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Resurrection Egg Hunt

Wednesday, April 08, 2020, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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Watch the video presentation of "The Resurrection Egg Story"

 

Wednesday, April 8th we were going to have a huge Resurrection Egg and Easter Egg Hunt event at the church for the children. Well that is not going to happen, HOWEVER....

Bro. John will be making an Online Video Presentation of the Resurrection Egg story. We encourage you to make your own set of resurrection eggs, watch the video and follow along with your children.

To get ready follow the instructions below to make your own set of Resurrection Eggs.

DIY Resurrection Eggs & Easter Story Book Printables

A favorite way to share the Easter story with children is through a set of Family Life Resurrection Eggs. These can be purchased, ordered online or you can make your own.

If you’ve never seen resurrection eggs, they look like a simple set of plastic Easter eggs in various colors. But inside each egg is a symbol of the Easter story — a donkey for Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, a die to represent the soldiers casting lots for Jesus’ clothes, etc.

The beauty of the set is that kids get so excited to see what’s in each egg, and it’s truly an interactive and concrete way to talk about things that are hard for them to wrap their minds around otherwise.

What is really great is that even though you do this as a family around Easter, your children might occasionally grab the set to play with during quiet time, and those symbols remind them of the story as they are playing.

DIY Resurrection Eggs

Making your own set is actually really simple, and it’s not too late to make one for Easter Holy Week!

Supplies:

  • 12 plastic eggs
  • an egg carton 
  • picture of a donkey or use a small leaf to represent a palm branch at Jesus’ triumphal entry
  • 3 quarters to represent the 30 pieces of silver that Judas Iscariot received
  • a thimble to represent a cup at the Last Supper
  • a picture of praying hands or Jesus praying in the garden or a tiny piece of paper rolled into a scroll to represent Jesus’ prayer in the garden
  • a piece of leather, shoe lace or thick fabric to represent the soldier’s whipping Jesus
  • a tiny crown made from grass or a flower stem to represent the crown of thorns or thorn from a rose plant
  • 3 nails to represent the nails and the cross
  • a die to represent the soldier’s casting lots for Jesus’ clothes
  • a toothpick with one end broken off to represent the spear piercing Jesus’ side
  • a piece of cheesecloth or thin fabric to represent Joseph wrapping Jesus in clean linen cloth
  • a rock to represent the stone rolled in front of the tomb
  • number stickers, optional

Directions:

Put one item in each egg, following this order:

Egg #1 A Donkey
Egg #2 Silver coins
Egg #3 Passover cup
Egg #4 Praying hands
Egg #5 Leather whip
Egg #6 Crown of Thorns
Egg #7 Nails in the Cross
Egg #8 Dice for Gambling
Egg #9 Soldier's Spear 
Egg #10 Linen Wrapping
Egg #11 Stone of the Tomb - a small rock
Egg #12 Empty 

You’ll find accompanying Bible verses to help you tell the story, although I recommend paraphrasing for little ones!

Easter Story Book

 

Print the Easter story cards to use with the eggs or to tie together with a ribbon as a small book

Additional Resource:

Resurrection Story with Scripture and Explanation