our
kindergarten celebrates as
well, because its name is
“Latinka”.
With much happiness
every kid in our
kindergarten celebrates on
this day.
Palm Sunday is a feast which
signals us that spring has
already come and everyone
named after flowers and
plants celebrates on that day.
Palm Sunday (Tzvetnitza)is the most colourful
holiday in the whole year and it is a sequel to
Lazar’s day. Tzvetnitza is celebrated on
Sunday the week before Easter .
By tradition, on Thursday
before Easter, in the
kindergarten we paint eggs.
The first is always red - for
health.
Parents and teachers not just paint the eggs they also
decorate them with different materials. We make an exhibition
of the result of this creative proses .
On Easter we “crack” our eggs for health. The egg that
cracks the rest of the eggs is the strongest one.