our easter garden

One of the coolest things we did this year to prepare for and celebrate Easter was make an Easter garden.  Earlier in the week the kids and I filled a aluminum pan with dirt and added little plants, rocks and flowers to make a miniature garden.

On Thursday we added a pipe cleaner Jesus, praying in the garden.

Friday morning we put our Jesus on the cross

and then that evening we wrapped him in a little piece of white fabric, laid him in the (potato) tomb and shut the door tight.

All day Saturday we waited, and by the end of the evening, everything in our garden was withered or dead.  We talked about how hopeless the disciples must have felt, and tossed all the dead stuff, leaving behind a pretty hopeless looking garden.   

Then early Easter morning I ran out to clip some flowers growing around our complex and transformed our Easter garden.  The stone was rolled back, the tomb was empty, and an angel stood announcing the news!

When the kids ran out to the living room Easter morning this was the first thing they saw and they LOVED it!!