Washing feet

For tonight's special activity, we washed each other's feet. Tom and I thought maybe the kids would be silly about it, and we were a little worried, but they weren't . It was a really special activity. We got out 3 big pans, and sat them in front of three chairs. We poured in water, a little soap, and some actual sea salt from the dead sea. Then 3 of us sat in the chairs, while the rest of us washed and dried each other's feet. Then we switched places. It went really well. After that, we decided to watch the church produced movie, "Finding Faith In Christ."
Tom and I decided that we want to do this particular activity every year.

Resurrection Rolls

We made these today, and we'll be making them as part of a primary activity tomorrow.

Ingredients:
1 can refrigerated crescent roll dough
8 large marshmallows
Melted butter
Cinnamon
Sugar

Directions:
Give each child one triangle shaped section of crescent roll. This represents the tomb.
Each child takes one marshmallow which represents the body of Christ.
Dip the marshmallow in the butter and roll in cinnamon and sugar mixture. This represents the oils and spices the body was anointed with upon burial.
Lay the marshmallow on the dough and carefully wrap it around the marshmallow.
Make sure all seams are pinched together well. (Otherwise the marshmallow will "ooze" out of the seams)
Bake according to package directions.
Cool.
Break open the tomb and the body of Christ is no longer there!!

House of Prayer

Tonight was the second night in our Easter week of activities. It was also Family Home Evening. At dinner time we talked about how after Jesus entered Jerusalem, he went up to the Temple.

We read Matthew 21:12-13:

12 ¶ And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
For our activity, we made pretzels, to represent arms folded in prayer. Because we were talking about the House of Prayer, while we made them, we talked to each other in whispers. It was a really good activity.

Palm Sunday

Tonight to remember Palm Sunday, I had the kids cut palm leaves out of green construction paper and lay them on the table. Right before dinner we read Luke 19: 29-38, and then Matthew 21:8-11. Having them make and then lay the palm leaves down helped them want to listen better when we read the scriptures. lEach day this week we're going to do something to remember the Savior.

Having fun making the eggs...

The rice crispy egg recipe (see previous post) is a great activity to do with your kids. It's super simple. You take care of the easy cooking part, but let them grease the plastic eggs with butter and spoon in whatever colors of rice crispy treat they want to form their eggs. They even have fun snapping the eggs shut over the treat, and later opening them to see how they turned out. We did this yesterday inbetween conference sessions.

Here you can see the bowls of colored melted marshmallows and rice crispy cereal. Alan and sarah are buttering the plastic eggs. Here are Sarah and Kaitlyn admiring some of the finished eggs. Sarah ate three of them.