Some very good friends of ours, Dave and Brenda, introduced us to the Resurrection Egg devotional game a number of years ago. They did this with their six children and passed it on to us. I greatly appreciate that they took the time to do that and am hereby passing it on to those of you who might have never heard of this!
The idea of the Resurrection Eggs is to help children learn about Christ´s sacrifice and victory over sin by taking the children through the gospel story step by step, starting 12 days ahead of Easter.
You take 12 plastic eggs that you can open (or boxes if you cannot find these types of eggs) and individually fill them with items that help us remember certain events in Christ´s walk to the Cross and then His resurrection. The eggs should be numbered from 1-12.
Over the years, I have seen a number of variations to this and have found this wonderful printable that you can use, and which makes setting this up very easy. http://lifeyourway.net/printables/easter-story.pdf
While I like that the scriptures are on the printable, I recommend that you take the Bible to read the scriptures. Far too often, we use digital or printed scriptures instead of teaching our kids to go to a bound copy of the Bible.
Print the cards out, cut them and put one in each egg together with the item on the picture.
You can hide the eggs in the house or put them on a plate or in an egg carton.
Let the child find the right number of egg and open it.
Ask:´What does this remind us of?´ ‘(e.g. the nail)
Then let the child answer and discuss the story.
Read the scripture and end by praying and thanking God for his goodness.
The next day, go over each of the numbers one more time and only then open the next egg.
Finally, the last egg will be opened on Easter Sunday. And when they open it, it will be empty (you keep the scripture card to yourself until you need to read it) as a declaration that Christ has risen!
I hope your children enjoy this as much as ours do!
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