Just a simple set of brightly colored eggs. Right?
At first glance, yes.
Kind of like Easter.
Bunnies, chicks, jelly beans, eggs, the list goes on and on. Yet there’s so much more beneath the surface. Oh how important it is to teach our children what really happened and what we are really celebrating. We personally have no problem with all of the cute stuff {except the easter bunny-we don’t do him at all}, but it is in the shadows of our real learning and celebrating during this season.
We began our family study of the Resurrection Eggs this past Sunday night. To say the kids were excited and interested would be a complete understatement. They were captivated, even Ladybug! It was one of our best family nights ever…for that alone I am so thankful!
I read the story from our Miss Patty book {The Story of the Resurrection Eggs in Rhyme & Song}. We explored each egg and named the item. As we got to each egg, one child had to find the egg {but not open it}, shake it, then pass it on down the line to let everyone shake it {yes, we even waited for Ladybug each time to figure out how to shake them}. The final child opened the egg and we all ooohed and ahhed.
After going through the eggs we worked through the set of printables I made for our kids, one page at a time. I laminated ours and added velcro for the word eggs. I hooked them all together in order with a metal ring. We went through them, finding the items again and just spent time exploring freely and learning just a bit about them.
Each weekday Daddy is using the booklet that comes with the set of eggs to teach the kids through the Bible, about the eggs. He is reading the passages from our NIV Bible and then explaining it in a way they can understand. We are doing one egg each morning.
Next week we will have part 2, as we explore the eggs together in a hands on way.
~ my camera battery died, which is why there is only one photo, and also why I don’t have any photos of our completed set of printables. I hope to find my charger soon {yes, it’s lost, I am miserable} and snap a pic of our set to show you.
Resources used this week:
- Resurrection Eggs
- Resurrection Eggs Printables
- Bible Memory Verses (we are still adding a new verse a week during our school week)
- Songs for Saplings CD
Visit theRaising Rock Stars Webpage to download your own notebook pages and to see links to previous Rock Stars posts!