As much fun as we have eating eggs in all kinds of different ways, it can be just as much fun to decorate them for Easter. Among other food traditions, the celebration of Easter is closely associated with the dying and painting of eggs as well as hunting for them or rolling them across a lawn. But why do we associate eggs with Easter, and how did the tradition of decorating them start? The earliest documentation of people decorating eggs for Easter dates back to the 13th century, a time during which the church prohibited the eating of eggs during Holy Week, or the week between Palm Sunday and Easter. As a result, the eggs that were laid by chickens during that week were often decorated in order to identify them as “Holy Week eggs.” In European villages, they were part of a family’s tithe to their landlord or given as gifts to prominent …