Teaching Tip Easter

Have you read 'The Parable of the Lily'?
It is a wonderful story to read to your children about Easter.
The Parable of the Lily is about a little girl who gets a gift, some dirt and a lifeless bulb. Disgusted at her gift, she throws it outside. Months later her dead, lifeless bulb blooms into a beautiful Lily. The little girl's father teaches his daughter the real meaning of Easter by using the dead bulb as a tangible example of Christ's love and forgiveness for us.

After you are done reading the story, make some flowers of your own. Tie a Bible verse, the book is full of them!, to your flowers and give them to a neighbor.

Following the Easter theme, for your snack bake 'Tombs'.
You will need:
Crescent rolls, or a dinner roll recipe, the tomb
Marshmallows, Jesus's body
Cinnamon
Butter
*Take one marshmallow, dip it in butter then roll it in cinnamon. Place a marshmallow in the center of a triangle of dough. Fold the dough up around the marshmallow. Explain to your children the dough represents the tomb and the marshmallow represents Jesus. Bake the rolls as directed. Have your children stand guard at the oven as the soldiers did. Remove rolls from oven, let cool. Then let your children eat them... the marshmallow will be gone just like Jesus's body was.