10 Things To Do In Sydney Over Easter

How to have a happy and healthy long weekend

For kids, Easter is a time for eggs and chocolate and games out in the sun. But once you grow up and start to worry about your oral health, Easter often doesn’t have the same magic. But you don’t have to put yourself at risk of a trip to an after hours dentist to enjoy the Easter long weekend. To help you enjoy your time off, here’s a guide to the best activities in Sydney during this chocolate obsessed holiday.

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See The Easter Parade

On the 22nd of April, the Easter Parade will be on in Hyde Park. This is a festival and a spectacle of costumes, stilt walkers, music and celebration, so make sure you claim your space early to watch the show!

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Go to The Sydney Royal Easter Show

If you’re looking for something to do for the whole family, then the Royal Easter Show is the place to go. There’s something for everyone including animal exhibition, rides, agricultural exhibitions, shopping and live entertainment. So, join the crowds and celebrate Easter your way!

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Visit the Burrawang Easter Market

If you want to get away from the city, then visit one of the longest running markets in the Southern Highlights for their annual Easter markets. There will be more than 150 stalls selling everything from clothes to food and jewellery, so enjoy the relaxed atmosphere and

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Check out the Nundle Go For Gold Chinese Easter Festival

If you’re interested in seeing an Easter Festival with a difference, then attend this celebration of Nundle’s gold rush history and the Chinese and European miners who made it possible. You’ll enjoy Chinese dance performances, live music, panning for gold and a variety of market stalls and foods.

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Watch the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour

If you like car racing, then you’ll love this event. For the third year in a row, you can watch more than 60 production-based cars, all the latest models, and big-name co-drivers tear up the race track. If you’re looking for frantic competition and non-stop track action, this is the place to find it over the Easter Weekend.  

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Spend Easter at the Beresford

If you want to party the Easter Weekend away, then there’s lots going on at the Beresford. If you want excited crowds, drinks, amazing DJs and dancing, then you’ll find a great line up starting 6pm Thursday and ending with the massive Beresford Sundays Absolut Series between 3pm and 1am on Sunday. You definitely won’t find any Easter eggs here.

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Enjoy Grown up Chocolate at the Cortile

If you’re sick of Easter eggs made for kids, then indulge in sparkling wine and the best Easter buffet you’ve ever seen. Choose from chocolate infused buffets or stands of chocolate creations ranging from pistachio choux rabbits to macaroons and chocolate hot cross buns. For adults, this is the absolute best way to get the chocolate rush.

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Kick off Easter at the Winery

If you want to start off Easter right, then do it at the Winery. Thursday and Friday night, you can start Easter with a bang with delicious seafood specials and cocktails. After that, you can work off all that chocolate dancing the night away with live DJs.

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Enjoy a Seafood Lunch on Easter Sunday

At La Boca Bar and Grill, treat your chocolate hangover with a sumptuous seafood lunch. The specially designed, buffet-style menu features amazing seafood, chocolate deserts and slow cooked meats, so there’s something for everyone. There will also be live entertainment, a chocolate fountain, and activities to keep the kids occupied. 

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Go for an Easter Cruise

If you want to do something a little unusual, take a cruise along Sydney Harbour and enjoy live music, a buffet lunch, amazing seafood and even the obligatory chocolate eggs. Special deals are available at the moment, so buy your tickets early and see what all the fuss is about!

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An Alternative Easter

Alternatives to Chocolate That Still Make Great Easter Treats for Everyone

Easter is, in many parts of the world and to many people, second only to Christmas in terms of importance on their religious holiday calendars. These days the same can be said for chocolate manufacturers, as the demand for chocolate Easter bunnies, chocolate eggs, chocolate chicks and those big Easter novelty Easter eggs that are both made from chocolate and stuffed with chocolate increases every year.  

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All of this means that in the average Sydney family home on Easter Sunday does tend to be one filled fuelled with sugar, chocolate stains and kids bouncing off the walls, thanks to fact that they have consumed half of their Easter 'haul' already. It's not exactly very healthy and it's certainly not very oral health friendly.  
 
However, surely any Mum or Dad who fails to provide a basket full of choccie goodies on Easter Sunday is borderline cruel? Well, not necessarily, there are plenty of healthier treats that you can use to create Easter goodie baskets that are a little better for everyone - grown-ups included - while still being fun. Here are just a few ideas to get started with.  
 

Colouring Books

Yes, colouring books are rather old-fashioned, or they were. Suddenly 'adult' colouring is a 'thing' and tons of grown-ups are reliving their youth by picking up their crayons and coloured pencils again as a form of 'stress relief'. This does mean that if you add a colouring book and a box of crayons to everyone's baskets not only will you be providing some cheap amusement for the kiddies but also proving how hip you are to the grown-ups!  
 

Easter Egg Crayons

As we're on the subject, you could take this chance to add a little extra Easter pizzazz to those crayons we were talking about. Gather up all those little bits of broken crayon that are hiding all over the house and turn them into something rather neat, by pressing them into egg shaped baking moulds, melting them in the oven for 15-20 minutes and then allowing them to cool. Once popped out of the moulds you'll have bright and colourful 'Easter Crayons' that should make everyone 'ooh' and 'aah'.  

Discount Store Finds

For the kiddies a trip to the two dollar shop can prove to be a fruitful source of little goodies that will help fill the 'hole' left in their baskets by a lack of chocolate. From toy water guns to skipping ropes, pavement chalk, little stuffed bunnies and even simple Easter craft kits, there are usually lots of choices available if you look for them and you might even find something whimsical for the adults too.  

Non-Chocolate Edibles

In the end, Easter baskets wouldn't really be Easter baskets without at least some sweet edibles hidden away inside. But there are better alternatives to the standard choccie treats that will appeal to kids AND adults. Try filling plastic Easter eggs (the two dollar store should be a help here too) with small portions of jellybeans, trail mix or pop in a bunny shaped biscuit. You might even be able to get away with carrot sticks if your package them up nicely and remind the kids how much bunnies like them. And if you really must add some chocolate, try cutting up some fresh fruit and dipping it in melted dark chocolate, something that should appeal to everyone, no matter what their age.  

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The Emergency Dentist Says:

Opting to give a healthier Easter basket this year isn't being a spoilsport, it simply makes more sense for your loved ones' health. And don't forget, however many sugary snacks everyone does consume at Easter a good brushing and flossing afterwards can minimise the strain the holiday puts on the health of their teeth!