Simple Painted Cross Craft

This video of a little painted cross craft is by Ministry-To-Children. You can download the template here. I love this web based children's ministry. This children's ministry was founded by Tony Kummer; he is the young man speaking in the video above. Lots of great stuff to read on his web pages. Enjoy.

Craft a Cross Shaped Book

I really like Grancie's little accordion cross book for teaching Christian concepts about Easter. She has made many classroom videos that may be viewed on her youtube video channel here.

The Wind by Maud M. Johnson

The wind is very busy,

He's sweeping with might and main;

He's sweeping the clouds from the 

stormy sky

So that it shall not rain.

He's sweeping up the leaves

That littered the country lane;

And now he sweeps with delicious breath

The dust from my tired brain. 

Maud M. Johnson.

The Lord Is Risen Indeed by Cora Dolson

Come, listen to

the anthem that 

we sing!

Listen, and let your 

doubts take wing,

take wing.

Listen, and let your 

hearts be comforted, 

for Christ, your

Lord is risen from

the dead.

That tomb of stone no

longer is his prison.

The door is open, and

your Lord is risen.

by Cora A. Matson-Dolson

Paint Easter Eggs Like Comic Friends!

      This page about Easter eggs was published in The Day Book, April 21, 1916. The Day Book was an ad free, daily newspaper published by Edward Willis Scripps in the city of Chicago from 1911 to 1917.

Hey There Kids! Paint Easter Eggs Like Your Old Comic Friends!

      Here you are kids! All of your old friends celebrating Eastertide. Here's Ev. True looking cross and almost ready to have an outburst and break right through his shell. Here's the bear with a grin so wide it may meet in the back and divide his face right in two. You've heard of Easter bunnies but where did you ever hear of an Easter bear before?

      Now get busy, kids, and see how much like your old friends you can make your Easter eggs! 

1. Tint the entire egg pink.
2. Cut hat brims for the Ev. True and Tom Duff eggs out of cardboard, allowing enough space in the center of the brims so they will fit over the tops of the eggs. Paint the brims black.
3. Rub the back of the paper on which the faces are printed with a soft pencil to make a sort of carbon paper, then trace the features on eggs.
4. Paint the features on the eggs with ink. 

Easter Eggs Decorated With Comics, Superheros, Sci-Fi, And American Nostalgia:

• Eggs painted like Lichtenstein paintings at ArtClubBlog
• Marx Bros. Ostrich Egg   
• 'Hoppy' Star Wars Easter! 
• Marvel and DC Easter Eggs 
• Champaign, Illinois congreation continues Easter egg tradition 
• Decorate Some Awesome Super Mario Bros. Eggs! 
• Roz Chast's painted eggs 
• Marvel Cakelet Pan
• Natania Barron's Battlestar Galactica Eggs

  Easter Eggs Masquerade as Cartoon Characters: Easter eggs may be transformed into likenesses of cartoon and nursery-tale characters, with attractively colored cut-outs now available in book form. Each design provides both a base and a headpiece for a tinted egg, as shown, and the book contains materials for dressing up twenty eggs in different guises.