103/365 Easter

I know you are thinking, really Easter?  Yes Easter.  It will be here shortly.  Today in my Mom2Mom group we put together baskets for families who are at risk of the parents losing their child to foster care.  We filled the children's baskets with all kinds of goodies.  We also included Jesus eggs (I'll explain later).  With the mom baskets we filled with goodies, hand written encouraging cards, etc.  What a great project? I had a blast. 
Also we talked about great ways of sharing the meaning of Easter with our children.  I going to share those with you now.
-Jesus Egg- Fill Egg with 8 jelly beans (in the following colors) and this note:
Black is for the evil planned that night.
Yellow is for God's Son Who is the Light
Red is for the precious blood that Jesus gave
Green is for the grass that grew by the grave
Orange is for the setting sun as soldiers slept
Pink is for the rising sun as Mary wept
Purple is for rulers who couldn't win
Whit is for the cloth He left within
An egg full of jelly beans; help us tell
A story of love, we know so well
Share the candy:share the joy
Jesus died for each girl and boy!

Resurrection Rolls
1 can of refrigerated crescent rolls
8 large marshmallows
1/4 cup of melted butter
2 tablespoons of cinnamon
2 tablespoons of sugar
Dough=the tomb
Marshmallow=body of Christ
Dip marshmallow in melted butter and roll in the sugar/cinnamon mixture=oils and spices on Christ's body
Put marshmallow on the dough and wrap it around the marshmallow.  Make sure all seams are pinched together well.
Place rolls on baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray and bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees.
Let them cool.  Break open the tomb and see the body of Christ is no longer there.

Empty Egg
Tell your child that you have the best gift ever.  It is worth more money than anything.  It is more valuable than you can imagine.  Hand them the egg.  Let them guess what's inside.  Whatever their answer is tell them that it's better than that.  Have them open the egg.  Ask what is inside.  They'll say nothing.  You tell them, "Oh my that's the best.  It shows that Jesus body is not in the tomb.  That He loved you enough to die for you. That is the best gift ever."