Family Theme Night Blog

It is spring cleaning time!  My kids just finished their spring break.  At first glance, our major spring break activity might not seem like the definition of fun.  In between play-dates and mini-trips visiting friends, we completed a family project (or perhaps I should say we started a series of family projects).  We enjoyed some "spring cleaning family fun!"

Yes, I did use the words "spring cleaning" and "fun" in the same sentence!  Here are three ways our family makes chores more enjoyable:

1.  Do Chores Together!

Friday is usually the day for my "faith-filled family fun blog," a series of weekly posts with fun activities based around Bible stories. In the days leading up to Easter, I will be posting additional faith-based family fun Easter ideas throughout the week.

Easter is almost here, so I decided to combine the last list of extension activities for  Resurrection Eggs into one post.  Today's post includes activities for eggs 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.

Egg #8 (Dice for Gambling):

Friday is usually the day for my "faith-filled family fun blog," a series of weekly posts with fun activities based around Bible stories. In the days leading up to Easter, I will be posting additional faith-based family fun Easter ideas throughout the week.

Today I am posting my next installment of "ways to use Resurrection Eggs."  I am combining both days six and seven into this post.  The sixth egg contains the crown of thorns, and the seventh egg contains a cross made of nails.

Here are some ideas for the sixth egg:

Friday is usually the day for my "faith-filled family fun blog," a series of weekly posts with fun activities based around Bible stories. In the days leading up to Easter, I will be posting additional faith-based family fun Easter ideas throughout the week.

All week I have been posting ways to use Resurrection Eggs.  It has been pretty easy coming up with ideas so far, until I got to today.  The 5th egg.  The one with a whip.

Parts of the Easter story are just not very pretty.  When we reflect on the harsh reality of it all, it brings an unpleasant picture to mind.  And as much as  I want my kids to know the whole story, I have to admit that I struggle with explaining this part to them.  Children are so sweetly innocent.

Friday is usually the day for my "faith-filled family fun blog," a series of weekly posts with fun activities based around Bible stories. In the days leading up to Easter, I will be posting additional faith-based family fun Easter ideas throughout the week.

This week I have been posting ways to use Resurrection Eggs.  Today is day four, the fourth egg—the egg containing praying hands.  It reminds us of when Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane.

As you open the fourth egg, take the opportunity to teach your kids about prayer:

Friday is usually the day for my "faith-filled family fun blog," a series of weekly posts with fun activities based around Bible stories. In the days leading up to Easter, I will be posting additional faith-based family fun Easter ideas throughout the week.

Today is day three of fun using Resurrection Eggs.  The third egg contains a silver-toned chalice, representing the cup Jesus used during the Last Supper.

Friday is usually the day for my "faith-filled family fun blog," a series of weekly posts with fun activities based around Bible stories. In the days leading up to Easter, I will be posting additional faith-based family fun Easter ideas throughout the week.

If you have been following my last couple of posts, you know I love using Resurrection Eggs by FamilyLife Publishing.  Today's post includes activities for day two/egg two.  This egg contains coins, representing the thirty pieces of silver that Judas used to betray Jesus.

Friday is usually the day for my "faith-filled family fun blog," a series of weekly posts with fun activities based around Bible stories. In the days leading up to Easter, I will be posting additional faith-based family fun Easter ideas throughout the week.

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I love using Resurrection Eggs by FamilyLife Publishing! I find them to be a great tool to teach the Biblical Easter story. Yesterday I posted some general ideas for making the eggs more fun. Today I'm listing some fun activities specifically for Egg Number One!

The Friday faith-filled family fun blog is a series of weekly posts with fun activities based around Bible stories.

I love using Resurrection Eggs by FamilyLife Publishing! They are a great resource, and a fun way to tell the Biblical Easter story to kids.  It has become a tradition in our family to use them every year to tell the Easter story.

As wonderful and rich a resource they are, sometimes I feel the need to mix things up a little to keep things interesting.  If you use them every year, perhaps you feel the same way!  Here are five extension activities to make this tool even more fun:

With "March Madness" in full swing, there is a lot of excitement and talk of basketball in our home.  Today I made a fun afternoon snack for my kids, in honor of March Madness:  an orange basketball!

I used an orange peeler to make lines on the peel so that it would look like a basketball.  Easy, fun, and a great way to get my kids to consume their daily vitamin C!  And the best part?  My son took one look at it and said "Wow!  That looks really good.  Can I eat it?"  Score one for mom!

For more basketball ideas, check out this blog post: