Thursday, 2 April 2015

Easter Garden

We were celebrating Passover at the Salvation Army this evening so we decided to make an Easter Garden to take. It was surprisingly easy and didn't take every long. It didn't even cost us anything as we used what we had lying around. 

First Mischief and Daddy put a layer of soil into a plant pot tray then covered a terracotta plant pot and moulded to look like a hill. I raked up some miss from our lawn and used that to cover all of it. I also cut some twigs and tied with twine to make crosses which were pushed into the soil. Finally we decorated with some pebbles for a path, some grass and fern frond for trees, strips of cloth for the folded grave clothes and a stone for the tomb entrance. 

The tomb is closed for now but the stone will be rolled away to reveal the empty tomb and folded clothes on Easter morning. 

Mischief enjoyed making it and think she got some of the points. We read our books on The Last Supper and The Easter Story after. She's so excited about Easter and Passover this is definitely a tradition I'd like to do each year.