Holy Week Resurrection Eggs and Readings- Prep
I love, love Easter! I have such fond memories of it as a kid. We didn't do the Easter bunny and Easter egg hunts because I grew up in Spain. I lived in a small town in Roman Catholic Spain. Every year during holy week, the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, the streets of our town would fill with processions of people carrying statues of Mary, Jesus on the cross and various saints. In the procession men would dress in the same hooded cloaks that they wore during the Spanish Inquisition. People lined the streets to worship and sing as the statues made their way through the town.
Our small group of believers chose to not celebrate Easter in this way and we would camping in the mountains. For us Easter was a big holiday! We got to go on a trip, go camping, and spend the whole week with friends and no school! Beside that, I remember the daily meetings of Bible study and worship. My family would sleep in a tent. On Easter morning one of the missionaries would put out his boombox and blast the Hallelujah chorus at dawn! Easter was a special time like no other during the year.
When I became a parent, I wanted my kids to have memories of Easter besides Easter bunnies and egg hunts. I wanted them to know where Easter came from and why we celebrate it. One year, I tried making a bigger deal of their baskets and gifts. But I felt that the was a focus on the wrong thing.
After that, I decided to dedicate the week between the Triumphal Entry and Easter to going through Holy Week. We look at what Jesus did, what happened, and compare the events to prophecies both future and past to see how Jesus’ work is a theme throughout all Scripture. We do some fun activities, visuals, and try to recreate some of the experiences Jesus had that week. I’m excited to share with you all!
LAYOUT
I have organized this so that anyone of any age can use it, adults to children. Every day there is a remember section for background info and review, reading from Scripture, some activities or visuals for younger children and questions for discussion for older kids and adults. There are also tools you can download. I hope that you enjoy and that it will be a tool so that do not forget the wonder of our salvation!
If you do now want to download everything now. Follow along throughout the week. I will be sharing the readings daily.
May you live Abundant Days for His glory and your good!
Kristin L Overman
RESOURCES
INGREDIENTS AND RECIPES FOR PASSOVER MEAL
Easy Passover Meal
Simple Passover meal with the main elements to have a picture of what Jesus was doing. This is not exact accuracy of a traditional Passover meal.
Passover meal ingredients:
Roast (any meat) to symbolize the lamb
Wine or juice to symbolize the cup and the blood
Matzah Bread to symbolize the unleavened bread- no sin- and Jesus’ broken body
Charoset to symbolize the mortar for the bricks the Israelites had to make in Egypt
Parsley to symbolize the hyssop Israel used to dip into the lamb’s blood.
Bitter herb like horseradish, lettuce, or celery to symbolize the bitterness of slavery
Eggs to symbolize offerings made on the 2nd day of Passover. (We do hard-boiled eggs)
Charoset Recipe:
3 large apples
½ cup of walnuts
¼ teaspoon of cinnamon
2 Tablespoons of wine or juice
Finely chop all ingredients and mix.
