Homemade Resurrection Eggs

What a terrific way to share the Easter story of Jesus's resurrection with your children. You will need a dozen plastic Easter eggs, an egg carton, and the items listed to go along with the scripture. Each egg is to contain the item along with the paper describing the verse. When you are all done filling the eggs you can even decorate a the egg carton!

 PLEASE NOTE: Some of these items are very small and adult supervision is necessary for the little ones.

1. (Bread) Matthew 26:26
"While they were eating Jesus took a piece of bread,
gave a prayer of thanks, broke it, and gave it to His disciples.
'Take and eat it,' He said, 'This is My body.'"

2. (Coins) Matthew 26: 14-15
"Then  one of the twelve disciples, named Judas Iscariot, went to
the chief priests and asked, 'What will you give me if I betray
Jesus to you?'  They counted out thirty silver coins and gave 
them to him."

3.  (Purple cloth, representing a purple robe) Mark 15:17
"They put a purple robe on Jesus. . ."

4.  (Thorns) Matthew 27:29
"Then they made a crown out of thorny branches and placed it on
His head, and put a stick on His right hand; then they knelt
before Him and made fun of Him.  'Long live the King, of the 
Jews!' they said."

5. (Scourge-a small piece of rope or thick string)  Mark 15:15
"Pilate wanted to please the crowd, so he set Barabbas free for
them.  Then he had Jesus whipped and handed Him over to be
crucified."

6.  (Cross) John 19: 17-18a
"He went out, carrying His cross, and came to 'The Place of the
Skull,' as it is called.  (In Hebrew it is called "Galgotha.") There
they crucified Him."

7.  (Nails) John 20:25b
"Thomas said to them, 'Unless I see the scars of the nails in His
hands and put my finger on those scars and my hand in His
side, I will not believe.'"

8.  (Sign) Luke 23:38
"Above Him were written these words:  THIS IS THE KING OF 
THE JEWS."

9.  (Sponge) Matthew 27:48
"One of them ran up at once, took a sponge, soaked it in cheap
wine, put it on the end of a stick, and tried to make Him drink it."

10.  (Spear) John 19:34
"One of the soldiers plunged his spear into Jesus' side, and at
once blood and water poured out."

11.  (Rock) Matthew 27:59-60
"Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a new linen sheet, and
placed it in his own new tomb, which he had just recently dug
out of solid rock.  Then he rolled a large stone across the
entrance to the tomb and went away."

12.  (Empty) Matthew 28:6
"He is not here He has risen just as He said."