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This is a fun way to explore the true Easter story with your kids or students!
All you need is some pop-open Easter eggs, a carton, the attached free pdf below, and (optional) some simple materials found around your home to help this incredible true story be presented in a hands-on activity for your kids.
Each egg will contain a symbol of something that can be found around your home, representing an event in Jesus’ death and resurrection.
There is a list of suggestions and ideas for items that can be inserted into each of the eggs. This free PDF list can be downloaded in the package below.
Alternatively, there are some beautiful and realistic picture print-outs to cut and insert instead, if you’d rather not do a scavenger hunt to find everything from around your home!
Scripture:
There are 12 scripture passages from the gospels that can be cut and inserted into their corresponding eggs. For this free package version, all scriptures are in New International Version.
Use a 12-egg sized egg carton to enclose all these resurrection story eggs, and if desired, you can use one of the 2 label options in the free download package below to cut and glue or tape to the top of the egg carton.
We secured ours with 2 large elastics to help store it for next year without it accidentally opening and losing all the eggs!
Here are a few ideas of how to use this Resurrection Egg Activity with your kids this Easter:
- Hide all the eggs (pre-filled and with numbers written on the outside) and get the kids to find them in or outside your home. When the eggs are all found, have them put the eggs into an egg carton in numerical order. Have the kids take turns opening the eggs in order, reading the scripture and discussing the object inside and what it represents within the story.
- During your Easter celebration gathering (like during a meal), each of the eggs are handed out (pre-filled and with numbers written on the outside) around the table. To begin, the person who has Egg #1 will open theirs, show the object or image inside, and then read the scripture verse. Then whoever has Egg #2 will do the same, and then continue until all the eggs have been opened and scriptures read.
- Have a Scavenger hunt around your home to find either the tangible items needed (ideas listed below), or some printed & cut images from the free PDF below that have been hidden. Once the kids have returned with their “loot”, have them take turns opening the eggs in order and reading the scripture printout that has been concealed inside. Then they can discuss which of the printed images that they found matches the scripture and then put it inside the egg.
Supplies Needed:
- 12 Easter Eggs, pop open/plastic
- Egg carton -Cartons with closable lids are nice for the free label (below) and saving it for next year!
- Scissors
- Tape or Gluestick
- Permanent marker
- Resurrection Eggs: Free PDF Download Package Containing:
- Resurrection Eggs: Image Inserts
- Resurrection Eggs: Egg Insert Ideas
- Resurrection Eggs: Scripture Readings (NIV)
- Egg Carton Labels
Download Resurrection Eggs: Free PDF Package —–HERE
Directions:
- Choose 1 of the three activity ideas listed above for how to use these resurrection eggs.
- Print the Free PDFs listed above.
- Either use the egg insert ideas or cut out images from the PDF download file for each egg.
- With a permanent marker: number each egg from 1-12 and number the bottom of the egg carton pockets.
- Cut out the scripture boxes and fold or roll up to put inside each egg (match the egg numbers to applicable verses)
- Choose one of the egg carton labels, cut and glue or tape it to the top of your egg carton.
Highlights of the Easter Story that are used in this activity: (Each of these egg insert suggestions are also written on a PDF that can be downloaded in the package above)
Egg #1: The Triumphal Entry (Mark 11:7-9)
Egg insert suggestions:
- Small leaf (like a bay leaf)
- Cut out a mini palm branch from green paper
- Little toy donkey
- “Donkey” & “palm branch” image (free download above)
Egg #2: Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus (Matthew 26:14-16)
Egg insert suggestions:
- 3 small coins –we use 3 dimes (30 cents) to represent 30 pieces of silver
- “Silver coins” image
Egg #3: The Last Supper (Matthew 26:26-28)
Egg insert suggestions:
- Cracker
- Mini Communion Cup
- Mini play food from toys (legos, barbiedoll, playmobile, etc)
- Passover “Matzo Bread” & “cup” image
Egg #4: Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-39)
Egg insert suggestions:
- Dried or real flowers, herbs, etc
- Mini toy flowers or trees
- “Olive Tree” image
Egg #5: Jesus Arrested and Beaten (John 18:2-3, John 19:1-3)
Egg insert suggestions:
- 3 short strings about 2″ long, tied at one end to represent a “whip”
- A few short thorny twigs (rosebush, raspberry bush, etc)
- “Crown of thorns” image
Egg #6: Jesus Crucified on a Cross (Luke 23:33-34)
Egg insert suggestions:
- 3 Nails (small enough to fit inside the egg)
- Cross (cut from brown paper, or make one from sticks, tape or glue together)
- “Nails” and “cross” image
Egg #7: Soldiers Gambled for Jesus’ Clothing (John 19:23-24)
Egg insert suggestions:
- Dice
- “Dice” image
Egg #8: Jesus Gave up His Spirit (John 19:28-30)
Egg insert suggestions:
- Piece of a sponge on a toothpick
- “sponge” image
Egg #9: Jesus’ Body Wrapped in a White Linen & Laid in a Tomb (Mark 15:42-46)
Egg insert suggestions:
- White cotton cloth
- Small rock
- “White linen cloth” image
Egg #10: Women Came with Spices (Mark 16:1-3)
Egg insert suggestions:
- Spices: Peppercorns, Cloves, Star anise, Cardamom, etc (Biblically it was “myrrh” resin and “aloes” -like sandalwood- used to anoint Jesus’ body for burial)
- Small toy bottle or mini container of liquid
- “Pottery” image
Egg #11: The Tomb is Empty, He is Risen! (Luke 24:2-8)
Egg insert suggestions:
- (no physical item suggestion, it’s an EMPTY EGG representing the EMPTY TOMB!)
- “Empty Tomb” image (provided if you would like something inside each egg)
Egg #12: The Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:19-20)
Egg insert suggestions:
- Cotton ball representing the clouds
- “Jesus going up into heaven” image
Enjoy this Easter Activity?
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