More thoughts about Calvary Hill tutorial

 

I have few more thoughts and ideas I thought I'd "add on" to the Calvary Hill Tutorial. I'll also link these thoughts to that original post...

As you work on creating the project, watering, etc. talk about the Easter story with your child. This is whole Mustard Seed thing in action--planting God's truth--while you are literally planting.

Anne and I had a particularly good conversation as we made the crosses. She wondered why there were three crosses instead of just one for Jesus. We got to talk about how there where two other men who died on the hill with Jesus, but they had actually done some bad things. Jesus was pure and did nothing wrong. He died on the cross for OUR sins.

"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:21

Other questions followed:

Anne: "Why he didn't just get down? I would have helped him get down." 

Me: "Well, he did it just for us. He knew what we couldn't be with him because of OUR sin, so he died on the cross for OUR sin."

Good, profound truth happens when you are crafting/gardening sometimes.

Other teaching ideas:

• On Good Friday, wrap up a clothespin in white cloth and lay it in the tomb (Jesus).
• On the Eve of Easter, remove the clothespin, leave the cloth and leave the tomb open for your child to discover first thing on Sunday morning.

• If your kids are older, have each member of your family take a rock and write a personal struggle or sin on the stone with a permanent pen. Put the rocks in the tomb on Good Friday--the day Jesus died for our sins. On the Eve of Easter, remove the stones and throw them away. Leave the tomb open for the family to discover on Sunday morning.
• On Easter Jesus not only rose from the grave, conquering death, but he conquered our sin--FOREVER. Our sin is dead.
• "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:21

Comments

[Tiffany]

I just featured this and others on my post Lent for Little Ones. -Thanks again Jana! ~Blessings!

[Karen]

Tiffany's site is linking wrong, but it's here: http://wwwsouthernsass.blogspot.com

Just didn't want you to think your blog was being spammed, the link goes somewhere questionable.

Love this project - I think I'm headed to the dollar store tonight to look for supplies!!

[Heather]

What a great idea. I love how projects like this bring up such great conversations with our little ones!