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.