Family Life By Nancy Twigg

© SW Productions

Simplifying Easter

replace tHe commercial aspects of easter witH its true meaning.

CONSIDER THESE IDEAS that simplify and enrich your Easter celebration.

Rather than traditional Easter decorations with images of bunnies, chicks, and eggs, make your own decorations using symbols of your faith (images of Jesus, the cross, and the empty tomb).

Use your computer’s desktop publishing program or crayons, markers, and construction paper to make greeting cards with messages that proclaim the wonderful news of Jesus’ resurrection.

If you buy gifts for your child, stick with a spiritual rather than secular theme. Consider giving coloring books, bookmarks, stickers, and toys that convey the Easter message.

Create your own family traditions this Easter season.

Instead of spending a great deal of money on chocolate and other prepackaged candy, make homemade cookies and other sweets.

If receiving new clothes is part of your family tradition, consider sewing them by hand. If making an outfit is too big of an undertaking, consider making one special accessory such as a hair bow, tie, sash, or piece of simple jewelry to adorn an outfit you already have.

Rather than serving an elaborate meal with all the trimmings, consider serving a modest meal and donating the money you would have spent to an organization that feeds the hungry. 

Taken from Celebrate Simply © 2006 by Nancy Twigg.
Published by Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids,
MI. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights
reserved.

MARCH 2008 PARENTLIFE 47