12 Days of Easter

Happy Monday!!

So, late last week I was hanging out with my best friend Pinterest and saw a pin my cute cousin Summer posted about an activity called the "12 Days of Easter". Since I've been looking for ways to focus my life more on Christ and our Heavenly Father, this caught my eye.

The instructions were listed in a blog post here, over on the Family Volley blog. It is an Easter activity intended to help children learn the meaning of Easter, but I'm pretty sure it could be adapted to help us adults get back to basics. Maybe I'll spring this on my mom....OR I could do it like the 12 days of Christmas for my visiting teaching ladies..the possibilities are endless!

So, without further adieu, I give you the 12 Days of Easter.

                                                                           Via

The 12 Days of Easter.

Day 1
Matthew 26:26-27, 39
(A piece of bread or a sacrament cup)

Day 2
Matthew 26: 14-15
Zechariah 11:12-14
(3 Dimes to represent the 30 pieces of silver)

Day 3
Matthew 27:1-2
(Knotted Twine)

Day 4
Matthew 27:15, 17, 21, 24-26
(Chunk of Hand Soap)

Day 5
Matthew 27:28-30
Mark 15:16-17
(Square of red or purple fabric)

Day 6
Matthew 27:31-32
(Small Nail)

Day 7
Matthew 27:35
(Dice-representing casting lots)

Day 8
Matthew 27:50-51, 54
(Crushed Rocks)

Day 9
Matthew 27:57-60
(Strips of White Cloth)

Day 10
Matthew 27:60, 62-66
(Small Flat Stone)

Day 11
Mark 16:1, 2-6
(Bay Leaf or other Herb)

Day 12
Matthew 28:5-6
(Empty because HE IS RISEN!)

Materials12 Plastic Easter Eggs
Permanent Marker
12 Small Strips of Paper (12 more optional)
(Small items listed below)

What to do
1. With your permanent marker, write the numbers 1-12 on each of the plastic eggs. 

2. Prepare your strips of paper.
*12 of the strips will have scripture references on them, listed below.
*The other 12 will have a very short explanation of the scripture. You don't have to include this, but I am putting them in for our 6 year old who is all about reading right now.

3. Round up your small items (listed in parentheses).


What a great idea, right? As mentioned above, I think this is a good way to get back to basics if you don't have kids, and is a great teaching tool if you do! And what better way to really remember the meaning of Easter this year?

Let me know if any of you do this, I'd love to hear how it turns out.