Twenty years ago a new way to help children learn the real meaning of Easter was introduced. It was called “Resurrection Eggs.” All at once or a day at a time a dozen plastic eggs were opened, each one containing something symbolic of a part of the Easter story. It has proved to be very useful for teaching many, many young children. But I wanted to come up with something special to focus on the Easter season that would be suitable for families with older children, or even singles or couples without children. I also desired that this “something” could be given as a gift.
I have devised a new purpose for plastic Easter eggs that I feel would add meaning to the Easter season and that would be a relatively simple project. A dozen plastic eggs are placed in a special egg carton. The poems I have provided, telling of the events of the Easter story, are placed inside the eggs. Starting eleven days before Easter, the eggs are opened one day at a time, and the poem inside each egg is read. For instance, IN 2017 EASTER FELL ON APRIL 16TH, SO YOU WOULD HAVE BEGUN READING POEMS ON APRIL 5TH. The poems are read in the order that the events happened, recreating the days that led up to the first Easter and the first Easter Sunday itself.
Each egg may be returned to the egg carton after the poem is read; or it may be placed in an Easter basket that will contain more and more eggs, until it contains a dozen eggs on Easter Sunday. When Easter has passed, the Easter poems and eggs could be put away in the egg carton, ready to be used again at another Easter season. (If you plan to place the eggs in a basket, you may want to use a felt pen to mark the Poem # very small on the bottom of each egg when you put the poem inside. That will make it possible to return the eggs to their proper order in the carton without having to open them to see which poems are inside.)
Labels for Carton and Inside of Lid
REMEMBER . . . If you don’t have a printer, maybe you have a library near you, where you could print off copies. (Or maybe you have a friend who has a printer, whom you could bribe with cookies.)
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