I love the idea of doing Resurrection Eggs, but with the 12 eggs and sometimes a little complex parts of the story, I have always imagined us doing them when the Happy Buddy is a bit older.
When I saw these Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers, however, in the March/April edition of Thriving Family, I knew I had to try them out in our Happy Home.
With just 6 eggs, a simple story-telling sentence for each, and easy peasy items to go inside, these Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers are so doable!
And so much fun!
Gather 6 different-colored plastic Easter eggs.
In the first egg, place a bread crumb.
Jesus ate dinner with his friends. Luke 22:14-15
In the 2nd egg, place a cross (we just used a sticker we had in our stash).
The next day Jesus died on the cross. John 19:17-18
In the 3rd egg, place a strip of cloth (we used a piece of tissue).
He was wrapped in cloth and placed in a tomb. John 19:40
For the fourth egg, go outside and pick out the coolest rock you can find.
A stone was placed in front of the tomb. Matthew 27:59-60
Leave the fifth egg empty.
Jesus’ friends came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved. The tomb was empty! Luke 24:1-3
Fill the 6th and final egg with a sweet treat.
We did M&Ms in our case because that’s the Happy Buddy’s idea of a major food group.
Jesus is alive! That’s the sweet surprise of Easter. Matthew 28:5-6
Here is a helpful guide to use when sharing these Resurrection Eggs with your toddler…
And I thought I’d share a few images of the Happy Buddy as we walked through the Gospel together. 🙂
One of my favorite moments was when the Happy Buddy did something that communicated his full understanding of the Easter message he had just received.
He dug through his ‘treat’ egg, picked out all of the yellow M&M’s, and gave them to me – because yellow is my favorite color.
Talk about a sacrifice!
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John 4:10
Happy Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers-ing! 🙂
Thank you so much!!! I really needed this one :)!
Love it! Going to do this for my daughter’s christian preschool class. Do you have the verse page on a pdf for printing?
Lisa, I am having computer/scanner issues, so I am sorry it isn’t in a PDF! Here is what I suggest… Right click the image and copy/paste it into a Word Document. Then you can print it to your heart’s content! Let me know if that helps…
Would like pdf of this verse for the 6 eggs. Teacher 3-4 yr olds at church run preschool.
We will add this to our resurrection time this week! We’ve really enjoyed Miss Patty Cake’s book and DVD- 7 egg version as well. I’ve blogged about them here: http://lifelonglearningadventures.blogspot.com/search/label/Resurrection
Love this! I’ve seen lots of versions but this is pure and simple and I loved your photos. I will be doing this with my youngest soon! ………. Eeek, 2 days!! 🙂
This is awesome. Thanks so much. I agree with the Happy Buddy that M&M’s are a major food group. If my waistline allowed, I’d eat them every meal. 🙂
Oh Julie—this is absolutely PRECIOUS!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea!!! We keep our Resurrection Eggs out literally all year because my girls enjoy going through them so much. You Happy Buddy finding the yellow M&M’s for you is just too adorable!!! I LOVE that kid!!! 😉
Thanks so much for sharing this. Just wanted you to know I am printing this off on 1/4 sheets to do with my 4 year olds in class Sunday morning.
Thanks for all your ideas! I’m praying for you and your new baby.
I really like this idea. I don’t have any little ones at home anymore, but just may share this with my oldest daughter who has 3 little boys.
Awesome! I teach a 3-year-old class and I think this is the perfect amount of detail for the little ones! Thank you for sharing!
thank you so much for all these wonderful ideas for Easter you have shared. I am going to share them with our sunday school and mainly music.
Thanks, Nikki!!!
Thanks so much for sharing!! Will be doing your version with my 2 1/2 yr old this week!! God bless
Thank you so much for this! We will do this tonight with my son for family night!
This is great! It inspired me with an idea for an Easter egg scavenger hunt for my toddler. For each egg, I wrote a little poem that includes a part of the Easter story and/or Gospel message, a picture, and a clue to find the next egg. The baskets at the end have mostly Christ-centered gifts, like books, preschool devotional, Veggie Tales and What’s in the Bible DVDs, Jesus Loves Me teddy bear, cross necklace. Thanks so much!
I love this, thank you for sharing. I am hoping now to create them with my kindergarten Sunday school class on Easter Sunday.
Thank you! This is perfect for little ones! My girls are just 3 and 1. This is just enough for them to begin to understand the gospel truth! I am also planning to use this for our preschool storytime at church this week. Can’t wait to share with other moms of little ones there!
I am so happy you can use this idea! Thank you for commenting and what a precious heart you have!
Aloha! Mahalo for this idea! I just found the 12 Eggs of Easter minutes ago, and thought to myself the exact same thing. We have a 4 year old and a 1 year old. This is PERFECT for our toddler. Happy Easter from Maui! <3
This is one of the best resurrection egg ideas I’ve seen. The visuals will really help my girls to recall the Easter story.
One question though, I’d like to do it every day of this Easter week to help them learn the story better (my kids love repetition). So I’m not really keen on doing candy every day (although that’s a great idea for a one off for sure)! Does anyone have any other ideas for something that symbolizes a surprise, or maybe a celebration that Jesus is alive that I could pop in the egg? I’m thinking a balloon or maybe just a picture of something like the cross…
A sticker could be fun! 🙂
Fill it with confetti, or a little noisemaker, or maybe a sweet but healthy treat. Or if you have an idea that won’t fit in the egg, put a little note in there that says “Look in the _____ for a surprise!”
Did you use the large plastic eggs? If so, where did you get the carton? I can see where to buy 30 at a time, but I’d prefer to only buy a few if possible.
Thank you Julie! I’m using this idea for my Easter morning Children’s Sermon.