Preparing for Easter

As a family we are enjoying daily Lent readings to prepare our hearts for celebrating Easter in a more meaningful way this year.  Here is a wonderfully written, Jesus centered resource that is FREE and one in which we all have been blessed by:  Journey to the Cross.

I also like to do some Easter crafts with the kids each year.  Soon we will be putting together our resurrection tomb to enjoy as a table center piece.  I have one enthusiastic crafter in the family, but it is good for the boys to be stretched a bit now and again.  With Jonathan being gone in Germany all week, I figured this might be a good time for a project.  The kids ended up having 3 days off of school, which was nice I did not have to walk to and from school so much during this snowy/rainy week.  However, keeping the kids entertained and busy was a bit exhausting and challenging at times.

This week we made egg ornaments out of real eggs.  It was a project I remember doing as a child and thought the kids might like it too.  We can only get brown eggs here in Italy, so dying eggs has never really turned out in our past attempts.  I like the fact that these egg ornaments can endure like Christmas tree ornaments, just as long as you don't smash them.  I think it will be fun to create new eggs and add them to our Easter tree each year.

Luca actually was quite successful in poking holes in the eggs without breaking a single one!

The boys really enjoyed blowing the inside of the eggs out.

Emma didn't care so much about handling the yucky eggs.  She definitely preferred decorating more.

We had an enjoyable time together and it certainly helped pass some time this week.  We have the whole month ahead of us before Easter--what traditions does your family do?  I am always looking for new ideas and would be delighted if you wanted to pass along any suggestions.