Easter Games and Ideas
Posted by Holly Nelson on Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Under: Tip of the Week
Yesterday I told you I was going Easter Basket shopping. I wanted to share with you what I found. I went to the Dollar Tree to kill time before the Christian bookstore opened. And much to my surprise, they had some great Christian baskets stuffers!
Easter Basket Goodies:
Not pictured: Christian themed playing cards~ Go Fish, Bible Memory Match, and Bible Heroes flash cards
The Dollar Tree also had some cute little games that you play around the table with your child . Or the siblings could play together. I love anything that will bring the kids together to play nicely.
Another basket stuffer that I make is a Bible Verse Memory Booklet. I got this idea form a friend of mine. The boys memorize bible verses every week in Sunday School Class. They also put their favorite verses in there to study. It is a spiral index booklet. I printed out a bible verse, taped it to a scrapbook piece of paper, and taped in on the cover of the booklet.
This is the design I used for my older children. I love these booklets because they are easy to carry, put in their church bags, and keep by their bedside.
Homemade Easter Baskets:
Please excuse the dinginess. These are 5 years old and well worn. As I said in yesterdays post, I am not an artist, nor a sewer. I made these baskets out of determination to get them done by Easter that year(3 days!). But the meaning behind it is what makes this special. I put "The Tomb was Empty" on the inside of the baskets. Its cute when they take all of their Easter goodies out and read that.
Here are two baskets stacked on top of each other for a better view of the sides. I painted He has Risen Matt 28:6 on one side, then their name with crosses on the other. I sewed a scarlet cord for the trim to represent Jesus' shed blood for us.
Easter Egg Hunting and Fun:
When I was growing up, we just hid and hunted Easter eggs. Now, it seems there has to be a piece of candy or coins in all the eggs. I think this is cute, but I do not do this often. Instead, I started the other egg traditions with my kids.
~ I put "He has Risen" on a strip of paper and put it in the egg then hide many eggs. Whoever finds the egg with the verse in it wins,
~ Purchase a 25 piece puzzle. Put a few pieces in each egg. Hide them and let them find them. Then when they are done playing, they can do the puzzle.
~ Write a bible verse, One word per piece of paper. Put in eggs and hide. After they find the eggs, have children work together to put the bible verse in order.
~ Non-messy egg race- We get two teams together. Each team puts a plastic egg on a big spoon and races.
~ Resurrection Eggs- We discuss the meanings of each egg. We do not hide these. These are special eggs. Tomorrow I will have a posting with pictures for these.
Easter Basket Goodies:
Bible stories on DVD~ $1.00
Thick coloring books ~ $1.00
Activity pads, from Lifeway Christian Store ~ under $.99
I use these to put in their church bags, when they sit in service with us during the summer.
Not pictured: Christian themed playing cards~ Go Fish, Bible Memory Match, and Bible Heroes flash cards
The Dollar Tree also had some cute little games that you play around the table with your child . Or the siblings could play together. I love anything that will bring the kids together to play nicely.
Tic Tac Toe and Rabbit Race~ each $1.00
Another basket stuffer that I make is a Bible Verse Memory Booklet. I got this idea form a friend of mine. The boys memorize bible verses every week in Sunday School Class. They also put their favorite verses in there to study. It is a spiral index booklet. I printed out a bible verse, taped it to a scrapbook piece of paper, and taped in on the cover of the booklet.
This is the design I used for my older children. I love these booklets because they are easy to carry, put in their church bags, and keep by their bedside.
Homemade Easter Baskets:
Here are two baskets stacked on top of each other for a better view of the sides. I painted He has Risen Matt 28:6 on one side, then their name with crosses on the other. I sewed a scarlet cord for the trim to represent Jesus' shed blood for us.
Easter Egg Hunting and Fun:
When I was growing up, we just hid and hunted Easter eggs. Now, it seems there has to be a piece of candy or coins in all the eggs. I think this is cute, but I do not do this often. Instead, I started the other egg traditions with my kids.
~ I put "He has Risen" on a strip of paper and put it in the egg then hide many eggs. Whoever finds the egg with the verse in it wins,
~ Purchase a 25 piece puzzle. Put a few pieces in each egg. Hide them and let them find them. Then when they are done playing, they can do the puzzle.
~ Write a bible verse, One word per piece of paper. Put in eggs and hide. After they find the eggs, have children work together to put the bible verse in order.
~ Non-messy egg race- We get two teams together. Each team puts a plastic egg on a big spoon and races.
~ Resurrection Eggs- We discuss the meanings of each egg. We do not hide these. These are special eggs. Tomorrow I will have a posting with pictures for these.
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I am a stay-at-home-mom(SAHM) married to the love of my life, Jeff Nelson. We have six wonderful boys. Ryan(13), Seth(11), Ian(8), Noah(5), Luke(4), and Jack (born April 2010). We live in Tennessee on 4 acres. I grew up the first few years of my life on a dairy farm in Missouri and loved country living. I was saved at a young age by the grace of God and shed blood of Jesus during that time of simple country living. That part of my life is very dear to me. God taught me many things as a baby Christian that I can still think about today. Then we moved to Memphis when I was in the 5th grade. I learned to love the city life, too. It was a completely different way of life. My whole family still lives in Missouri, still does a little farming and simple country living. When Jeff, the kids, and I moved from the city to the country, I incorporated my city life with my country background. My mom laughs at me when I cut my grass on my John Deere tractor while drinking my Starbucks Mocha and wearing my fancy sunglasses. And when I am shampooing my carpet in my high-heeled black boots. I just love those boots! But I would love to share about how I got to be the way I am today, The Victoriously Organized Woman! I used to work as a supervisor at bank for years. I had to dress up everyday. After the birth of our second child we decide I should be a SAHM. One of the best decision I've ever made. But I made a bad decision, too. I hardly ever dressed up anymore. I hardly ever wore make-up. After about a year I looked in the mirror and said, "OH MY! Jeff has to come home to this!?!" He is so wonderful he said he liked me that way, "natural". Well , I realized that I didn't. It made me feel bad about myself. I felt disorganized, tired and stressed and a little "rough" looking. I felt I just couldn't get it all done. At this time I was diagnosed with Meniere's Disease. I wasn't able to do certains things. Like mop the floor of my completely hardwood floor home that I was obsessed about keeping clean. The doctor told me I couldn't have salt, caffeine, or stress! "What?! Are you kidding!?" So , then I decided to change my routine,thought pattern, and cooking. I began to get up early, shower and dress, put on make up. Always being ready to leave whenever I needed to. I established routines that helped me eliminate extra cleaning and stresses. I was able to make more time for myself and make more time for my family. And the family had more time for each other. I made more time for God and others. This made me feel better about myself. I am so happy about how this changed my life I want to share it with everyone.
