How to Create Your Own Easter Story Eggs
We love many Christmas traditions, but my family was having a hard time finding a meaningful Easter tradition. My sister-in-law found this idea and we’ve made it our own. My studio is usually full of abstract art and my current projects, but it was a wonderful break to create theses as a family. I would love to share with you our new tradition: Resurrection Day eggs.
Each one of the twelve eggs shows a symbol that relates to the week leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection. My girls had a great time painting these and each year we bring them out and tell the Easter story.
Here is how you can make your own Easter story eggs:
Supplies:
Craft paint ( 3-4 colors of your choice, we used pastels)
Gold paint or gold paint pen to create God’s glory egg
12 Wooden eggs (like these!)
Paint brushes
Water cup
Fine-tip permanent marker
Varnish or spray sealer
Paint each egg with two coats of craft paint, allowing drying time between each coat. The wood absorbs the paint fairly quickly. The kids helped me with this step.
Drawn on the symbols on each egg with the permanent marker. You can do an overall design or one large symbol on each, whatever you like better. I ended up drawing the symbols on ours. Don’t worry if you are not an artist. Use simple shapes. The main point is the meaning behind it. Diagram below!
Top to Bottom, left to right:
tomb, communion cup and bread, bag of silver and pieces, spear,
burial cloth, nails, rooster, thorns
cross, God’s glory, palm branches, donkey
3. Seal your eggs with varnish or spray sealer as the marker will wear off over time. I learned this from personal experience!
Once you have created your eggs, you can use them however your family wants. We bring the eggs out at the start of Lent as a reminder of what is to come. During the week leading up to Easter, you can hide one to two eggs per day and read the corresponding scripture. I’ve written the document here with the symbol, meaning, and scripture in the order of the biblical events. You can also hide them all on Easter Sunday around the house and have the children find them and read and share the story at your family meal, each person sharing their piece of the story with the egg that they found. Help little ones learn the story by asking what symbol is on their egg and if they remember how it relates to the Easter story.
I have friends who have given a box of story eggs to each one of their children. Their eggs are a different color so each child can identify their own when they hide them. This could become a treasured keepsake to pass on. Take this idea and make it your own!
Happy Easter! He is Risen!
Download the Easter story eggs resource here. (Thank you to good family friends who complied this and I adapted for this Resurrection Egg version.)