World Record in Eierpecking???

All the pupils of ASO Steinabrückl took part in a big
"Eierpecking" contest!

















Katrin vs Simon














Thomas vs Mario















Milan vs Michi















Milan vs Jan
















Katrin vs Milan

And here is the final after a hard elimination peck out:

Easter Traditions in Austria - Searching Easter Nests

Searching Easter Nests is a nice tradition in Austria.

Parents, grandparents hide little nests with colored Easter eggs and sweets
somewhere in flats or out in nature for their little children.

But in a way it seems, that these traditions become nowadays more and more unknown to our children.

Therefore we try to save these nice habits by practising them in school.

Here are some impressions:




























Jan finds his nest under a seat bench together with TILY.













You know, that the Easter rabbit lays his colored
eggs in a nest on a tree! ;-))

MICHI was proud!

















This year Easter is very late with green grass and nice temperatures.
But we remember also Easter with snow when whe had to hide nests outside...

Michelle, our youngest, found also a nest!



















Happy EASTER!!!

Easter in Belgium

Although Easter is a Christian festival, it has a pagan origin.
The Germans worshiped in the spring Ostara, the goddess of spring and fertility. The Germans sacrificed eggs in her honor. Several of the Germanic customs were incorporated into the Christian faith. Thus the farmers gave their best eggs to the priest, as Easter offerings, which were sometimes colored eggs in order to know which were the oldest eggs



An older egg tradition dates back to China. In the seventh century BC The Chinese already eat colored eggs. During the celebration of their spring festival, they made no fire for three days. They wanted to make the Sun the chance to thaw nature.

Besides all the stories about ancient spring festivals and symbolic traditions, there is an explanation for the fact that we do at Easter, in spring, many eat eggs. During the dark winter months, the place is almost completely silent. Broke to spring, then suddenly there were plenty of eggs.

The oldest painted egg, which we know was found in a grave near Worms, Germany. This egg would come from the fourth century BC.

An earlier tradition of the Easter tree to a pole, four cross laths which were hung colored eggs. eggs that had a symbolic significance: they represent new life. Now in the weeks before Easter ornamental branches of willow or hazel sold, which colored eggs hang



Actually, the Easter bells ordinary clocks that hung in the churches. On Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, the bells have wings (like those of angels) and the bells go to Rome, to go pick up Easter eggs. Beware of Easter, they return their stock of eggs and throwing them (in the clock are stored during the journey) over Flanders. Between Palm Sunday and Easter, the churches do not read clocks, that is because they are all traveling to Rome. Easter clocks are very difficult to see because they are mostly at night flying, and very fast.

Easter “Mones” in Catalonia

Easter rituals include children hunting the chocolate trail of the Easter Bunny and in Catalunya, godparents giving godchildren their traditional “Mona de Pasqua”.

Beginners in Catalan would be right in thinking that this festive treat can literally be translated as “Easter Monkey”; however, the word “mona” actually exists in both Latin and Arabic, where it means gift or present. Dating back to the 15th century, this culinary delight originally took the form of a “tortell de brioix” (round brioche cake) and was inspired by the days of fasting preceding Easter Sunday.

The traditional shape of these cakes was large and circular, similar to that of a sizeable doughnut and it would often contain hardboiled eggs around edge. Nowadays hardboiled eggs have been replace with chocolate ones and a “Mona de Pasqua” can come in all manner of shapes and sizes.

Movie stars, footballers, cartoon characters and your very own personalised mona are now all readily available upon request. Although the baking of a cake has gradually been replaced by a chocolate sculpture, there are still aspects of this annual indulgence that have not changed.

It has always been the custom for a godparent to give a Mona de Pasqua to their godchild on Easter Sunday and this remains the same today. “La mona de Pasqua is a spiritual tradition unique to Catalunya. Each egg represents a year of life but they also embody the idea of birth, which is why they are given on Easter Sunday, the day Christ rose from the dead.”

Easter Monday in Catalunya is therefore commonly referred to as “el dia de la Mona” and in the past represented the day when families would go together to healthily eat and drink. Nowadays, the incredible designs and wonderfully edible sculptures make mones too good to eat. Easter and feasting just seem to go hand in hand, so whether you’re having a traditional circular cake or a modern, life-size chocolate figure of Messi: happy eating and happy Easter.

Easter decoration

The class from teacher Mietje 1.6
Maybe a nice idea to do in your school.






The class from teacher Mietje 1.6
Maybe a nice idea to do in your school.

Showing TILY how to bake an Easter Striezel

Hey kids, we want to show you how to bake an Easter Cake!

But Tily, this time you have to be carful not to disappear in the dough!


OK, this time I will be very cautious, I promise!














To prepare the dough you need

• milk
• butter
  
• flour
• yeast
• eggs
• salt

You mix the ingredients and let the dough rest for some minutes!



Then you split the dough into four parts.

















Now you cou can start to braid the cake.





We can show that in a video!!!




Bake it at 180° for 40 minutes!


Tily and Steini are very proud!

Eier pecken - Pecking Easter Eggs

Now Steini, it is time to show Tily some of our traditions!

Ok, Thomas and Rene, choose an Easter Egg!

Now: both use the spiky side of the egg and try to destroy the other egg!


Now check your eggs! The one, who´s egg is destroyed, has to give it to the winner!!!

Rene has lost!!! And now its my turn - I´m sure that I will win!