Easter is about Jesus (It’s also in 25 days!)
eas·ter/ˈēstər/ meaning “the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Christ.”
It is a day to celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord.
I’m not against fun or chocolate covered eggs, I just like meaningful things to remain, well, meaningful. I want my family to celebrate Him. Sure, we can add in the fun, but I don’t want the fun to be all there is.
Call me a radical zealot.
Thank you.
Here are ten ways to keep Easter About Jesus and have fun:
- Read The Parable of the Lily and plant (or force) a lily bulb
- Create this easy, beautiful watercolor Cross Art
- Plant an Easter Garden
- Dye/hunt eggs. Share the reasons behind the traditions
- Make Resurrection Eggs. Read Benjamin’s Box: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs
along with it.- Bake Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday
- Fill Easter baskets with something meaningful (a new Bible, a cross necklace, eggs with Scripture)
- Make Resurrection Rolls for Easter morning breakfast
- Share your Easter meal with someone who might spend it alone or take a basket to a child in a hospital
- Have a family devotion together and talk about the meaning of Easter (this is a good one)
I think Easter is fun when it’s celebrated for all the right reasons!
And that works for me!
What would you add?
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Love these ideas! I’ve made hot cross buns the past two years for Good Friday. Such a good reminder and a good way to tell the story. Thank you for sharing. I’ll be keeping these in mind for this year.
SO excited about hot cross buns…even though every time I see them, I think how weird it is that we are decorating breakfast with an instrument of torture. But I mean, it’s an instrument of torture we need to remember every day, so bring on the frosting.
I made my kiddo a meaningful Easter story sensory box and wrote many of the same sentiments you share here about your feelings on Easter with a fam. You should check it out for your littles!
http://www.morefunmom.com/2013/02/easter-story-sensory-box.html
I love this! Thanks so much for sharing. Easter is the best — new year’s for your soul, with much better candy than Halloween! I love love love it. Sometimes I try to remember what it would have been like that first Saturday, unsure, still — hopeful, but devastated, sitting shiva in mourning with Jesus’ followers. How beautiful that first Easter must have been.
xo,
Kim
Great ideas! Thank you for hosting!
What a thoughtful and inspiring post, thank you.
Thanks so much for hosting – and for inspirational ideas for Easter Alice x
Thank you for the great ideas and the encouragement to remember what Easter is about!
Thanks so much for hosting. And I really appreciate your posts. Hope you’re having an excellent week!
This is a great article! I’ll be doing some of this with my two kids. They are young and I really want to emphasize it’s about Jesus. Thanks for hosting the link-up as well. I shared a Chocolate Beet Cookie recipe.
Thanks for hosting!
On Sunday our Church wants us to bring as many friends as we can get to come to celebrate Jesus. It’s a good time to do some missionary work. Our kids get involved by inviting thier friends to primary. We usually have a devotional on the true meaning of Easter as a family as well. We also sit down together as a family for a nice Easter dinner. -Steph-
I teach 3 year old preschool and we made the Easter garden last year and plan on doing it again this year. They really enjoyed it and weave the crosses out of Popsicle sticks. It gives them a visual of the empty tomb!
Suppose to be we made not weave
Thank you for the linky party. Please stop by mine as well: http://modernchristianhomemaker.com/whatcha-cookin-wednesday-olive-garden-copy-cat-mussels-di-napoli-linky-party/
Thank you for hosting! I just the varieties of ideas presented here.
These are some great ideas! It’s so important to keep Jesus at the center of our lives, not just at Easter, but always.
Thank you so much for hosting! If you haven’t already, I’d love if you’d come join my How To Tuesday link party, too.
http://housewifehowtos.com/link-party-2/how-to-tuesday-link-party-11/
This is a great list! When my kids were younger, we did a lot of these same things. This year, we are reading through Amon’s Adventure.