How did you fair this winter? I am DONE with winter, DONE I say! It was rough.
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Category: Holidays
Tot School: Easter
Instead of doing our normal tot trays we did our own version of Resurrection Eggs to lead up to Easter Sunday. We started on Palm Sunday. For more details on these projects please see my post about Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers using The Beginner’s Bible. The night before Easter we made Resurrection rolls. This year we opted for the super easy recipe described here. I even splurged and bought the pre-made dough. He had fun helping with this and so did I (pretty impressive since it was almost 10 o’clock when we did it!). They turned out delicious and perfect for a busy morning. I know Easter was awhile ago but I hope yours was blessed and full of happy memories, like ours. This post is linked to Tot School Gathering: Week 14.
Continue readingResurrection Eggs for Toddlers using The Beginner’s Bible
For pictures of these activities please see our Easter post. After venting about the lack of truly Easter related “Easter” activities on the web I received several suggestions to try Resurrection Eggs. There are some commercial versions available for purchase but a quick google search pulled up several DIY editions, too. My biggest concern was making all the activities toddler-friendly. I didn’t expect him to “get it” completely but I wanted to lay a foundation for him to learn upon and have lots of fun in the process. I’d say we succeeded. The best DIY plans I could find that were geared for toddlers came from Play Eat Grow and H is for Homeschooling. I wanted the activities to line up with the chain of events in the Bible and I wanted to tie each event in to a hands-on activity. I pulled ideas from both blogs and added some of my own to fill our eggs. Both of the sites I linked to offer a printable list of verses that tie in to each day’s discussion. We didn’t do any studying or memorizing of the verses this year. Each day we opened one or two eggs and talked about
Continue readingTot School: St. Patrick’s Day week
Kent was 20 months old. As we’ve been growing in our faith I’ve started digging in to each holiday and trying to decipher whether or not it is worth celebrating. For us, St. Patrick’s Day is. We are not Catholic but the story of how St. Patrick spread the word of God is still an inspiring story that I feel Kent can benefit from hearing. I wanted to make the week really fun. It was VERY fun, even better than Brown week. Planning and preparation is really paying off. I wish I had snapped a picture of the tot tray shelf. I’ll try to do that from now on. We also colored a free printable of St. Patrick and made a shamrock egg carton craft. It was a GREAT week! Have you changed the way you think about holidays due to your faith? Any awesome activities we missed?
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