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Easter Celebration Mother Goose Time Style!

I absolutely love the Mother Goose Time Celebration Kits that come each month. I have done posts on past kits and each time they just really help add a little something special to the school days near a holiday. This month was an Easter kit and it came with all the supplies needed to have an Easter Celebration.


We started the day by reading some Easter books that I already owned. I have a slight obsession with holiday and seasonal books and have a very large amount of them. We use them all the time though so I tell myself it is ok!! While I read a few books the kids colored the Easter coloring pages that Mother Goose provided on their website.


After this we made our snack for our Easter lunch. We couldn't do the Boiled Egg Bunny Snack that was suggested in the kit because of my daughters severe egg allergy. They looked really cute though. Instead I decided to try the resurrection rolls that have been all over Pinterest lately. They looked really easy and I liked that they helped to tell the story of Easter. We are a secular homeschooling family, but I still like to share the real meanings behind holidays and share their significance. Its not all about finding eggs and bunnies. Also it looked like an easy snack to make and I like to involve them in the kitchen as much as I can. Here are a couple pictures of our rolls.


The marshmallows were the body of Jesus, the butter and cinnamon sugar were the oils and spices used on the body to prepare for burial, and the dough was the tomb.


Once they were baked and cooled the marshmallow disappeared and represented the empty tomb. We had read a story about Easter prior to this and I think it helped to make the lesson sink in. This was a lot of fun and tasty too.



We ate these during our Easter Tea lunch and read more stories like the 5 little bunnies Rhyme included in the Easter Celebration Kit.


After we were done eating we played the Easter Charades Game. This game was so much fun The great thing about doing the Mother Goose Time Kits is that you can be playing games and learning at the same time. The booklet that comes with the celebreation kit tells you all the skills that are being used during the activities. In the Charades Game the skills included listening comprehension, gross motor, and drama. They had so much fun acting out what was on the cards and guessing. We played 3 times.




Once we finished with Charades we tried the Pin the Tail on the Bunny Game. This was also a lot of fun. The skills learned for this game was spatial awareness, logic, and social relationships. We used my daughters scarf as a blindfold and we wrote our initials on each tail so we could see who got the closest. I had my son write the initials on all of them so he could get some writing practice in as well. His writing is really improving and he is wanting to do it now. This game had us cracking up!




We ended the celebration with the Egg Race and the Shaker Craft. We put on our Mother Goose Time Birds and Eggs CD that is included in the months curriculum and had a little dance party.



I hope your family has a wonderful Easter!




*Mother Goose Time has generously provided this curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*






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