Easter FHE

Tonight we had an Easter themed Family Home Evening. I wanted it to be fun, but I still wanted it to be very clear that Easter is about Jesus Christ, not bunnies and candy. So I took 10 plastic eggs and put Skittles inside, and then each one had a slip of paper that gave directions of what we were supposed to do. These were my papers.

#1 Watch His Sacred Name- An Easter Declaration


#2 Watch this testimony from Elder Uchtdorf: Jesus Christ Lives Today

#3 Sing the hymn: He Is Risen!

#4 Read 2 Nephi 2:6-7

#5 Richard G. Scott said, "Jesus Christ lives. He is our Savior, our Redeemer. He is a glorious, resurrected being. He has the capacity to communicate love that is so powerful, so overwhelming as to surpass the capacity of the human tongue to express adequately. He gave His life to break the bonds of death. His atonement made fully active the plan of happiness of His Father in Heaven."


#6 Read the last page of My First Story of the First Easter (a board book we have) by Deanna Draper Buck

#7 Listen to I Know That My Redeemer Lives (we listened to the Lex De Azivado version, which is absolutely beautiful, but any version would do nicely.)


#8 Sing On a Golden Springtime

#9 Read What is Easter by Michelle Medlock Adams (another board book)

#10 Watch He Lives: Testimonies of Jesus Christ




Then I hid all the eggs in our living room and let the boys take turns finding them. Every time they found one, we'd eat a few Skittles and do the activity listed on the slip of paper. Lincoln had a lot of questions afterward, and Aaron was able to and explain the crucifixion and the resurrection to him a bit more clearly. I really liked the spirit that was here during family home evening, and am thinking that maybe we will do this one every year.