Fill Your Kids’ Easter Baskets with A Very Veggie Easter Collection from VeggieTales

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Do you put together Easter baskets for your kids? Why not include A Very Veggie Easter Collection from VeggieTales in your kids’ Easter baskets this year?   A Very Veggie Easter Collection What’s better than a chocolate bunny at Easter? VEGGIES!! Veggies? Yes, Veggies!! Bob, Larry, and the rest of the VeggieTales characters present Easter… Read More »

The Resurrection – a GrapeVine Bible Study {review and giveaway}

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The Resurrection While the kids have both grown up hearing the basics of the Easter story, including the resurrection of Christ, I decided that The Resurrection study from GrapeVine Bible Studies would be a perfect tool to take them deeper into the details as we prepare for the upcoming Easter season.   Using GVS in… Read More »

Preparing for Easter with The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

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We’ve been on a Narnia kick lately. It all started on a Saturday afternoon last month when our plans changed. We were headed to Michigan one minute, and the next we were staying home with no plans for the weekend. Browsing the TV Guide, I saw that ABC Family was showing The Chronicles of Narnia:… Read More »

The Parable of the Lily {a Tommy Nelson review and giveaway}

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The True Meaning of Easter In a world obsessed with getting instead of giving, it’s often difficult to find quality resources that teach the truth  – especially when it comes to the two major Christian holidays: Christmas and Easter. Thankfully, there are Christian publishing companies, such as Tommy Nelson, that understand the need for truth-telling… Read More »

Simon and the Easter Miracle {book review}

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We love books that help us focus on the true meaning of Easter, and Simon and the Easter Miracle by Mary Joslin and Anna Luraschi is one that we’re glad to add to our library! {From the Publisher}: The gospels tell of Simon of Cyrene–”a man coming in from the country”–who was ordered to carry… Read More »

My Easter Bible Storybook {a Tommy Nelson review and giveaway}

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Just in time for Easter, Tommy Nelson has released a beautiful Precious Moments Easter storybook, My Easter Bible Storybook. Having grown up with a mom who collected Precious Moments, I have a special place in my heart for the Precious Moments characters, and this Precious Moments Easter Storybook Bible is a beautiful addition to our… Read More »

Easter Dinner Place Cards

We’re headed to my grandparents’ house for Easter dinner on Sunday, and they like to put place cards at each setting to indicate who is sitting there.  We gave them a call yesterday to see if Jenny could make the place cards for Sunday dinner. I printed out 15 place cards, with each person’s name… Read More »

Easter: Memory and Bingo Game

One of the activities I wanted to do this week was an Easter memory game.  Jenny’s been playing a memory game on her ClickStart computer lately, and is doing really well on the advanced level, so I thought she might enjoy this Easter memory game.  She, however, wanted to play Easter bingo, so I made… Read More »

Easter Stories

This morning, we scoured the bookshelves to find some Easter stories to read together. We read from The Baby Bible Storybook, “Jesus is Alive!”  (I added a few parts to the story, since it skips over the MOST IMPORTANT PART of Easter.) We also read a number of stories leading up to Easter in The… Read More »

Easter Suncatchers

I’ve seen this idea a few different times online, and I thought it would be a fun craft that both kids would enjoy. #1 – Cut two pieces of clear contact paper to desired size.  (Should be close to same size.) #2 – Shred colored tissue paper like confetti. (Be sure to stay next to… Read More »