Easter egg hunts, jelly beans and chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. These are some of my children's favorite Easter traditions. We also have traditions that focus on the religious symbolism of the holiday. When McKaila and Hunter were younger, I found a list of scriptures that give a day by day account of what the Savior did on the week preceeding His resurrection. To make it fun for them, I wrote the scriptures on small pieces of paper and hid them inside colored, plastic Easter eggs. I have a small white basket that we use for these eggs each Easter and each morning we read the scriptures from the egg that is color-coded to that day of the week. We use pictures from the Gospel Art Kit to tell the story of the scriptures as we read. This helps keep the younger kids' attention. This is how we often reconcile scripture study with teenagers and babies!
More recently, we've begun to have a Passover-like dinner on the Thursday evening before Easter. We prepared our own dinner three years ago. I did a little research on-line to help me through it and it was a really great experience. For the past two years, we have attended a dinner hosted by our good friends, the Osbornes. Here is a picture of the Seder Plate from our dinner this year. There is always a lot of meaning in the symbols of both Easter and the Passover. It's nice to take the week before Easter and especially the evening commemorating Christ's Atonement to reflect on the symbols, both ancient and modern, of my favorite holiday of the year: Resurrection morning.
Easter egg hunts, jelly beans and chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. These are some of my children's favorite Easter traditions. We also have traditions that focus on the religious symbolism of the holiday. When McKaila and Hunter were younger, I found a list of scriptures that give a day by day account of what the Savior did on the week preceeding His resurrection. To make it fun for them, I wrote the scriptures on small pieces of paper and hid them inside colored, plastic Easter eggs. I have a small white basket that we use for these eggs each Easter and each morning we read the scriptures from the egg that is color-coded to that day of the week. We use pictures from the Gospel Art Kit to tell the story of the scriptures as we read. This helps keep the younger kids' attention. This is how we often reconcile scripture study with teenagers and babies!
More recently, we've begun to have a Passover-like dinner on the Thursday evening before Easter. We prepared our own dinner three years ago. I did a little research on-line to help me through it and it was a really great experience. For the past two years, we have attended a dinner hosted by our good friends, the Osbornes. Here is a picture of the Seder Plate from our dinner this year. There is always a lot of meaning in the symbols of both Easter and the Passover. It's nice to take the week before Easter and especially the evening commemorating Christ's Atonement to reflect on the symbols, both ancient and modern, of my favorite holiday of the year: Resurrection morning.
That's really neat Pam! Thanks for sharing that.
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