Easter Packets for my Children

Front of card

 Easter 2015

This year Easter has seemed to come very quickly and despite my good intentions of starting to make things for my children straight after Christmas I can only hope they will make it in time as they were posted at the end of February.

Each year after Easter I make a collection of any paper crafts, cards or paper Easter ideas that go on sale in the stores and put this collection away for the following year.

Inside card

This year I decided to make each child a special Easter card. On the front I cut out an egg shape from black card and pressed this onto adhesive clear book covering contact. Using the black card scraps I placed a cross onto the adhesive. Once this was in place I used tiny bits of tissue paper to fill inside the egg shape. I then cut away the excess adhesive leaving about 1 cm out from the egg. This is how I stuck the egg to the card. I turned the egg over reveling the cross with the tissue paper behind it and stuck it to the center of the card. The card is a colored manila folder cut in half, I find this much cheaper than buying card stock.

Photos edited on Pizap

Using the oval from inside the egg from the front I created a tomb which I cut through the center so that it will open. Inside is written the bible verse " He is not here, he has risen, just as he said" Matthew 28:6. This I printed up on the computer and placed it in an oval shape so it was easy to cut out to fit the tomb shape. I just added some grass with texta around the tomb.

Using "Pizap" I created a photo for each child using their current photos as many of them are new since last year.

puzzles and crosswords

I also added to their packages stickers, coloring pages, mazes and crosswords. For the English speaking children it is easy to find many resources on home schooling sites, book stores and printerest. Calvary.com also prints bible studies in both English and Spanish which are geared to primary school children. The printerest web site has a wealth of ideas and sites to find resources free of charge.

For the older children who don't speak English I sent book marks, complicated mazes and make "word finds" using the goggle translator to convert English words into their language hoping that the single words will make sense when they get them. For the older English speaking children in India, Philippines, Kenya etc I have sent Bible studies and booklets from local Christian book shops.

stickers and craft bits

for my English speakers

With their package I also sent them a letter as follows:

I send you Luke 10:27 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind" as that is how He loves us. With Easter approaching, and probably with you by the time this letter reaches you, we are reminded of Gods great love for us, He gave His only son who dies for us to save us from our sins and connect us with God our heavenly father. 
The gifts from God are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the end. Jesus didn't escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will believe. The truth of this moment, is stunning. It means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we are, and He really is the only way for us to have intimately and spiritually connect with God again.


The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him. We will rejoice at Easter as Jesus rose from the dead opening a new way for us to know and communicate with God. Giving us forgiveness for our sins if we call out to him as the thief on the other cross did. Jesus said God would make a home for us in heaven when our earthly life was over to live with Him for eternity for those that believe. 


May you find the renewal of hope, health, love and the spirit of God. Happy Easter to you and your precious family.