Teaching Your Children About Easter-Easter Gifts That Aren't Specifically Candy!

Easter is just around the corner and I have been trying to think of how to teach my little 16 month old about Easter in a way that she will be able to somewhat comprehend. Last year when I was teaching a Young Women's class at church, I came across these Resurrection Eggs on Amazon.com. Each egg has an item in it that represents the Saviors life until he was resurrected. I thought it was so darling and so simple for anyone to understand. You can make your own like this one above or purchase one on Amazon to give to a little child or have for Family Home Evening Lessons. They usually come with a little booklet that go through the events as you open each egg. If you are making your own just remember that the last egg is empty to represent the empty tomb and that Christ was resurrected. I can't wait to teach my little girl with these eggs.

*Here are some helpful websites on how to make your own Resurrection Eggs

http://www.mormonshare.com/node/16506
http://www.rainbowcastle.org/resurrectioneggs.html
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article2110.html

Another great idea for teaching your children is with simple flip books or sometimes referred to as Quiet Books in church. You can give these to your children as a gift on Easter Sunday to be looked at during Sacrament meeting. We have a i-Mac computer and they have an amazing program in the i-photo software that you can put together an i-Book. It cost us about 10 dollars to make a little book for our daughter or you can find some great images on Google images that you can compile yourself in a book. Heritage Maker books are also a wonderful way to make one of these books too.

*Make your own Resurrection Quiet Book using this site

http://www.heritagemakers.com/

For your older children you can make an Easter gift basket that includes ways to learn about the savior. This could include anything from a small Framed Picture of the Savior, a picture book about easter, their own set of scriptures if they don't have one yet and scripture marking pencils or scripture mastery stickers and a CTR ring or tie tack in an easter egg. Have fun with it and see what other fun things you can put into it to remind them of the Savior.


Happy Easter Everyone!