Now that the Solo and Ensemble insanity has abated, my paper collection is clamoring for attention. Today's goal: create a card inspired by MFT Sketch #425. A few Sizzix Spring Birds Triplits dies, some washi tape, and various paper scraps from the stash, and it's all finished!
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These bunnies hopped into Easter baskets and met their new best friends today, so they are ready to say hi to everybunny. Happy Easter!
The free pattern is here: Little Bigfoot Bunny A quick and easy baking project on a busy Saturday. Recipe courtesy of King Arthur Flour, with festive Easter M&Ms substituted for some of the chocolate chips. The Primary and Sunday School students were very excited to eat them! One of my students said she had only had a glass of chocolate milk for breakfast, so perhaps our next snack should be bran muffins instead of cookies. Perhaps not!
My sisters give great birthday gifts. One example of this is 60 Quick Baby Blankets. Shortly after receiving it, I looked at all the pictures inside with one of my adorable nieces, and she said her favorite item in it was the little lamb at the back of the book. So here is my very first attempt at knitting a sheepie. We'll call him Shaun. I still had plenty of black and white yarn and stuffing material, and thought maybe the adorable niece's younger brother would like a sheepie, so. . . . . .then there were two sheepies! Shortly after Shaun the Second arrived on the scene, the aforementioned adorable niece and nephew and their two older siblings came over to play. They announced that the sheepies' names were Shaun and Shauna, and that everyone needs a sheepie, so. . . . . .now we have a whole family of sheepies!
And they all lived happily ever after. The End The children were all very excited and very hungry today! We had two kinds of mini muffins and two colors of grapes from the ward Easter party and chocolate-chip cookies from Sister Smith, and everyone enjoyed the variety and quantity of delicious snacks. We talked about bunnies and sheep and eggs for a minute or two, but the children said those were not really why we celebrate Easter, so we spent the rest of our lesson time talking about Jesus. The children spent a lot of time examining this picture. We talked about the thieves on either side of Jesus, the sign above his head, and Jesus' friends, who were very sad. We talked about how Jesus had not done anything wrong, but some bad people had him put to death anyway. It was hard to understand how anyone could not love Jesus and want to be like him. We learned that Jesus' friends took his body and cleaned it and put it in a tomb. The children noticed how small and dark the tomb was. We learned that a big stone was rolled in front of the tomb and soldiers stood guard, so that nobody could go inside. The children were very excited when angels came and frightened the soldiers into unconsciousness. They wondered how the angels moved the big, heavy stone out of the way, but then they realized that Heavenly Father had given them the strength and the knowledge of how to do the job. Jesus' spirit had reentered his body, so he didn't need to stay in the tomb any more! We learned that several women came to take care of Jesus' body, but he wasn't there! They eventually saw two angels, who told them that Jesus had risen from the tomb. The children were very glad that Jesus comforted Mary Magdalene, who was crying because she didn't know where he was. They also thought it was funny that she didn't recognize Jesus at first. We learned that Mary Magdalene and her friends went and told Jesus' other disciples to be happy because he was alive. We learned that we will all be resurrected because Jesus was. What an amazing gift he gave us on Easter! We colored pictures of the empty tomb and Jesus and practiced how we could tell the Easter story to our families and friends. Then we spent the last few minutes of class using lots of sparkly bunny and egg stickers. We were having so much fun that nobody wanted to go home when their parents arrived!
General Conference is on Easter Sunday this year, so we had our Easter lesson a week early! Everybody was happy with the lesson topic, but disappointed that it was Fast Sunday, so we could not eat delicious Easter treats. We put this picture of the resurrected Savior on the board and talked about whom Jesus loves. We had some word strips with the names of a few people that Jesus loves--the people in our class! We took turns putting our names next to the picture of Jesus. The children loved this so much that they took their name signs home at the end of class. We learned that Jesus loves all children. We learned that he blessed the children in Israel during his mortal ministry, and that he blessed the children in America after he was resurrected. We learned that not everybody loved Jesus, and that he was crucified because the people who did not like him said he was a bad person. The children had a very hard time understanding why anyone would dislike Jesus, but they helped tell the story of how he died and his friends put his body in a tomb. They proceeded to explain about the soldiers who stood guard in front of a tomb until angels came and frightened them so much that they fell as if they were dead. The angels rolled the stone away from in front of the tomb, and the resurrected Lord came out, so when his friends came to care for his body, he was not there. Our class knows all about Easter! We learned that we will be resurrected, just like Jesus was. We used a gloves to represent our bodies and our hands to represent our spirits, and discussed how our body only works when our spirit is in it. When we die, our spirits leave our bodies. When we are resurrected, our spirits and bodies will be reunited and will never be separated again. We are thankful for our bodies and that we will live forever! We learned that Jesus visited the Nephites after he finished his ministry in the Holy Land. The children loved learning about the voice that spoke from Heaven, which the Nephites did not understand until the third time, when they listened especially carefully. We learned that it is important to listen when the Lord speaks to us, either directly or through his prophet.
We ended the lesson by coloring self-portraits. One of the children drew himself in a monster costume. . .because we will still be able to play dress-up when we are immortal! Reed (in hallway): What's our snack today?
Sister Combs: Cookies with frosting on top. . . . All children (in classroom): When are we having snacks? What kind of food did you bring? Cupcakes? Muffins? Reed: It's cookies with frosting. . . . Reed (eating his second cookie): What are the little orange things? Sister Combs: Carrots! All children: Yum. 100% of the children liked the frosted carrot cookies. One can only guess how the results would have been different if they had known about the secret ingredient in advance! It was Easter, so the lesson was about. . .Easter. The children were all very excited and tired from a busy weekend of egg-hunting, candy-eating, and other festive activities, plus they had all talked about the Easter story at home, so they all had a lot to say, and they all wanted to say it at the same time! They were very interested in how Jesus' friends had taken care of him and prepared him for burial, and understood how happy the disciples must have felt when they heard that he was alive again. We were supposed to learn the word resurrection but they already knew how to say it and what it meant! We discussed that all people will eventually be resurrected, which they agreed was a good thing. We concluded that egg hunts and candy and toys are lots of fun, but we celebrate Easter because Jesus Christ was resurrected, which is far more important. We colored pictures of the empty tomb and of the resurrected Savior. Gia did some pretty wild rainbow coloring, which a couple of the other children thought was fun to emulate. |
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