This year, Mum and I volunteered to make craft kits for the Easter craft day at our church. I instantly thought of what we used to make at Easter in England. With the children's help we built an Easter Garden outside of Little Tew church, and Mum and I would build one inside Great Tew church. Using stones we'd find near-by, moss from the ground and flowers from the area we built "the way of the cross", and the hill of Calvary where Jesus died on the cross. The one obvious problem I could see with our little idea of making this craft with the kids here in Canada was the issue of snow. In England it's easy to build gardens outside in the month of April: no snow, flowers are out, and the ground isn't frozen and covered in salt. So we brought the outdoors indoors and put it into a shoe box! I assembled little kits including the ground, the hill, the crosses, the flowers, the stones and the shroud. On the day we brought along glue and green paint. The reaction from the kids was great! I loved seeing all the different variations the kids came up with. To how they laid their path, to where they put their hill and their flowers in the box. Every single one was unique, which made them all perfect!
All the kits on the dining room table... if only I'd become a teacher.
My sample that I brought along on the day to show the kids.