One of our favorite Easter decorations is this Resurrection puzzle I bought a couple of years ago.
I love how it is simple, focused on Christ, and tells the story of that miraculous Easter morning through the figures.
Can you tell who they are? Though they weren’t all there at the same time each was at the tomb at some point on Easter morning. Starting at the left you have a sleeping centurion, and two apostles Peter and John. On the far right are three women: Mary Magdalene, Mary, and Joanna. The Resurrected Christ is appropriately featured in the center of the tomb with two angels at the top.
I recently ordered a mini version to take to church with us. And to cut down on the fighting as to who gets to do the puzzle next. 🙂
And guess what? I have another mini one to give away today! Created by the talented Jennifer Rose at Arts of the Heart, to help tell the true meaning of Easter. Jennifer has other handmade wooden toys for sale. And yes, we also have the Nativity puzzle she sells. My children love these!
Giveaway is now closed. Thanks for participating!
Thanks so much for hosting another awesome giveaway. My favorite Easter tradition would have to be our Sunrise Service. The Saturday before Easter we gather as a family at a local park and tell the Easter story and sing hymns and bear our testimonies as we watch the sunrise.
These puzzles are absolutely beautiful!- Kerstin
Just found your blog a couple of days ago. Keep finding my self looking at all yoour past post. Iy was while trying to find something to start some Christ center yraditions for Easter that O found you! will backing tp plastic eggs and maube next year will dp thel Living Christ countdown. favorite tradition is our morning hunt of easster eggs thebunny left and he always finds away to leave on under the kids pillows. This is a traditipn of my husbands family.
My family is young and we haven’t come up with a lot of traditions yet. But last year we listened to Rob Gardner’s Lamb of God CD and we have been listening to it again this year and talking about it. We all really enjoy that. I tried the thing you shared that has ideas for activities and such for the week leading up to Easter. We enjoyed it and will be doing it again this year. I love all these ideas you share! This puzzle is so cute. I want to get the plain Christmas one and paint it now.
We haven’t come up with any good traditions yet either. Toby is 5 and the only thing I have decided is that I don’t really want the Easter Bunny to be a big deal in our house. Unfortunately my mom thinks not having the Easter bunny visit is akin to child abuse. Ugh.
One of our favorite Easter traditions is to make Easter Tomb Cookies on Saturday night. We also always get each of the children their own picture of the Savior (just a small 3×5 card from the local LDS bookstore). Each child gets a different picture that we give them after reading the Easter story.
I love your blog! We’re doing the 30 Days of Easter countdown this year, which looks like will become a yearly tradition for us. One of our favorite Easter traditions is to plant jelly beans Friday night and wake up Saturday morning to find they have grown into lollipops! In our house we do the Easter bunny on Saturday, and REAL Easter on Sunday.
Our Easter “bunny” comes on Friday night, we eat, we hunt, we play. On Sunday we finish our Easter countdown and watch lots of Church videos. Love your blog name. And not aiming for brownie points 😉 but I am with you on white chocolate! Jessi-D
Beautiful puzzles. We haven’t established a lot of Easter traditions yet, but I love to dye Easter eggs with my girlies. We try to focus on the resurrection and hope to implement a new tradition this year to help with that. I’ll peruse your blog to find something I’m sure!
I love reading The Living Christ with my family and discussing it.
We love getting together with our extended family…grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles.
This puzzle looks fabulous…I would love to win!
Our favorite easter tradition is making resurrection rolls, and dying easter eggs.
I love the idea of Easter bunny and egg hunt on Saturday and then Easter Sunday is kept sacred. I like dyeing or decorating eggs and then hiding them. My husband’s family would have to find their hidden Easter basket and we have adopted that one into our family.
We love our easter puzzle too! Not sure I love the giveaway widget though because it wants to access each of my apps as I do the required giveaway entries. But it looks streamlined I guess!
Our tradition is to read the resurrection story out loud from the bible as well as small easter gifts/baskets and a family meal.
I love all the music surrounding Easter. Glorious!
I love all your Easter resources! Already printed off the Easter All Week pages. Thanks!
I would love to add this puzzle to our Easter traditions. We do the regular Easter basket tradition with egg hunt. We also try to have family home evening lessons centered on the real meaning of Easter, and sing songs and read books to focus on the true meaning.
For my family my favourite tradition would be our family dinner. Not everyone in my family lives in town and at easter we are all able to get together and enjoy a wonderful meal together as a whole family.
Fun giveaway! Hope I win! One of my favorite Easter traditions is our special Easter Sunday dinner. We usually eat fish to remind us of what Christ might have eaten. Last year, I hid a little prop from the Easter story under each person’s place mat, and we talked about the Easter story. It was a beautiful dinner. Thank you for all your fun Easter resources!
My favorite is to dye the eggs. I love colorful eggs! As well as the egg salad sandwiches afterward!
We eat fish & honey for Easter dinner. Foods the Savior ate after his Resurrection.
I love this puzzle! I would have to say my favorite Easter tradition is the same for most holidays…making it a special day for my family! We love celebrating the reason for the holiday, but we also love chocolate and peeps!
My kids love that after the Easter bunny comes my husband secretly hides the Easter baskets and leaves notes (in Spanish – That is why they think it is him) in Easter eggs with clues to find the baskets (like a scavenger hunt). They also like getting something special in their basket to wear to church (sometimes it is a dress, tights, hair bows, or a frilly slip for the girls and a tie or tie clip for the boy).
We always do a family home evening on the symbols of Easter. (wood – the cross; live leaf – life; dead life – death; nail – Jesus was nailed to the cross; etc)
Easter is pretty low key. My personal favorite is just going to church with my family and partaking of the sacrament. Along with singing the hymns.
Judi 🙂
One of our favorite Easter traditions is the Egg carton story of Jesus. It’s simple and the kids love it!
My favorite Easter tradition is using the egg carton and eggs. There are so many good activities to keep Christ the center of our Easter celebrations.
One of our families favorite Easter traditions is making dinner from the decorated eggs. They all look forward to the yummy food and to see which eggs I choose to use.
Our favorite Easter tradition is to have a Seder on Thursday and a Jerusalem dinner Friday.
We have our nightly devotions by using the resurrection eggs. We always bake the empty tomb rolls also.
Wonderful looking puzzles! Thanks for the chance to win one.
Coloring eggs. Without a doubt. And eating ham!
We like to make Resurrection rolls.
One of my favorite traditions is putting up pictures of Christ (including pictures of Him as a baby) all over the house the evening before Easter, but after the kids are in bed. Last year I think I put up over 30 pictures. (I use pictures from the Gospel Art Kit and from old calendars I have.) I love the surprise that greets them Easter morning!
We like blowing Peeps up in the microwave. ;). Of course we also like to read stories about the Savior.
Our kids are still little but we’ve started making Resurrection rolls and hope to add more Christ-centered traditions as they grow!
My favorite Easter tradition is this year we are making everything Christ Centered and I love it we are having Christ centered Easter including our Easter baskets it has been so much fun!!!
Thanks for this wonderful chance to win:)
Children are grown now but grandchildren are now finding any bunny treats on the Saturday before Easter, leaving Easter as a holier day.
We love getting together with extended family for a big meal, and attending church together.
I love the meal and just being together with family. Even if it is dying the easter eggs together and hiding them from one another, it was the togetherness that I remember and love. And as a side note, those puzzles are fantastic!
I love dying eggs!
My parents host an Easter egg hunt each year. It started for just us kids when we were young. Now there are two…one for the grandkids and one for all of the adults (kids and spouses.) The adult egg hunt can get pretty intense, but it is lots of fun 🙂 Mom generally comes up with some pretty good prizes.