Savouring Grace

Christmas has advent, but Lent doesn’t lend itself so well to children’s activities (and 40 days is a looong in kid time), so I’m inventing The Twelve Days of Easter.   Actually, I’m expanding on an idea from one of the few Christian branded items that is actually a cool tool.  I’m talking about Resurrection Eggs*–those plastic eggs each containing a different symbol telling the story of Easter.  Since there’s a dozen of them (they come in a nifty egg carton), the accompanying booklet suggests opening an egg a day (advent calendar style) to focus on a different aspect of the Easter story in the two weeks preceding Resurrection Sunday.

Being the collector of media that I am (especially children’s books and movies), I have accumulated a lot of Easter themed items for the children.  It’s not as extensive as my Advent-ure box, but there is enough to give the girls a different book or movie for each of The Twelve Days of Easter.  We will also do egg art and other crafts (hopefully).  Since I just came up with this, I was a day behind, so I gave them the two books and two movies which are Easter-themed but actually have nothing to do with the actual Christian holiday.  I like to wear those out before I get to the good stuff!  We will also open two eggs tonight.

Here are the contents of our Easter treasure box (wish we had a giant egg shaped box to keep them in!):

Books

Springtime Tales
Max & Ruby:  Max’s Easter Surprise
Strawberry Shortcake:  Easter Egg Hunt (scratch and sniff)
The Country Bunny by Du Bose Heyward
The Legend of the Easter Egg by Lori Walburg
The Parable of the Lily by Liz Curtis Higgs
Easter Eggs for Anya by Virginia Kroll
The Story of Easter – Alice in Bibleland
The Story of Easter by Aileen Fisher
The Easter Story by Carol Heyer
The Thornbush by Michael Laughlin

Movies

Madeline’s Easter Bonnet
It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown
VeggieTales – An Easter Carol
The Beginner’s Bible – The Story of Easter
The Easter StoryKeepers

In addition to the New Testament, we are also  reading various renditions of the story of Moses and the exodus from Egypt as part of our homeschooling history (we’re studying ancient civilizations) to coincide with Passover, which is also inextricably linked to Easter, and has a special significance to Jewish Christians (not an oxymoron!).

(*We have the older version of Resurrection Eggs which are currently only $6.99 here or you can make your own.)

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Comments are open so feel free to share your ideas for celebrating Easter or suggest books/movies, websites, etc.