Treasuring children at Easter
Jesus died to show he loves us and to offer us the invaluable gift of everlasting life. Take time at Easter to help your children feel loved and treasured.
One way I did this was with a treasure hunt for each of my children. Each one had an individual hunt with clues and little treasures s they found the next clue. As my children grew they helped create clues for a sibling to help me out (5 children is a lot). For the little ones we printed pictures and cut them into jigsaw puzzles. For older ones, we wrote rhymes and coded clues. We gave them each the first clue with a comment that he or she could chose to follow it or not as a reminder that God also gives them a choice to follow him or not.
Another firend hs ‘goody eggs’ where they let each one write on slips of paper positive words or comments about a person and then slip it into that person’s plastic egg. At Easter, each one opens his or her egg and reads all the loving words from family members.
We also like to share our love with others (Jesus wants us to do this). One year our children dressed in costumes (butterfly, caterpillar, bunny, and other spring creatures) and we went to a nursing home where we gave out party favors to all the residents.
What are ways at Easter you show you love one another as Jesus asked us to do?
Increasing in Him,
Karen
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