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Children’s Ministry Links For Easter

Tony Kummer — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:45:36 +0000

Here are some links to Easter children’s ministry resources I’ve written about. For fresh ideas you should also check out the Easter Zone from Kidology.

Share Your Easter Ideas For Kids – this post features some new resources and a forum for readers to share their ideas. Don’t miss the video demonstration for making Easter Resurrection Rolls.
What Should I Teach On Easter? – this post was mainly a place to discuss new ideas for Easter Children’s church.
When Is Easter Sunday 2009? – I posted this just so we’d all get the dates right!
What Are You Doing On Easter Sunday? – more discussion about what children’s ministry events readers have planned at their church this Easter.
Open Forum: Does Easter Egg Hunting Belong At Your Church? – Sometimes there are different opinions on the use of egg hunting for Easter at your church.
Children’s Easter Crafts Resource Page – I tried to find some free craft ideas online for use around Easter time.
How To Make Resurrection Eggs (Easter Craft Project For Kids) – check out this great demonstration video on how to make Easter resurrection eggs for the kids at your church.
Easter Bible Verses – of course the word “Easter” is not in the Bible, but the resurrection of Jesus certainly is. Here are some familiar Bible verses about the holiday. These are useful to add to craft projects to to sprinkle into family conversation about Easter.

How To Make Resurrection Eggs (Easter Craft Project For Kids)

Tony Kummer — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:50:39 +0000

Easter Resurrection Eggs have become a standard Sunday school activity for many churches. Here is a video demonstration showing how you can make your own set as Sunday school craft project. It also shows how to teach an Easter lesson for children.

For more videos like this, you should check out Cullen’s Abc’s. She has hundreds of video demonstrations of Sunday school activities.

Open Forum: Does Easter Egg Hunting Belong At Your Church?

Tony Kummer — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:55:07 +0000

Kids love Easter egg hunting, but does that mean we should have one at church? This is an issue our pastoral staff has been working through over the past several years. My first year at the church, I carried forward their existing program called Easter EGGstravaganza.

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It was a Saturday morning Easter egg hunt that doubled as a massive outreach effort. We did the works – door prizes, crafts, resurrection eggs, and more tubs of stuffed plastic eggs than I care to remember. The event took weeks of planning and a full roster of volunteers to make it happen. We mailed postcards to 500 households with children. The publicity budget for the event was close to the VBS level.

Turnout was great and everyone had a wonderful time. There was only one problem – the event did not meet its goals. No prospects from that group visited our church for Easter. None of the children were enrolled in our Wednesday nightclub program. None of the follow up efforts showed any promise. Six months later all I could show was a mailing list for future ministry events.

That was the end for EGGstravaganza. In fact, we haven’t had any Easter egg hunt since then. For me, it wasn’t a theological decision as much as a programming choice. Our resources are better directed toward events that advance the church’s disciple making mission.

What do you think about Easter egg hunts at church?

Do you see it as a helpful outreach tool? Are you concerned about detracting from the real meaning of Easter? Leave a comment below and join the conversation.