Happy Easter

I love Christmas because it is a month of celebrating the birth of the Savior through sharing, present buying, lights, music, family get-togethers, family activities, etc. I wish that Easter felt like as big of a celebration. In an effort to try to celebrate easter for longer than a day we have started the tradition of celebrating Easter for a week by doing an advent calendar. We count down the days until Easter by reading the scriptures of what Jesus did on that day and try to have an activity that corresponds.


8 Saturday
John 12:1-3 The last sabbath. Mary annoints Jesus' feet
Activity: Give each other foot rubs and pedicures

7 Sunday
Matthew 21:1-11 Triumphal entry and visit to the temple
Activity: Go to temple square. Make a temple craft

6 Monday
Mark 11:15-19 Jesus cleanses the Temple
Activity: Cleanse our own temple by taking anything out of our house that shouldn't be there or by just making it more beautiful somehow.

5 Tuesday
Matt 25:31-46 Jesus taught people the Mount of olives
Activity: Make bunny breads and share them with a friend

4 Wednesday
Matthew 25:1-13 the scriptures don't say what he did that day. I assume he taught.
Activity: Paint a picture of the parable of the 10 virgins

3 Thursday
Matthew 36:17-29, 36-56 Passover Meal
Activity: Have a Passover meal with a meatloaf shaped like a lamb instead of lamb

2 Friday
Luke 23:44-46, 50-56 Jesus is crucified
Activity: Dye Easter Eggs (When I asked master I what we could do for our activity for this day he suggested that we could go give blood. I thought that was a very sweet suggestion, but he is too young so we dyed Easter Eggs instead.)

1 Saturday
Matt 27:57-66 Jesus body lay in the tomb, but his Spirit lived and taught in the Spirit World.
Activity: Easter Egg Hunt and Easter Baskets

Easter Sunday
Matt 28
Actvity: Easter Dinner and a family home evening program (Master I suggested that we share our testimonies of when we have felt the Holy Ghost. He told me he had one to share, but that he wouldn't share it until the program.