Sharing the Easter Message

Are you looking for a meaningful way to share the Easter message with your kiddo?  Do you need help teaching your child about a the crucifixion and resurrection?

If you answer yes to any of those questions then I am so excited to introduce you to a new book from my friend Amanda. I got to know Amanda while participating in Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Blitz in New York City.  Amanda has an amazing way of sharing the word of God with kids. Seriously, if don’t already you need to follow her blog, Oh Amanda. 

 

Her new ebook A Sense of the Resurrection was released today! 

 

Here’s what you’ll find in it:

12 activities to do prior to Easter. Each activity includes:

• sense(s) you’ll use
• scripture
• an activity
• the talk
• and more (optional printable flag).

So, that breaks down to about 3 activities a week if you start now!

 

My Thoughts

I’m really excited to dig into this resource.  Not only are the activities simple, but I love the idea of using our senses to learn about the death and resurrection of Christ.  I’ll keep you posted as we use it.

 

Get A Sense of the Resurrection Now

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The Meaning of Easter with Phil Vischer

Great news!  What’s in the Bible has created a powerful 11-minute video to help explain the meaning of Easter using scenes from Vol. 10 and its FREE!  Check it out below and then SHARE it!

The also have a GREAT DEAL going on.  You can get $5 off your purchase of their latest bundle of Volume 10 "Jesus Is The Good News!" and My Jesus Journal (the print version).  Use coupon code MJJ5. Expires 4/1/13.

More about My Jesus Journal

My Jesus Journal is designed to guide your family into a richer understanding of who we are, what Jesus did for us, and how we are to live in light of the truths of the Gospel.

Even though My Jesus Journal wasn’t specifically created for Easter, my family is planning to use the tips they provided throughout the book to use it now during the Lent and Easter season.

What You Do:

• As a family-  you’ll build a mustard tree, with the resources provided, to record the ways you are seeing God work in your lives.
• Each kiddo – will learn about Jesus and learn to know Him through individual activities in their very own My Jesus Journal.

What It includes:

• Instructions to make and use your Mustard Tree
• Family Activity List (use to fill in your Mustard Tree)
• Instructions for each child to make their own My Jesus Journal
• Activities for My Jesus Journal, broken down into 3 sections  (Who Am I? Who is Jesus? How do we live because of Jesus?)
• Remembering the Cross Family Activity
• Additional Family Activities
• Online Access to videos and additional resources

When To Use It:

• It can be used anytime your family wants to spend time learning more about Christ and who He is. 
• You could also use it if your children have questions about Jesus, or when they make the decision to follow Christ.
• And as I mentioned above it provides a sample schedule of how you can use it the weeks leading up to Easter.

After reading through it these are the things I think I’m going to love about using What’s in the Bible? – My Jesus Journal:

1. I’m know my son is going to love making his own My Jesus Journal and completing the activities it provides. Although, he may be a little young for some.
2. I love the online videos they provided and I know it will be a great resource to help illustrate and reinforce the lesson of the day.
3. And lastly, I love that everything is provided for me, making it easy for me to just enjoy being together as a family learning about Jesus.

We are really looking forward into digging into this resource, especially since our son has been asking a lot of questions about Jesus.  I’ll let you all know how it goes and my final thoughts when we finish it.

2 Teaching Mommies Review Disclosure: The featured product for this review was provided to me, at no cost, by What's in the Bible?  All opinions expressed are my own. I am an affiliate, so if you purchase anything through an affiliate link, you give back a percentage to our family…thanks!

Easter Symbols Kindergarten Extension Pack

I have another extension pack ready for you! We would love to hear what you think and if you blog about it, please share!  It is so much fun to see how others have used our printables.

Easter Symbols K Pack DOWNLOAD ALL

Here’s a closer look at inside this Kindergarten Extension Pack: (Future packs will include more printables.)

Jelly Bean Addition and Subtraction	100 Chart Art
Tracing Strips	Skip Counting Order Puzzles
Graph, Predict and Analyze	Graph, Predict and Analyze

Products We Use with Our Units

Looking for more ideas?

• 12 Days of Easter (Resurrection Egg Activities)
• Preschool and Tot Activities
• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Easter Center Ideas
• Book Suggestions

There are also more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on our Pinterest Board! We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided.

 

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Easter Books

Easter is just around the corner! We are in the process of creating some fun kindergarten extension themed printables to go with our preschool pack, but to get you started we found some books that are perfect for the Easter season.

If you have any Easter book suggestions that aren’t listed, please leave a comment below. The more choices the better! Thanks.

Easter Symbols {Expanded}

Easter is just around the corner, so have fun exploring its symbols with your kiddo(s) with our Free Easter Symbols Preschool Unit! 

All our printables are in one easy download. Just click the image above to download a single zip file of all the printables. (Can’t unzip it. Try Hamster Free Zip Archiver approved by Amber’s husband. Remember to download carefully.)

You will need to be able to view pop-ups to download the unit, as it will appear in a pop up window from our site! Last year’s printables are also included in this download.

Here are some of the printables that MAY BE included in this unit:

• Jelly Bean Observations
• Jelly Bean Graphing
• How Many Jelly Beans?
• Patterns (ABAB and AABB)
• Roll & Graph
• Letter Sort
• Writing Maze
• Beginning Writing/Cutting Practice
• Size Sort
• Number Order Puzzle (1-10 and 11-20)
• Spelling Book
• Count & Clip
   

Tot Pack
Looking for some ideas for a younger tot? Check out the Easter Tot Pack. from 1+1+1=1. 

Looking for more ideas?

• K Extension Pack
• 12 Days of Easter (Resurrection Egg Activities)
• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Easter Books 
• Easter Center Ideas

There are also more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on our Pinterest Board!

We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided. 

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Easter Center Ideas

This week we are expanding our Easter Theme printables. 

The last two days we’ve focused on the Resurrection.  Today and tomorrow will be ideas for Easter Symbols.  To get you started, I’ve found some fabulous ideas that can be use in independent centers, plus a free printable. 

Fine Motor

My Montessori Journey has wonderful Easter based activities that will help your child work on their fine motor and practical life skills.  Swing by the website to be inspired.

Easter Theme Fine Motor Activities

Stamping

Work on letter recognition with our Stamping Strips.  To do this activity you will need uppercase or lowercase stamps and an ink pad.

Stamping Strips: Easter

Play-Dough

Putti Prapancha has a fun way for creating Easter eggs using play-dough, beads and sequins.  To keep your kiddos engaged longer, provide a few Easter cookie cutters.

Playdoh Easter Eggs with Beads and Sequins

Hope you have fun.

The 12 Days of Easter

Last year we posted about the 12 Days of Easter.  We used our Resurrection Eggs and made 12 lessons to correspond with each of the eggs to help teach our kiddos about the meaning of Easter. 

We thought it might be nice to get the 12 Days of Easter unit in your hands early so if you want to go through it with your kids, you will have it to plan.

We went ahead and put it all in a single download!  Here is what you’ll find in this download:

• 12 Days of Easter Plans-You can print them off front and back to save paper, that is why they are in the order they are!   Print them off and cut the pages in half and you will have a handy guide for your lessons! 
• Printable activities for each day
• Activity Suggestions
• A page of helpful links for some of the activities

We hope that having this in one download will help you all out!

Wondering if this series is for you?  Check out this post to help you with your decision!  

Don’t have Resurrection Eggs?

• You can buy them on Amazon.  You can also download these Printable Resurrection Eggs (scroll to the bottom) from Lapbook Lessons.

• If you are in need of a good Children’s Bible for this series, here are the ones that we recommend and use. (Note: You will need Vol 1 & 2 of the Read and Share Bible)

We hope you have a blessed Easter season!

Day 12- Empty

You’ll use this lesson on Easter. You’ll be using the twelfth resurrection egg, which is orange (color may vary) and will be empty. 

Before you do the lesson we recommend that you read a short segment about the Garden of Gethsemane. We will be using The Beginner’s Bible (pg. 456-458), The Jesus Storybook Bible or Read and Share: The Ultimate DVD Bible - Volume 2 (pg. 188-191).

       

Talk with your child about the story: 
Finally the best part of the Easter story!  Today is the day we’ve been waiting for!  We’ve have come to our final egg.   Let’s look inside.  What did you find?  Nothing!  Do remember what was empty in our story?  Jesus’ tomb.  Do you know what happened to him?  Jesus rose from the dead.  He kept his promise.

Additional Activities: 

I came across a great recipe for Resurrection Rolls on Women Living Well last year. Not only does it provide a visual, but they taste pretty good as well!  We will definitely be doing this again this year.

Don’t Have Resurrection Eggs?

Here are a couple of places where you can get printable resources to use instead of resurrection eggs:

• Celebrating the True Meaning of Easter from 1+1+1=1
• Printable Resurrection Eggs (scroll down to the bottom) from Lapboook Lessons.

Day 11-The Stone

You’ll use this lesson 1 day before Easter. You’ll be using the tenth resurrection egg, which is blue (color may vary) and will have a small rock on the inside.

Before you do the lesson we recommend that you read a short segment about the burial of Christ. We will be using The Beginner’s Bible  The Jesus Storybook Bible  or Read and Share: The Ultimate DVD Bible - Volume 2

Talk with your child about the story:
Let’s open our egg and see what’s inside. Do you know what that is?  It is a rock. Why do you think that is in our egg today?  Let’s think back to our story today.  At the very end of our story Jesus’ friends laid him in a tomb.  They loved Jesus and they wanted to keep His body from being hurt anymore.  Do you remember what some of the soldiers pushed in front of the tomb?  That’s right, they pushed a big rock in front of the tomb so that no one could get in or out.  They were very sad, but they would soon find out that Jesus had a big surprise for them! 

Additional Activities:

Don’t Have Resurrection Eggs?

Here are a couple of places where you can get printable resources to use instead of resurrection eggs:

• Celebrating the True Meaning of Easter from 1+1+1=1
• Printable Resurrection Eggs (scroll down to the bottom) from Lapboook Lessons.