Resurrection Day Activities

Photo Credit: Rob Elliott

As followers of Christ, our family believes that it is valuable to spend some extra time to celebrate Resurrection Sunday. We try to live for Jesus every day, remembering His sacrifice and victory, but this gives us a chance to refocus and meditate anew on His love and saving grace.

There are many wonderful family activities on the web for this time of year.

Holy Experience has a few family Easter activities that I would like to do this year:

• Easter Garden
• Easter Tree (how to make one, devotionals and artwork - parents should check the image for Day 1 before showing your children)
• Box of Repentance

My post from last year includes several links to Resurrection Day activities:

• Resurrection Day Links (I made sure the links were working and updated some)

Easy Fun School has a Passover unit study that looks great:

• Celebrating Easter: A Passover Unit Study

Biblical Holidays has information on Passover and instructions for a Messianic Passover Seder:

• Passover Overview
• Messiah in Passover
• Messianic Passover Seder
• Passover Recipes

 Enjoy this season of celebration and hope with your family!

Planning the Garden

I have been busy trying to plan my garden for this summer. There is nothing like a little spring weather for some inspiration!

I really have to order my seeds this weekend so that I can be sure I have them in time to start my indoor plants. I haven't had much success with seed starting yet, but I keep trying.

I thought I would share a few gardening sites that I like:

Vegetable Gardening Online
Econobusters shared this link in a recent newsletter. This website is full of information for beginning gardeners, including free garden plans using the square foot gardening method, garden planning worksheets to download, plant profiles, various types of gardens, and a free online garden planner. The online garden planner allows you to choose a garden size and drag vegetables and fruits to various squares. It even shows you how many vegetables to plant per square! You can design a garden using tips throughout the website, name it, and print it out.

Little House in the Suburbs
You will find the feed to this blog in my sidebar because it is one of my favorites. They have quite a few gardening tips along with a lot of free gardening printables (scroll down and look through old posts for the garden printables or just scroll through the garden category), including several square foot garden plans with instructions. The most recent printable is a free Spring Planner (instructions here).

Organic Gardening
I don't subscribe to the magazine, but I do receive Organic Gardening's e-newsletter. Their website many helpful articles.

I also have an old gardening post that has some other helpful gardening links.