Vesele Velikonoce (Happy Easter in Czech)

It has been a busy but fun weekend. My sister and her children joined us in celebrating Easter (her hubby was away too). My sister had planned a lovely Easter tradition we could do with the children which was quite successful. It was a good reminder to me of how important it is to make Easter a really special event for our children who are surrounded by the world's way of celebrating Easter (without understanding its true message). Angela (my sister) brought some little heart boxes... The boys helped us paint (until the outdoors bekoned them so we enjoyed finishing them off and had some time for a chat)

• we collected various objects which symbolised different parts of the Easter story (ie. thorns, piece of sponge, nails, palm leaf, little sword, chord for whip, etc.)


• We took turns reading a verse from the Bible and the children had to guess which object might be in the box by using the clues in Bible verse (and rewarded with a lolly for answer).

Here is a link with the verses for the boxes (here they use little plastic eggs that click together - we used heart boxes): http://www.rainbowcastle.org/resurrectioneggs.html

http://www.easyfunschool.com/article2110.html

They seemed to enjoy it and we might just vary it a little and use it next Easter. it was also a great opportunity for our Czech friend, Martina to learn a few lessons in English so she read the Scripture verses aloud and then put the objects in the numbered boxes (and heard part of the Gospel message in the process).

Over the Easter weekend Rosa and Sarah enjoyed eachother's company (they are similar in age) Here they are enjoying a bath together: