A Christ-Centered Easter Janet and Joe HalesThis book was gifted to me by a great friend I made while on my mission. It sat on our book shelf until last year when I thought Grace was old enough to start understanding more about Easter. It has day by day activities and stories to teach about each day of the Easter week from Palm Sunday: Jesus' triumphal entry to Easter Sunday: Jesus' resurrection and appearances. The activities are also labeled by level of age appropriateness. There are recipes, scripts for plays, scripture readings, songs, and supplemental stories. The last half of the book is a parallel account of the gospels. It isn't as detailed as the Harmony of the Gospels that you can find in your Bible dictionary. But it has the actual verses next to each other (not just the references) and is pretty useful for studying the events of the Easter week.
We had a really great time going through the book last year- and I've been looking forward to next week for a while. My parents are coming out for a visit and will be here for our passover/Jerusalem dinner as well as our modified version of the 'plan of happiness treasure hunt'. Though I am very grateful for the interest the real estate market has given our house, I'm kind of hoping we'll have a bit more time at home next week.
Anyway, this book comes highly recommended! Here is a peek at the table of contents (you can click on it to enlarge):
3 comments:
Aww, we're going to use that for the first time this year. :)
I have been really looking forward to this as well. This is our first year as last year at this time, we weren't even home. I am really excited!
Our too. this will be our first year using that book and Im super excited. I may not have the time to do everything in the book, but Ive made a promise to myself that I would touch on a least two or more things each day. Im so excited to do the Psalm Sunday skit tonight and take he kids on a nature walk after church. I think this book is grand. Hope you guys have fun too.
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