Celebrating Easter

Yesterday a few of my precious grandchildren were visiting so I really planned ahead and did some Easter activities with them. First we dyed eggs. This is something I grew up doing every single year but apparently not every family does that! My daughter-in-law did not do it when she was growing up, for example. It was great fun. And the kids loved eating the boiled eggs afterwards.

Another activity was an Easter egg hunt. The night before, I put a little candy or pennies in some plastic eggs. Mindy hid them for me and then we sent the kids out with paper bags to find them.

Inspired by a YouTube channel, the new activity I tried this year was rock art. First we looked for rocks (fortunately there are plenty of rocks near our house). This was a popular outing.

After first losing the cute leg weight...

Then the oldest grandchild put together this picture, using the video to guide her. The picture is of Christ suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane. He's laying on a rock with the weight of all the world's burdens on top of him while an angel helps him. She used a pipe cleaner to differentiate the burden. The little rocks at the bottom are his tears.

This was a good activity and I want to do more with this. The artist in the YouTube channel really has a lot of creative ideas. Here's the picture we were copying:

Credit: Patti Rokus in the Easter rock book: He Is Risen

You can find it at: https://rockstellstories.com/products/digital-print-garden-of-gethsemane-download.

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