Teaching Heart Blog

Wow, Lent is going quickly.  The last week before Easter is here, Holy Week.  I thought I would take some time to share some of my favorite resources for this time of year.  I know many of you are parents and your kiddos are on Spring Break.  Perhaps something you see here you can use this week to make Holy Week the focus in your home.

First off are Ressurection Eggs.  Do you have these?  You can make your own with dollar store eggs and an empty Egg Carton.  I love these resurrection eggs from JOYfilled Family!

The store bought ones are what I use.  I use them at home during Holy Week.  I hide two a day and then we discuss what is inside of the eggs.  I use the story Benjamin’s Box: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs. with the eggs.  We read the part of the story that goes along with the two eggs for the day.  I love this book.  I do something similar with my third grade CCD class.  We do it over the Sunday’s in Lent.

I have shared the printables in the past to make paper Resuurection Eggs for a Lap Book.  Once completed the child can use the book to retell the story of the Death and Ressurection of Jesus.  If you are interested in making this, click here to get the printables. 

I also created a BINGO game to use with my family and CCD class after we have opened all the eggs.