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3 Intergenerational Easter Activities for the Young and Young at Heart

Alissa Ellett Leave a Comment

This Easter, bring together young and old with these intergenerational activities to celebrate the risen Christ.

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Reflect together on God’s power to bring life from death, hope from hopelessness. Any of these activities can be adapted for the home or the church. Get creative and relish new life that is all around us as spring comes into being fully once again.

Share with all of us how you’re celebrating with your kids this Easter in the comments below!

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3 Easy Intergenerational Easter Ideas

We hear from so many of our customers their desire to cultivate intergenerational connection in their faith families. This brings me joy because this approach to ministry is so spot on. Yet, having been in ministry for almost ten years, I know how difficult it can be to find activities that will serve a wide range of ages.

I hope these ideas make intergenerational connections easy this Easter in your community! Let’s jump right in. Learn how to facilitate spiritual growth, relationship building and theological discovery for you and yours with these simple ideas.

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Color together. We’ve got some really fun Easter coloring options this year. Looking for something super easy and relaxing to do? Snag some of our coloring sheets or posters! Use them in the home, during Sunday School or in worship. Consider putting together some discussion questions or pull from an Easter resource. Kids, both in body and heart, will enjoy this time together.

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Go on a hike. Hiking is a fabulous intergenerational activity. Get outside together and search for resurrection in the natural world. As winter lifts and spring arrives. the Earth bursts with new life. It may be fun to collect the dead foliage and use it to make an art project. In doing so you’re giving new life and beauty to that which has ceased living.

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Plant flowers. Gather seeds, cuttings or potted plants from a nursery, especially those that attract bees. Choose a location and dig in the dirt together. Do this at the church, in your neighborhood, at the homes of the elderly. Gardening is a wonderful intergenerational activity to welcome spring and give life. Discuss the Spirit of God at work in giving life to all of creation as you welcome spring together.

Easter Blessings

We hope you have a beautiful and rich Easter this year. And we hope that these three easy ideas help you form memories together while reflecting on the mysteries of God. And don’t forget! Tell us what you’re planning to do this Easter with your kids.

5 Illuminating Ways of Celebrating Holy Week with Children

Alissa Ellett Leave a Comment

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Holy Week with children seems like a time we could be cultivating rich traditions. It is, after all, at the heart of our faith. But, does it ever sneak up on you or pass you by without you giving any real intention?

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If you’re anything like me, you can feel overwhelmed finding ideas to make Holy Week “a thing.” Well, guess what? We’ve saved you a ton of time! We did the research and found five ways of keeping your family’s Holy Week holy this year.

We’d love to hear what traditions, new or old, you’re doing this year to celebrate Holy Week with children. So, don’t forget to leave your comments below!

Cultivating a Rich Holy Week with Children

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Do a Holy Week Easter Egg Hunt. Most of us do an Easter egg hunt annually. Yet, how often does the Easter Egg hunt communicate the significance of Easter?

So, how can we use this tradition to invite our children to reflect? It only takes a bit of prep in filling some of the eggs with Easter symbols. Head over here to learn how to make it happen.

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Bake Easter bread or rolls. Baking is a really fun activity to incorporate into Holy Week with children. Of course, they get to learn a valuable life skill. Also, if you’re having family or friends over for a meal, the children enjoy showing off their creations.

Baking bread for Easter morning breakfast is a great option. For example, a yummy recipe can be found here. Alternatively, resurrection rolls are fun and easy to make. Head over here to learn how.

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Take time to pray each day. During Holy Week, really any week, we often feel like we don’t have enough time. Parents and caretakers are often spread so thin. Perhaps this year, take the opportunity awaiting you to engage in your own spiritual practice with greater intention.

So often our children gather up our attention along with our jobs, the grocery and to-do lists, other activities, the house cleaning, on and on. But, as we all know, we cannot give from a well that is all dried up.

So, each day of Holy Week, carve out a couple minutes of stillness to say one prayer. A wonderful list of Holy Week prayers are here.

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Plan to do a coat giveaway. During Holy Week, we remember the crowds laying their coats down for Jesus as he entered Jerusalem. Additionally, we reflect on the sacrifice Jesus made for the world.

Spread love around to others by donating coats that your family no longer uses. Local shelters and charity organizations can almost always use more warm apparel. And consequently, opportunity opens to reflect on these two stories with children.

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Enjoy a Seder meal together. Attend an interfaith Seder meal as a family. The Seder is a meal shared on Passover in the Jewish tradition in remembrance and celebration of new life after liberation from slavery.

Invite your children to learn about the Seder meal prior to going. Find concise, valuable material here and here about what to expect and the meaning of the Seder’s symbols. With a little bit of preparation, the experience can be meaningful for your whole family and give way to illuminating conversations.

We hope you have a rich Holy Week and blessed Easter. And we hope this list has been helpful in making that so. Don’t forget to share your Holy Week traditions with all of us. We look forward to reading them!

Creative Ways to Use Your Alleluia Coloring Page

Adam Walker Cleaveland 2 Comments

Alleluia Butterfly Easter

If you haven’t purchased your Alleluia Butterfly Coloring Page & Poster yet, I wanted to share some fun ideas from our community.

The Alleluia Butterflies

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I got the following note from Kristen Koch, pastor at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in St. Ann, Missouri (yes, we featured them last week here):

I wanted to show you the idea I came up with for the alleluia file from Illustrated Ministry. I printed the 8.5×11 file, landscape, on cardstock paper. Then I cut it out, colored it and taped a jumbo craft stick to the back. I’ll hand them out (colored and uncolored) at the children’s message. Then I’ll tell the kids that whenever they hear “alleluia” in the service they should wave their signs.

Like we said in last week’s post, Creativity Breeds Creativity, it’s so much fun to see the creative ways people are using our resources. We all become more enriched and creative when you share your ideas – and so we just want to thank everyone who keeps sharing photos and letting us learn from you.

Here are a few other fun uses of our Alleluia Butterfly and Alleluia Easter Lily illustrations.

Alleluia Butterfly Coloring Page
Alleluia Butterfly Coloring Page
Alleluia Butterfly Coloring Page
Alleluia Easter Lily Coloring Page

If you haven’t gotten your Alleluia Butterfly Coloring Page & Poster yet, you can find it here.

We also have two other Alleluia designs you may be interested in for your Lenten/Easter plans:

  • Alleluia Easter Lily Coloring Page & Poster
  • Alleluia Sunbeams Coloring Page & Poster
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