Battlecreek Easter Activity

Yesterday we had a wonderful ward Easter activity. The primary was in charge, but we delegated each of the areas, so it turned out to be a super easy activity to pull together; everyone seemed to have a wonderful time. The Young Men did a egg/spoon race, the Young Women did face painting, the Relief Society had sugar cookie decorating, and we had Easter egg hunts, and a craft activity where they created garden tombs representing Christ's resurrection.

We even had an Easter bunny there, as you can see. It still isn't time for our family to go to Disneyland because all of my kids are still very reticent around dressed up characters. :) Kylene did much better this year and actually would take her picture with him. It helped when Spencer found out it was his good friends's daddy inside the costume, but he still didn't want to get too close.

This face Skyler gave after getting his face painted cracks me up! He actually kept the paint on until it was time for his nap that afternoon, though. :)

Gabe, Rachel, Kylene, Spencer waiting for the egg hunt to begin.

Kylene with Brother Schnell...uh, hum, I mean, the Easter bunny.

Spencer and his best buddy, Annon.

Here is a picture at our craft table. All the kids were given a small pot which they filled with soil, then buried an empty film canister in it and put a stone over it to represent the tomb. We then let them sprinkle grass seed over it and decorate it with pine twigs, flowers, etc., they found around the park. We put a rolled up scripture about Christ's resurrection in the film canister for them to read on Easter morning. The kids loved doing it and they turned out really cute. Even the older kids made them. I'm excited to see how well the grass grows on my kiddos.

It was a great activity and the weather was beautiful! Yay for sunshine!