Happy Easter!

Easter for our family isn't about the Easter Bunny, or the baskets, or egg hunts, although egg hunts are a lot of fun. Easter is about Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins and then rose from the dead 3 days later.

With that said, I was sooo excited about the Easter activities that followed our early morning church service. It was called Holyland Adventures: The Jerusalem Marketplace. There were 14 stations all centred around what it would have been like to live during Jesus' last days. Most of the stations had something for the kids to make and take home to remember their experience.

This was the basket weaving station. Using raffia and a piece of specially cut paper, the kids weaved their own basket. This was the Musical Instruments Shop where you made your own tambourine out of paper plates and jingle bells! This is Synagogue School. In Jesus' day, girls weren't allowed to attend Synagogue School. At this station the kids learned how different the Hebrew alphabet was with rubber stamps. In the Carpentry shop, you got to experience what it must have felt for Jesus to have worked as a carpenter. These are just a few of the stations and only a few of the pictures I took throughout the morning. It was such a wonderful way to celebrate Easter.

If by chance, any of your local churches do Vacation Bible School, and in the coming months you start to see advertisements for this theme, I would highly suggest sending your kids! It was such an awesome hands on experience.