We have had a wonderful blessed Easter! After speaking to my two oldest on skype first thing this morning (they are in Barcelona), we finished preparing for church. I snapped this picture of my children with their new dresses (and tie for the boy!) before getting in the van. Edited: Yes, I sewed all their […]

This activity goes along with day thirteen of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. Our activity today involved listening to and watching videos of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles bear their “Special Witnesses of Christ.” If you click on the title next to each picture on that page it will open […]

This craft goes along with day eleven of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. I forgot to post this yesterday! So sorry. We just made simple salt dough sheep to hang as ornaments on our Easter tree. Salt Dough Recipe 2 cups flour 1 cup salt 1/2 – 3/4 cup water Mix flour and salt […]

This craft goes along with day ten of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. To show how the tomb was empty on Easter morning we have done this craft every year since my oldest was very little. It has been so long since I’ve been using this that I can’t remember where I got the […]

This activity goes along with day nine of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. Can you believe we have never made hot cross buns before? We made this recipe (using raisins and dried cranberries). While the dough was rising we made stained glass windows – one of my children’s favorite art projects to do. Materials […]

This activity goes along with day eight of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. For our activity today we did another art study. I divided the children up into two groups. One group received The Flagellation of our Lord Jesus Christ by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (above), the other group received Behold the Man by Antonio Ciseri […]

This activity goes along with day six of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. The older ones (6 & up) did this worksheet as a review after our discussion today. I printed off this booklet and had my four-year old tell me the story using his own words while looking at each picture as a […]

This activity goes along with day five of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. For our activity today we focused on the portion of the Living Christ that states “and the potential for the sons and daughters of God in the life to come.” I held up an apple seed and asked my littlest ones […]

Our activity for day one was very low-stress. Because we do so many crafts around Christmastime based on the Nativity etc, I decided to do an art study with the painting by Gerard Van Honthorst. We talked about the painting, where your eyes are naturally drawn to because of the use of light, and the […]