I am posting today so you will have this in time for tomorrow, Easter Sunday. Blessings to you on this glorious Resurrection Day. Please see my Preparing our hearts for Easter post for some easy & simple children’s activity ideas.
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Clip art by Sabina at The Ink Nest.
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We have been working on several activities to prepare our hearts for Easter. I wanted to share them with you today — it’s not too late to just do a few simple activities with your child to show them the true meaning of Easter — that God became man so that he could save us from our sin! What amazing news!!
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The first learning activity we are doing together is utilizing the amazing ebook by oh Amanda: Sense of the Resurrection.
This wonderful 12 part ebook guides children in using their senses to understand and learn about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Smell, hear, taste, see, touch. I love how this ebook is organized — it is simple and concise — with Scripture and activities and coloring pages. A perfect Easter learning curriculum to do with children. It can be quick and short, or you can draw out the lessons to be longer if you’d like. You can print it out or use it straight from your iPad or computer.
I wanted to share just two of the activities we have done. My son has loved this time (he’s not the “coloring/crafting” type, so he appreciates the sensing of these learning times!!) I don’t want to share more because, of course, you’ll have to buy Sense of the Resurrection for yourself (it is just $7.99)!
Here we are washing each other’s feet, as Jesus did for his disciples before the Last Supper. John was hesitant at first, but then was very eager to have his feet washed and then wash mommy’s feet. Feel!
And I made a special Naan Bread to remember that Jesus’ body has been broken for us. John loved doing the Lord’s Supper together, we read the Scripture and talked about it for a long time. Taste!
We have also been reviewing the Resurrection Story with Easter Eggs. Check out our post for details on how to easily make this with supplies you already have from home — includes a free printable!
We would love to make an Easter Garden, but probably won’t until next year.
We may try to make these Resurrection rolls from Teach Mama.
And this free Easter Tomb craft looks like a wonderful hands on craft!
We have also been playing with our Egglo Eggs set in the dark mornings. Jesus is the light of the world! Check out our full Egglo Glow in the Dark Eggs review for more ideas!
We’re always working through our various bibles, especially focusing on our Bible felting stories of Palm Sunday, The Last Supper, In the Garden, At the Trial, Crucifixion, and Resurrection.
Check out our Bible Learning Time Resources post for more details!
We have made new pages in our Preschool Bible Notebook for all of the above leading-up-to Easter stories too. We are reading the story and then drawing a quick picture with a prayer in our Bible Notebook.
For more Easter Activity ideas, check out my Easter Pinterest Board — many of these ideas involve Eggs and Bunnies, but I’ve tried to include some Christ-related things too….
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I hope that you are enjoying the true meaning of Easter with your little ones! He is risen!
Help your child review their ABC Learning with stickers! A Sticker Dot Review! A fun and easy review that emphasizes literacy and fine motor skills! All you need is paper and some sticker dots for this simple activity. Once your child knows their uppercase letters, you could move on to matching lowercase and uppercase. Simple and cheap. Love it. And John was so proud of himself at the end!
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I am creating a felt animal for my son for every letter of the alphabet in a new series: ABC Felt Animals! We have had so much fun making these animals together — and they are helping him learn the phonetic sounds of the letters, so it has been very worth the time and effort put in to make these felt animals!
I think that God created an X-Ray (Tetra) Fish just so kids would have an animal to relate to the letter X. Otherwise, it’s just x-rays and xylophones, right? (And boxes, axes, and foxes, if you’re thinking about learning to read). Anyways, my son absolutely loved making this little fish and learning about skeletons along the way.
I have tried to be semi-precise with its colors. A transluscent body, a white skeleton, an orange tail, yellow and black fins. It is actually quite beautiful, eh?
All you need to make a Felt X-Ray Fish is:
** This craft uses a hot glue gun — please keep out of the reach of children — these are for adult use only!!
This is the only way this makes sense to me. I cut the picture I drew out (free printable at the end of this post!) into pieces. Then, I assemble all of my felt pieces — I cut two each of the body, the fins (with black stripes), the tail, and one skeleton (you could do two, but I only put it on the front).
Now begin to assemble and hot glue. I just wing it and go as I go. (Of course with my sweet John “helping” with his “hot glue gun”.) I glued the skeleton on one of the bodies, then glued the fins together — a black stripe on the yellow. I really could have not made these double, either way would be fine.
Now I glued on the tail and the ready made fins.
And stuffed one body with cotton balls and carefully glued the other body on top — I always use a fork now to wait for it to cool — don’t burn your fingers — it hurts! Last, I glued on a little black circle for eyes and a little black line for a mouth on either side and he’s done!
John loved this little guy. 
I made a template and a coloring page for you to make your own x-ray fish! I am not an artist, but I hope you find this helpful!
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You can download the X-Ray Fish printable here!
Alphatales to the rescue again. This whole collection focuses on one letter at a time. Super fun for kiddos. We don’t own them right now (I used them when I taught kindergarten), but I really, really want to buy them! A Xylophone for X-Ray Fish. Perfect and fun.
Other Posts in the ABC Felt Animals Series:
