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6 Tools for Building Faith With Children at Easter
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One Christmas as I stood in the kitchen sprinkling silver balls on sugar cookies, seven year old Kailey wandered in and asked, “Mom how come you decorate the whole house for Christmas but you don’t do anything special for Easter? Isn’t Easter just as important as Christmas?”
(HomeGrown Handbook for Christian Parenting, p,128)
Kailey was right: Easter should be celebrated and anticipated with the same wonder and awe as Christmas. And she recognized that unlike Christmas which we seemed to celebrate at church and at home, our Easter celebrations seemed to happen only at church.
The following Easter I began looking for ways to be more intentional about nurturing faith at home. I gathered some symbols of Easter—a cross, a wreath that reminded us of a crown of thorns—and placed them on a purple cloth on a table. We ate hot cross buns on Good Friday and Resurrection rolls on Easter Sunday and talked about those food choices. We read a picture book called Benjamin’s Box and made our own little boxes to match the one Benjamin carries in the story. We played Easter music in the week leading up to Easter just as we do with Christmas music before Christmas. We still did the things we always had at Easter—hunting for eggs in the backyard, decorating a bowl of eggs together—but the simple things I added to our celebration helped our family live into the story of Easter.
Below you’ll find six tools to help the families in your congregation build faith at home during Easter. Some of them can be made at church and then sent home with families to use during Holy Week or on Easter Sunday; each could also be created at home.
For even more faith nurturing Easter ideas, check out the list of Easter Ideas: In Community and At Home from the Family Faith Formation toolkit.
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