Easter Sunday

Welcome to Christchurch Kids and Happy Easter! Easter Sunday is the best day. It is the biggest party you can imagine! All around the world today, people are celebrating that Jesus came back to life. He made the way possible for us to be reunited with God. Oh Happy Day!

To celebrate Easter, it is quite traditional to make an Easter garden. It usually represents the garden with the empty tomb and the stone rolled away and it sometimes has the empty cross too. 

You could have a go at making your own Easter garden. You can see there are lots of different ideas about making an empty tomb - even using a pineapple ring. 

Here's one of the yummier ideas for making an Easter Garden with a Jammy Dodger tomb and a mini-egg stone.

Scavenger hunt

Can you find something...

RED - is for the blood he gave

GREEN - is for the palms they waved

YELLOW - is for the sun so bright

ORANGE - is for the edge of night

BLACK - is for the sins we made

WHITE - is for the grace He gave

PURPLE - is for His Hour of sorrow

PINK - is for our new tomorrow

We have an Easter colouring page here

You can download the Easter Sunday Chat Mat here. It's great to colour, read and chat about with your family.

Easter Egg Prayers

This is a great prayer idea from the Flame: Creative blog.

Start with a whole, hollow chocolate egg. 

This can help us think about the time when Jesus was inside the tomb and his friends were sad. We can pray for those who are  feeling sad or feeling lonely.

Break the egg open and see that it is empty. 

Something amazing happened! Jesus rose from the dead and wasn't in the tomb anymore. God can give us a new start if we say we're sorry for things we have done wrong. We can thank God for His forgiveness and ask Him to help people who are worried or scared to have the hope of a new start too.  

Eat the chocolate! 

Jesus came back to life so that we can be part of God's amazing story. God loves us and wants good things for us. Taste how sweet the chocolate is and talk about all the people we love and why we love them. We can thank God for those people and we can ask God to give them good things too. 

We can finish our Easter celebration with a song. Happy Day is a great song to dance to as well as sing.

We hope you have a wonderful Easter Sunday. We would love to see pictures of your Easter gardens or crosses hanging in your windows. See the right hand column for how to send your pictures to us to share.