Easter Fun...the week before

We did all of the traditional Easter activities as well as a few new activities (at least new to us) during the week before Easter. Some were definitely secular, some were more spiritual. I think all were fun.

We did an Easter egg hunt. A friend joined us for this.





We dyed eggs. I found (at the dollar store) cute little wrap arounds/stickers that turned your eggs into bunnies, and the kids had fun dying them and decorating them. Another friend joined us for this.








We made (paper) Easter lilies. (Another idea from the blog We Talk of Christ, We Rejoice in Christ.)




We also made our annual Easter bunny cake. I bake it (in a bunny shaped cake pan) and then the kids get to decorate it. Some years it turns out looking at least kind of like a bunny. This year the girls had two extra friends over and it turned out looking like an abomination. Kidding. It was covered, and I mean covered, with sprinkles, colorful frosting, and sugar crystals. Other than the shape, it didn't resemble a bunny at all. But the point (in my mind) is for the kids to have fun and not to create a masterpiece (as I am not crafty/artistic, it wouldn't look much like a masterpiece even if I was the one to decorate it...) and that goal was accomplished.



And another new addition, from the blog We Talk of Christ, We Rejoice in Christ... how jellybeans teach us of Christ.


We also read several stories about Easter, including
The Easter Story by Carol Heyer (Christian perspective)
In the Garden by Caralyn Buehner (LDS perspective)
The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous (fiction, about Pennsylvania Dutch)
Celebrate Easter with colored eggs, flowers and prayer by Deborah Heiligman (nonfiction about traditions around the world)
Three Days without Light: A Nephite Easter Story by Timothy Robinson (LDS perspective, Book of Mormon)