Use these action-packed cards to explore and experience the rich meaning of Easter as a family WHAT’S INSIDE? Overview ………………………………………..……………………….………… p. 2 Instructions ……………………………………………..…….…………………. p. 3 Activity Cards …………………………………………………………….…….... p. 4-11 Hidden Objects List + Answer Key ................................... p. 12 BROUGHT TO YOU BY WWW.WEAREKIDMIN.COM
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Use these action-packed cards to explore and experience
the rich meaning of Easter as a family
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Overview ………………………………………..……………………….………… p. 2
Instructions ……………………………………………..…….…………………. p. 3
Activity Cards …………………………………………………………….…….... p. 4-11
Hidden Objects List + Answer Key ................................... p. 12
• All office printers and most home printers will be able to get the job done
• You can also order custom envelopes online
FINAL PUZZLE
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ACTIVITY
CARDS
TIMING
• Ideal time to launch this activity
is at the beginning of Lent (40-45
days before Easter).
• There’s no need to set the end
date, however if you’ll be offer-
ing prizes, have families send in
their results no later than a
week after Easter.
AGE RANGE
• This activity is ideal for families
who have children ages 5-10.
PROCESS
• Families receive envelopes with
EASTERrific Faith Adventures.
• In the days and weeks leading
up to Easter, they will randomly
pick cards and complete as-
signed challenges.
• Whenever they complete a chal-
lenge and discuss a question,
they turn the card over and
place that piece of the puzzle in
its relevant position.
• The goal is to complete all the
challenges and assemble the
puzzle before the allocated time
runs out.
PRACTICAL TIPS
• Cutting out the Challenge Cards
is the most labor intensive part
of this process. Here are two
suggestions to help you make
this process go smoother:
A. Invite volunteers (retired folks) to come to the office and help with the cutting. They will enjoy doing some- thing meaningful for the families of your church, and they will love the social part of this project.
B. If you have a lot of families, consider outsourcing printing and cutting to a local printer.
• Make every effort to clearly
explain to the parents what this
activity is all about. Help them
catch the vision and get excited!
• Buy a nice prize or ask a local
business to sponsor a prize.
Have families submit photos of
their completed puzzles to be
entered into a prize drawing.
• Don’t forget to create and print
INSTRUCTIONS and place them in
the envelopes together with the
Challenge Cards.
Send your children on a Gospel scavenger hunt. Instruct
them to find items that symbolize different parts of the
Good News of Jesus. A rock (the tomb), two sticks (the
cross), something black (sin), something red (blood),
something white (a clean heart), and something green
(growing in Christ).
Do you find it easy or hard to talk about
Jesus and faith to other people?
Why do you think it’s that way?
Take an older person (maybe a widow or widower)
dinner or something sweet you have baked.
Have children prepare questions they would want to ask
about their life and walk of faith.
(They may also want to prepare a small gift.)
When you are older, what would you like to be able to tell
people about your life and walk of faith?
As a family, visit a garden or park.
Read Luke 22:39-46. Chat about Jesus praying in the
Garden of Gethsemane. Have everyone talk about what
plans they have for tomorrow and what Jesus may have
been thinking about for the next day. (Have a stone
throwing competition—Luke 22:41.)
What thoughts or questions do you have about Jesus
and/or Christian faith?
Give each child a dollar bill. Ask if they would trade
it for five nickels. Thirty pennies? Determine which has
the most value. Read Matthew 26:14-16, 47-56.
Discuss how Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 silver coins
and what a poor trade he made.
What things in your life are trying to push Jesus out of
the way and become most important?
Host your own foot-washing ceremony.
Fill a bucket with water. Grab a few towels, gather your
family, and share the story in John 13:1-17.
Then take turns washing each other’s feet and
praying for one another.
What are some practical ways that we can serve
each other in our home?
Assemble an Easter Basket, fill it up with goodies,
and deliver it to someone who may need an extra dose
of Easter cheer.
What’s more rewarding—to give or receive presents?
(See what Jesus said about it in Acts 20:35.)
Have your children make a cross out of what they can