Resurrection Bun Kit

I posted our Easter traditions last year.  They are still pretty much the same along with a few others added.  Last year, we made resurrection bun kits to take to neighbors with children so that they could do this activity with a family as well.  This was super easy to put together since I just had to multiply our supplies.  This would also be great to take to a mom with a new baby for her older kids to do, a working mama, etc.  

Just get together your ingredients -- Grands biscuits, 8 marshmallows (one for each biscuit), a stick of butter, and the cinnamon sugar.  Our recipe is here, but I've also seen these made with crescent rolls as well.  

 I also include a copy of the story of the first Easter along with the baking directions.  

You should be able to print these -- I hope!

One thing we've started this year and are liking so far is the jelly bean reward system...

Pink - each new tomorrow ( forgiving others)

Red - the blood Christ gave (sacrifice something) 

Orange - prayers at twilight (attentive behavior at prayer time or Bible story) 

Yellow - God's light (shown through kindness/love/witness) 

Green - the palm's cool shade (good deeds) 

Blue - table manners

Purple - His days of sorrow (repenting)

Black - night rest (go to bed well/good sleep) 

  

 White - Christ's Grace (cannot be earned like the others). Fill jar to top on Easter morning with white jelly beans, covering all of their attempts to "do good."  Great way to visualize an abstract concept for little ones!

Coffee filter eggs and crosses have been the only craft we've pulled off so far -- easy to quickly trace cookie cutters and let the watercoloring begin! We have good intentions to make handprint lilies, this cross (using contact paper), handprint palm branches, and maybe the famous grassy eggs (wait we may have missed the window on this).

And did you know you could bake your eggs!?  Trying this one soon!

And definitely painting our eggs again -- dye stresses me out! :)

I really want to do a glow in the dark egg hunt -- probably need to wait a few years!

And a few sites with great ideas of Easter traditions here, here, here, and here.

Peter said, “Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to the grave, nor did His body see decay. God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact. Exalted to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. 

Acts 2:29-33