Every year our church hosts a Resurrection Egg Hunt. First we eat breakfast together and then the youth pastor tells the Resurrection Egg story. He takes the kids from Palm Sunday to Easter. As he tells the story, he opens different eggs that contain different things that help the kids remember the Passion Week. Like in some eggs there are donkeys and other eggs have a crown of thorns and another one has a piece of cloth to represent the linen cloths they wrapped Jesus in and the last one is blue and it is empty--the empty tomb.
Then the kids divide up into different areas based on age. Malachi and Ezra went to the playground. It took Malachi a couple minutes to figure out what he was supposed to do.
He figured it out and ended up with a basket full.
Ezra understood what he was supposed to do.
Isaiah and Elijah went to the field that the kids play on after church. Isaiah would hardly slow down for a picture.
Elijah is always happy to pose for a picture.
Jonah's group was on the front lawn. See how full his basket is?
Due to rain and Spring Breaks, the turn out this year was about half what it has been in past years. Usually we are doing good to have 15 eggs in each basket--notice all the baskets are very full.
Because our cousins weren't able to go, our boys decided to each donated 10 eggs and we hid them in the Brown's front yard. We can see their yard from our deck so the boys were spying to see if they could watch them collect the eggs. Their patience ran out before the cousins went on their egg hunt.
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