Easter Graphics

As spring approaches its time for Easter, and people begin thinking about Easter graphics to adorn their homes, and even their online presence. There are many sources of graphics for this holiday season – including rabbits, eggs, flowers, and all sorts of springtime things with bright colors.

People may want to put Easter graphics on their MySpace page to express their love of the holiday and all things spring. One source of these graphics is a website called Zwani, which has a complete Easter graphics section with HTML code that you can cut and paste into your MySpace page, or really into the page of any other site that you might maintain. Graphics here include happy Easter rabbits, comics about chocolate bunnies, and even religious symbols such as a dove.

Some people believe that Easter is a holiday for children, and so maintain Easter graphics that reflect the spirit. One of these is an individual called J. on his website JsMagic.net. J. has lots of happy Easter graphics geared more towards children, often depicting children enjoying the holiday.

No search for Easter graphics would be complete without a search engine such as Google, which includes over 480,000 results for the phrase. There are even advertisers on the side that include many images relating to Easter. One of these is a free source for images from Easter, which includes nearly 1000 Easter clipart images from the live search at live.com. These are all ready to be printed, cut out, and included in all of your Easter decorations and art.

To learn where the images in Easter graphics come from we can examine the etymology of the word Easter – that's the origin of the word. It dates back to the Latin name Pascha which itself comes from the Greek word for the Hebrew festival passover. Easter is celebrated both as a time of the year, and in religions as a time of life – for the Jews Passover was when God left Jewish children alive, and for the Christians it's when Jesus returned to life. So all of the symbols of springtime in life including eggs which new chicks emerge, are appropriate symbols of the holiday as it has come to be celebrated.

Because so many people have computers and access to the Internet in the modern world, Easter graphics are more popular than ever. It's easy to use them to adorn correspondence, and decorations, and to celebrate the holiday that everyone loves.

News About Easter

Easter Island statues have full bodies and contain ancient petroglyphs 15 May 2012 at 6:12pm
Click image to see more photos. (EISP/EISP) Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island?some 2,000 miles west of Chile?than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. When most people think of the renowned monolithic statues, they think of the heads only. But in October 2011, the Easter [...]

Inside Easter Island's Secrets 16 May 2012 at 9:09am
The first methodical investigation of the statues at Rapa Nui, which many think of as simple heads, reveals the complete figures buried over centuries by natural forces.

Academic All-Star: Eisenhower senior Jason Easter 16 May 2012 at 10:30pm
Eisenhower High School senior Jason Easter will major in aeronautical engineering. Next year he will go to the University of Washington.

Local communities host Easter activities 17 May 2012 at 11:47pm
Easter is just around the corner and local communities are preparing for a visit from the Easter Bunny.

Easter already carrying presidential load 11 May 2012 at 6:23am
URBANA ? When University of Illinois students walk across the stage Sunday to receive their diplomas, President Michael Hogan will not be there to shake their hands. Instead, Robert Easter, who is the president designate, will congratulate them. Easter also attended UI-Chicago commencement ceremonies and will be at the UI-Springfield commencement this Saturday. read more

Eastern Connecticut Easter Seals group honors civic leader 17 May 2012 at 8:01pm
Easter Seals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut presented its Civic Leadership award to Jerry G. Olson, primary trustee of Olde Mistick Village, at the annual Walk With Me Kick-Off Celebration Wednesday at Go Fish in Mystic.

The Easter Bunny arrives at Town East Mall 17 May 2012 at 11:42pm
The Easter Bunny is hopping into the area to visit with children at Town East Mall. He arrives on Tuesday, March 13 and will be welcoming visitors until Saturday, April 7 when he leaves to deliver eggs around the world.

Religious leaders say on Easter that faith and politics are inseparable 17 May 2012 at 11:24pm
Influential pastor Rick Warren defended the place of religion in politics during a television interview that aired Sunday morning, arguing that ?faith is simply a world view.? Warren made his statements only a few weeks after a Pew Research Center survey showed 38 percent of Americans -- an all-time high -- believe political leaders spend too much time talking about religion. A majority, 54 ...

Stormont to mark Easter Rising 14 May 2012 at 8:14am
The NI Assembly Commission announces plans to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising.

Retail Sales in U.S. Cool on Early Easter and Seasonable Weather 15 May 2012 at 5:37am
Retail sales in the U.S. rose in April at the slowest pace of the year, showing unseasonably mild weather and pre-Easter shopping may have pulled consumers to stores the prior month.