Activities for your Kids to Celebrate a very unusual Easter

Friends, this may be the strangest Easter I think many of us will ever experience.  The middle of a pandemic is not somewhere we thought we would be.

My amazing sister Michelle Humbert has come up with some incredible activities for your kids to help them celebrate Easter in a time where the typical Easter traditions may not be happening.

The good news:  Jesus is ALIVE!  

These activities will talk you from Creation to the Cross and Resurrection– so it’s an amazing way to talk about Jesus with your kids while playing some fun games.

Did I mention my sister is Brilliant?

Verse/Theme:  Creation Gen 1:31, Gen 3:1-3

Activities:

• Focus on how God created everything and called it good. Start with an outdoor scavenger hunt to find things in nature reminding children God created these things
• look for Gardens to talk about the Garden of Eden
• Watch videos about things in creation (like videos from a zoo, the ocean etc)
• Write or draw the days of creation/cut them apart, have the kids scramble them and then try to put in order
• Make playdough creations and talk about how God created everything
• Draw Adam and Eve with Happy faces because they were in a good creation
• Find a tree to represent the tree of knowledge of good and even, rope it off and talk about how God told Adam and Eve not to touch that tree
• Play hug a tree by blindfolding someone, turning them around and around, then having them hug a tree in your yard.  Later take blindfold off and they try to figure out which tree
• Play a game that only has one rule, reminding them that Adam and Eve only had one rule

Verse:  Gen 3:1-8 The Fall

Activity Ideas:

• Make a snake out of playdough reminding them about the serpent in Gen 3
• Make a snake out of the garden hose if it is warm outside and have them try to jump over it before you wet them
• Make a jump rope “the snake” and have them try to jump over it as you swish it back and forth
• Have a fruit toss from different distances talking about how they were not to eat that one fruit
• Make a fruit dessert reminding them of the fruit that Adam and Eve chose to eat 

Verse: Romans 6:23 The wages of sin and gift of God

Activity ideas:

• Make an oil and water mix and talk about how they separate as you shake or stir.  Talk about this verse and how sin separates us from God
• Play life or monopoly reminding children that the “Wages” of sin is death. Talk about the word wages
• Have races with baggage or luggage full of different weights, talking with kids about how sin weighs us down, we were not meant to carry it
• Write sins on rocks and drop them in a bucket or creek talking bout how we can lay down our sins to Jesus
• Make two different batters of cake or cookies or brownies, one regular and one with a “yucky” ingredient of some sort. Have the kids taste the yucky food first and talk about how even a little sin messes our heart up which is why we need Jesus

Verse/theme:  Celebrate Jesus’s birth and death and resurrection

Activity ideas:

• Start with Christmas.  Decorate in some way with Christmas decorations. Sing Christmas songs.  Make Christmas cookies.  Hide a baby Jesus .  Watch a Christmas movie.  Talk about how we celebrate the birth of Jesus
• Celebrate the death and burial of Jesus.
  • look for thorns or something to make a crown of thorns
  • Sit in the dark, turn on flashlight or candle. Talk about how it was dark in the tomb.
  • Decorate eggs. Talk about how chicks break out of eggs from dark to light just like Jesus broke out of the tomb from death to life.
• Celebrate the victory of resurrection
  • Make resurrection rolls (google recipe)
  • Go on Easter egg hunt and celebrate that Jesus broke out of the tomb from death to life
  • Play freeze tag and talk about how when you get unfrozen you are FREE and how Jesus came to set us free
  • Play hide and seek and talk about Jesus came to seek and save that which was lost.