Easter Season is around the corner with Ash Wednesday this week!!!
for my family and CCD class. Call me lazy because you could surely make these yourself, but I liked having them done for me instead of searching for the pieces for inside the eggs…. Plus the resource book included came in useful. This gave me more time to create a hands-on printable to share with you…I also have a copy of Benjamin’s Box: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs
. The story is great and matches the eggs perfectly. It is nicely illustrated and each page tells a story to match the item in the egg. The kids seem to enjoy the story and hearing it from the point of view of a little boy. I highly recommend getting this book to compliment the eggs.I hid the eggs around my house and told my kids to find them but not open them. Once we had all 12 eggs we took turns reading a page from the book and opening the egg that went along with the page.
We then made our own Resurrection Eggs (based off of the ideas found on Just Call Me Jamin’s Resurrection Lapbook) at so that we could retell the stories on our own and recall how Jesus died for us and then rose from the dead. I made my own printable to match JCMJ’s! The printable has an egg you open and inside the egg you glue a part of the story and a symbol from the egg. My kiddos had fun coloring the eggs and then gluing the pieces onto the file folder. I also plan to do this activity is pieces with my Third Grade CCD (Faith Formation) class over the next few Sundays.
around the room and picked four kids to go on a hunt for them. Once they found both eggs they got to open the eggs and tell us what was inside the egg. We then read the first two stories from Benjamin’s Box: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs. Each week I will pick four kids to hunt for the next two eggs. Slowly we will work on parts of the book so that they will each have their own book to share with their families.
For more resources, Catholic Icing is such a great blog and it has many examples of Resurrection Eggs found around the web. You also should print out her Lent Calendar for kiddos. It is great. I have one on my refrigerator and gave one to each of my CCD kids. Be sure to look at her Easter cookies too! What a wonderful happy resource. It surely is built with love!!!
Here’s a little book to use with the eggs. It has all the 12 eggs and details inside it. Click here to download the mini book! Just print it and have your students cut the pages and staple in order… You may want to later play Resurrection Bingo.
I bought the cutest Holy Week Clipart from Charlotte’s Clips. I have been having fun using it to make these activity sheets. My daughter loves doing the activities and coloring the pictures! We will be at the Easter Vigil tonight and she will be completing on there.
Thank you for sharing this with everyone! I wanted you to know that I changed it up a little bit and made it a little more simple. I wrote out direcctions and have some pictures but they won't attach.
Directions Paper Resurrection Eggs
1. Have students color the design eggs.
2. Cut out the design eggs and arrange in three rows number order.
3. Cut out eggs with words on them. It is not important to cut on the line at all but you need to keep the numbers on.
4. Match these to the colored eggs and paste with glue stick UPSIDE DOWN on the back.
5. Arrange the eggs with the words glued on the back in number order in three rows on a sheet of card stock. Glue or tape only the very top tip of each egg.
6. Cut out the 12 pictures and glue on the card stock under each corresponding egg.
7. (optional) color and glue “These Resurrection Eggs Belong to” and the scriptures on the back. You will need to cut these out so that they fit.
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thank you so much God bless I got more ideas than I wanted
Glad it helped!
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They are the best!
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I was looking for ideas for a lesson plan and how to incorporate Christian teaching to my daycare children and came across this. This is awesome! Thank for the links to purchase the items I need for this lesson. This was such a big help!
Thank you for this great resource. May I have permission to feature this free resource in our next magazine edition?
Amazing!
They really are Peggy! My third grade class totally is into it and my own Children love the tradition of hiding the eggs, finding them, and reading the story together.
I donated these to my church. They are a wonderful tool for teaching the story of easter.
awesome! this will be perfect Easter morning. THX!
My older kiddos are a little tired of doing the same resurrection eggs year after year. I love this idea of letting them make their own! Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this! I can't wait to do this with my kids this weekend. We've always used the eggs, but this is another whole dimension.
peace and blessings, Lisa
Thanks so much for sharing this!
I have never heard of it before.
Kerri
I can use the paper resurrection eggs to review the eggs we already opened. I do the eggs in steps and stages with the preschoolers. The paper resurrection eggs will be helpful! Thanks for the idea!
I've had the Resurrection Eggs and Benjamin's Box for a few years. I love the printable. I can't wait to use the idea. I like to make Resurrection Rolls too.