If you enter any store, knowing nothing about Easter, by what they sell you would assume it is about bunnies, chickens, and sugar highs.
Bunnies and chickens have become a part of it as a way to represent spring. Easter is the first Holiday of spring after all.
But Easter is a Holy day, one that should not be limited to chocolate and bunnies and eggs. However you can use some of these elements to teach the true meaning of Easter.
One of my favorites are Ressurection Eggs. They are 12 plastic eggs, 11 of them holding an item that helps tell the Passion story.
Egg 1 - A Donkey figurine (Jesus rode a donkey into Jeruselum)
Egg 2 - 3 Silver Coins (Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver)
Egg 3 - Chalice (The Passover Feast)
Egg 4 - Praying Hands (Jesus prays in the garden of Gesthemeny)
Egg 5 - Leather String (Jesus was whipped)
Egg 6 - Crown of Thorns
Egg 7 - Cross of Nails
Egg 8 - Die (soldiers cast lots for Jesus' clothes)
Egg 9 - Spear (they pierced His side and blood and water flowed)
Egg 10 - White Cloth (Jesus was wrapped in linens and laid in a borrowed tomb)
Egg 11 - A Rock (a large rock was placed in the opening of the tomb sealing it)
Egg 12 - Empty (HE HAS RISEN!!!)
And then today on facebook i saw "Ressurection Rolls" I desperately want to do this with my daughter.
Bunnies and chickens have become a part of it as a way to represent spring. Easter is the first Holiday of spring after all.
But Easter is a Holy day, one that should not be limited to chocolate and bunnies and eggs. However you can use some of these elements to teach the true meaning of Easter.
One of my favorites are Ressurection Eggs. They are 12 plastic eggs, 11 of them holding an item that helps tell the Passion story.
Egg 1 - A Donkey figurine (Jesus rode a donkey into Jeruselum)
Egg 2 - 3 Silver Coins (Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver)
Egg 3 - Chalice (The Passover Feast)
Egg 4 - Praying Hands (Jesus prays in the garden of Gesthemeny)
Egg 5 - Leather String (Jesus was whipped)
Egg 6 - Crown of Thorns
Egg 7 - Cross of Nails
Egg 8 - Die (soldiers cast lots for Jesus' clothes)
Egg 9 - Spear (they pierced His side and blood and water flowed)
Egg 10 - White Cloth (Jesus was wrapped in linens and laid in a borrowed tomb)
Egg 11 - A Rock (a large rock was placed in the opening of the tomb sealing it)
Egg 12 - Empty (HE HAS RISEN!!!)
And then today on facebook i saw "Ressurection Rolls" I desperately want to do this with my daughter.
Resurrection Rolls
Ingredients:
1 can refrigerated crescent roll dough
8 large marshmallows
... Melted butter
Cinnamon
Sugar
Instructions:
Give each child one triangle shaped section of crescent roll. This represents the tomb.
Each child takes one marshmallow which represents the body of Christ.
Dip the marshmallow in the butter and roll in cinnamon and sugar mixture. This represents the oils and spices the body was anointed with upon burial.
Lay the marshmallow on the dough and carefully wrap it around the marshmallow.
Make sure all seams are pinched together well. (Otherwise the marshmallow will "ooze" out of the seams)
Bake according to package directions.
Cool.
Break open the tomb and the body of Christ is no longer there!!
Ingredients:
1 can refrigerated crescent roll dough
8 large marshmallows
... Melted butter
Cinnamon
Sugar
Instructions:
Give each child one triangle shaped section of crescent roll. This represents the tomb.
Each child takes one marshmallow which represents the body of Christ.
Dip the marshmallow in the butter and roll in cinnamon and sugar mixture. This represents the oils and spices the body was anointed with upon burial.
Lay the marshmallow on the dough and carefully wrap it around the marshmallow.
Make sure all seams are pinched together well. (Otherwise the marshmallow will "ooze" out of the seams)
Bake according to package directions.
Cool.
Break open the tomb and the body of Christ is no longer there!!
HAPPY EASTER!!!
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