Happy Easter

I hope everyone had as Happy an Easter as we did! We started off by going to church and afterwards had an egg hunt at church.


We got a couple pictures all dressed up. I am so using this for my#3 of 52 weeks post for Forever In Blue Jeans because let's face it, it takes work to get a picture of mommy each week. And yes, my kiddos are going to be horror stricken when they are grown and look back at pictures from Easters past because yes indeed that is in fact a boobie about to pop out of the dress (of course daddy didn't tell mommy, because he liked it too much!).

After church Granny, Papa, Aunt Britt, and Cody came over. We dyed Eggs, went on an egg hunt (the kiddos even got a chance to hide the eggs once), played the fun games from the Easter Basket, and had a wonderful dinner!

In our baskets we got a new Bible to share, a set of 4 mommy made bean bags, and mommy a made game, and 5 eggs with some candy.

The games are from and idea inspired from Mind Games. I took a shower curtain liner ($2) and cut it in half. Then I traced circles with a bowl (just bigger than a cd). For Aidman's I wrote an alphabet letter in each, there were 55 circles so upper and lower of each plus extra lower of a, e, i. For Lyssy's I wrote a number in each, 0-9. This game can be played like twister, or with bean bags tossed on the letters/numbers, or my jumping on them. I like it because the difficulty can be increased with the progress of the child. Right now we are working on recognition, later we can use it to spell words or do addition/subtraction/multiplication (actually, today Aidman tossed a bean bag on each letter of his name in order, so he's already using it for spelling).

Jesus is Alive!!

Today I went to Chapel with Aidman at his Preschool. They sang Alive Alive Alive Forevermore, it is now stuck in my head! It is a GREAT song to have stuck in your head, singing it makes me feel happy and joyful! Jesus is ALIVE!

Aidman came home with some GREAT projects this week and I just had to share. Above is a cross made of Popsicle sticks and a half of a foam ball. He painted each and added flowers and a purple cloth. I think it is so pretty and will use it as our table centerpiece on Easter.

This is a Jelly Bean with jelly bean sponge painting on it. In the corner is a paper that says...

Jelly Beans for Jesus

Red is the blood He gave

Green is for the grass He made

Yellow is for the sun so bright

Orange is for the edge of night

Black is for the sins that were made

White is for the grace He gave

Purple is for the hour of sorrow

Pink is for the new tomorrow

He also made a basket with eggs and grass in it. It says...

The Legend of the Easter Egg

On Easter Sunday,

Christians celebrate Christ's resurrection.

The egg, an ancient symbol of new life,

has become for Christians

a symbol of the resurrection.

Through the gift of Easter eggs,

Christians remind each other

that through Christ's resurrection,

they too will conquer death

and receive the gift of eternal life.

Easter Story and Craft

Like everyone else in the US, we've been talking about Easter this week. In our house we leave the Easter Bunny out of Easter and focus on talking about what Jesus did for us.

Today we read The Story of Easter by Patricia A Pingry. The kids really like this simple book and I really like how it explains why churches have crosses.

Then we did our Resurrection Eggs. If you don't have them, GO GET THEM! We LOVE this and the kids want to do it over and over again. They do a wonderful job of telling the Easter story for young children.

Then we made these Beautiful crosses. Thank you to Teaching Two for this wonderful project idea! I took 1/2 of a black construction paper and cut a cross into the middle. Then we placed it on contact paper, and the kiddos added tissue paper squares, and we covered the other side with more contact paper. The end result is just beautiful!!!

Eggcellent Eggs!

This afternoon was all about the egg! First we went outside to see what would happen when you drop raw and hard boiled eggs.

Aidman's raw egg cracked.

Lyssy's hard boiled egg actually bounced, the pictured captured it bouncing.

Then we dropped a raw egg on a pillow and talked about why it didn't crack.

Then we all wrapped the eggs in Soft toilet paper to see if it would crack. They all did, but AB wrapped the most tp around hers and it did not crack much.

Then the kiddos thought it would be funny to crack their hard boiled eggs on their heads for snack.

After that yummy egg snack we went inside to play with the egg activities that mama put in the table top games.

Aidman matched the upper case to the lower case letters.

All the kiddos REALLY loved this spooning activity. I got this idea from My Montessori Journey.

AB and Lyssy matched the correct color eggs.

AB started stacking her eggs and called it a "castle".

Then the kiddos laced eggs. I cut and egg shape out of a cereal box and punched holes in it. They used a plastic blue needle with ribbon to lace.

It was an Eggcellent Afternoon!