Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Resurrection Party



At the encouragement of a dear friend, I hosted my first Resurrection Party today. It wasn't very big or fancy and I really hope more people will be able to come next year, but we had a great time. The culture has influenced holidays so much that I think it is easy to forget what we are celebrating. So, today we celebrated the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the true meaning of Easter. I only did two specific activities and the rest was just free play and visiting. It turned out great. Once our friends were here, we read through the Resurrection Eggs. I found these last year for about $10 at a bookstore in town. The kids LOVED it. I was impressed with their attention span. They all took turns opening the eggs and we talked about the tricky words in the story. Next was snack time. I was going to make a resurrection cake that walked us through Jesus's death and resurrection again, but I could not find a good picture to go off of. I did find the directions for a cross cake though, so I made it instead. It was really easy and tasty!

I decided to make a tomb out of the extra piece and used a R1tz cracker as the rock for the kids to roll away and see that the tomb was empty.

Widdle ate the cracker and now it just looks like a doorway, oh well. We had a great time and really enjoyed the special time with my sister and our friends, the M girls!


2 comments:

Lauren @ Magnify the Lord with Me said...

You are a blogging machine today!!! Your Resurrection party sounds awesome!! I'd love to hear even more about it. Love the ideas you shared. Way to make Easter meaningful for the kids!!

Detra said...

Robin - this is great, I love it!! Our church in Dallas refers to Easter as "Resurrection Sunday". Spent last weekend with Becky and Randy. We had a really good time! Love you all!