As part of developing our family traditions (thanks to some thoughtful ideas from friends and a great little book called 'Treasuring God in our Traditions' , we have been reading through a few pages of this book since the beginning of Lent.
Today we read about how Jesus was killed on a cross. Yesterday we made a play dough 'Calvary' hill with a tomb and stone in the back of it. We baked it and painted it. This morning we used pipe cleaner people to act out the story.
Each Sunday from the beginning of Lent, we lit one less candle until today when we lit just one candle to symbolise the approaching of the dark day when Jesus was crucified.
Then we ate some hot buns with a cross on them that reminds us that Jesus died for us. (We're looking forward to celebrating the day he rose from the dead... but that's not until Sunday!)
Emily enjoyed the hot cross buns :-)
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