What you will need is an empty egg carton, 12 empty plastic eggs, miscellaneous items to fill the eggs (see the list below), a sharpie to write the numbers on the eggs, and the printed verses which you will see below.
Looking around the house, I seemed to find everything that I needed to fill the eggs.
I cut out the scriptures, folded them up, and placed each item from the corresponding day in the numbered egg. The last day there is nothing in the egg because the tomb was empty! I placed the scripture of that one underneath the egg in the carton. Just print out this list below and cut out. Easy!
Egg #1--Bread.
Matthew 26:26
As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take this and eat it, for this is my body.”
*You can use a crouton, small piece of bread or a cracker
Egg #2--Coins.
Matthew 26:14-15
Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests and asked, “How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?” And they gave him thirty pieces of silver.
*I used 3 dimes
Egg #3--Scourge
Mark 15:15
Pilate wanted to please the crowd. So he set Barabbas free. Then he ordered his soldiers to beat Jesus with a whip
*a small piece of rope or string
Egg #4--Purple cloth
Mark 15:17
They dressed him in a purple robe...
Egg #5--Thorns
Matthew 27:29
They wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head, and they placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mockery and taunted, “Hail! King of the Jews!”
*I got mine from our rose bush, but in the picture it shows one made of pipe cleaner
Egg #6--Cross
John 19: 17-18a
Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
*I used an old wooden cross from a necklace
Egg #7--Nails
Mark 15:23, 24a
They offered him wine drugged with myrrh, but he refused it. Then the soldiers nailed him to the cross.
Egg #8--Dice
John 19:23-24
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided his clothes among the four of them. They also took his robe, but it was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. So they said, “Rather than tearing it apart, let’s throw dice for it.”
Egg #9--Sponge
Matthew 27:48
One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a reed stick so he could drink.
Egg #10--Spear/Sword
John 19:33-34
When they got to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead, so they didn't break his legs. One of the soldiers stabbed him in the side with his spear. Blood and water gushed out.
*I used a cocktail sword
Egg #11--Rock
Matthew 27:59-60
Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a long sheet of clean linen cloth. He placed it in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance and left.
Egg #12--Empty
Matthew 28:6
He isn't here! God has raised him to life, just as Jesus said he would. Come, see the place where his body was lying.
Looking around the house, I seemed to find everything that I needed to fill the eggs.
I cut out the scriptures, folded them up, and placed each item from the corresponding day in the numbered egg. The last day there is nothing in the egg because the tomb was empty! I placed the scripture of that one underneath the egg in the carton. Just print out this list below and cut out. Easy!
Matthew 26:26
As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take this and eat it, for this is my body.”
*You can use a crouton, small piece of bread or a cracker
Egg #2--Coins.
Matthew 26:14-15
Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests and asked, “How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?” And they gave him thirty pieces of silver.
*I used 3 dimes
Egg #3--Scourge
Mark 15:15
Pilate wanted to please the crowd. So he set Barabbas free. Then he ordered his soldiers to beat Jesus with a whip
*a small piece of rope or string
Egg #4--Purple cloth
Mark 15:17
They dressed him in a purple robe...
Egg #5--Thorns
Matthew 27:29
They wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head, and they placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mockery and taunted, “Hail! King of the Jews!”
*I got mine from our rose bush, but in the picture it shows one made of pipe cleaner
Egg #6--Cross
John 19: 17-18a
Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
*I used an old wooden cross from a necklace
Egg #7--Nails
Mark 15:23, 24a
They offered him wine drugged with myrrh, but he refused it. Then the soldiers nailed him to the cross.
Egg #8--Dice
John 19:23-24
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided his clothes among the four of them. They also took his robe, but it was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. So they said, “Rather than tearing it apart, let’s throw dice for it.”
Egg #9--Sponge
Matthew 27:48
One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a reed stick so he could drink.
Egg #10--Spear/Sword
John 19:33-34
When they got to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead, so they didn't break his legs. One of the soldiers stabbed him in the side with his spear. Blood and water gushed out.
*I used a cocktail sword
Egg #11--Rock
Matthew 27:59-60
Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a long sheet of clean linen cloth. He placed it in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance and left.
Egg #12--Empty
Matthew 28:6
He isn't here! God has raised him to life, just as Jesus said he would. Come, see the place where his body was lying.
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Wow, an Easter craft that means something!
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