Hop into spring with these record-breaking Easter celebrations
Grab the Easter baskets and the bunny ears, it’s Easter time. Record breakers from around the world use their holiday traditions to make the largest celebration's ever! From Easter eggs to Easter chocolate, nobody comes close to celebrating the holiday like they do.
One bready treat was taken to the extreme when Greenhalghs Bakery (UK) cooked up a hot cross bun. Unlike any other pastry, the bun measured to be over 7ft in diameter and weighed 168 kg (370 lb 6 oz), which is roughly the weight of a tractor tire. To make the largest hot cross bun ever, Greenhalghs Bakery used ingredients that would equate to 2,300 individual buns.
The bakery unveiled their delightful creation at the Saltholme wildlife reserve on 5 April 2012. Visitors of the park could celebrate by indulging in the traditional English Easter treat.
Bringing joy to thousands of kids lives, Cypress Garden Adventure Park (US) hid over 510,000 eggs for 9,753 children. The park hosted an Easter egg hunt on 1 April 2007 and their record title largest Easter egg hunt has gone unbroken ever since. Hiding over half a million candy-filled eggs, the volunteers and staff made sure every child got their fair chance to find one. On this egg-tastic hunt, local businesses hid their own prizes. One lucky child found a two-year scholarship to Polk County Community College.
The adventure park hosted the event to foster community and draw attention to the park. Unfortunately, two years later Cypress Garden Adventure Park closed, and the property became part of Legoland Florida Resort. With thousands of people and large prizes, this wasn’t a typical US Easter egg hunt. More commonly Easter egg hunts are put on by local community centres or churches. While the crowds may not be as big, the bragging rights for finding the most eggs feel just as good.
Sticking with the Easter egg theme, as part of the city’s Easter festival Associação Visite Pomerode (Brazil) commissioned local artists to decorate and paint an Easter egg that stood 16.72 m (54 ft 10.3 in) tall, which is about the height of a wind turbine. Honouring tradition, the egg was painted in a Kashubian folk art style. This artistic egg holds the title for largest decorated Easter egg.
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The egg was created as part of Pomerode’s Osterfest celebration, which is one of the most well known in all of South America. Originally a German festival, Osterfest is a period of time filled with music, dance, and most famously, Easter egg decorating. The city of Pomerode had previously held the title but wanted to make an egg even bigger to earn it back.
"It is a great joy to see Pomerode in Guinness World Records again, regaining the title of largest decorated egg, and adding visibility to our Easter festival, the Osterfest," Manfredo Goede, President, of Associação Visite Pomerode said. "Our giant egg this year honours the painting traditions of Kashubia, a region of Pomerania, where the immigrants who founded our city came from. It was a huge task to build and decorate this egg, with many people involved, but it was certainly worth it!"
As part of Osterfest, Pomerode also created the largest Easter egg tree. The city painted 82,404 hen eggs with red, yellow, and green. They were hung on a pecan tree to serve as a centre point for the festival.
While Brazil was decorating their eggs, Italy was working to make a delicious treat. The Le Acciaierie Shopping Centre (Italy) crafted the largest chocolate Easter egg. The egg weighed 7,200 kg (15,873 lbs 4.48 oz) and stood 10.39 metres tall. The egg itself weighed more than an elephant.
Sorry to disappoint the chocolate lovers, but the egg is not entirely made out of chocolate. Instead, it was supported by steel beams that created a frame for the chocolate shell. To make this structurally sound, the egg took 48 days to build.
In Italy, chocolatiers have made a competition out of the holiday, constantly trying to outdo themselves with edible designs. During Easter time, intricate chocolate eggs can be seen in every shop window. What better way to show off chocolate than to make the largest chocolate egg ever!
It wouldn’t be Easter without the Easter bunny, and what better place to host a record-breaking bunny event besides Bunny, Nottingham (UK). Sam Thompson, British television personality, celebrated the holiday by attempting to put bunny ears on as many people as possible. On 18 April 2025, Sam was able to put 32 ears on people's heads, earning the title most bunny ears placed on heads in one minute.
Besides our record holders, these creative Easter events and artworks are things "no bunny" ever would have thought of. The collection of these Easter themed records made sure that everyone in the community had an egg-cellent Easter.