Some More Easter Fun

We have been doing Easter activities each day this week, and the kids have been having a lot of fun learning all about Easter.  I posted earlier this week about the Easter activities we had done so far.  Here are the rest of the activities we did:

Hailey read another version of the Easter story from another children’s Bible that we have.

We put painters tape in the shape of a cross on some paper and then the kids painted.

Once they were dry we took the tape off, and these are the completed pictures.

We also made resurrection rolls.  We pretended that the marshmallow was Jesus.  We rolled the marshmallow in butter and then a cinnamon sugar mixture, which represented the oil and spices they would have put on the body of Jesus after he died.

Then we wrapped the marshmallow up in a crescent roll, making sure to seal all of the edges really well.

Then we baked the rolls.  This symbolized Jesus being in the tomb for 3 days.

Once they were done cooking, we took the rolls out, and cut them open…

The roll was empty- just like the tomb!

Then the kids made pictures of the tomb with the stone rolled away.

Happy Easter!!

Easter Activities

We have been busy doing some fun Easter activities this week, so I thought I would share what we have done so far in case anyone is looking for some easy ideas for Easter.

Each day we are reading the Easter story from one of our Bibles.  We have so many different Bibles for children and all of them are a little different, so it’s good to read a different one each day.  Our first day, after we the Easter story, I focused on Palm Sunday and what happened that day.  We acted it out by pretending to put coats and palm branches down on the ground (we used blankets to pretend).  Then everyone had a turn to pretend to be Jesus riding on the donkey over the palm branches and coats.

Afterwards we made a very simple craft.  The kids glued down a path, then put palm branches (green construction paper) and coats (scrapbook paper) down onto the path.

Then they colored a picture of Jesus riding a donkey to put on the path.

Their finished projects.

The second day I used Resurrection Eggs to tell the story of Easter.

Inside each of the eggs is a a little symbol of part of the story.  So, I would tell part of the story and then have someone open a certain colored egg to find the symbol for that part of the story.  The kids really enjoyed this activity!  Later in the day while Hunter was outside playing he asked if he could come in to do the Easter “actibity” again.  They had to do it again later when Rich came home from work so he could see it too.

Then we made a craft.  First they colored their papers with Colorix silky crayons (we LOVE these!).

After they finished coloring they added a little bit of water with a paint brush.  The Colorix blend together like water colors.

Then we glued on a grassy hill and crosses.  This is Haiely’s finished picture.

Hunter’s finished picture

Harper never really finished hers- she’d be happy to color and glue and do crafts all day long.

 Be sure to check back and see what else we do this week!

Fall Tree Craft

We made these really easy fall trees, and they turned out cute. I love easy and cute art projects!

I gave Hunter a piece of brown, already cut out, to use as a tree trunk.  Then I put some fall colored paint onto a paper plate and gave him a shower pouf to stamp some leaves on the tree.

Harper made one too- her very first painting.

Hailey also made one, but she painted her own tree trunk.

The completed fall trees.

Turkey Handprint

I realize I am posting this a bit late, but hopefully someone can save the idea for next year.  I made this using Hailey, Hunter, and Harper’s handprints.  It turned out so cute!

Inspiration credit: Pinterest