easter

Crafts & Activities to Focus on the Meaning of Easter

by Mandi on March 21, 2013

Find More Jesus

People tend to talk about the “true meaning of Christmas” a lot during the holiday season, but it doesn’t seem to be talked about as much during Easter. While we love chocolate and eggs and bunnies, our family tends to separate our spring celebrations from our Easter celebration, but this year I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by morning sickness and life in general, and — I’m sad to say this — Easter hasn’t really even been on my radar too much.

That said, I’d like to find some ways to put the focus back on the Easter story in the coming week, and this year I’m looking forward to do the 8 days of activities from Katie Orr’s Find More Jesus ebook.

If you’re looking for some last-minute ways to celebrate, here are a couple other activities from the archives as well:

DIY Resurrection Eggs & Easter Story Book Printables at lifeyourway.net

DIY Resurrection Eggs & Easter Story Book Printables

8 Days of Easter Advent for Families at lifeyourway.net

8 Days of Easter Advent for Families

How do you celebrate Easter?

Mandi Ehman is the founder and publisher behind Life Your Way and the co-author of All in Good Time, as well as a wife and the homeschooling mom to four beautiful girls. She lives with her family on a little slice of heaven in wild, wonderful West Virginia and loves coffee, chocolate, easy meals, beautiful things and minimalist spaces.

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DIY Resurrection Eggs & Easter Story Book Printables

by Mandi on April 2, 2012

DIY Resurrection Eggs & Easter Story Book Printables at lifeyourway.net

source: Mandi Ehman

One of my favorite ways to share the Easter story with my girls is through a set of Family Life Resurrection Eggs that my mom gave us when our oldest was just a toddler. This set has been well loved, and at this point it has quite a few broken eggs and missing parts, so this year I decided to make a brand new set!

If you’ve never seen resurrection eggs, they look like a simple set of plastic Easter eggs in various colors. But inside each egg is a symbol of the Easter story — a donkey for Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, a die to represent the soldiers casting lots for Jesus’ clothes, etc.

The beauty of the set is that kids get so excited to see what’s in each egg, and it’s truly an interactive and concrete way to talk about things that are hard for them to wrap their minds around otherwise.

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Our Family’s Approach to All Things Easter and Spring-Related

March 22, 2012

People often talk about two types of personalities — rule followers or rule breakers. However, I tend to find myself caught between the two. I’m a nonconformist in many ways: I tend to find most a lot of what’s considered “good etiquette” silly, and there are plenty of rules and laws that I think are [...]

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Easter: More Than Bunnies & Eggs

April 22, 2011

Sometimes I feel like the Easter grinch. You see, I love cute little bunnies and chicks and dying eggs with my girls, and I’m pretty sure there’s no better combination that marshmallows and chocolate. But none of those has a thing to do with the death and resurrection of Jesus. For us, Easter is a [...]

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Simplifying Easter

March 24, 2010

I have the privilege of joining a great team of writers as a regular contributor at Families with Purpose, and this week I’m sharing my thoughts about simplifying Easter: As with any other holiday, it’s easy to get caught up in commercialism at Easter. In any given store across America, you’ll find large pre-packaged Easter [...]

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