Star gave us a wonderful lesson for family home evening this week. She taught us that Easter is not just about candy but that we need to remember Jesus and the resurrection. She taught us that we are like baskets and we can fill ourselves up with important things or not important things. Which will we do this Easter week? We were challenged to choose things this week to fill our baskets that will strengthen our testimonies. After our lesson I had an activity for the kids. We went around the neighborhood to find things that we could put in our basket that would remind us of Jesus, His sacrifice for us and the Resurrection. I had scriptures that I read and the kids had to find things that those scriptures talked about.
The kids found a thorny stick that symbolized the crown of thorns, they put 2 sticks together for a cross, a rock for the rock in front of the tomb and a stick that looked dead on one side and then had blossoms on the other that reminded us of the Resurrection.
We were surprised to find when we got home from our walk that we had Been Egged. All around our front yard were plastic eggs filled with goodies. The kids thought that was so cool that we decided to do the same thing for one of our neigbors.
not sure what Ean was thinking but he insisted on this pose :)
Thanks Dave, Trish, Gavin & Gabe! We are so blessed to have you so close and for all you do for us. That was such a fun thing!
1 comments:
I love your FHE, and will save that idea for the future. I am glad you guys liked getting egged. I felt horrible about it after we saw you and you said what you were trying to do for FHE and then you get back and it is all commercial Easter at your door! oh well!
BTW, there should have been 18 eggs so some could still be hidden :)
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