This evening we had the opportunity to go to a family Easter Experience at our church. It was a good opportunity for the kids to take part in events that took place around Easter like the Last Supper, carrying the cross, watching a reenactment of Mary and the disciples after the resurrection, etc.
One of my favorite activities was when the little kids got to see the prints of the sin in their hearts washed clean. They started with a piece of cloth with a heart on it, then they used red marker to make thumb prints in the middle of their hearts that represented sin. At the end of the tour, when they talked about what Jesus’ death and resurrection means for us, the little ones got to take their cloth to a bin of water and rinse them out, and see that their hearts were completely clean again. The older kids had walked around with rocks in their socks for part of the tour. The rocks were there to remind them of the uncomfortable feeling that sin can have in our lives. But at the end of the tour, they got to take the rocks out of their socks and place them in a bowl with all the other kids’ rocks, and then feel what it was like to walk around without those rocks which symbolized the feeling of freedom we have from sin.
The Easter Experience took the girls over an hour past their bedtime, so there were two tired little girls on the way home, but I think it was a great way for them to grasp more meaning out of this Easter week.
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