Lent

I've been on a quest that last several years to make our preparation and anticipation of Easter, as fun and exciting and meaningful as our preparation and anticipation of Christmas. So for Lent we made an Easter playlist for the iPod, we began decorating early and hope to grow our decorations over the next few years. We made this link cross as a count down (like the chains often made for Advent), there is a Scripture written on each link beginning with the Baptism of Jesus, going through His ministry, then on to Holy Week, the Cross and ending with Easter. The closer we get to Easter the cross disappears.




I've been looking for a Resurrection Tomb for display and I just have never found one that I really liked. So I did some research and found that the tomb that Jesus was buried in was most likely built into a wall much like the picture below.

And this is my attempt to making something similar.


There is a light inside that goes on and I borrowed a bench from Paigey's princess castle.

The kids, of course, wanted to make one of their own. Guess who's this is??

The boys both took their decorating very seriously.

Connor did a fabulous job and he chose to put his up in his room for decoration.

Paige wanted hers to stay in the family room for all to see!

They also made all the characters to go with it...the angel, the disciples, Jesus.

There's just nothing like over hearing your kids play "Resurrection." The paint, the moss mess was all worth watching our little ones internalizing this most wonderful celebration.