Eggs rolls are symbolic of the rolling away of the stone from Christ’s tomb. The U.S. started hosting an egg roll back in 1814 with James and Dolley Madison. Kids in the U.S. use a wooden spoon to keep an egg rolling while in Scotland kids try to have their egg roll the farthest.

So, from the ”egg-rolling” to Easter egg showers, these traditions will blow your mind! Read on for more!

Egg Tapping

Egg tapping takes place throughout the world in different forms. In egg tapping people grab an egg and tap the pointed end against someone else’s egg. Whoever’s egg doesn’t break is thought to have good luck for the next year.

Egg Tile Rolling

Sweden puts a twist on egg rolling by rolling eggs down a roof tile held at an angle to the ground to see whose egg goes the farthest. If someone’s egg gets hit, they get to keep their egg and the egg that hit theirs. Just don’t grab a tile from your roof to play the game.

Giant Chocolate Egg

Argentina puts on a big Easter egg celebration each year when it unveils the Huevo de chocolate in Bariloche. The hollow chocolate egg uses more than 17,500 pounds of chocolate and stands nearly 30 feet tall. Around 50,000 people turn out each year and get to eat some of the egg after it gets cracked open with a pick ax.

Easter Egg Showers

In Mexico and parts of the southern U.S. a custom is to hide hollowed-out eggs filled with confetti. Once the eggs are found they can be broken over peoples’ heads and the confetti rains down. The hollowed out eggs are called cascarones.

Blessing Basket

In Poland families prepare blessing baskets filled with colored eggs, sausages, bread and other food the day before Easter to bring to a priest to get blessed. Lent isn’t over until a priest blesses the basket.

Egg Jarping

Egg jarping is played in England and essentially the same as egg tapping, it just has a cooler name. One player holds their hard-boiled egg pointed end up and a second player brings their egg down so pointed eggs collide. The person with an undamaged egg wins.

Chocolate Egg Begging

In Finland, children dress up as witches and go begging for chocolate Easter eggs from door-to-door. They also carry willow twigs, wear scarves over their head and make-up their faces.

Giant Omelet

Easter brunch takes on a different look in Haux, France where each year a giant omelet gets made on Easter Monday. The omelet uses 4,500 eggs for around 1,000 people. According to legend, the tradition stems from Napoleon when he and his army stopped in a small town to get omelets. He ordered the town to gather their eggs and make a giant omelet for him and his army the next day.

Engraved Ostrich Eggs

Decorating eggs as part of a spring ritual actually dates back 60,000 years ago. Archaeologists discovered ostrich eggshells in the Kalahari Desert, which were used as water flasks, that were sometimes decorated with patterns engraved.

Use Up Eggs Before Lent

Centuries ago eggs were to be consumed before the start of Lent because they were forbidden to eat during Lent. People couldn’t stop chickens from laying eggs during Lent, however, but several traditions emerged after Lent involving egg dishes.

Meatloaf With Egg

Though we’ve often seen Meatloaf with egg on his face but the dish, meatloaf, stuffed with hardboiled eggs is a Greek tradition called, Rolo Kima.

Hornazo

Hornazo is a Spanish meat pie filled with pork loin, chorizo sausage and hard-boiled eggs typically eaten around Easter. The inclusion of the hard-boiled egg is a holdover from the days of when people hard-boiled eggs that chickens laid during Lent to preserve them since eggs were forbidden during Lent.

Hungary Potato Casseroles

Potato casseroles with hard-boiled eggs are pretty standard for Hungary. The dish, rakott krumpli includes Hungarian sausage, onion, sour cream, breadcrumbs and paprika.

Blessed Eggs

Orthodox churches will bless Easter eggs and distributed to the congregation. The egg is viewed as a symbol of resurrection with a new life sealed in it.

Eggs to the Cemetery

After people have their eggs blessed by a priest people will bring them to the cemetery to place on the graves of loved ones who have died.