Seasons - Holiday Calendar - Easter to Halloween - Sims 4

For those who have Seasons, you all know that the most difficult part of dealing with the four seasons is the extreme weather that comes with it, whether it's a stormy hot summer day, or a blizzard in the winter. But the Event Calendar helps to break up the weather, at least a little.

None of the holidays built into the calendar are "traditional" with the exception of New Year's Eve. The rest are something close that almost fits for something. But did you know that you can schedule your own "Make a Holiday" event?

I added Easter and Halloween to mine and yes, I made them "Paid Days Off Work!"

Easter does not have great theme decorations for the houses, but I chose Spring. Then, in the traditions section I added in Decorations, Egg Hunt, Give Gifts, and Flower Bunny. [Note - Click on the images below for a larger version.]

First Eggs Found on Lot in Trees, Shrubs and Flowers

Egg Hunt is not explained clearly in the description. If your Sims property has any decorative trees, flowers or shrubs, you can click on those to Hunt for Eggs. Garden plants don't work for this. A few other items inside the house, like the toilet, stove, bookshelf, bed, etc. are places to hunt. Don't forget the Mailbox!

Decorative Egg Collection

There are 12 decorative eggs for the collection and it is one of the easiest collections to fill for the Curator Aspiration. Check inside the Sims Personal Inventory Collections to see how well your Sims are doing once you start collecting eggs.

If you run out of places to Hunt for Eggs on your Sims lot, travel to other lots, like neighbors and businesses. Just keep looking, inside and out. By the end of the day, my Sim had completed the collection and had gathered over 60 eggs! They are not of great value, at 10 Simoleans/each but they do add up, and with it being a paid holiday, it was pretty fun because there was no need to prepare for work and spend half the day at work.

Hunt for Eggs in the Newcrest Park

Flower Bunny

The Flower Bunny is only around for a short period at noon. It will interact similar to Father Winter, but does not speak. It will answer questions like telling your Sim the Career and Traits of the Flower Bunny, but I could not hear any voice responses, so I'm guessing that the Flower Bunny is using some animal telepathy.  The Flower Bunny gives away flowers and, if you are bold, you can have your Sims fight for Eggs!

Fighting for Eggs

I won't tell you who won, but let's just say that the Bunny was very confident after it was all done.

Decorations are just like with the pre-built holidays, only you select the type of decorations to use in the Theme of the calendar. Plus the Gift Giving tradition is similar to the Love Day.

Halloween with the basic Seasons is fine, but it really gets amped-up if you have the Spooky Stuff Pack. There is even a Spooky Party Event included in that pack, that can be scheduled for the household.  But, just going with the Seasons basics here, you can treat children that come to the door, which will enhance your Sims moodlets. You can wear a costume and decorate with pumpkins and other fall holiday decorations included with Seasons.

I recommend that you explore all the options and just have fun.

Steps to Adding Holidays:

Select Show Calendar to view Household Calendar

Now, select a day in future that is NOT today on the household calendar.  In the example above, I selected Wednesday in the Summer Season. The day has a green border now. When I open that date, the upper left column will show "Wednesday" and "Summer" and below that will be two options.

Add Holiday and Add Event

Now select the Add Holiday option. The Calendar page will change to allow you to select a holiday Icon, Name the Holiday, choose Decoration Theme, whether to get the day off from work, and traditions for the holiday.

Add a Holiday Options Page

So let's create a Halloween Themed Holiday.

Change Holiday Icon from Party Hat to Pumpkin

Add Name of Halloween and Change Decoration Theme to Spooky.

Add Traditions and Click the "Check" on the bottom of page.

Please note that in order for the Spooky Decorations theme to be part of the holiday, it must be included as one of the holiday tradition aspirations. I chose the Grand Meal, Spooky Spirit, Trick or Treat and Wear Costumes for the day of holiday traditions.

Oh, yah, in case you ask "Where is the Pipe Organ?" for the Spooky Spirit tradition. Well, that's in a different pack. Vampires has a Pipe Organ that is pretty spooky!

Then, the day before the holiday, you will receive notification of the upcoming theme so that you can decorate your house/lot.

Show Holiday Objects Option

Having a few extra holidays to the calendar makes the seasons more fun.