The Resurrection Egg Project

With a little help grom Google, I made some Resurrection Eggs to do with my kids today and then I paraphrased the Easter story from the Bible into a kid friendly version. So I thought I would share it so that others can use it. The girls loved it! I made the eggs and numbered them 1-12, and hid them all over the house and let them hunt for them. Then they took turns opening their eggs as we went through the story. Here is how to do it:

Items needed:

• 12 plastic eggs
• Sharpie Marker

***Number the eggs 1-12 ad place the following item into the numbered egg***

The Eggs

1. A Leaf
2. cotton ball sprayed with pefume
3. a small cracker
4. 3 dimes
5. a small cross ( I made mine out of toothpicks)
6. thorns (i used a broken up toothpick)
7. a leather strip or small dice (either works for this one)
8. a nail
9. a q-tip dipped in vinigar
10. a small peice of cloth
11. a rock
12. leave it empty

****when you have filled and numbered the eggs, print out the following story and hide the eggs around the house. (dont do like I did and forget where you hid them lol)****

***Let the kids find all of the eggs and one by one let them take turns opening each egg as you read the story to them. For example, open egg #1 and read story #1 etc. etc.****

The Story

1. People loved Jesus. He healed them when they were sick or hurting. Every time he healed someone, word spread.  The people began to praise him. Jesus rode on a Donley into Jerusalem. As they entered Jerusalem, the people placed their cloaks and branches from palm trees on the ground for the donkey to walk on. All of the people shouted, as Jesus entered Jerusalem, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” Some people asked “who is this man?” and the others answered, “He is Jesus, a prophet!”

2. Jesus and his disciples went to dinner at the home of Lazarus (someone who Jesus had raised from the dead). Two women named Mary and Martha were there. Martha hurried around serving Jesus, while Mary sat at his feet and washed them with perfume.

3. Jesus’ Disciples got a place ready to have supper with Jesus on the first day of the feast of the unleavened bread. That night, Jesus and his 12 disciples ate supper together. They had bread and wine. Jesus told the disciples that this would be the last time they would have supper together. He said, eat this bread as a symbol of my body and drink this wine as a symbol of my blood.

4. Jesus knew that one of his disciples would betray him. See, there were some people who did not like Jesus. So some soldiers offered, Judas, one of the disciples, 30 silver coins in return for information about Jesus and where he was. So, Judas took the coins and told them where Jesus was so that they could go and arrest Jesus.  Later, after Judas did that, he felt bad and went back to return the coins. But it was too late. They had already found Jesus and arrested him.

5. So the soldiers took Jesus and made him carry his cross. They were going to crucify him by nailing him to the cross that he was carrying.

6. They laughed at Jesus and tried to embarrass him by placing a crown of thorns on his head while they made fun of him, mocking him for saying he was king of the Jews.

7. They stripped him naked and gambled for his clothes. Then they beat him up and whipped him.

8. Then they took Jesus and nailed his hands and feet to the cross and stabbed him in the side. Jesus was bleeding.

9. When Jesus was hanging there on the cross he called out to God. One of the people ran to give Jesus a drink of wine vinegar from a sponge on a stick. Then Jesus called out to God again and then he died. When Jesus died, the whole earth rumbled and tombs where other people were buried split. Many people who had died before went to heaven. This frightened the people who saw, and they said, “Surely, He is the Song of God!!!”

10. They took Jesus’ body down from the cross and wrapped him up in linens with spices.

11. then they took his body to a tomb and laid him in there. Then they rolled a heavy stone in front of the tomb.

12. 3 days after Jesus died, the stone was rolled away and Jesus was not there!! The tomb was EMPTY!! Jesus had risen from the dead and gone to Heaven!!!  Now, because Jesus died on the cross and went to Heaven, we too can go to Heaven! God has forgiven us with Jesus’ blood!!!! 

Would You Like Some Cheese With That Whine???

In my Bible reading this morning, I read Exodus 16-19. If you have never read it before, it is during the time that Moses is taking the Israelites out of Egypt into a better land. This journey is no piece of cake. In fact, in an earlier chapter, they have to cross the Red Sea while being pursued by an Army of Egyptians! I, however, have a BIG problem with the behavior of the Israelites in the last few chapters I read. For one thing, they are so whiny! I mean, I know that crossing the Red Sea is not easy but at least (Thanks to God) they got to cross it on dry land. I mean, if I saw a sea separate into two walls of water with a dry pathway for me to walk across, I would be pretty amazed....and thankful, especially if I was being pursued by an army of Egyptians! So then they get across the Red Sea and everyone is praising God. Then they go a little further into the desert and they become thirsty.....fair enough, right? Well, instead of remembering the miracle they just witnessed, and asking God for some water, they start whining and complaining and telling Moses that he should have left them to die in Egypt......really, people??? So our loving God tells Moses that he hears the people's groaning and then instructs Moses to perform another miracle. After that, the people were happy and praising God....until they became hungry. Groan, whine, groan, whine...."Moses should have left us to die"....and then there is another miracle. Food literally falls from the sky! So, I ask myself, why couldn't these people just see that God was in control and all they needed to do was trust Him and ask for what they needed. And there it hit me. I am the same way! I go through life praising God for all the good in my life. But when one thing goes wrong, I lose faith and begin to whine and groan, just like the Israelites. I forget, during hard times, that God is in control of everything. And if he can rain food from the sky and part the Red Sea, then he can handle the small mishaps in my life as well. Thank you, God, for reminding me of that.

Sick on Zyrtec

I am soooooo sick! I have had this cold/cough thing now for a week. Last night was the first night I took some Zyrtec (prescribed by the doctor) and I think it  made me feel worse. I woke up this morning feeling drunker than a 21 year old birthday girl! I then had to drive Regan to school and by the time I got home I was so drowsy, I could hardly keep my eyes open. I think the Zyrtec made me feel worse than taking nothing at all. At least the past few days I was able to get stuff done, but not today!