Today the Ranch Hands will be making an Easter garden to remember Jesus’ death.  On Easter morning the stone will be rolled away.  There are some very nice pictures to give you an idea of the finished project potential here, here and here. Other years we have done a Jonah craft. This site has several Holy Week and Easter patterns. The garden is towards the bottom.

A few years ago I picked up some wooden half eggs. There are full wooden eggs but these you can lay down on the table to paint. We are making some faux pysanky eggs with these this weekend. You simply paint them a base color such as black or red and then decorate in a traditional pysanky pattern. (notice we are just now making them ; )) No wooden eggs at your house?  No problem. You can find paper craft eggs here, and here they make them into state flower eggs. This egg unit has lots of book titles, experiments, and crafts.

Historically the hardest part of Good Friday is observing silence from noon until three when Jesus died for us. Silence is not our strong suit. ; D Yet we feel it is vitally important to take this time to remember an event too awesome for words.  I have linked up some coloring pages for quiet time:

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