The Season of Easter
Easter Articles
An Easter Children’s Sermon
A retelling of the Easter story for children that can be used as an Easter children’s sermon, in children’s chapel, or as a tool for parents talking about Easter at home.
Three Teaching Points for Easter
Whether you are planning an adult Easter series, newsletter for families, or Easter prayer stations for youth, here are three teaching points to consider.
Blessing of the Easter Eggs
Celebrate the message of Christ’s resurrection with family, friends, and neighbors during your Easter Egg hunt.
Want Easter Guests to Come Back? Invite Them to Your Next Big Thing
Inviting your guests to what is coming up next at your church is an important part of welcoming and evangelism. Easter affords an opportunity to welcome large numbers of new faces to the Next Big Thing with your congregation.
Easter Sunrise Breakfast at Home
An Easter sunrise breakfast is one way families can transmit Christian belief in ways that are authentic to their household.
Why Eggs on Easter? A Christian Answer
Enjoy your chocolate Easter eggs! Eggs are a perfect Easter symbol. Eggs are symbols of new life, just as Christians find new life in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ at Easter.
In the Bustle of Easter… Don’t Forget to Teach Easter!
When to teach Easter is a fundamental question for churches who see high attendance numbers on Easter Sunday but do not offer formational time on the Feast Day.
Easter Craft: Resurrection Butterflies
A fun tradition is to make these during Holy Week. You can then hide the butterfly chrysalises, to be revealed on Easter Sunday.
Holy Week Art Project: Making Easter Flags
Tell the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection with each flag-making step. Flags may be made on Palm Sunday, or earlier, and displayed Easter morning.
Beyond the Egg Hunt: Celebrating Easter at Church
“However you choose to incorporate and channel the excitement of Easter morning, do it intentionally, with love and the full knowledge that death has been
Making Easter Butterflies, Alleluia!
Make durable Easter butterflies that are fun for all ages, decorate the church garden, and symbolize the resurrection of Jesus.
How to Live the 50 Days of Easter
At Building Faith, we are ever mindful of the church calendar. It is through these seasons that we “live and move and have our being.” The season of Easter (Eastertide) lasts 50 days! For most of us, however, the charm seems to wear off after about 3 weeks. There are some practical ways for reversing this trend. For example, a 50 Days Activity list from St. Chrysostom’s in Manchester, UK.
Below, Elizabeth Ring offers her suggestions for living into the Easter season!
How to Reinvent Your Easter Egg Hunt, for Good
Like many churches, we have a tradition of an Easter egg hunt for children. It’s one of those things that we just always do, though no one knows when it started. Also like most churches, our attendance doubles on Easter morning, and we have many folks joining us for the first time, but for some reason we cancel Sunday School, and all we show visitors about our church is an egg hunt, which does nothing to tell the Christian story. So last year some of us started wondering aloud about how to send a better message on Easter.
Make a Resurrection Set: Hands-on Easter Learning
How to download, make, and use a resurrection set to teach children about Good Friday and Easter.
8 Ways to Live the Great Fifty Days of Easter
Easter is O-V-E-R, and now we are in to school testing, spring vacations, recitals, end of the year concerts, playoff games, exams, preparation for VBS, and some are already getting ready for camp. Wait. I want to celebrate the fifty days of Easter.
9 Children’s Easter Books To Tell The Story of Jesus
Sharing the Easter story with young people is a great joy. These books, with text and images, tell the death and resurrection of Jesus in appropriate ways.
Defending the Easter Egg Hunt!
Our annual Easter Egg Hunt is under attack. Not from parishioners or clergy who question the religiosity of the tradition, nor from the expense of filling plastic eggs with candy, stickers, and tiny toys for a quickly increasing number of children. No, we’re under attack by local wildlife, who after many years of oblivion have suddenly discovered that once a year St. Barnabas holds a smorgasbord served in odd plastic ovals.
Come Back, Easter Crowd!
Over the years, I have seen churches of all sizes compel the “Easter Crowd” to return the following weekend and eventually become part of the congregation. With some pre-planning and strategic intent, you can improve your odds at getting back the people who, otherwise, you might not see again for another year.
Easter Eggs: History and Traditions
During the Middle Ages eggs were not allowed to be eaten as part of the Lenten fast. So Easter Sunday became a day to celebrate with the eating of eggs. Children used to go house to house, singing and begging for eggs. They were paid in hard-boiled eggs, dyed with vegetables such as beetroot (red), spinach (green), onions (yellow)and tea (brown).
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