Are you still celebrating Easter? We are! There are lots of ways to celebrate the 50 days of Easter, and a new activity for us this year is having a Symbolic Easter Lunch! We had so much fun with our Lenten Lunch that Lacy from Catholic Icing designed so we knew that we wanted to try to Easter Lunch as well!
We used the Way of Light for Children from Family Feast and Feria as our guide to pray, read about and reflect upon the events from Easter until Pentecost. It was a real treat to have so many goodies with our lunch and it is a fun way for the children to bring to life the Easter story. This is a great activity to do with your family any time between Easter and Pentecost!
Find all of the food ideas and what they can represent HERE!
At the end we talked about what their favorite parts of the story were. Ryan (6 years) liked the part about Doubting Thomas and how he could stick his finger in the doughnut like Thomas did in Jesus's wounds. Connor (4 years) loved the story of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit descending upon the disciples and Mary and us using red pepper to symbolize the flames of the Holy Spirit. Luke (2 years) liked the story of the Sea of Tiberias and the fishermen, probably because Goldfish crackers are his favorite treat! Peter (now 5 months) just enjoyed hanging out with all of us and smiled away!
This was such a fun activity and one that hopefully will become an Easter tradition for our family!
So awesome and fun Nicole! Love all your symbolic foods and I must say as someone who eats lots of red peppers, that was my favorite too! Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to tell you I linked up to your post here with my symbolic Easter tea post! Here's my post: http://www.asliceofsmithlife.com/2016/05/prayers-for-boyle-family-and-easter.html Thanks for the inspiration!
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