Fun Family Home Evening idea for Easter

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We were traveling on Easter and couldn’t really celebrate the way we should have. When we got back, our Primary President had prepared a Family Home Evening package related to Easter that helped create one of the most spiritual FHE’s we’ve ever had as a family.

She handed me a plastic bag filled with 12 hollow plastic eggs. Each egg was numbered one through 12. Inside the hollow plastic eggs were scriptures written on a small sheet of paper and an object related to the scripture. The instructions asked the children to open the eggs and then read the scripture inside and consider the relation to the object. All of the scriptures were from the New Testament and had to do with the Atonement and the Resurrection. The first scripture described Jesus’ trip to the Garden of Gethsemene and had an olive. A later scripture had a description of the Crucifiction and included a nail. Another described how Joseph of Arimethea wrapped Jesus body and included a white piece of linen. And so on.

This was really profound stuff and brought home the message of Easter to my children much better than all of my lecturing ever could. We had great discussions about what happened in the Garden of Gethsemene and what the resurrection meant. As always, my daughters (ages 10 and seven) knew much more about the scriptures than I ever would have thought possible. All in all, it was a great FHE.

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Geoff B graduated from Stanford University (class of 1985) and worked in journalism for several years until about 1992, when he took up his second career in telecommunications sales. He has held many callings in the Church, but his favorite calling is father and husband. Geoff is active in martial arts and loves hiking and skiing. Geoff has five children and lives in Colorado.

11 thoughts on “Fun Family Home Evening idea for Easter”

  2. Me, good stuff! Thanks for the links. Anything that will keep it spiritual and interesting is a welcome change from the usual FHE program of “a fight beginning and ending with a prayer.”

  4. Mike, thanks for pointing this out. As I’ve written many times before, I don’t really read that many other blogs. I guess the good news is the idea really worked with my family. Julie, sorry for the plagiarism.

  5. I used to do something similar with my kids, only we did it in place of an easter egg hunt. I just had a list of object they had to find, and then used the objects to tell the Easter story.

  6. Oh, and the thing that made it cool was the last two objects–one had to be something empty, to represent the tomb, and the other something alive, to represent Christ’s ressurrection. It was very powerful.

  7. “Julie, sorry for the plagiarism.”

    My lawyer has advised me . . .

    . . . . no, wait. What I meant to say was that it wasn’t even my idea in the first place. Glad your family enjoyed it. Our ward made these as a Primary Activity Day and that worked well, too.

  8. We did this activity this year and enjoyed it as well. The spirituality was dampered some by my one year old who would steal the eggs from his brother and sister and make them chase him around the house to retrieve. Good Times.

  9. This is a great idea. I am firmly convinced that FHE can and should be a spiritual time, not just a family get-together. This helps that special time be both. And it also helps focus on Easter as the celebration of the resurrected Savior, not as a celebration of the Easter Bunny.

    Thanks for posting this. And what an inspired primary president- you should tell her how important this activity was to her family and thank her for being open to the inspiration to do it.

  10. This was an awesome thing my daughter came home from church with on Easter, as well (It’s probably been since last December since I’ve been to church . . . . been going through alot of stuff).

    I went through some of the things with her, but made sure to keep the set if things up when not out because she might hurt herself with the nail.

    Our eggs were in an egg carton. It was really cool for me to see her talk about what each item (or lack thereof) was for, and what it MEANT.

  11. I am the Primary President of a refugee branch and would like to do this for sharing time next week. I need a list of all the scripture references and items in each egg. Can you help?

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