Easter Garden

This year, I wanted to do something special for Easter to help Jack and Kate understand the meaning behind the celebration. A facebook friend had a link to an Easter Garden (http://www.colleenhammond.com/family-life/craft-easter-garden/) and I knew right away that this would be something the kids would be able to participate in. We walked around outside and gathered up our materials, then set to work on making our very own Easter garden. All the while, I was explaining bits and pieces of the Easter story. Kate was a little young for this (although she LOVED filling up the pot with gravel and dirt), but Jack asked lots of questions and I think he is starting to understand. Here is a picture of our garden.

Jack decided that we were missing Jesus in the tomb (since it isn't Easter morning yet, he should still be in there). So we found a wooden peg doll and wrapped it up in strips of cloth and laid him in the tomb. And then we rolled the stone in front of the opening. Ideally, this would have been done on Good Friday, but Jack was insistent that our tomb contain Jesus. So our pretend Jesus will be in the tomb for 10 days instead of 3 :) On Easter morning, we are going to roll the tomb back and Jesus will not be there . . .


As we were getting ready for rest time, Jack asked me how Jesus is going to get out of the tomb without rolling back the stone. While I was trying to think of the answer he asked "Does the Easter Bunny help him?"

Oh well. . . we were so close!