How do you teach a small child about the significance of the Resurrection? This year, the Laurie family has been using a wonderful resource from our Harvest Bookstore called Resurrection Eggs. You can watch the story of Jesus’ last week on earth come to life in little hands and minds.

Each colorful egg holds a different memory-grabbing object to take the Savior’s  journey to the cross and the empty tomb right into your little one’s heart. The items include 11 unique objects, everything from a little donkey to silver coins, to a crown of thorns.

We purchased our set and decorated the plastic shells with colorful and easy stick-on trims, flowers, and butterfly decorations purchased from the craft store. It was much less messy than the time-consuming method of dying real eggs with food coloring! Rylie, Stella, and Lucy found them utterly captivating.

You can use these from home to classroom to a neighborhood hunt. I found the accompanying booklet a simply wonderful guide. In addition to providing the Bible reference, they give you some questions to engage a child’s imagination.

For example, the booklet suggests that you might ask your child, when they open the light green egg that contained a die, "Have you ever played a game using dice? Games are supposed to be fun, but what the soldiers were doing was mean and cruel.  While Jesus was dying on the cross, they played a game to decide who would take His clothes! Jesus knew what the soldiers were doing, but He did not show anger. He chose to die for their sins too. That is why He prayed for them while they were playing their mean game. He prayed, ‘Father forgive them. They don’t know what they are doing’ (Luke 23:34 NirV)."

I can’t tell you how many times we have used these eggs already to teach our grandchildren about Easter week, and perhaps the greatest testimony I could give you is my own. As I went through each item and read the scriptures, I found myself worshipping, once again, the Lord Jesus who came to take upon Himself the wrath of God so that I could be His child.

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