How do we have fun on Easter with candy and baskets and bunnies without losing sight of the resurrection story and Jesus?

Delight in both things for their uniqueness, don’t work too hard to put a bunch of Jesus things they won’t want in their baskets…that doesn’t necessarily honor the day.  Have all the joy in wondering about the bunny and finding baskets and enjoying treats.  Then celebrate that we all get to be in church together and wear fancy clothes and sing loud songs and have pretty flowers because a really good thing happened.   As they get older, they will understand more and more- they don’t need to get it all at once.   Share memories of your favorite Easters, make special food together…that is, all together, holy work. – Pastor Trudy Stoffel