Resurrection Eggs

Last year, I heard about Resurrection Eggs for the first time – and I thought it was a neat idea, but that my boys were too young to understand the Resurrection of Christ, even with the visual aids that the eggs supplied.  This year, I saw this post, and I thought it was time to revisit the idea of resurrection eggs.

There are several ways to use Resurrection Eggs to help tell your children the Easter story – you can buy a set online or at a local Christian book store or make your own (our set is pictured above).  If you make your own, you can fill the eggs with visual aids from the actual story from the Bible or from any number of Easter books… I chose to use the book Benjamin’s Box: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs.

I love this little book – it is the Easter story told from a child’s viewpoint, like Easter in the Garden, one of the books Amanda reviewed here.  I love how Benjamin knows Jesus before the book starts, and how his path keeps crossing with Jesus’s during the last week of His life.  During that week, he picks up small things that remind him of Jesus and what is happening, and he puts them all in a box that he has (they all correspond with an object in one of the Resurrection eggs).  It is a very sweet book, appropriate for younger children. 

Reading this book and using the Resurrection eggs have led to a lot of questions and discussions in our house – Elias is letting the big questions fly!  I was hoping to find some more ways to talk through his questions in the next book…

The Very First Easter by Paul Maier is a detailed book about Jesus’s last week  – I like the way it is written as a dialogue between a child and his parents, with the child asking some tough questions, and the parents answering them and going to the Bible for the answers.  There is a lot of Scripture in this book – in fact most of the Easter story is told in the Scripture that the parents quote to their son.  However, this book is a bit too much for my kids.  The pictures are not terribly graphic, but they do show Jesus carrying the cross, on the cross, and dead, before the resurrection.  The details are pretty descriptive, too – and this book will be perfect for Elias in a year or two.  

Here are some more posts that we’ve written with Easter book reviews and activities – this year and in the past:

• Easter: Jesus is the Lamb of God
• Easter and Resurrection Books for Kids
• Easter and the Resurrection for Kids {another round-up of past posts}

What are your favorite ways to share the miracle of the Resurrection with your children?