How to make an Easter garden!

Hi there!

Here are the instructions for how to make your very own Easter garden!

1) Fill a container with soil (we used an old painting tray, but a tupperware or earthenware dish would also be great)

Place an empty jam jar on the soil and bury the base to form the start of your tomb...

Cover your tomb in a layer of soil to form a hill...

Cover all the soil with moss (we found some lurking in one of our un-weeded flower beds!)

Ta da!

Find a stone large enough to cover the entrance to the tomb...

We made 3 crosses out of bits of wood (you could use lollypop sticks) and put them on the hill...

 We've put this on the centre of our kitchen table and at breakfast each day we're thinking about what happened in the week leading up to Easter.

In readiness for this weekend, we've made a felt Jesus figure that we will put on the cross on Friday to remember the sacrifice Jesus made for us. We've also prepared a little piece of linen that we have splatted with red paint. On Friday evening before the kids go to bed, we will take the 'body' down from the cross, wrap it in the linen and lie Jesus in the tomb. Then we will roll the stone over the entrance to the tomb and wait for Sunday morning!

I wonder what we'll find when we come down for breakfast on Sunday morning! Hallelujah! He is RISEN (while your kids are asleep, prepare the scene so it's a surprise on Sunday morning...stone rolled away, body gone, linen folded inside tomb)!!!

Have fun!

Kids talk from Sunday!

Hi there!

This is the video of the kids talk from this Sunday's service, complete with the memory verse song for the memory verse for this week...

'God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us! So that in Him we might become the righteousness of God' 2 Corinthians 5v21

I hope you enjoy learning this and chatting through what it means for us in your families this week!

 After the service, a friend mentioned to me that it would have been better if I had used red paint rather than black to avoid any chance of causing offence. I am deeply sorry for any offence I may have caused. I will use red paint if I ever use this illustration again. I hope my thoughtless blunder doesn't take away from the incredible good news of what Jesus has done for us!