I thought this was a cute activity to do with our still-young children to help them learn about and appreciate why we celebrate Easter. I thought I'd post it here. Hopefully you'll be able to cut and past to save it for yourselves.

Resurrection Eggs

Here's a fun activity to help your children learn the Easter story. Simply
buy a bag of plastic eggs and place the items listed below into each egg.
Hide the eggs around the house and allow the children to find them all. Then
have each child open their egg and discuss what the items in each egg
represent. Number the eggs so that you remember the correct order to open
them.
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Egg 1: Three dimes A small piece of paper with the following verse
reference:
(Matthew. 26:14) 14. Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went
unto the chief priests, 15. And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I
will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of
silver.
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Egg 2: One sacrament cup A small piece of paper with the following verse
reference:
(Matt. 26:39) 39. And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and
prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:
nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
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Egg 3: Twine with knots in it A small piece of paper with the following
verse reference:
(Matt. 27:1) 1. When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders
of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 2. And when
they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate
the governor.
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Egg 4: A piece of soap A small piece of paper with the following verse
reference:
(Matt. 27:24) 24. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that
rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the
multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to
it. 25. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on
our children. 26. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had
scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
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Egg 5: Square of red fabric A small piece of paper with the following verse
reference:
(Matt. 27:28) 28. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. 29.
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and
a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked
him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! 30. And they spit upon him, and took
the reed, and smote him on the head.
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Egg 6: A cross (made from toothpicks) A small piece of paper with the
following verse reference:
(Matt. 27:31) 31. And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off
from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
32. And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him
they compelled to bear his cross.
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Egg 7: Two dice A small piece of paper with the following verse reference:
(Matt. 27:35) 35. And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting
lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They
parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. 36.
And sitting down they watched him there.
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Egg 8: A tiny bag of crushed rock And a small piece of paper with the
following verse reference: (Matt. 27:50, 51 & 54) 50. Jesus, when he had
cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51. And, behold, the
veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the
earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 54. Now when the centurion, and they
that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things
that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
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Egg 9: Strip of white cloth A small piece of paper with the following verse
reference:
(Matt. 27:58) 58. He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then
Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59. And when Joseph had taken the
body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60. And laid it in his own new
tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the
door of the sepulchre, and departed.
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Egg 10: A stone A small piece of paper with the following verse reference:
(Matthew 27:65) 65. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way,
make it as sure as ye can. 66. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure,
sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
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Egg 11: Bayleaf spice A small piece of paper with the following verse
reference:
(Mark 16:1-4) 1. And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the
mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come
and anoint him. 2. And very early in the morning the first day of the week,
they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. 3. And they said
among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the
sepulchre? 4. And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away:
for it was very great.
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Egg 12: An empty egg A small piece of paper with the following verse
reference:
(Mark 16:5-6) 5. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man
sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were
affrighted. 6. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of
Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place
where they laid him.
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