Candy Easter eggs can be any form of confectionery such as hollow chocolate eggs wrapped in brightly-coloured foil. Some are delicately constructed of spun sugar and pastry decoration techniques. The ubiquitous jelly egg or jellybean is made from sugar-coated pectin candy. These are often hidden, supposedly by the Easter Bunny, for children to find on Easter morning.

Claims are often made that Easter Eggs were originally pagan symbols, but there is no solid evidence for this.

The Easter egg tradition may have celebrated the end of the privations of Lent in the West, eggs were forbidden during Lent as well as other traditional fast days. It was also traditional to use up all of the household's eggs before Lent began, which established the tradition of Pancake Day.

In the North of England, at Easter time, a traditional game is played where hard boiled pace eggs are distributed and each player hits the other players egg with their own. The winner is the holder of the last intact egg. The losers get to eat their eggs.

An Easter egg hunt is a common festive activity, where eggs are hidden outdoors (or indoors if in bad weather) for children to run around and find. This may also be a contest to see who can collect the most eggs.