The Meaning of
Easter Told with Eggs
An Easter Activity for Pre-School through Elementary Age
Children
You will need:
1 Easter basket
or brown paper lunch bag for holding the eggs
6 plastic
eggs in different colors
The
following objects to fill the eggs: a small cross, a rock, dirt, a flower (silk
or real), and a picture of the child with whom you are doing the activity
Before you begin the
activity:
Place the
flower into the purple egg.
Place a
small amount of dirt into the green egg.
Place the
cross into the orange egg.
Place the
rock into the blue egg.
Leave the
yellow egg empty.
Place the
child’s picture into the pink egg.
Begin the activity
by telling the child that you are going to tell her or him the story of Easter,
but you will need some help. She or he
must help by opening the each egg when you say.
Story: In the beginning, God made the
world. [Open the purple egg.] Everything was good and lovely like this
flower.
But sin came
into this world. [Open the green egg.]
And made the hearts of the people it touched dirty so that they turned away
from God.
But God had
plan. God the Father sent the Son, Jesus,
to this world to turn our hearts back to God.
[Open the orange egg.] Some
people didn’t like what Jesus had to say so they put him on a cross where he
died.
Jesus’
friends took his body down from the cross and buried him in a cave, called a
tomb. [Open the blue egg.] They rolled a huge stone across the opening
of the tomb to close it.
On Sunday
morning, some of Jesus’ friends came to visit his grave. They found the stone had been rolled
away. When they looked inside the tomb,
do you know what they found? [Open the yellow
egg. Allow the child to discover the egg
is empty.] That’s right! The tomb was empty! Jesus rose from the dead!
He wasn’t in
the tomb because he was alive again.
That’s why we celebrate Easter!
And do you know who Jesus did all this for? [Open the pink egg.] That’s right!
Jesus did it all for you! And for
me! For everybody!
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