Need ideas fot custom holidays

Add easter in the spring time!

In my game there are a handful custom holidays. the one I like the best is "Leaf Burning" taking place on the last day of Fall. It's quite cozy seeing the leaf piles burning after dark. You can add BBQ or singing etc to make it more like a big thing, but in my game sims don't even get the day off work/school.

I play with 3-week seasons (a mod gives that option) and have at least 1 holiday per week. I also use a mod that adds some additional holiday traditions to help round them out. Each season has at least 3 holidays. Spring and Winter have 4, and I don't have all of them tagged to be an off-work-day... unless vacation is used, of course (designated by asterisks in my list).

The Holidays I have set up, in order, are:

Spring:

• Spring Has Sprung - at the start of spring, basically just a spring cleaning holiday with Cleaning and gardening being the holiday traditions.
  
• Day of Famine* - Friday before Easter, with Attend Ceremony, Fasting and Decorate as the traditions.
  
• Springfest - Basically Easter Sunday, with Decorate, Egg Hunt, Flower Bunny, Grand Meal, and invite guests traditions.
  
• Day of Song - A day to celebrate the arts, with Art & Music Spirit, Decorate and BBQ traditions. From the mod, I also have Art Exhibition and Go to a Music Concert traditions here.
  

Summer:

• Llama day - 4th of July/Independence day for the sims. Decorate, Drinking, Fireworks, BBQ and Water Fun traditions
  
• Summerfest* - I'm from the Milwaukee area of Wisconsin, this emulates a concert event that happens there. Traditions are Drinking and Go to a Music Concert
  
• Day of Remembrance - Tell Stories, Remembrance, Fire, Go on a Vacation/Travel traditions. Also from the mod, Hiking Trip tradition. -- sorta my mother's day, father day, memorial day all rolled into one.
  

Fall:

• Oktoberfest - BBQ, Gardening, Drinking, Party Spirit, Holiday gnomes traditions.
  
• Spooky Day - Wear Costumes, Trick or Treat, Spooky Spirit, Decorate and Mischief Spirit traditions.
  
• Harvestfest (basically Thanksgiving) - Thankful Spirit, Sports TV, Decorate, Grand Meal, Invite Guests
  

Winter:

• Polar Plunge* - Again..from wisconsin, so I had to have this in there. Polar Bear Plunge and Drinking as traditions.
  
• Winterfest Eve - Give Gifts, Father Winter, Decorate, Baking, Attend Holiday Ceremony traditions
  
• Winterfest - Festive Lighting, Decorate, Festive Spirit, Open Presents, Grand Meal
  
• New Years Eve - Party Spirit, Make Resolutions, Decorate, Drinking, Countdown to Midnight
  
• Love Day - Watch Romantic TV, Romantic Spirit, Go on a Date, Give Flowers, Decorate
  

Been through one full year cycle so far since setting them up and things have been nice. Frequent enough holidays to enjoy them, but enough days in between to lead a normal sim life most of the time.

In Summer I usually add a Llama day for their Independence day when the watcher lets them do whatever they want mostly involves water fun and drinking with streaking and a bonfire at the end I'll also add a Summer's end with a BBQ and a random Friday with school off so that's the vacation time for the kids.

Other seasons I just add what I would celebrate in real life and I'd probably add an extra holiday in Spring with Easter, Egg day, so more kids can meet the Flower Bunny. There is always baking and an egg hunt involved with giving flowers on either day.

Someone had something like a survival of the fittest day where you did things like streaking and swimming in Winter.

Thank you everyone for your awesome ideas, and thank you @Stormkeep for your super detailed post. @Simmerville I really like the idea of leaf burning on the last day of fall.

Here’s one I thought of: Praise the Watcher Day with Thankful Spirit, Party Spirit, and Fire.

@QueenofMyshuno, Add the gnomes one to that Praise the Watcher day...cause those buggers ARE the Watchers. They scare me...

Mothers/Fathers Day (any other family day) - Movie Marathon Night? Pizza Paloooooza? Summertime BBQ? Winter Warm-up? (cosy up, movies, spend time with family)?

Full disclosure, the calendar and holidays are one of my favorite things(may have gone over board)

Week 1 Spring - February | Week 1
-First of Spring Monday
*Make Resolutions
-Valentine's(Sweet Day) Friday
*Baking, Give Flowers, Fire, Art & Music Spirit
Week 2 Spring - March | Week 2
-Garden Day Friday
*Gardening, Drinking, Fire, Art & Music Spirit, Holiday Gnomes
-Spring Equinox (Spring Equinox) Wednesday
*Grand Meal, Fire, Appreciate an Object, Party Spirit, Fasting
Week 3 Spring - April | Week 3
-Easter (Bunny-n-Egg Day) Sunday
*Egg Hunt, Flower Bunny
Week 4 Spring - May | Week 4
-Beltane (Summer Feast) Wednesday
*Grand Meal, Fire, Decorate, Drinking, Art & Music Spirit
-Mors Day Sunday
*Give Flowers, Give Gifts, Grand Meal, Baking, Cleaning
-Last of Spring Saturday
*Gardening
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 1 Summer - May | Week 5
-First of Summer Sunday
*Make Resolutions
-Day of Ancestor's Monday(Day Off)
*Remembrance, BBQ, Drinking, Attend Holiday Ceremony, Tell Stories
Week 2 Summer - June | Week 6
-Fars Day Sunday
*BBQ, Sports TV, Drinking, Give Gifts, Fire
-Summer Solstice Wednesday(Day Off)
*Grand Meal, Fire, Appreciate on Object, Party Spirit, Fasting
-Summer Vacation Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday(Days Off)
*Water Fun, BBQ, Go on Vacation or Travel
Week 3 Summer - July | Week 7
-Fire Fest Sunday
*Fire, BBQ, Water Fun, Party Spirit, Fireworks
-Summer Vacation Monday-Friday(Days Off)
*Water Fun, BBQ, Go on Vacation or Travel
Week 4 Summer - August | Week 8
-Lughnagadh Wednesday
*Grand Meal, Tell Stories, Games, Art & Music Spirit
-Last of Summer Saturday
*Gardening
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 1 Fall - August | Week 9
-First of Fall Monday
*Make Resolutions
Week 2 Fall - September | Week 10
-Day of Rest Monday(Day Off)
*Make Resolutions
-Fall Equinox Wednesday
*Grand Meal, Fire, Appreciate on Object, Party Spirit, Fasting
Week 3 Fall - October | Week 11
-Explorer's Day Monday
*Make Resolutions, Appreciate an Object, Festive Lighting
-All Hallows' Eve Friday
*Wear Costumes, Trick or Treat, Spooky Spirit, Decorate
Week 4 Fall - November |Week 12
-Samhain Wednesday
*Fire, Grand Meal, Drinking, Wear Costumes, Holiday Gnomes
-Harvest Feast Thursday(Day Off)
*Grand Meal, Drinking, Tell Stories, Decorate, Thankful Spirit
-Last of Fall Saturday
*Gardening
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Week 1 Winter - November | Week 13
-First of Winter Monday
*Make Resolutions
Week 2 Winter - December | Week 14
-Winter Solstice Wednesday
*Grand Meal, Fire, Appreciate an Object, Party Spirit, Fasting
-Ante Donum Diem(Christmas Eve) Thursday(Day Off)
*Decorate, Open Gifts, Grand Meal, Baking, Festive Lighting
-Donum Diem(Christmas) Friday(Day Off)
*Open Gifts, Grand Meal, Give Gifts, Festive Spirit, Father Winter
-Ante De Novo Die(New Years Eve) Saturday
*Count Down to Midnight, Party Spirit, Fire, BBQ, Fireworks
Week 3 Winter - January | Week 15
-De Novo Die(New Years) Sunday(Day Off)
*Grand Meal, Cleaning, Make Resolutions
Week 4 Winter - February | Week 16
-Imbolc Wednesday
*Cleaning, Fire, Grand Meal, Art & Music Spirit
-Last of Winter Saturday
*Gardening
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Due to my Anneorine religion being mainly based on Disney heroines
heatwaves=Ariel Days
Pocahontasfest-Fall
Olaffest (Christmas)
Lover day (not necessary couples)-winter and summer