Simple Easter Celebrations to do at Home
With Easter around the corner and so many of us "at home," I have been praying for ways to encourage my mommy friends. This Easter will look different. Our hearts may ache for worship with our church body and that big Easter dinner at grandma's house. But this is the childhood our children will remember and this may be the year they remember most! My prayer is that I would be intentional as I teach my children the reason we celebrate. So in this post, are a few simple ways our family has celebrated, created traditions, and focused on the Gospel during Holy Week. I hope you will get ideas and find inspiration to dig into God's Word with your little ones. At the same time, lets-not-add-more-to-our-plates if we are feeling overwhelmed and frustrated. Let's keep it simple. Peaceful. Joyful. Christ-centered. Knowing that we plant seeds, but only the Holy Spirit changes hearts!
Brownie mixes are great for so many things (simple!), including Easter. Stir up your favorite mix, bake, cool, cut into the shape of a cross, cover with frosting or powdered sugar, and it's a great dessert for Good Friday or Resurrections Sunday!
Stir up a batch of salt dough (1 cup salt, 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup water) and create a tomb and stone. Share with your children that after Jesus was crucified, they placed him in a tomb. It couldn't hold him! Death couldn't hold him!
Go on a nature walk "in your backyard" and find sticks to glue together in the shape of crosses.
Print free Easter coloring pages on wax paper. Use a cotton ball to dab oil on them, and put in a bright window for everyone to enjoy!
Get a log or piece of wood, some nails, a hammer, scrap paper, and a candle. Our family each chose to write down ( littles can draw a picture) a sin that we've asked forgiveness for. Each family member hammers their sin to the wood (symbolizing the cross) and we melt the wax (doesn't have to be the color red if you don't have it on hand) on the nails to represent Jesus' blood covering our sin. "He himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; "by his wounds, you have been healed." ~ 1 Peter 2:24
Here is a link to print pictures of Jesus on the cross. Paint or color with whatever you have on hand.
For a simple Passover or Good Friday meal, set your table "extra special," grab some candles, a Bible, storybook Bible, crackers (or make unleavened bread for fun!), grape juice, and whatever else would make your family know it is a special evening. Read Luke 22 (The Last Supper) and spend time in praise and worship together!
Take a whiteboard, chalkboard, or poster board (sorry the pictures isn't the best) and go through the Bible each day of Holy Week. Study what Jesus was doing, how his disciples were reacting, ask "what are WE learning", and "how can we apply it to our lives", in our homes, today? Children and adults. Let's dig deep into God's Word with our children, sing together, worship, draw pictures, make a prayer journal, collect flowers, look at the stars God made in the night sky, and ask the Holy Spirit to give us special ways to celebrate the Gospel this year. At home, in "our little churches". Jesus hasn't changed and will meet us right where we are!
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| We have so many favorite Easter books: The Jesus Storybook Bible, Benjamin's Box, Little Dove & The Story of Easter, Humphrey's 1st Palm Sunday, The First Easter, and The Arch book series on Holy Week, The Parable of the Lilly, Amon's Adventure: A family story for Easter. |
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." ~ John 3:16&17
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