A Sense of the Resurrection: An Easter Experience for Families

If you are looking for some fun and meaningful activities leading up to Easter for your entire family, take a look at A Sense of the Resurrection: An Easter Experience for Families. 

A Sense of the Resurrection: An Easter Experience for Families contains 12 fun, hands-on, easy, meaningful activities to help your kids come face to face with the Easter story.

In my opinion, just 12 activities is perfect because it's a busy time of year with school and other events.  The lessons are short and sweet and recommended for all ages. So you could use it during the last 12 days leading up to Easter or spread it out to a few days a week through the whole Lenten season.  

The activities are really neat, like baking bread for the Last Supper and feet washing, which creates great memories for families.

The booklet does touch on the subject of Jesus' death and resurrection so Amanda has included a helpful page about how to best talk to your children about this hard to tackle subject.

This simple eBook includes printables, Scriptures, and specific conversation and starting points so you and your kids can get a sense of the resurrection. 

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25+ Christ Centered Easter Activities

If you are looking for Easter resources, Raising Homemakers has a list of 25+ Christ Centered Easter Activities. 

A few things that we have done in the past have included:

*  Making Pretzels on Good Friday.  You probably already have all the ingredients in your pantry.

*  Making Resurrection Rolls on Holy Saturday.  These are so easy and fun to make...and pretty yummy to eat too.  Plus it is a great way to explain the true meaning of Easter.

*  Telling the Easter Story with Resurrection Eggs.  

*  Watching The Gospel of John.  This is a tradition every year.

*  Dying eggs.

*  And of course, going to church Sunday morning. 



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Happy Easter!

 

Easter Weekend Ideas

Need some ideas to help prepare your family for celebrating Easter?  Here are a few things we will be doing this weekend.

*  Making Pretzels on Good Friday.  You probably already have all the ingredients in your pantry.

*  Making Resurrection Rolls on Holy Saturday.  These are so easy and fun to make...and pretty yummy to eat too.  Plus it is a great way to explain the true meaning of Easter.

*  Telling the Easter Story with Resurrection Eggs.  I picked these up last Easter and we have been enjoying them.

*  Watching The Gospel of John.  This is a tradition every year.

*  Dying eggs.

*  And of course, going to church Sunday morning.

Will you be doing anything special this weekend to prepare for celebrating Easter?

 

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25+ Christ Centered Easter Activities

I can't believe Easter is only 2 weeks away, can you?  I've been looking for some resources and Raising Homemakers has posted 25+ Christ Centered Easter Activities.  If you haven't yet, head on over and check them out.  We will definitely be using a few of these!

Lent Resources

Apparently last year I was far more productive than this year during Lent, so I thought I would share my Easter post from last year with you.

So what have we been doing?  

We did print out a Lenten Calendar that is up on the fridge but it is not quite as colorful. 

Today is Good Friday and we are going to be making pretzels and tomorrow, on Holy Saturday, we will make Resurrection Rolls.  Here you can find recipes for both and other Holy Food Week Ideas.

We did watch some of the Holy Heroes Lenten Adventure online, but not as much as I would have wanted to. 

I read today how one family enjoys planting on Good Friday and we haven't started our garden yet, so I thought that would be a great idea!

We will dye our eggs either tonight or tomorrow. 

And of course we will be going to Easter morning service and visiting with family.

What will you be doing to prepare for Easter?

Happy Easter!

I haven't posted about our activities as much as would have liked this Lenten season.  Here's a recap of some of the things we have been doing and what we have been up to this weekend.

We watched the Holy Heroes Lenten Adventure each day it was posted.  Our daughter really liked to watch these videos and enjoyed listening to the children.

We used the Printable Lenten Calendar for Kids to count down the days to Easter.

Yesterday was Good Friday and we decided to make homemade pretzels (to remind us of arms crossed in prayer).  We got this idea from Catholic Icing's post: Holy Week Food Ideas.   We had a great time making them, and with daddy's help, they actually looked somewhat like pretzels. 

Today is Holy Saturday and we made Resurrection Rolls.  These were also fun to make and much easier, in my opinion, than the resurrection cookies (which would never come out right for me).  After about 12 minutes in the oven (fast forward 3 days), we saw Jesus was risen!  Alleluia!!

We also watched The Gospel of John tonight (minus the crucifixion scene for young eyes).  If you haven't watched it yet, it's a great movie!

And finally we dyed Easter eggs, finished our countdown to Easter on our calendar, and cleaned up the house for the Easter bunny.

I hope everyone has a Happy Easter!!

Lent ~ Day Twelve

{Psalm 51:2 - Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.}

We are all sinners...and we must confess, ask for forgiveness, and we will be forgiven...

{Luke 18: 9-14 - To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 

“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 

The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ 

“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’    

“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”}

Trish at A House Upon the Rock is hosting a Lenten Meme, 40 Days of Seeking Him.  If you plan to blog through Lent, please link up!

 

Lent ~ Day Seven

How can we withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and follow God? 

Let's be reminded.

{Psalm 34:17 - The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all of their troubles.}

{Psalm 34:21 - Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous will be condemned.}

Then Pray:

{Matthew 6:9-13 - Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.  Amen.}

Trish at A House Upon the Rock is hosting a Lenten Meme, 40 Days of Seeking Him.  If you plan to blog through Lent, please link up!

 

Lent ~ Day Three

Most often Lent is associated with giving up something we enjoy to focus on the time period leading up to Easter, but this year I have decided not to give anything up. 

Instead I'm focusing my energy on my walk with Jesus and the strengthening of my faith.  My goal is to set aside time each day to pray and read from the Bible. 

{Psalm 1: Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 

For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.}

What a good way to start off Lent!  This is a reminder to us that we must seek God's word when making any decision, whether large or small.  It is also a warning about how God views the ungodly. 

So when you are making a decision or entering into a situation where you are not sure what to do, ask yourself, what would Jesus do?  Then pray for wisdom and discernment on the matter.  Our challenge at home this Lent is to do the same thing.

For some other things we have planned, check out my first post about Lent.

Trish at A House Upon the Rock is hosting a Lenten Meme, 40 Days of Seeking Him.  If you plan to blog through Lent, please link up!

 

Lent 2011

I have been working hard trying to put together some resources for Lent.  So far this is what I've found.

My Blessing From Above gave some great Lent Resources.  One is to this Printable Lenten Calendar for Kids.  We'll be using this to count the days to Easter. 

After checking out the wonderful calendar on Catholic Icing, I searched under Lent and came up with a ton of resources and ideas HERE.  I've looked around and printed out several things I think we will use.  I'll have to go back later for more because there are so many fun crafts.

Some more searching around led me to The Catholic Toolbox, which has a special section devoted to Ash Wednesday and Lent. 

Holy Heros will be presenting a Lenten Adventure (we participated in their Advent Adventure last year).  You can sign up to receive their emails every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during Lent.

Also, take some time to stop by A Slice of Smith Life where Tracy has some great ideas and links.  I really like her Bean Jar idea.

Lastly I found this Daily Lenten Reflection, which is great for all the mommies.

Tomorrow we will be attending Ash Wednesday service at our church.  We plan on talking today and tomorrow about what we will be giving up during Lent.  As of right now, that is still up on the air. 

Do you have any Lenten traditions?