We talked about why a cross was important for Easter and how it could remind us of how much God loves us.

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This activity could be done anytime with regular stickers but I had lots of Easter stickers to use up.  My 5 year old did this as a center at school so I decided to do it with my 2 year old.  I cut a long piece of construction paper and folded it accordion style until there were 5 “pages”.  On the front I wrote Easter Counting Book and then wrote the numbers 1-5 at the bottom of each page.  She told me the numbers and put the correct amount of stickers on each page.

Resurrection Garden

This is another activity Ashlyn did at school that I thought was really neat.  The kids got to pick out a bowl and fill it with soil.  Then her teacher planted a flower and sprinkled some grass seed.  They made a cross from popsicle sticks and found a rock from outside.  Next, they placed the rock in front of a the bottom part of a plastic Easter egg representing the stone that was in front of Jesus’ tomb.  We have it on our kitchen table and the girls love taking turns trimming the grass with scissors.  I love that every-time we eat, we see the garden and can remember what Jesus did for us and why we celebrate Easter.

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This activity could be done anytime with regular stickers but I had lots of Easter stickers to use up.  My 5 year old did this as a center at school so I decided to do it with my 2 year old.  I cut a long piece of construction paper and folded it accordion style until there were 5 “pages”.  On the front I wrote Easter Counting Book and then wrote the numbers 1-5 at the bottom of each page.  She told me the numbers and put the correct amount of stickers on each page. 

Resurrection Garden

This is another activity Ashlyn did at school that I thought was really neat.  The kids got to pick out a bowl and fill it with soil.  Then her teacher planted a flower and sprinkled some grass seed.  They made a cross from popsicle sticks and found a rock from outside.  Next, they placed the rock in front of a the bottom part of a plastic Easter egg representing the stone that was in front of Jesus’ tomb.  We have it on our kitchen table and the girls love taking turns trimming the grass with scissors.  I love that every-time we eat, we see the garden and can remember what Jesus did for us and why we celebrate Easter.

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Ashlyn’s First Easter

Poor Emily doesn’t have a 1st Easter picture. 

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Use plastic Easter eggs and write one rhyming word on the outside of the egg.  Write rhyming words on slips of paper and put them in a small basket.  Repeat this with as many eggs as you want to use.  I started with three and then continued to add more.  I cut the bottom off of an old egg carton and turned it upside down.  Then I placed the eggs on top. Have your child pick one word at a time from the basket and put them in the correct egg.  I made four rhyming words per egg.  

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Use plastic Easter eggs and write one rhyming word on the outside of the egg.  Write rhyming words on slips of paper and put them in a small basket.  Repeat this with as many eggs as you want to use.  I started with three and then continued to add more.  I cut the bottom off of an old egg carton and turned it upside down.  Then I placed the eggs on top. Have your child pick one word at a time from the basket and put them in the correct egg.  I made four rhyming words per egg. 

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