Teaching Your Children the True Meaning of Easter

As a Christian mom, Easter means much more to mewhat the different colors can represent.
than filling baskets with chocolate treats and watchingBlack - This color represents sin. Sin is what separates
children hunt high and low for their presents each year.us from God.
Although those activities are a lot of fun!Red - This represents the blood Jesus shed when He
More importantly for me, though, Easter is the time ofdied for us. Only the blood of Jesus Christ can erase
year where I can talk with my children about Jesus'our sin.
death on the cross, His resurrection, and what it meansWhite - The white jellybean represents how clean our
for them - eternal friendship with Jesus!hearts are after Jesus' blood removes our sin.
For young children, the concept of salvation can beGreen - Green is the color of grass and growing
very difficult to understand. There are a lot of toolsthings. Now that Jesus has cleaned our hearts, we can
that can help you explain God's gift to us and why Hisgrow to become more like Him.
Son had to die on the cross.Purple - This is the color of royalty. We need to
You can make salvation bracelets out of coloredremember that Jesus is the King of Kings. Now He is
beads or salvation books out of colored paper, andthe king of our hearts.
explain the significance of each color. You can alsoYellow - This represents the streets of gold that are in
purchase toys from your Christian bookstore to helpheaven. When we die we will live with Jesus in
explain God's plan of salvation in a child friendly way.Heaven forever.
At Easter time, with so much yummy candy around,Pink and Orange- You can be creative with these
why not use jellybeans to teach your children the truecolors! Perhaps one is to give to a friend, and tell them
meaning of Easter? Here are some suggestions ofthe Good News of Jesus too.