We used Amanda Bennett's Easter unity study to learn the history of Easter and where it took place. We read the story Matthew 26-28 from the bible, the NIV (which leaves out the and thou), then watched The Greatest Adventures of the Bible: The Easter Story. It was neat to see all the things that we had read, putting pictures with our visuals. We read The First Easter from several different authors and did a study on The Legend of the Easter Egg by Lori Walburg VandenBosch. From this book, Maximus learned 10 new vocabulary words, the meaning of a simile: comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as', did a refresh on time and days of the week as many events happened in the book using specific times/days, did a few experiments using an egg and discovered why eggs are a symbol of Easter.
He also got to do a few fun activities such as watch Charlie Brown's Easter and Peter Cottontail, make Resurrection eggs and Resurrection cookies, Easter nests and marshmellow cottontails.
One of the egg experiments: watching to see what happens when a hard boiled eggs is mixed with vinegar... calcium mixed with acetic acid, releases carbon dioxide.
Making Resurrection cookies, going along with the ressurection of Jesus Christ... a marshmellow (Jesus), dipped in butter (oils), cinnamon and sugar (spices), wrapped in croissants (linen) and baked (buried). After they were done (3 days later), the croissants were empty, representing Jesus has Risen!
Maximus with his "empty" linen
Resurrection eggs... each egg has a symbol of Jesus's time on Earth, starting with Passover, to his crucifixion. One of the eggs were stuffed with a cracker, to represent the bread and one morning we caught River red-handed opening each egg until he found the stale cracker, after he found it and ate it, he was done, he left the rest alone.
Cookin' and mixin' up some chocolate and chow mein noodles for the Easter nests
River's nest...
Maximus's nest...
Coloring eggs at Pawpaw and Cathi's
Easter egg hunt at the church... he didn't know what to think.
Maximus's best friends
The bike rodeo, he did soo good!
I couldn't believe how good he did in the bike rodeo, making no mistakes and did not knock over 1 cone!!
Sitting with the Easter Bunny "bunn-bunn" at Ashley Park. River wasn't sure about it, but he was a good sport.
Easter morning- the posse
"Cheez"... River hunting eggs at Granmama Arp's
Maximus and his eggs at Granmama Arp's.
What a fun time for the Brew Crew!!
There were a few things that we didn't get to do as we were sooo busy, but I am a little disappointed so we'll have to make those priority next year... coloring eggs at home, making our bunny cake, and hot cross buns for Good Friday. Since, I have all the stuff, we may just go ahead and "practice for next year"!
Happy Easter y'all!
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